"git request-pull" lost a few "heuristics" that often led to mistakes.
+The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
+time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
+refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
+it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
+
Updates since v1.9 series
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e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
* The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
- "diff" and "grep -p" have been updated to help C++ source better.
+ "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to help C++ source better.
* "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
branch that we were previously on.
* "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when
"-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given.
- * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to
- allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the
+ * "git push" via transport-helper interface (e.g. remote-hg) has
+ been updated to allow forced ref updates in a way similar to the
natively supported transports.
* The "simple" mode is the default for "git push".
tree-wide operation even when run inside a subdirectory of a
working tree.
- * "git add <path> is the same as "git add -A <path>" now.
+ * "git add <path>
" is the same as "git add -A <path>" now.
* "core.statinfo" configuration variable, which is a
never-advertised synonym to "core.checkstat", has been removed.
* "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the
new "pull.ff" configuration.
- * "git reset" learned "-N" option, which does not reset the index
+ * "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index
fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
resets to does not (these paths are kept as intend-to-add entries).
"easy" interface.
* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
- significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
+ significantly improve performance when serving objects from a
repository that uses it.
* The way "git log --cc" shows a combined diff against multiple
- parents have been optimized.
+ parents has been optimized.
* The prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() functions are gone. Use
starts_with() and ends_with(), and also consider if skip_prefix()
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "git p4" was broken in 1.9 release to deal with changes in binary
+ files.
+ (merge 749b668 cl/p4-use-diff-tree later to maint).
+
+ * The shell prompt script (in contrib/), when using the PROMPT_COMMAND
+ interface, used an unsafe construct when showing the branch name in
+ $PS1.
+ (merge 8976500 rh/prompt-pcmode-avoid-eval-on-refname later to maint).
+
+ * The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the
+ transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import
+ marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out of
+ sync with the reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
+
+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
+ work well with.
+ (merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
+
* zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
* bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes