* The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
the "--autostash" option.
+ * The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can
+ now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional
+ options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>.
+
+ * "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault,
+ which is being fixed.
+
+ * "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available
+ in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
+ checked to also include directories on $PATH.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
without harming them.
+ * An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is
+ introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various
+ codepaths has been started.
+
+ * The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized.
+
+ * An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has
+ been removed, as there is no remaining callers.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of)
removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days.
The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its
- synopsys section, which has been corrected.
+ synopsis section, which has been corrected.
(merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint).
- * Internaly we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the
+ * Internally we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the
codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check
while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know
there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating
accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
(merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint).
+ * @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state,
+ but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint).
+
+ * A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed.
+ (merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
(merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint).
(merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint).
+ (merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
+ (merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).