* The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
- * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
- operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
+ * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new
+ fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations
+ that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only
+ support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of
+ git-update-index(1) for more detail.
* The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in
carriage return at the end of line.
in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
checked to also include directories on $PATH.
+ * "git diff" learned, "--anchored", a variant of the "--patience"
+ algorithm, to which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be
+ used as anchoring points.
+
+ * The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from
+ where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit.
+
+ * Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated
+ object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but
+ these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git
+ who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them
+ confusing with the range syntax.
+
+ * With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set,
+ "git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter
+ command names.
+
+ * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
+ "git checkout" does, after the initial checkout.
+
+ * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as
+ recent versions of Subversion rejects them.
+
+ * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when
+ making a request to the server, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up.
+
+ * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy
+ when using recent versions of libcurl.
+
+ * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures
+ configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures'
+ option was given from the command line.
+
+ * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a
+ <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has
been removed, as there is no remaining callers.
+ * Historically, the diff machinery for rename detection had a
+ hardcoded limit of 32k paths; this is being lifted to allow users
+ trade cycles with a (possibly) easier to read result.
+
+ * The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no
+ tracing is requested.
+
+ * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object
+ walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some
+ objects from enumeration.
+
+ * A few structures and variables that are implementation details of
+ the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented
+ better.
+
+ * Assorted updates for TravisCI integration.
+ (merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that
+ expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>".
+
+ * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and
+ the exact commit object name the binary was built from.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
"--copy" option of "git branch".
- * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
+ * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
* A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed.
(merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint).
+ * The code internal to the recursive merge strategy was not fully
+ prepared to see a path that is renamed to try overwriting another
+ path that is only different in case on case insensitive systems.
+ This does not matter in the current code, but will start to matter
+ once the rename detection logic starts taking hints from nearby
+ paths moving to some directory and moves a new path along with them.
+ (merge 4cba2b0108 en/merge-recursive-icase-removal later to maint).
+
+ * An v2.12-era regression in pathspec match logic, which made it look
+ into submodule tree even when it is not desired, has been fixed.
+ (merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint).
+
+ * Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii
+ due to incorrect enconding conversion.
+
+ * Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree"
+ by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront.
+ (merge fd66bcc31f bw/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the
+ user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor
+ opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets
+ lost.
+ (merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint).
+
+ * The "safe crlf" check incorrectly triggered for contents that does
+ not use CRLF as line endings, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 649f1f0948 tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf later to maint).
+
+ * "git clone --shared" to borrow from a (secondary) worktree did not
+ work, even though "git clone --local" did. Both are now accepted.
+ (merge b3b05971c1 es/clone-shared-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also
+ the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html
+ documents to install.
+ (merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR
+ from strings read from various "state" files.
+ (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+
+ * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made
+ credential helper fail.
+ (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly
+ down to underlying merge strategy backend.
+ (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+ (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
(merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint).
(merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
(merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).
+ (merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge 1b09073514 rs/am-builtin-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge addcf6cfde rs/fmt-merge-msg-string-leak-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c3ff8f6c14 rs/strbuf-read-once-reset-length later to maint).
+ (merge 6b0eb884f9 db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer later to maint).
+ (merge 8c87bdfb21 jk/cvsimport-quoting later to maint).
+ (merge 176cb979fe rs/fmt-merge-msg-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 5a03360e73 tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma later to maint).
+ (merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint).
+ (merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint).
+ (merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint).
+ (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint).
+ (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint).
+ (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint).
+ (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint).
+ (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint).
+ (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint).