has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which you can do
with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
+"git request-pull" lost a few "heuristics" that often led to mistakes.
+
+The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
+time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
+refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
+it is told otherwise with its "--prefix" option.
+
Updates since v1.9 series
-------------------------
-Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
+UI, Workflows & Features
+ * The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated
+ to a more recent version from upstream.
-UI, Workflows & Features
+ * The "remote-hg/bzr" remote-helper interfaces (used to be in
+ contrib/) are no more. They are now maintained separately as
+ third-party plug-ins in their own repositories.
+
+ * "git gc --aggressive" learned "--depth" option and
+ "gc.aggressiveDepth" configuration variable to allow use of a less
+ insane depth than the built-in default value of 250.
+
+ * "git log" learned the "--show-linear-break" option to show where a
+ single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output.
+
+ * The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to
+ parse command-line options and to give help text learned to take
+ the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
+ e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
+
+ * The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
+ "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to improve viewing C++
+ sources.
+
+ * "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
+ branch that we were previously on.
+
+ * "git commit --cleanup=<mode>" learned a new mode, scissors.
+
+ * "git tag --list" output can be sorted using "version sort" with
+ "--sort=version:refname".
+
+ * Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
+ result wants to be pulled from and make sure that what the end user
+ specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
+ mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public
+ repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to
+ denote the branch to be pulled.
+
+ * "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when
+ "-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given.
+
+ * "git push" via transport-helper interface has been updated to
+ allow forced ref updates in a way similar to the natively
+ supported transports.
* The "simple" mode is the default for "git push".
tree-wide operation even when run inside a subdirectory of a
working tree.
- * "git add <path> is the same as "git add -A <path>" now.
+ * "git add <path>
" is the same as "git add -A <path>" now.
* "core.statinfo" configuration variable, which is a
never-advertised synonym to "core.checkstat", has been removed.
* The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
been marked for i18n/l10n.
- * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
- is not a blob as an error.
+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses as an error an attempt to use an
+ object that is not a blob.
* "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
- operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
- course is rejected).
+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input is
+ rejected, of course).
* Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
- speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
+ speaking, this is a backward-incompatible change, but very unlikely
to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
- * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
- learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull" and "rebase",
+ learned to take the "--gpg-sign" option on the command line.
* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
- by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the
- command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it).
+ by setting the "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to "true"
+ (the command-line option "--no-gpg-sign" should override it).
* "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the
- new "pull.ff" configuration.
+ new "pull.ff" configuration variable.
- * "git reset" learned "-N" option, which does not reset the index
+ * "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index
fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
resets to does not (these paths are kept as intend-to-add entries).
- * Newly cloned submodule repositories by "git submodule update",
- when the "checkout" update mode is used, will be on a local
- branch instead of on a detached HEAD, just like submodules added
- with "git submodule add".
-
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * The compilation options to port to AIX and to MSVC have been
+ updated.
+
* We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases
ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3).
* Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
- over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
+ over HTTP code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
"easy" interface.
* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
- significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
+ significantly improve performance when serving objects from a
repository that uses it.
* The way "git log --cc" shows a combined diff against multiple
- parents have been optimized.
+ parents has been optimized.
* The prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() functions are gone. Use
starts_with() and ends_with(), and also consider if skip_prefix()
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "git p4" was broken in 1.9 release to deal with changes in binary
+ files.
+ (merge 749b668 cl/p4-use-diff-tree later to maint).
+
+ * The shell prompt script (in contrib/), when using the PROMPT_COMMAND
+ interface, used an unsafe construct when showing the branch name in
+ $PS1.
+ (merge 1e4119c8 rh/prompt-pcmode-avoid-eval-on-refname later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not
+ work well with.
+ (merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
+
+ * zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
+
+ * Bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
+ correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push".
+
+ * Some more Unicode code points, defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
+ width, have been taught to our display column counting logic.
+ (merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint).
+
+ * Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD
+ (merge ff7a1c6 km/avoid-bs-in-shell-glob later to maint).
+ (merge 00764ca km/avoid-cp-a later to maint).
+
+ * "git update-ref --stdin" did not fail a request to create a ref
+ when the ref already existed.
+ (merge b9d56b5 mh/update-ref-batch-create-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
+ (merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch
+ refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to
+ "refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to
+ "refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of
+ "refs/heads/fr/otz" on the origin site meant we should remove
+ "refs/remotes/origin/fr/otz" from us, without checking their
+ "refs/frotz/otz" first.
