* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
+ * A remote helper that acts as a proxy and caches ssl session for the
+ https:// transport is added to the contrib/ area.
+
* Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
- upstream configured have been clatified.
+ upstream configured have been clarified.
- * Even with "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
+ * Even with the "-q"uiet option, "checkout" used to report setting up
tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message.
+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
+ use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
+ untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
+ There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
+
* The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
now preserved when set.
- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
- understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
-
* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
existing the "--exclude" option.
- * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application to a
- synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
+ * When "git am -3" needs to fall back to an application of the patch
+ to a synthesized preimage followed by a 3-way merge, the paths that
needed such treatment are now reported to the end user, so that the
result in them can be eyeballed with extra care.
after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an
instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
- * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
- involved in the side topic you are merging.
-
- * The cases "git push" fails due to non-ff can be broken into three
- categories; each case is given a separate advise message.
+ * The "fmt-merge-msg" command learned to list the primary contributors
+ involved in the side topic you are merging in a comment in the merge
+ commit template.
* "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
introduce any change in the original history.
Foreign Interface
- * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
+ * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with an HTTP
server that uses keep-alive.
* "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
- * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area and has seen more work
- on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels to)
- p4.
+ * "git p4" has been moved out of the contrib/ area and has seen more
+ work on importing labels as tags from (and exporting tags as labels
+ to) p4.
Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
+ * Bash completion script (in contrib/) have been cleaned up to make
+ future work on it simpler.
+
* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
+ blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
+
+ * "git index-pack" that runs when fetching or pushing objects to
+ complete the packfile on the receiving end learned to use multiple
+ threads to do its job when available.
+
* The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
trick the kernel folks came up with.
* "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
- * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
- when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
- due to its age.
-
* Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
one-by-one. Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
and sorted immediately before getting used.
- * "git rev-parse --show-prefix" used to emit nothing when run at the
- top-level of the working tree, but now it gives a blank line.
-
- * Minor memory leak during unpack_trees (hence "merge" and "checkout"
- to check out another branch) has been plugged.
-
* More lower-level commands learned to use the streaming API to read
from the object store without keeping everything in core.
+ * The weighting parameters to suggestion command name typo have been
+ tweaked, so that "git tags" will suggest "tag?" and not "stage?".
+
* Because "sh" on the user's PATH may be utterly broken on some
systems, run-command API now uses SHELL_PATH, not /bin/sh, when
spawning an external command (not applicable to Windows port).
- * The API to iterate over refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to allow
- walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
+ * The API to iterate over the refs/ hierarchy has been tweaked to
+ allow walking only a subset of it more efficiently.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git submodule init" used to report "registered for path ..."
+ even for submodules that were registered earlier.
+ (cherry-pick c1c259e jl/submodule-report-new-path-once later to maint).
+
* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
right.
-
- * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with
- NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
- --patch and/or --stat, though.
- (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
-
- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
- (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
-
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
- user futzed with her $PATH.
- (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
-
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
- output had line breaks at wrong places.
- (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).