* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
+ * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the
+ https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area.
+
* Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
- upstream configured have been clatified.
+ upstream configured have been clarified.
- * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
+ * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message.
* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
existing the "--exclude" option.
- * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a
- synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
+ * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch
+ to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the
result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.
after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an
instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
- * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
- involved in the side topic you are merging.
+ * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors
+ involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge
+ commit template.
* "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
introduce any change in the original history.
Foreign Interface
- * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP
server that uses keep-alive.
* "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
- * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work
- on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to)
- p4.
+ * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more
+ work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels
+ to) p4.
Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make
+ future work on it simpler.
+
* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
* More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
from the object store without keeping everything in core.
+ * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been
+ tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?".
+
* Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some
systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
- * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
- walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
+ * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to
+ allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The
- output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
- terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
- (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint).
+ * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..."
+ even for submodules that were registered earlier.
+ (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint).
* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite