UI, Workflows & Features
- * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has
+ * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has
learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user
there are replacements.
- * The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
+ * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
tree (and the other way around when checking in).
* The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
- newer version of bash.
+ newer version of bash-completion.
* "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action
not committishes.
(merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint).
- * "git pull -recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule
+ * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule
repository's history did not have anything common between ours and
the upstream's, failed to execute. We need to fetch from them to
continue even in such a case.
nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented.
(merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint).
+ * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the
+ final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed
+ packfile available to itself.
+ (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
(merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
(merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint).
(merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint).
(merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint).
+ (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint).