UI, Workflows & Features
+ * "git archive" learned to filter what gets archived with pathspec.
+
* "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user
configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the
user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the
for a tagged commit, gained a cousin "%D" that just gives the
"tagname" without frills.
+ * "git push" learned "--signed" push, that allows a push (i.e.
+ request to update the refs on the other side to point at a new
+ history, together with the transmission of necessary objects) to be
+ signed, so that it can be verified and audited, using the GPG
+ signature of the person who pushed, that the tips of branches at a
+ public repository really point the commits the pusher wanted to,
+ without having to "trust" the server.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something
other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
+ * The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up.
+
* We no longer attempt to keep track of individual dependencies to
the header files in the build procedure, relying on automated
dependency generation support from modern compilers.
* "git hash-object" was taught a "--literally" option to help
debugging.
+ * When running a required clean filter, we do not have to mmap the
+ original before feeding the filter. Instead, stream the file
+ contents directly to the filter and process its output.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* "git checkout -m" did not switch to another branch while carrying
the local changes forward when a path was deleted from the index.
+ * "git daemon" (with NO_IPV6 build configuration) used to incorrectly
+ use the hostname even when gethostbyname() reported that the given
+ hostname is not found.
+ (merge 107efbe rs/daemon-fixes later to maint).
+
* With sufficiently long refnames, "git fast-import" could have
overflown an on-stack buffer.
* "rev-parse --verify --quiet $name" is meant to quietly exit with a
non-zero status when $name is not a valid object name, but still
gave error messages in some cases.
+
+ * A handful of C source files have been updated to include
+ "git-compat-util.h" as the first thing, to conform better to our
+ coding guidelines.
+ (merge 1c4b660 da/include-compat-util-first-in-c later to maint).
+
+ * t7004 test, which tried to run Git with small stack space, has been
+ updated to give a bit larger stack to avoid false breakage on some
+ platforms.
+ (merge b9a1907 sk/tag-contains-wo-recursion later to maint).
+
+ * A few documentation pages had example sections marked up not quite
+ correctly, which passed AsciiDoc but failed with AsciiDoctor.
+ (merge c30c43c bc/asciidoc-pretty-formats-fix later to maint).