* The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.
+ * "git branch --list" learned to take the default sort order from the
+ 'branch.sort' configuration variable, just like "git tag --list"
+ pays attention to 'tag.sort'.
+
+ * "git worktree" command learned "--quiet" option to make it less
+ verbose.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/)
has been updated.
- * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
- throughout the object access API continues.
-
* Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah
bitmap subsystem.
getting them coalesced into fewer packfiles, hurting performance.
"git repack" now learned to repack them.
+ * Partially revert the support for multiple hash functions to regain
+ hash comparison performance; we'd think of a way to do this better
+ in the next cycle.
+
+ * "git help --config" (which is used in command line completion)
+ missed the configuration variables not described in the main
+ config.txt file but are described in another file that is included
+ by it, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The test linter code has learned that the end of here-doc mark
+ "EOF" can be quoted in a double-quote pair, not just in a
+ single-quote pair.
+
Fixes since v2.18
-----------------
to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the
superproject, sometimes showing "(null)". This has been corrected.
- * "git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that
- indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated
- working tree across various state transitions, which has been
- corrected.
- (merge 984cd77ddb sb/submodule-core-worktree later to maint).
-
* Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression.
(merge a9279c6785 pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict later to maint).
has been corrected.
(merge 3e7dd99208 nd/cherry-pick-quit-fix later to maint).
+ * In a recent update in 2.18 era, "git pack-objects" started
+ producing a larger than necessary packfiles by missing
+ opportunities to use large deltas. This has been corrected.
+
+ * The meaning of the possible values the "core.checkStat"
+ configuration variable can take were not adequately documented,
+ which has been fixed.
+ (merge 9bf5d4c4e2 nd/config-core-checkstat-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Recent "git rebase -i" update started to write bogusly formatted
+ author-script, with a matching broken reading code. These are
+ fixed.
+
+ * Recent addition of "directory rename" heuristics to the
+ merge-recursive backend makes the command susceptible to false
+ positives and false negatives. In the context of "git am -3",
+ which does not know about surrounding unmodified paths and thus
+ cannot inform the merge machinery about the full trees involved,
+ this risk is particularly severe. As such, the heuristic is
+ disabled for "git am -3" to keep the machinery "more stupid but
+ predictable".
+
+ * "git merge-base" in 2.19-rc1 has performance regression when the
+ (experimental) commit-graph feature is in use, which has been
+ mitigated.
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
(merge 10c600172c sg/t5310-empty-input-fix later to maint).
(merge 5641eb9465 jh/partial-clone-doc later to maint).
(merge 2711b1ad5e ab/submodule-relative-url-tests later to maint).
+ (merge ce528de023 ab/unconditional-free-and-null later to maint).
+ (merge bbc072f5d8 rs/opt-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 69d846f053 jk/use-compat-util-in-test-tool later to maint).
+ (merge 1820703045 js/larger-timestamps later to maint).
+ (merge c8b35b95e1 sg/t4051-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 30612cb670 sg/t0020-conversion-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 15da753709 sg/t7501-thinkofix later to maint).
+ (merge 79b04f9b60 sg/t3903-missing-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 2745817028 sg/t3420-autostash-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7afb0d6777 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 6c6ce21baa es/freebsd-iconv-portability later to maint).