more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
- this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming
- release.
+ this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16,
+ the next major release after this one.
* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
- happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to BUG().
We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
greatly appreciated.
other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
trailer lines from a commit log message.
+ * The "--format=%(trailers)" option "git log" and its friends take
+ learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its
+ output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)".
+
* "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the
history overview page.
pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the
packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either.
+ * Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with
+ clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress.
+
+ * Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live
+ throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK
+ marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks..
+
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
correctly, which has been corrected.
(merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).
+ * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to
+ refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the
+ last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can
+ happen without any new object getting created.
+ (merge 30e215a65c er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint later to maint).
+
+ * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from
+ request-pull script.
+ (merge e66d7c37a5 ar/request-pull-phrasofix later to maint).
+
+ * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind.
+ (merge 2944a94c6b tg/memfixes later to maint).
+
+ * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation
+ from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop.
+ (merge 61b2a1acaa rb/compat-poll-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken
+ by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to
+ them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored
+ (heh) and made unusable. Fix this regression by redefining
+ 'always' to mean the same thing as 'auto'.
+ (merge 6be4595edb jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint later to maint).
+
+ * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and
+ its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)"
+ (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat
+ them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not
+ there.
+ (merge bea4dbeafd tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
(merge 0bca165fdb jk/validate-headref-fix later to maint).
(merge 93dbefb389 mr/doc-negative-pathspec later to maint).
(merge 5e633326e4 ad/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9ca356fa8b rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params later to maint).
+ (merge 7099153e8d rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 0e187d758c rs/run-command-use-alloc-array later to maint).
+ (merge e0222159fa jn/strbuf-doc-re-reuse later to maint).
+ (merge 97487ea11a rs/qsort-s later to maint).
+ (merge a9155c50bd sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release later to maint).
+ (merge f777623514 ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args later to maint).
+ (merge 33f3c683ec ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak later to maint).