$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,
+ 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.
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;
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
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).
- * The error message from "git push $there :bogo" (and its equivalent
- "git push $there --delete bogo") mentioned that we tried and failed
- to guess what ref is being deleted based on the LHS of the refspec,
- which we don't.
- (merge 5742c82 jk/push-delete-ref-error-message later to maint).
-
- * A handful of files and directories we create had tighter than
- necessary permission bits when the user wanted to have group
- writability (e.g. by setting "umask 002").
- (merge 6ff2b72 ar/clone-honor-umask-at-top later to maint).
-
- * "commit --amend" used to refuse amending a commit with an empty log
- message, with or without "--allow-empty-message".
- (merge d9a9357 cw/amend-commit-without-message later to maint).
-
- * "git commit --amend --only --" was meant to allow "Clever" people to
- rewrite the commit message without making any change even when they
- have already changes for the next commit added to their index, but
- it never worked as advertised since it was introduced in 1.3.0 era.
- (merge ea2d4ed jk/maint-commit-amend-only-no-paths later to maint).
-
- * Even though the index can record pathnames longer than 1<<12 bytes,
- in some places we were not comparing them in full, potentially
- replacing index entries instead of adding.
- (merge d5f5333 tg/maint-cache-name-compare later to maint).
-
- * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
- unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
- walks.
- (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint).
-
- * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
- comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
- involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git
- diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
- any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
- incorrectly read from the standard input.
- (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint).
-
- * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
- filters out an empty commit in the original history.
- (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
-
- * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
- properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
- (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
-
- * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
- should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
- (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
-
- * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
- the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
- use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
- our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
- (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests 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).