tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message.
+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
+ use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
+ untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
+ There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
+
* The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
now preserved when set.
- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
- understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
-
* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
existing the "--exclude" option.
* The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
involved in the side topic you are merging.
- * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
- categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
-
* "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
introduce any change in the original history.
* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
+ blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
+
* The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
trick the kernel folks came up with.
* "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
- * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
- when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
- due to its age.
-
* Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
and sorted immediately before getting used.
- * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the
- top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.
-
- * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout"
- to check out another branch) has been plugged.
-
* More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
from the object store without keeping everything in core.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * The DWIM behaviour for "log --pretty=format:%gd -g" was somewhat
+ broken and gave undue precedence to configured log.date, causing
+ "git stash list" to show "stash@{time stamp string}".
+ (merge 55ccf85 jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD.
+ (merge 8338f77 ef/checkout-empty later to maint).
+
+ * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
+ used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
+ refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
+ HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
+ (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint).
+
+ * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
+ "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
+ give progress to the lengthy operation.
+ (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "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 diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
right.
NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
--patch and/or --stat, though.
(merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
-
- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
- (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
-
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
- user futzed with her $PATH.
- (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
-
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
- output had line breaks at wrong places.
- (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).