is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet).
* The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
- has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
- upcoming release.
+ has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
+ future release.
Updates since v2.11
more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
(merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
+ * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.
+
+ * "git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own
+ git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move
+ the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject
+ instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there
+ will be no loss of local modifications, that is).
+
+ * A recent updates to "git p4" was not usable for older p4 but it
+ could be made to work with minimum changes. Do so.
+
+ * "git diff" learned diff.interHunkContext configuration variable
+ that gives the default value for its --inter-hunk-context option.
+
+ * The prereleaseSuffix feature of version comparison that is used in
+ "git tag -l" did not correctly when two or more prereleases for the
+ same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2
+ are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2).
+
+ * "git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to
+ push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject.
+
+ * "git tag" and "git verify-tag" learned to put GPG verification
+ status in their "--format=<placeholders>" output format.
+
+ * An ancient repository conversion tool left in contrib/ has been
+ removed.
+
+ * "git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" because the user is not
+ interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, and used with
+ "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out,
+ i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
+ * "git push \\server\share\dir" has recently regressed and then
+ fixed. A test has retroactively been added for this breakage.
+
+ * Build updates for Cygwin.
+
+ * The implementation of "real_path()" was to go there with chdir(2)
+ and call getcwd(3), but this obviously wouldn't be usable in a
+ threaded environment. Rewrite it to manually resolve relative
+ paths including symbolic links in path components.
+
+ * Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not
+ breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc.
+
+ * The sequencer machinery has been further enhanced so that a later
+ set of patches can start using it to reimplement "rebase -i".
+
+ * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by
+ TravisCI.
+ (merge 672f51cb83 ls/travis-p4-on-macos later to maint).
+
+ * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.
+ (merge 94d3997ecc js/difftool-builtin later to maint).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
(merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
+ * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
+ everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
+ when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
+ leading to disabling further "gc".
+ (merge 1c409a705c dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
+ failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
+ driver configuration.
+ (merge 965cba2e7e jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
+ pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
+ (merge 4e76832984 jk/blame-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
+ count when squashing more than 10 commits.
+ (merge 356b8ecff1 jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
+ been corrected to error out with a message.
+ (merge b10731f43d km/branch-get-push-while-detached later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored
+ out, but without a meaningful error message.
+ (merge 2d81c48fa7 sb/pathspec-errors later to maint).
+
+ * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
+ took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
+ structure. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 46df6906f3 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).
+
+ * "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is
+ run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which
+ has been fixed.
+
+ * Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area.
+ (merge 3120925c25 sb/remove-gitview later to maint).
+
+ * Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as
+ a PRE regexp engine.
+ (merge 7675c7bd01 jk/grep-e-could-be-extended-beyond-posix later to maint).
+
+ * An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it
+ can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic
+ when a remote side gives such an error message that the local side
+ will relay with a "remote: " prefix.
+ (merge f290089879 jk/vreport-sanitize later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck" inspects loose objects more carefully now.
+ (merge cce044df7f jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).
+
+ * A crashing bug introduced in v2.11 timeframe has been found (it is
+ triggerable only in fast-import) and fixed.
+ (merge abd5a00268 jk/clear-delta-base-cache-fix later to maint).
+
+ * With an anticipatory tweak for remotes defined in ~/.gitconfig
+ (e.g. "remote.origin.prune" set to true, even though there may or
+ may not actually be "origin" remote defined in a particular Git
+ repository), "git remote rename" and other commands misinterpreted
+ and behaved as if such a non-existing remote actually existed.
+ (merge e459b073fb js/remote-rename-with-half-configured-remote later to maint).
+
+ * A few codepaths had to rely on a global variable when sorting
+ elements of an array because sort(3) API does not allow extra data
+ to be passed to the comparison function. Use qsort_s() when
+ natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not,
+ to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the
+ codepath reentrant.
+ (merge 83fc4d64fe rs/qsort-s later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all.
+ (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 3f05402ac0 ad/bisect-terms later to maint).
+ (merge 874444b704 rh/diff-orderfile-doc later to maint).
+ (merge c68d2d7c2b ws/request-pull-code-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 007ac54401 js/exec-path-coverity-workaround later to maint).
+ (merge 1797dc5176 jk/coding-guidelines-update later to maint).
+ (merge 1d3f065e0e js/mingw-isatty later to maint).
+ (merge 830c912a0e sb/in-core-index-doc later to maint).