UI, Workflows & Features
+ * 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" have been updated to help C++ source better.
+
* "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
branch that we were previously on.
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.
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "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).
+
+
* "git repack" died when asked to (re)pack with the reachability
bitmap when a bitmap cannot be built; instead, just (re)pack
without producing a bitmap in such a case, with a warning.