traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple"
-semantics that pushes the current branch to the branch with the same
-name, only when the current branch is set to integrate with that
-remote branch. There is a user preference configuration variable
+semantics that pushes only the current branch to the branch with the same
+name, and only when the current branch is set to integrate with that
+remote branch. Use the user preference configuration variable
"push.default" to change this. If you are an old-timer who is used
-to the "matching" semantics, you can set it to "matching" to keep the
-traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early,
-you can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0.
-
-When "git add -u" and "git add -A", that does not specify what paths
-to add on the command line is run from inside a subdirectory, these
-commands will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency
-with "git commit -a" and other commands. Because there will be no
-mechanism to make "git add -u" behave as if "git add -u .", it is
-important for those who are used to "git add -u" (without pathspec)
-updating the index only for paths in the current subdirectory to start
-training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." when they mean
-it before Git 2.0 comes.
+to the "matching" semantics, you can set the variable to "matching"
+to keep the traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future
+early, you can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0.
+
+When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and
+does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it
+will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency
+with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no
+mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .".
+Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start
+training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ."
+before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are
+run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
+current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
+from today's version in such a situation.
+
+In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so
+that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory
+and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this
+release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
+behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
+now before 2.0 is released.
Updates since v1.8.2
--------------------
+Foreign interface
+
+ * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have
+ been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an
+ accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release
+ if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before
+ unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks,
+ whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating.
+
+
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A handful of updates applied to gitk, including an addition of
+ "revert" action, showing dates in tags in a nicer way, making
+ colors configurable, and support for -G'pickaxe' search.
+
+ * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
+ show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
+ replayed during a "git rebase" session.
+
+ * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
+ integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
+ which defaults to blue).
+
+ * In a sparsely populated working tree, "git checkout <pathspec>" no
+ longer unmarks paths that match the given pathspec that were
+ originally ignored with "--sparse" (use --ignore-skip-worktree-bits
+ option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
+ to).
+
+ * "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git
+ to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit
+ object name), etc. for terminal output.
+
+ * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
+ log file.
+
+ * "git clone --reference" can now refer to a gitfile "textual symlink"
+ that points at the real location of the repository.
+
+ * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
+ show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
+
+ * "git cherry-pick $blob" and "git cherry-pick $tree" are nonsense,
+ and a more readable error message e.g. "can't cherry-pick a tree"
+ is given (we used to say "expected exactly one commit").
+
* The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
- a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it.
- An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
- issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added.
+ a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An
+ explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an
+ access over the network to help the end users who connect to the
+ service expecting an interactive shell.
* In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with
the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch"
* "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option
when it takes too long.
- * "git status" shows a bit more information to "git status" during a
- rebase/bisect session.
+ * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect
+ session.
* "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
* "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the
order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually
- shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend
- expects.
+ shown on the left side, which is the opposite from what other backends
+ expect.
* "show/log" now honors gpg.program configuration just like other
parts of the code that use GnuPG.
* "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
- same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
- tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
- in the working tree.
+ same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working
+ tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged
+ manually.
* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
* Updates for building under msvc.
+ * A handful of issues in the code that traverses the working tree to find
+ untracked and/or ignored files have been fixed, and the general
+ codepath involved in "status -u" and "clean" have been cleaned up
+ and optimized.
+
* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
pack has been shrunk.
* The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
- the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
+ the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with O(n^2)
complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
* The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
- shared repositories have been simplified.
+ shared repositories has been simplified.
- * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
- hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
- repeatedly growing and rehashing.
+ * A few codepaths know how much data they need to put in the
+ hashtables they use when they start, but still began with small tables
+ and repeatedly grew and rehashed them.
* The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was
necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome
* The pkt-line API, implementation and its callers have been cleaned
up to make them more robust.
- * Cygwin port has a faster-but-lying lstat(2) emulation whose
+ * The Cygwin port has a faster-but-lying lstat(2) emulation whose
incorrectness does not matter in practice except for a few
- codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath
+ codepaths, and setting permission bits on directories is a codepath
that needs to use a more correct one.
* "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths,
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing
+ up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the
+ callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it.
+ (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint).
