* A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".
- * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -" pays attention
+ * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -3" pays attention
to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation
to stop.
* "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of
multiple lines. "--name-only" option is added to help this.
+ * A handful of usability & cosmetic fixes to gitk and l10n updates.
+
+ * A completely empty e-mail address <> is now allowed in the authors
+ file used by git-svn, to match the way it accepts the output from
+ authors-prog.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "Is this subdirectory a separate repository that should not be
touched?" check "git clean" was inefficient. This was replaced
with a more optimized check.
- (merge 38ae878 ee/clean-remove-dirs later to maint).
+ (merge fbf2fec ee/clean-remove-dirs later to maint).
* The "new-worktree-mode" hack in "checkout" that was added in
nd/multiple-work-trees topic has been removed by updating the
Note that this is irrelevant for 'master' with "git pull" rewritten
in C.
- (merge 22d6857 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint).
+ (merge 13e0e28 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint).
* When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno
leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and
* We rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl but this reimplements
in Bourne shell.
- (merge 82aec45 sg/help-group later to maint).
+ (merge 57cee8a sg/help-group later to maint).
* The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
* "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
- (merge 6262fe9 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of
+ a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer
+ block.
+ (merge 5c99995 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint).
* "git describe" without argument defaulted to describe the HEAD
commit, but "git describe --contains" didn't. Arguably, in a
* On case insensitive systems, "git p4" did not work well with client
specs.
+ * "git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'",
+ which was found to be a bit confusing to new users.
+ (merge ce11360 jk/log-missing-default-HEAD later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression in
+ "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the built-in
+ version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in the last
+ scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track and older.
+ (merge b9d6689 js/maint-am-skip-performance-regression later to maint).
+
+ * The branch descriptions that are set with "git branch --edit-description"
+ option were used in many places but they weren't clearly documented.
+ (merge 561d2b7 po/doc-branch-desc later to maint).
+
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint).
(merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 9476c2c ah/read-tree-usage-string later to maint).
(merge b8c1d27 ah/pack-objects-usage-strings later to maint).
(merge 486e1e1 br/svn-doc-include-paths-config later to maint).
+ (merge 1733ed3 ee/clean-test-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge 5fcadc3 gb/apply-comment-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge b894d3e mp/t7060-diff-index-test later to maint).
+ (merge d238710 as/config-doc-markup-fix later to maint).