* "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av").
Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..
+ * "git cpn --help", when "cpn" is an alias to, say, "cherry-pick -n",
+ reported only the alias expansion of "cpn" in earlier versions of
+ Git. It now runs "git cherry-pick --help" to show the manual page
+ of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard
+ error stream.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
+ trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible
+ change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or
+ setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by",
+ can be used to disable this behaviour.
+
Updates since v2.19
-------------------
* "git format-patch" learned new "--interdiff" and "--range-diff"
options to explain the difference between this version and the
- previous attempt in the cover letter (or after the tree-dashes as
+ previous attempt in the cover letter (or after the three-dashes as
a comment).
* "git mailinfo" used in "git am" learned to make a best-effort
meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
output.
- * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port fo Git is
+ * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port of Git is
now set to Vista.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of
advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now
configurable with a pair of configuration variables.
+ * "git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say "cmd is
+ aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream
+ and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the
+ alias expansion.
+
+ * The documentation of "git gc" has been updated to mention that it
+ is no longer limited to "pruning away crufts" but also updates
+ ancillary files like commit-graph as a part of repository
+ optimization.
+
+ * "git p4 unshelve" improvements.
+
+ * The logic to select the default user name and e-mail on Windows has
+ been improved.
+ (merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint).
+
+ * The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via
+ "tree:0" filter.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
+ trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the
+ command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
+ variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
+
+ * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option.
+
+ * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
+ settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
+ "git difftool" does.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned a new insn, 'break', that the user can
+ insert in the to-do list. Upon hitting it, the command returns
+ control back to the user.
+
+ * New "--pretty=format:" placeholders %GF and %GP that show the GPG
+ key fingerprints have been invented.
+
+ * On platforms with recent cURL library, http.sslBackend configuration
+ variable can be used to choose a different SSL backend at runtime.
+ The Windows port uses this mechanism to switch between OpenSSL and
+ Secure Channel while talking over the HTTPS protocol.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to disable SMTP authentication via the
+ "--smtp-auth=none" option, even when the smtp username is given
+ (which turns the authentication on by default).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial
checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check.
+ * To help developers, an EditorConfig file that attempts to follow
+ the project convention has been added.
+ (merge b548d698a0 bc/editorconfig later to maint).
+
+ * The result of coverage test can be combined with "git blame" to
+ check the test coverage of code introduced recently with a new
+ 'coverage-diff' tool (in contrib/).
+ (merge 783faedd65 ds/coverage-diff later to maint).
+
+ * An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more
+ coverage to various areas.
+
+ * More codepaths are moving away from hardcoded hash sizes.
+
+ * The way the Windows port figures out the current directory has been
+ improved.
+
+ * The way DLLs are loaded on the Windows port has been improved.
+
+ * Some tests have been reorganized and renamed; "ls t/" now gives a
+ better overview of what is tested for these scripts than before.
+
+ * "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" have been reimplemented in C.
+
+ * Windows port learned to use nano-second resolution file timestamps.
+
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
no blobs are needed.
(merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint).
+ * The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
+ remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
+ (merge 4c490f3d32 sg/split-index-racefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
+ number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
+ parent commits, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git range-diff" did not work well when the compared ranges had
+ changes in submodules and the "--submodule=log" was used.
+
+ * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
+ bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
+ directory.
+ (merge f67b980771 jk/run-command-notdot later to maint).
+
+ * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
+ and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
+ (merge 34204c8166 js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
+ Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
+ were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
+ (merge ffd04e92e2 js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix later to maint).
+
+ * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
+ when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
+ as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge b072a25fad jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The logic to determine the archive type "git archive" uses did not
+ correctly kick in for "git archive --remote", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
+ shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
+ does not pass fsck.
+ (merge 5dcfbf564c js/shallow-and-fetch-prune later to maint).
+
+ * Some codepaths failed to form a proper URL when .gitmodules record
+ the URL to a submodule repository as relative to the repository of
+ superproject, which has been corrected.
+ (merge e0a862fdaf sb/submodule-url-to-absolute later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" over protocol v2 into a shallow repository failed to
+ fetch full history behind a new tip of history that was diverged
+ before the cut-off point of the history that was previously fetched
+ shallowly.
+
+ * The command line completion machinery (in contrib/) has been
+ updated to allow the completion script to tweak the list of options
+ that are reported by the parse-options machinery correctly.
+ (merge 276b49ff34 nd/completion-negation later to maint).
+
+ * Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
+ small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
+ machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
+ and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
+ didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
+ file is getting prepared for the transition.
+ (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
+
+ * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
+ '--verbose-log' option.
+ (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
(merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint).
(merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).
(merge d9f079ad1a jc/how-to-document-api later to maint).
+ (merge b1492bf315 ma/t7005-bash-workaround later to maint).
+ (merge ac1f98a0df du/rev-parse-is-plumbing later to maint).
+ (merge ca8ed443a5 mm/doc-no-dashed-git later to maint).
+ (merge ce366a8144 du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing later to maint).
+ (merge 61018fe9e0 du/cherry-is-plumbing later to maint).
+ (merge c7e5fe79b9 sb/strbuf-h-update later to maint).
+ (merge 8d2008196b tq/branch-create-wo-branch-get later to maint).
+ (merge 2e3c894f4b tq/branch-style-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c5d844af9c sg/doc-show-branch-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 081d91618b ah/doc-updates later to maint).
+ (merge b84c783882 jc/cocci-preincr later to maint).
+ (merge 5e495f8122 uk/merge-subtree-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge aaaa881822 jk/uploadpack-packobjectshook-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 3063477445 tb/char-may-be-unsigned later to maint).
+ (merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).