UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+ around issues on Mac OS.
+
+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+ $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
+ when these files exist.
+
+ * Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
+ take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
+ e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
+ commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
+ the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
+
+ * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
+ merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
where "man" viewer is not widely available.
turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
URL.
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients.
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
+ history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+ each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+ similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+ highlights them accordingly.
+
Foreign Interface
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+ attachments.
+
+ * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+ limitations, etc.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+ their log messages.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+ possible.
+
+ * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
+ cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
+ discard it.
+
+ * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
+ minute before the code freeze.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
- (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint).
-
- * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
- was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
- (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint).
-
- * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
- history said "it requires these 0 commits".
- (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint).
-
- * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
- excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
- while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
- updated.
- (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint).
-
- * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
- with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
- but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
- (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint).
+ * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
+ incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting
+ in unnecessary warnings.
+ (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@)
+ has been updated.
+ (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
+ its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
+ and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
+
+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
+
+ * "$GIT_DIR/COMMIT_EDITMSG" file that is used to hold the commit log
+ message user edits was not documented.
+ (merge 41f597d jk/maint-commit-document-editmsg later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
+ when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
+ getpwent(3).
+ (merge f20f387 jk/maint-commit-check-committer-early later to maint).
+
+ * The advise() function did not use varargs correctly to format
+ its message.
+ (merge 447b99c jk/maint-advise-vaddf later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-tree" learned a more natural "-p <parent> <tree>" order
+ of arguments long time ago, but recently forgot it by mistake.
+ (merge 4b7518a kk/maint-commit-tree later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-ext-diff" did not output anything for a typechange
+ filepair when GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF is in effect.
+ (merge c12f82a jv/maint-no-ext-diff later to maint).
+
+ * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
+ to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
+ (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).
+
+ * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
+ confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
+ superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
+ path to the current directory.
+ (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).
+
+ * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
+ but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
+ a similar logic on its own.
+ (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).