+
+ Note that such a configuration is inherently unsafe (think what
+ should happen when "refs/heads/fr/otz" does appear on the origin
+ site), but that is not a reason not to be extra careful.
+ (merge e6f6371 cn/fetch-prune-overlapping-destination later to maint).
+
+ * "git status --porcelain --branch" showed its output with labels
+ "ahead/behind/gone" translated to the user's locale.
+ (merge 7a76c28 mm/status-porcelain-format-i18n-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A stray environment variable $prefix could have leaked into and
+ affected the behaviour of the "subtree" script (in contrib/).
+
+ * When it is not necessary to edit a commit log message (e.g. "git
+ commit -m" is given a message without specifying "-e"), we used to
+ disable the spawning of the editor by overriding GIT_EDITOR, but
+ this means all the uses of the editor, other than to edit the
+ commit log message, are also affected.
+ (merge b549be0 bp/commit-p-editor later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv" that moves a submodule forgot to adjust the array that
+ uses to keep track of which submodules were to be moved to update
+ its configuration.
+ (merge fb8a4e8 jk/mv-submodules-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Length limit for the pathname used when removing a path in a deep
+ subdirectory has been removed to avoid buffer overflows.
+ (merge 2f29e0c mh/remove-subtree-long-pathname-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The test helper lib-terminal always run an actual test_expect_*
+ when included, which screwed up with the use of skil-all that may
+ have to be done later.
+ (merge 7e27173 jk/lib-terminal-lazy later to maint).
+
+ * "git index-pack" used a wrong variable to name the keep-file in an
+ error message when the file cannot be written or closed.
+ (merge de983a0 nd/index-pack-error-message later to maint).
+
+ * "rebase -i" produced a broken insn sheet when the title of a commit
+ happened to contain '\n' (or ended with '\c') due to a careless use
+ of 'echo'.
+ (merge cb1aefd us/printf-not-echo later to maint).
+
+ * There were a few instances of 'git-foo' remaining in the
+ documentation that should have been spelled 'git foo'.
+ (merge 3c3e6f5 rr/doc-merge-strategies later to maint).
+
+ * Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
+ new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries, but it was not
+ cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal.
+ (merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When "git stash pop" stops after failing to apply the stash
+ (e.g. due to conflicting changes), the stash is not dropped. State
+ that explicitly in the output to let the users know.
+ (merge 2d4c993 jc/stash-pop-not-popped later to maint).
+
+ * The labels in "git status" output that describe the nature of
+ conflicts (e.g. "both deleted") were limited to 20 bytes, which was
+ too short for some l10n (e.g. fr).
+ (merge c7cb333 jn/wt-status later to maint).
+
+ * "git clean -d pathspec" did not use the given pathspec correctly
+ and ended up cleaning too much.
+ (merge 1f2e108 jk/clean-d-pathspec later to maint).
+
* "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the
working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file
".git" tells us where it is.
(merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
- * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
- defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
+ * "git push" did not pay attention to "branch.*.pushremote" if it is
+ defined earlier than "remote.pushdefault"; the order of these two
variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
by mistake.
(merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
- * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
+ * Code paths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
tightened.
- (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f80d1f9 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
* "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
- in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
- the same as one of the versions being compared.
+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew that it
+ is the same as one of the versions being compared.
(merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
* "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
* "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
- --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
+ "--work-tree" (and obviously with "--git-dir") option.
(merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
involved. This has been corrected.
(merge 6e2068a bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive later to maint.)
- * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments
+ * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command-line arguments
that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required
value for that option.
(merge a43219f ds/rev-parse-required-args later to maint.)
- * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that
+ * "include.path" variable (or any variable that expects a path that
can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
boolean, but the code failed to check it.
(merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.)
the pathspec is given as an absolute pathname (which is a
practice not particularly encouraged) that points at a symbolic
link in the working tree.
- (merge later 655ee9e mw/symlinks to maint.)
+ (merge 6127ff6 mw/symlinks later to maint.)
* "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return
- correct status value.
+ the correct status value.
(merge f34b205 nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty later to maint.)
* Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart
- HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done
+ HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when the no-done
extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of
- shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to
+ shallow boundary commits after the sending side stopped talking to
it.
(merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.)
* Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is
bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the
extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often
- given by command line completion).
+ given by command-line completion).
(merge 2e70c01 nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash later to maint.)
+
+ * Documentation and in-code comments had many instances of mistaken
+ use of "nor", which have been corrected.
+ (merge 235e8d5 jl/nor-or-nand-and later to maint).