important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean
-it before Git 2.0 comes.
+it before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are
+run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
+current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
+from today's version in such a situation.
Updates since v1.8.2
--------------------
+Foreign interface
+
+ * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated.
+
+
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
+ integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
+ which defaults to blue).
+
+ * In a sparsely populated working tree, "git checkout <pathspec>" no
+ longer unmarks paths that match the given pathspec that were
+ originally ignored with "--sparse" (use --ignore-skip-worktree-bits
+ option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
+ to).
+
+ * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
+ log file.
+
+ * "git clone --reference" can now refer to a gitfile "textual symlink"
+ that points at the real location of the repository.
+
+ * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
+ show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick $blob" and "git cherry-pick $tree" are nonsense,
+ and a more readable error message e.g. "can't cherry-pick a tree"
+ is given (we used to say "expected exactly one commit").
+
+ * The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
+ off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
+ can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
+
+ * The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on
+ (or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration
+ variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a
+ series with two or more patches.
+
+ * The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick
+ takes a few more options than it already knew about.
+
+ * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
+ list of commands are given with "-a".
+
+ * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
+ is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the
+ "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the
+ branch.*.remote) configuration variables.
+
+ * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a
+ revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect
+ session.
+
+ * The handling by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms
+ of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
+
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
- a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
+ a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
server side supports this feature.
+ * Output from "git log --graph" works better with submodule log
+ output now.
+
* "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
* The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant
annotated tags when pushing branches out.
+ * "git merge" and "git pull" can optionally be told to inspect and
+ reject when merging a commit that does not carry a trusted GPG
+ signature.
+
* "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the
order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually
shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend
* "git log" that shows the difference between the parent and the
child has been optimized somewhat.
+ * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
+ being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
+ same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
+ tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
+ in the working tree.
+
+ * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
+ outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
+ making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}
+ can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Updates for building under msvc.
+ * The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
+ pack has been shrunk.
+
+ * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
+ the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
+ complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
+
+ * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
+ shared repositories have been simplified.
+
* A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
repeatedly growing and rehashing.
codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath
that needs to use a more correct one.
+ * "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths,
+ which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/"
+ that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed.
+
+ * A few bugfixes to "git rerere" working on corner case merge
+ conflicts have been applied.
+
-Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.8.2
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta
- depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
+ * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
+ crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
+ timestamp can always be found in it.
+ (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint).
+
+ * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
+ "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
+ there was a programming error to trigger the die handler
+ recursively.
+ (merge 1ece66b jk/a-thread-only-dies-once later to maint).
+
+ * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into input
+ buffer around as human readble object names. This was not a huge
+ problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
+ error output.
+ (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint).
+
+ * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
+ GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
+ like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
+ (merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
+ "our" side in certain cases.
+ (merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
+
+ * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
+ the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
+ Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
+ error reporting code may write into them.
+ (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
+
+ * "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
+ ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
+ (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
+ --diff-algorithm=algo".
+ (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
+
+ * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
+ places.
+ (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
+ any message as its one of the prerequistes.
+ (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
+
+ * "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
+ there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
+ option.
+ (merge 61690bf sr/log-SG-no-textconv later to maint).
+
+ * When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
+ failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
+ final clean-up procedure.
+ (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
+ "git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
+ not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code
+ notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
+ based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
+ in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.
+ (merge a38d3d7 jc/merge-tag-object later to maint).
+
+ * Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
+ trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
+ (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
+
+ * "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
+ longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
+ (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
+
+ * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
+ when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
+ (merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).
+
+ * "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
+ "--option=value" form.
+ (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
+
+ * "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute
+ delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
(merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
* "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
- (merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint).
* Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
- (merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint).
* Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
(merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
- (merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint).
* "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
- (merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint).
* "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4
client was not its real path.
* "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
archive back in such a case.
- (merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint).
* When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
the middle of it.
- (merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint).
* An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
- (merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint).
* In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
correct objects.
"--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
to those that match the given pattern.
- (merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint).
* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
* 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.
- (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint).
* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
- (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint).
* Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
alphabetical order.
* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
- acccumulate the prefix paths.
+ accumulate the prefix paths.