* Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do
not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings.
+ * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that
+ matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo".
+
+ * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn
+ branch.
+
* "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
+ * When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due
+ to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if
+ there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has
+ been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as
+ it hurts the common case of not failing at all.
+
* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
* The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
quoting code from http-push codepath.
+ * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/
+ directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by
+ default).
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
excess trailing blank lines.
(merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
+ * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
+ way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
+ (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
+
+ * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
+ failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
+ This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
+ (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint).
+
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
(merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
(merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
+ * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
+ on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
+ without getting seen in the editor.
+ (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint).
+
* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.