All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
+ * The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the
+ default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many
+ irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an
+ unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to
+ enumerate only relevant ones.
+
* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings.
rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
mechanism.
+ * "git log --cc --graph" now shows the combined diff output with the
+ ancestry graph.
+
* "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available
tool backends in a more consistent manner.
you do not have any commits in your history, but it now gives you
an empty index (to match non-existent commit you are not even on).
+ * "git status" says what branch is being bisected or rebased when
+ able, not just "bisecting" or "rebasing".
+
* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
these implementations can reliably update. This can be used to
avoid excessive revalidation of contents.
+ * Some platforms ship with old version of expat where xmlparse.h
+ needs to be included instead of expat.h; the build procedure has
+ been taught about this.
+
+ * "make clean" on platforms that cannot compute header dependencies
+ on the fly did not work with implementations of "rm" that do not
+ like an empty argument list.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
+ * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes
+ back from the server side to make sure that the request is being
+ handled properly.
+ (merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint).
+
* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
+ * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity
+ value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a
+ bogus value.
+ (merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint).
+
* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
+ * "git cvsimport" mishandled timestamps at DST boundary.
+ (merge 48c9162 bw/get-tz-offset-perl later to maint).
+
+ * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input,
+ resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing
+ the "--raw --cc" output.
+ (merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint).
+
* "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
* Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
+ * "git push" was taught to refuse updating the branch that is
+ currently checked out long time ago, but the user manual was left
+ stale.
+ (merge d9be248 wk/man-deny-current-branch-is-default-these-days later to maint).
+
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
distros.
+ * The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated
+ config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir.
+ (merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint).
+
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.