might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
greatly appreciated.
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
Updates since v2.14
-------------------
* The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite"
option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions.
- (merge ad53bf79aa rg/rerere-train-overwrite later to maint).
* "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the
"Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on
S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank)
the original bug reporter.
- (merge 09ac673788 eb/contacts-reported-by later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase", especially when it is run by mistake and ends up
+ trying to replay many changes, spent long time in silence. The
+ command has been taught to show progress report when it spends
+ long time preparing these many changes to replay (which would give
+ the user a chance to abort with ^C).
+
+ * "git merge" learned a "--signoff" option to add the Signed-off-by:
+ trailer with the committer's name.
+
+ * "git diff" learned to optionally paint new lines that are the same
+ as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new lines.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" learned to take the trailer specifications
+ from the command line that overrides the configured values.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
+ other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
+ trailer lines from a commit log message.
+
+ * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the
+ history overview page.
+
+ * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable
+ is defined to take an integer counting the number of days. It now
+ is allowed.
+
+ * The code to acquire a lock on a reference (e.g. while accepting a
+ push from a client) used to immediately fail when the reference is
+ already locked---now it waits for a very short while and retries,
+ which can make it succeed if the lock holder was holding it during
+ a read-only operation.
+
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
+ * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean
+ operation learned to show the progress meter.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the
build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a
hand-rolled substitute.
- (merge 90dbf226ba js/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows later to maint).
* "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more
consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing
* The "ref-store" code reorganization continues.
+ * "git commit" used to discard the index and re-read from the filesystem
+ just in case the pre-commit hook has updated it in the middle; this
+ has been optimized out when we know we do not run the pre-commit hook.
+ (merge 680ee550d7 kw/commit-keep-index-when-pre-commit-is-not-run later to maint).
+
+ * Updates to the HTTP layer we made recently unconditionally used
+ features of libCurl without checking the existence of them, causing
+ compilation errors, which has been fixed. Also migrate the code to
+ check feature macros, not version numbers, to cope better with
+ libCurl that vendor ships with backported features.
+
+ * The API to start showing progress meter after a short delay has
+ been simplified.
+ (merge 8aade107dd jc/simplify-progress later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to avoid mixing values read from the .gitmodules file
+ and values read from the .git/config file.
+
+ * We used to spend more than necessary cycles allocating and freeing
+ piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been
+ optimized.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now
honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness
of the output medium.
- (merge 11b087adfd jk/ref-filter-colors later to maint).
* The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be
interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but
weren't, which has been fixed.
- (merge 8d1549643e jc/http-sslkey-and-ssl-cert-are-paths later to maint).
* Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have
been fixed.
- (merge de239446b6 jk/reflog-walk later to maint).
* "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not
edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been
corrected.
- (merge bc17f35f8c ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix later to maint).
* When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the
project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory.
- (merge 46a13857fc hb/gitweb-project-list later to maint).
* Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.
- (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint).
* A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to
ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF.
- (merge 1f180e5eb9 dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache later to maint).
* "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
has been fixed---it now shows nothing.
- (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint).
* The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
- (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint).
* "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.
- (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint).
* Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
fixed.
- (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint).
* "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
option down to submodules.
- (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint).
* Test portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
- (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint).
* Portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint).
* "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.
- (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint).
* "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
current time, which has been corrected.
- (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint).
* Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged.
- (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the
+ ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the
+ file has local changes. The command has been taught to instead use
+ the locally modified contents.
+
+ * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
+ substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.
+
+ * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
+ codes; this has been corrected.
+
+ * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process
+ asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program
+ the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected.
+
+ * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a
+ taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line
+ endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git()
+ that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index
+ entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply"
+ is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all.
+ This has been fixed.
+
+ * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left
+ the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD,
+ which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was
+ a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the
+ export-ignore attribute.
+
+ * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft"
+ was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it
+ needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer
+ section.
+ (merge cc90750677 mm/send-email-cc-cruft later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated
+ to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree
+ was in use. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge 5b114f3bb0 rs/bswap-ubsan-fix later to maint).
- (merge 168e63554c rs/move-array later to maint).
- (merge 268ba20110 rs/stat-data-unaligned-reads-fix later to maint).
- (merge 78e7b98f45 jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge c7b0780545 rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge c1e860f1dc js/run-process-parallel-api-fix later to maint).
- (merge 7a40a95eb4 cc/ref-is-hidden-microcleanup later to maint).
- (merge c0bb6d9cef ah/doc-wserrorhighlight later to maint).
- (merge edd64ef4f7 dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup later to maint).
- (merge fa64a2fdbe jt/subprocess-handshake later to maint).
- (merge 0ba9c9a0fb jb/t8008-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge a7c28a2161 jt/t1450-fsck-corrupt-packfile later to maint).
- (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
- (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint).
- (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint).
- (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint).
- (merge f1068efefe jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
- (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint).
- (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint).
- (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint).
- (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint).
- (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
+ (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint).
+ (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint).