UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+ around issues on Mac OS.
+
+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
+
+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
+ $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,
+ e.g. XXXXXX in the "git describe" output v1.2.3-gXXXXXX must be a
+ commit object, not a blob nor a tree. This will help us prolong
+ the lifetime of abbreviated object names.
+
+ * "git apply" learned to wiggle the base version and perform three-way
+ merge when a patch does not exactly apply to the version you have.
+
+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
+
* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
where "man" viewer is not widely available.
read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
hints to the user.
- * git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
- the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
- distribution of clients.
+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
+
+ * "git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the
+ history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.
* "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
each commit in the resulting history.
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
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+ attachments.
+
+ * "git p4" now uses "Jobs:" and "p4 move" when appropriate.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+ limitations, etc.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+ their log messages.
+
* "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
in-core while they are doing their thing.
fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
possible.
+ * "git log -n 1 -- rarely-touched-path" was spending unnecessary
+ 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).
- * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
- the cloning to the specified branch.
- (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
- did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
- (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint).
-
- * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
- "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
- simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
- been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
- taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification
- logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
- ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
- (merge 6e513ba jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent later to maint).
-
- * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
- submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
- equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
- (merge 242f55f hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
- (merge af63b54 jk/diff-no-index-pager later to maint).
-
- * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
- claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
- (merge 023e37c mm/verify-filename-fix later to maint).
-
- * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
- (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint).
-
- * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
- was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
- (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint).
-
- * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
- history said "it requires these 0 commits".
- (merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint).
-
- * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
- excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
- while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
- updated.
- (merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint).
-
- * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
- with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
- but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
- (merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname 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.
+
+ * "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).