has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which you can do
with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
+"git request-pull" lost a few "heuristics" that often led to mistakes.
+
Updates since v1.9 series
-------------------------
-Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
+UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git gc --aggressive" learned "--depth" option and
+ "gc.aggressiveDepth" configuration variable to allow use of a less
+ insane depth than the built-in default value of 250.
-UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git log" learned the "--show-linear-break" option to show where a
+ single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output.
+
+ * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to
+ parse command line options and to give help text learned to take
+ the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
+ e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
+
+ * The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
+ "diff" and "grep -p" have been updated to help C++ source better.
+
+ * "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
+ branch that we were previously on.
+
+ * "git commit --cleanup=<mode>" learned a new mode, scissors.
+
+ * "git tag --list" output can be sorted using "version sort" with
+ "--sort=version:refname".
+
+ * Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
+ result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
+ specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
+ mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public
+ repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to
+ denote the branch to be pulled.
+
+ * "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when
+ "-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given.
+
+ * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to
+ allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the
+ natively supported transports.
* The "simple" mode is the default for "git push".
"quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which
you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
- * Many commands that creates commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
+ * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for
+ the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
+ configuration option.
+
+ * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
+ been marked for i18n/l10n.
+
+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
+ is not a blob as an error.
+
+ * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
+ given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
+ course is rejected).
+
+ * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
+ for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
+ speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
+ to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
+
+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
resets to does not (these paths are kept as intend-to-add entries).
- * Newly cloned submodule repositories by "git submodule update",
- when the "checkout" update mode is used, will be on a local
- branch instead of on a detached HEAD, just like submodules added
- with "git submodule add".
-
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * The compilation options to port to AIX has been updated.
+
+ * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases
+ ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3).
+
+ * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
+ well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
+ over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
+ "easy" interface.
+
* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
repository that uses it.
suits your needs better when using the former.
-Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many
+of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject
+exercises.
Fixes since v1.9 series
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
+ (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch
+ refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to
+ "refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to
+ "refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of
+ "refs/heads/fr/otz" on the origin site meant we should remove
+ "refs/remotes/origin/fr/otz" from us, without checking their
+ "refs/frotz/otz" first.
+
+ Note that such a configuration is inherently unsafe (think what
+ should happen when "refs/heads/fr/otz" does appear on the origin
+ site), but that is not a reason not to be extra careful.
+ (merge e6f6371 cn/fetch-prune-overlapping-destination later to maint).
+
+ * "git status --porcelain --branch" showed its output with labels
+ "ahead/behind/gone" translated to the user's locale.
+ (merge 7a76c28 mm/status-porcelain-format-i18n-fix later to maint).
+
+
+ * "git repack" died when asked to (re)pack with the reachability
+ bitmap when a bitmap cannot be built; instead, just (re)pack
+ without producing a bitmap in such a case, with a warning.
+ (merge 373c67d jk/pack-bitmap later to maint).
+
+
+ * The progress output while repacking and transferring objects showed
+ an apparent large silence while writing the objects out of existing
+ packfiles, when the reachability bitmap was in use.
+ (merge 78d2214 jk/pack-bitmap-progress later to maint).
+
+
+ * A stray environment variable $prefix could have leaked into and
+ affected the behaviour of the "subtree" script (in contrib/).
+
+
+ * When it is not necessary to edit a commit log message (e.g. "git
+ commit -m" is given a message without specifying "-e"), we used to
+ disable the spawning of the editor by overriding GIT_EDITOR, but
+ this means all the uses of the editor, other than to edit the
+ commit log message, are also affected.
+ (merge b549be0 bp/commit-p-editor later to maint).
+
+
+ * "git mv" that moves a submodule forgot to adjust the array that
+ uses to keep track of which submodules were to be moved to update
+ its configuration.
+ (merge fb8a4e8 jk/mv-submodules-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Length limit for the pathname used when removing a path in a deep
+ subdirectory has been removed to avoid buffer overflows.
+ (merge 2f29e0c mh/remove-subtree-long-pathname-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The test helper lib-terminal always run an actual test_expect_*
+ when included, which screwed up with the use of skil-all that may
+ have to be done later.
+ (merge 7e27173 jk/lib-terminal-lazy later to maint).
+
+ * "git index-pack" used a wrong variable to name the keep-file in an
+ error message when the file cannot be written or closed.
+ (merge de983a0 nd/index-pack-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * "rebase -i" produced a broken insn sheet when the title of a commit
+ happened to contain '\n' (or ended with '\c') due to a careless use
+ of 'echo'.
+ (merge cb1aefd us/printf-not-echo later to maint).
+
+ * There were a few instances of 'git-foo' remaining in the
+ documentation that should have been spelled 'git foo'.
+ (merge 3c3e6f5 rr/doc-merge-strategies later to maint).
+
+ * Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
+ new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries but it was not
+ cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal.
+ (merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When "git stash pop" stops after failing to apply the stash
+ (e.g. due to conflicting changes), the stash is not dropped. State
+ that explicitly in the output to let the users know.
+ (merge 2d4c993 jc/stash-pop-not-popped later to maint).
+
+ * The labels in "git status" output that describe the nature of
+ conflicts (e.g. "both deleted") were limited to 20 bytes, which was
+ too short for some l10n (e.g. fr).
+ (merge c7cb333 jn/wt-status later to maint).
+
+ * "git clean -d pathspec" did not use the given pathspec correctly
+ and ended up cleaning too much.
+ (merge 1f2e108 jk/clean-d-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the
+ working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file
+ ".git" tells us where it is.
+ (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
+ defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
+ variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
+ by mistake.
+ (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
+
+ * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
+ tightened.
+ (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
+ the same as one of the versions being compared.
+ (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
+ tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an
+ otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working
+ tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored.
+ (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
+ did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
+ --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
+ (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
+
* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames
involved. This has been corrected.