UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
+ the logged-in user has been added.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
+ allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
+
+ * "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
+ external command to decline service based on the client address,
+ repository path, etc.
+
* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
temporary copy of the working tree when available.
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
-
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
for materials meant to be examples that are better typeset in
monospace.
+ * Compatibility wrapper to learn the maximum number of file
+ descriptors we can open around sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) and
+ getrlimit(RLIMIT_NO_FILE) has been introduced for portability.
+
+ * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
+ reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
+
+ * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when
+ we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted
+ from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree".
+
+ * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
+ been marked for translation.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
-
- * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
- message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to
- the standard output, breaking the communication protocol.
- (merge 4b7f2fa bc/receive-pack-stdout-protection later to maint).
-
- * "git diff" had a confusion between taking data from a path in the
- working tree and taking data from an object that happens to have
- name 0{40} recorded in a tree.
- (merge c479d14 jk/maint-null-in-trees later to maint).
+ * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
+ together, misdetected branches.
+ (merge 21ef5df pw/p4-use-client-spec-branch-detection later to maint).
+
+ * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
+ localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
+ branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
+ (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
+
+ * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
+ option.
+ (merge 3b51222 kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort later to maint).
+
+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
+ for POST.
+ (merge b81401c jk/maint-http-half-auth-push later to maint).
+
+ * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
+ them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
+ files that we cannot read.
+
+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
+ documentation misleading. There may be room in documentation pages
+ of other commands for similar improvements (hint, hint).
+ (merge 45aaf03 jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
+ a case.
+ (merge 003c84f jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
+ this problem.
+ (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint).
+
+ * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
+ being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the
+ documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a
+ new code for "all other errors".
+ (merge 9409c7a jc/maint-config-exit-status later to maint).
+
+ * "git foo" errored out with "Not a directory" when the user had a
+ non-directory on $PATH, and worse yet it masked an alias "foo" from
+ running. (merge a785508 jc/maint-sane-execvp-notdir later to
+ maint).
+
+ * The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
+ asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
+ guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
+ tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
+ please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
+ certainly not what the user meant.
+ (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash apply/pop" did not trigger "rerere" upon conflicts
+ unlike other mergy operations.
+ (merge 743bf6d ph/stash-rerere later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule update -f" did not update paths in the working tree
+ that has local changes.
+ (merge 01d4721 sz/submodule-force-update later to maint).
+
+ * We used curl_easy_strerror() without checking version of cURL,
+ breaking the build for versions before curl 7.12.0.
+ (merge 4246b0b js/no-curl-easy-strerror-on-old-curl later to maint).
+
+ * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
+ (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
+ example.
+ (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
+ submodule was misspelt.
+ (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).
+
+ * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
+ did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
+ fixed not to do so.
* The output from "git diff -B" for a file that ends with an
incomplete line did not put "\ No newline..." on a line of its own.
-
- * "git send-email" did not unquote encoded words that appear on the
- header correctly, and lost "_" from strings.
- (merge b622d4d tr/maint-send-email-2047 later to maint).
-
- * When the user gives an argument that can be taken as both a
- revision name and a pathname without disambiguating with "--", we
- used to give a help message "Use '--' to separate". The message
- has been clarified to show where that '--' goes on the command
- line.
- (merge 4d4b573 mm/die-with-dashdash-help later to maint).
-
- * "gitweb" when used with PATH_INFO failed to notice directories with
- SP (and other characters that need URL-style quoting) in them.
- (merge cacfc09 js/gitweb-path-info-unquote later to maint).