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.
* 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.
-
* "git rebase" learned to optionally keep commits that do not
introduce any change in the original history.
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.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
- execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
- right.
+ * The progress indicator for a large "git checkout" was sent to
+ stderr even if it is not a terminal.
+ (merge e9fc64c ap/checkout-no-progress-for-non-tty later to maint).
- * "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).
+ * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer
+ incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long.
+ (merge c9b4e9e jk/format-person-part-buffer-limit 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 malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the
+ middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference.
+ (merge a9c7a8a jk/pretty-commit-header-incomplete-line later to maint).
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
- user futzed with her $PATH.
- (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
+ * An author/committer name that is a single character was mishandled
+ as an invalid name by mistake.
+ (merge d9955fd jk/ident-split-fix later to maint).
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
- output had line breaks at wrong places.
- (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).
+ * "git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are
+ read from a file, did not treat individual lines in the given
+ pattern argument as separate regular expressions as it should.
+ (merge ec83061 rs/maint-grep-F 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.