+
+ * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
+ command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
+
+ * When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
+ order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
+ returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hung
+ sideband thread.
+
+ * Zsh completion forgot that the '%' character used to signal untracked
+ files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
+
+ * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
+ crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and a
+ timestamp can always be found in it.
+
+ * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
+ "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side had
+ a programming error that triggered the die handler
+ recursively.
+
+ * "rev-list --stdin" and friends kept bogus pointers into the input
+ buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge
+ problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in
+ error output.
+
* Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
- GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
- like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
+ GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients,
+ like they are when talking with smart HTTP clients.
(merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
* "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
- "our" side in certain cases.
+ the "our" side in certain cases.
(merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
- * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
+ * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (instead of redirecting to /dev/null)
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
- Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
- error reporting code may write into them.
- (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
+ A later open may return file descriptor #2 for an unrelated purpose, and
+ error reporting code may write into it.
* "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
- (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
* "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
--diff-algorithm=algo".
- (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
- * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
+ * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied in a few
places.
- (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
- * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
- any message as its one of the prerequistes.
- (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
+ * "git bundle" erroneously bailed out when parsing a valid bundle
+ containing a prerequisite commit without a commit message.
* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
- there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
+ there was no way to disable this. Make it honor the --no-textconv
option.
- (merge 61690bf sr/log-SG-no-textconv later to maint).
- * When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
+ * When used with the "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
final clean-up procedure.
- (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
* "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code
notice the type of the tag object, in addition to the dwim_ref()
based classification the current code uses (i.e. the name appears
- in refs/tags/) to decide when to special case merging of tags.
- (merge a38d3d7 jc/merge-tag-object later to maint).
+ in refs/tags/) to decide when to special-case tag merging.
- * Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without
+ * Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a
trailing slash) to a directory "dir".
- (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).
* "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting
longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).
- (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).
* The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice
when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.
- (merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).
- * "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support
+ * "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support the
"--option=value" form.
- (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).
* "index-pack --fix-thin" used an uninitialized value to compute
- delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
- (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).
+ the delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.
- * "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection
- of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
- (merge 8f82aad nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes later to maint).
+ * "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside the protection
+ of a mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers.
* The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on
- platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a
- hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.
+ platforms with case insensitive filesystems could get confused upon a
+ hash collision between these pathnames and would loop forever.
- * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
- correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.
+ * Annotated tags outside the refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised
+ correctly to ls-remote and fetch with recent versions of Git.
- * Recent optimization broke shallow clones.
- (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).
+ * Recent optimizations broke shallow clones.
* "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and
instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.
* "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when
- creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).
+ creating a new tag (i.e. neither overwriting nor updating).
* "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4
client was not its real path.
(merge bbd8486 pw/p4-symlinked-root later to maint).
- * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out
- of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty
+ * "git archive" reported a failure when asked to create an archive out
+ of an empty tree. It is more intuitive to give an empty
archive back in such a case.
- * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,
+ * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii string in header files,
it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in
- the middle of it.
+ the middle of the string.
* An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say
- it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.
+ it is bare with "core.bare = yes" was treated as non-bare by mistake.
- * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
+ * In "git reflog expire", the REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
correct objects.
* The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped.
* The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with
- "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a
+ "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be a
base of description, did not restrict the output from the command
- to those that match the given pattern.
+ to those refs that match the given pattern.
* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
* The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
was described poorly.
- * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented.
+ * The arguments given to the pre-rebase hook were not documented.
* The v4 index format was not documented.
* In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global
to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
- CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
+ CGit sideways, bypassing the entry points of the API the
in-tree users use.
* "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
$msg already ended with one.
* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
- Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
+ Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect to SSL/TLS
sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
* perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
* "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
- parameters and issue errors in many cases.
+ parameters. It now issues errors in many cases.
- * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
+ * Verification of signed tags was not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
* Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the
most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
- user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
- spellings of UTF-8.
+ user-supplied encoding name that is a common alternative
+ spelling of UTF-8.
- * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
+ * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded an incorrect
size of the file.
* "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
- sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
- numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
+ sort the messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
+ numeric segments in numeric order and non-numeric segments in
alphabetical order.
* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not