* Building on older MacOS X systems automatically sets
the necessary NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO build-time option.
+ * The support to build with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected.
+
UI, Workflows & Features
forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve
and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry).
+ * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too
+ many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be
+ named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead,
+ e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c").
+
+ * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly
+ creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
+ setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
+
* The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
- * The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
- to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow
- all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something
- other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
+ * The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it
+ more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none
+ atomic updates and migrating the storage to something other than
+ the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
* The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up.
* The scripts in the test suite can be run with "-x" option to show
a shell-trace of each command run in them.
+ * The "run-command" API learned to manage the argv and environment
+ array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to
+ allocate and deallocate them.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* "gitweb" used deprecated CGI::startfrom, which was removed from
CGI.pm as of 4.04; use CGI::start_from instead.
(merge 4750f4b rm/gitweb-start-form later to maint).
+
+ * Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if
+ they are new enough to support the `--output` option.
+ (merge b12d045 da/mergetool-meld later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-objects" forgot to disable the codepath to generate
+ object recheability bitmap when it needs to split the resulting
+ pack.
+ (merge 2113471 jk/pack-objects-no-bitmap-when-splitting later to maint).