* "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
as "git diff" output.
- (merge 46e3d17 jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics later to maint).
* "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when
responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
to the right border.
- (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint).
+
+ * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing
+ 0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both
+ 0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing
+ embarrassment and a minor confusion. Detect such an input and
+ offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out.
+ (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could
+ eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the
+ submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt.
+
+ * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and
+ strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc.
+
+ * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a
+ command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.
+ (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint).
+
+ * A couple of "git svn" updates.
+
+ * More markings of messages for i18n, with updates to various tests
+ to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests.
+
+ * "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and
+ commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR
+ format.
+ (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+
+ * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
+ specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
- (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint).
* "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
API.
* The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
- (merge b7410f6 km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name later to maint).
* "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
- (merge 43ec550 jk/bisect-show-tree later to maint).
* Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues.
(merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint).
* Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
GPG signature have been documented.
- (merge cc6ee97 mg/signature-doc later to maint).
* A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to
sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from
errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
(merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
+ * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent
+ version of Git even when testing an older installed version.
+
+ * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the
+ data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths
+ used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step
+ to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these
+ codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE*
+ instead.
+
+ * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id
+ continues.
+
+ * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
+ each ref that was fetched.
+ (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint).
+
+ * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
+ that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
+ (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
+ feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
+ helper function.
+
+ * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its
+ temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/.
+
+ * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
+ library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
+ recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
+ mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
+ (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
+
+ * When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
+ a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
+ that is referred to were reported with their 40-hex object names.
+ The command learned the "--name-objects" option to show the path to
+ the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
+
+ * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
+ (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
+
+ * Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
+ want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
+ case for recent Mac OS X. The necessary symbols are often found in
+ libc on many modern systems and having -lrt on the command line, as
+ long as the library exists, had no effect, but when the platform
+ removes librt.a that is a different matter--having -lrt will break
+ the linkage.
+
+ This change could be seen as a regression for those who do need to
+ specify -lrt, as they now specifically ask for NEEDS_LIBRT when
+ building. Hopefully they are in the minority these days.
+
+ * Further preparatory work on the refs API before the pluggable
+ backend series can land.
+
+ * Error handling in the codepaths that updates refs has been
+ improved.
+
+ * The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
+ has been revamped.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
"auto".
- (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint).
* "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
bitmap index.
- (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint).
* "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
which has been fixed.
- (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).
* The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
of the submodules are not prepared for.
- (merge 18a74a0 sb/clone-shallow-passthru later to maint).
* Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
- (merge 01247e0 lc/shell-default-value-noexpand later to maint).
* Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
corrected.
- (merge 0767172 js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions later to maint).
* The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
* One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
- (merge d2addc3 ak/t7800-wo-readlink later to maint).
* t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
- (merge e3efa94 js/perf-on-apple later to maint).
* A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
paths that are _inside_.
- (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
+ documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
+ Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
+ instead.
+
+ * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and
+ finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
+ commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank
+ lines to match.
+ (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint).
+
+ * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our
+ colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on
+ Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years.
+ (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint).
+
+ * "gc.autoPackLimit" when set to 1 should not trigger a repacking
+ when there is only one pack, but the code counted poorly and did
+ so.
+ (merge 5f4e3bf ew/gc-auto-pack-limit-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Add a test to specify the desired behaviour that currently is not
+ available in "git rebase -Xsubtree=...".
+ (merge 5f35900 dg/subtree-rebase-test later to maint).
+
+ * More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
+ literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
+ (merge 661c3e9 mm/doc-tt later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit --amend --allow-empty-message -S" for a commit without
+ any message body could have misidentified where the header of the
+ commit object ends.
+ (merge 3324dd8 js/sign-empty-commit-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i --autostash" did not restore the auto-stashed change
+ when the operation was aborted.
+ (merge 33ba9c6 ps/rebase-i-auto-unstash-upon-abort later to maint).
+
+ * Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a
+ path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not
+ show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that
+ logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working
+ tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
+ (merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
+ (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint).
+
+ * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
+ submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
+ could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
+ case condition.
+ (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
+ correctly.
+ (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint).
+
+ * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
+ is not necessarily available everywhere.
+ (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
+
+ * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
+ the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
+ built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
+ potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
+ programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that
+ calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
+ make it harder to make mistakes.
+ (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint).
+
+ * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
+ check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
+ (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint).
+
+ * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
+ single-liner to a file.
+ (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint).
+
+ * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
+ stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
+ which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
+ the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
+ contrast to "ours".
+ (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
+ unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
+ "file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was
+ created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
+ committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
+ (merge c66b470 mh/blame-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
+ when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
+ "file".
+ (merge 6d6a782 nd/cache-tree-ita later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
+ part, but "git push" didn't.
+ (merge 68f3c07 jk/push-scrub-url later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
+ merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
+ shouldn't.
+ (merge 1335d76 jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
+ suboptimal, which has been fixed.
+ (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
+
+ * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
+ misbehave has been fixed.
+ (merge 044fb19 js/ignore-space-at-eol later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
(merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).
(merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint).
- (merge 5819c2e sb/t5614-modernize later to maint).
- (merge fe0537a cb/t7810-test-label-fix later to maint).
- (merge 412b9a1 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
+ (merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint).
+ (merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint).
+ (merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 31471ba rs/use-strbuf-addbuf later to maint).
+ (merge 503e224 nd/test-helpers later to maint).
+ (merge 16726cf jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude later to maint).
+ (merge fd2e7da rs/worktree-use-strbuf-absolute-path later to maint).