* "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push".
+ * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied
+ closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be
+ controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is
+ ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude
+ mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up
+ to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored.
+
+ * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to
+ truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be
+ added.
+
+ * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to
+ work with mediawiki namespaces.
+
+ * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show
+ the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side
+ that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)"
+ and friends.
+
+ * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym
+ for "bisect visualize".
+
+ * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go
+ ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has
+ been corrected by making the command error out.
+
+ * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
+ HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
+ (merge 049e64aa50 bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc later to maint).
+
+ * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
+ operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
+ * Code cleanup.
+
+ * A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split
+ into a structure with many bitfields.
+
+ * TravisCI build updates.
+
+ * Parts of a test to drive the long-running content filter interface
+ has been split into its own module, hopefully to eventually become
+ reusable.
+
+ * Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index
+ read from the filesystem at runtime.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
"auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard
output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the
latter, which has been fixed.
- (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint).
* The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output"
feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch
has been corrected.
- (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint).
* Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to
implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair
of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code.
- (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint).
* Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the
HEAD points at, which have been fixed.
- (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint).
* "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when
asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted.
- (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint).
* "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a
separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and
listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the
directory itself as ignored.
- (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint).
* A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep
--recurse-submodules" has been fixed.
- (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint).
* A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git
commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed.
- (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint).
* A (possibly flakey) test fix.
- (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint).
* "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
- (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint).
* "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be
moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated,
and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly.
- (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint).
* Command line completion (in contrib/) update.
- (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint).
+
+ * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
+ configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
+
+ * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function
+ sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat,
+ which has been fixed.
+
+ * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now
+ tested just like Mingw builds.
+
+ * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed
+ immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at
+ around Git 2.13).
+
+ * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved
+ to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are
+ currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded).
+
+ * MinGW updates.
+
+ * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been
+ improved.
+ (merge 618ec81abb rs/imap-send-next-arg-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started
+ rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been
+ optimized again for most trivial cases.
+ (merge 7c6bd25c7d mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs later to maint).
+
+ * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have
+ been fixed.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that
+ is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has
+ been corrected.
+
+ * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed.
+
+ * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system
+ that does not help anything; it has been corrected.
+
+ * Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc.
+ (merge f6be7edcac ad/submitting-patches-title-decoration later to maint).
+
+ * A fix for an ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath.
+ (merge 6ce15ce576 rs/apply-fuzzy-match-fix later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint).
+ (merge f4e45cb3eb ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 4da72644b7 ma/reduce-heads-leakfix later to maint).