"git branch --set-upstream" is deprecated and may be removed in a
relatively distant future. "git branch [-u|--set-upstream-to]" has
-been introduced with a saner order of arguments.
+been introduced with a saner order of arguments to replace it.
Updates since v1.8.0
UI, Workflows & Features
- * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
- causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
- The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
- workaround has been removed in this release.
+ * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
+
+ * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
+ pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
* Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
format are now formatted in HTML as well.
- * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
- pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
+ * We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
+ causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
+ The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
+ workaround has been removed in this release.
- * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
- give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
- override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
+ * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
+ behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
+ branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
+ them up by pushing or pulling. This can be disabled with the
+ advice.statusHints configuration variable.
* "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple
definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as
API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
practice.
+ * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
+ give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
+ override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
+
* "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
+ the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
+ of the blobs without filtering.
+
* "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
configuration set to "perl".
- * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only
- accepting full hex object name.
+ * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object> as an extended
+ SHA-1 (e.g. HEAD~4 is allowed), instead of only accepting full hex
+ object name.
* "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because
recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository
from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this
- case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe.
+ case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe to do so.
+
+ * "git send-email" used to prompt for the sender address, even when
+ the committer identity is well specified (e.g. via user.name and
+ user.email configuration variables). The command no longer gives
+ this prompt when not necessary.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not allow non-address garbage strings to
+ appear after addresses on Cc: lines in the patch files (and when
+ told to pick them up to find more recipients), e.g.
+
+ Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@k.org> # for v3.2 and up
+
+ The command now strips " # for v3.2 and up" part before adding the
+ remainder of this line to the list of recipients.
* "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same
path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an
* "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option.
+ * "diff.submodule" configuration variable can be used to give custom
+ default value to the "git diff --submodule" option.
+
* "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the
named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than
- "update-ref -d --no-deref".
+ "update-ref -d --no-deref $symref".
Foreign Interface
* The remote helper interface to interact with subversion
repositories (one of the GSoC 2012 projects) has been merged.
+ * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
+ contrib/remote-helpers.
+
+ * The documentation for git(1) was pointing at a page at an external
+ site for the list of authors that no longer existed. The link has
+ been updated to point at an alternative site.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now.
- * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
- "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
- of the connection) to list what refs are available in the
- repository has been optimized.
+ * A couple of low-level implementation updates on MinGW.
+
+ * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from "upload-pack"
+ (i.e. what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side of the
+ connection) to list what refs are available in the repository has
+ been optimized.
* The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
been optimized.
* The configuration parser had an unnecessary hardcoded limit on
variable names that was not checked consistently.
- (merge 0971e99 bw/config-lift-variable-name-length-limit later to maint).
* The "say" function in the test scaffolding incorrectly allowed
"echo" to interpret "\a" as if it were a C-string asking for a
BEL output.
- (merge 7bc0911 jc/test-say-color-avoid-echo-escape later to maint).
* "git mergetool" feeds /dev/null as a common ancestor when dealing
with an add/add conflict, but p4merge backend cannot handle
it. Work it around by passing a temporary empty file.
- (merge 3facc60 da/mergetools-p4 later to maint).
* "git log -F -E --grep='<ere>'" failed to use the given <ere>
pattern as extended regular expression, and instead looked for the
string literally.
- (merge 727b6fc jc/grep-pcre-loose-ends~1 later to maint).
* "git grep -e pattern <tree>" asked the attribute system to read
"<tree>:.gitattributes" file in the working tree, which was
nonsense.
- (merge 55c6168 nd/grep-true-path later to maint).
* A symbolic ref refs/heads/SYM was not correctly removed with "git
branch -d SYM"; the command removed the ref pointed by SYM
instead.
- (merge 13baa9f rs/branch-del-symref later to maint).
* Update "remote tracking branch" in the documentation to
"remote-tracking branch".
- (merge a6d3bde mm/maint-doc-remote-tracking later to maint).
* "git pull --rebase" run while the HEAD is detached tried to find
the upstream branch of the detached HEAD (which by definition
does not exist) and emitted unnecessary error messages.
- (merge e980765 ph/pull-rebase-detached later to maint).
* The refs/replace hierarchy was not mentioned in the
repository-layout docs.
- (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
* Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.
- (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
* Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http
transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
A workaround has been added for this.
- (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
* For a fetch refspec (or the result of applying wildcard on one),
we always want the RHS to map to something inside "refs/"
* "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
for changes.
- (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).
* Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase
(not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended
* "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
across multiple lines.
- (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint).
* Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
- (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint).
* RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
- (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint).
* "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
"true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
- (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint).
* "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
"Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
- (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * Various codepaths have workaround for a common misconfiguration to
+ spell "UTF-8" as "utf8", but it was not used uniformly. Most
+ notably, mailinfo (which is used by "git am") lacked this support.
+
+ * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose
+ permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any
+ content in the "git diff --stat" output.
+
+ * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total
+ number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed
+ incorrectly.
+
+ * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total
+ number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output
+ was computed incorrectly.
+
+ * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files
+ when there were unmerged paths.
+
+ * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref
+ that points to it did not remove it correctly.