$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
* The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
- $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
- these files exist.
+ $HOME/.config/git/attributes and $HOME/.config/git/ignore respectively
+ when these files exist.
* Logic to disambiguate abbreviated object names have been taught to
take advantage of object types that are expected in the context,
a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
completion part while making prompting part always available.
+ * "gitweb" pays attention to various forms of credits that are
+ similar to "Signed-off-by:" lines in the commit objects and
+ highlights them accordingly.
+
Foreign Interface
cycles after showing the first change to find the next one, only to
discard it.
+ * "git svn" got a large-looking code reorganization at the last
+ minute before the code freeze.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * When "git am" failed, old timers knew to check .git/rebase-apply/patch
- to see what went wrong, but we never told the users about it.
- (merge 14bf2d5 pg/maint-1.7.9-am-where-is-patch later to maint).
+ * "git grep" stopped spawning an external "grep" long time ago, but a
+ duplicated test to check internal and external "grep" was left
+ behind.
+ (merge 4ca9453 rj/maint-grep-remove-redundant-test later to maint).
+
+ * The code to avoid mistaken attempt to add the object directory
+ itself as its own alternate could read beyond end of a string while
+ comparison.
+ (merge cb2912c hv/link-alt-odb-entry later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout <branchname>" to come back from a detached HEAD state
+ incorrectly computed reachability of the detached HEAD, resulting
+ in unnecessary warnings.
+ (merge add416a jk/maint-checkout-orphan-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation for revision range specifiers (e.g. A..B, A^@)
+ has been updated.
+ (merge ca5ee2d mh/maint-revisions-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git submodule add" was confused when the superproject did not have
+ its repository in its usual place in the working tree and GIT_DIR
+ and GIT_WORK_TREE was used to access it.
- * When "git submodule add" clones a submodule repository, it can get
- confused where to store the resulting submodule repository in the
- superproject's .git/ directory when there is a symbolic link in the
- path to the current directory.
- (merge 6eafa6d jl/maint-1.7.10-recurse-submodules-with-symlink later to maint).
+ * "git mergetool" did not support --tool-help option to give the list
+ of supported backends, like "git difftool" does.
+ (merge 109859e jc/mergetool-tool-help later to maint).
- * In 1.7.9 era, we taught "git rebase" about the raw timestamp format
- but we did not teach the same trick to "filter-branch", which rolled
- a similar logic on its own.
- (merge 44b85e89 jc/maint-filter-branch-epoch-date later to maint).
+ * "git commit --amend" let the user edit the log message and then died
+ when the human-readable committer name was given insufficiently by
+ getpwent(3).