response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner
case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed.
- * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
- e.g. "git log @".
-
* "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is
+ allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of
+ the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite
+ us in a few codepaths where the trick it uses to cheat does show
+ breakages. This emulation has been removed and we use the native
+ lstat(2) emulation supplied by Cygwin now.
+
* The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in
use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
(i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).
the user to an unexpected place.
(merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint).
- * "git stash save", when your local change turns a tracked file into
- a directory, has to remove files in that directory in order to
- revert your working tree to a pristine state. This will lose
- untracked files in such a directory, and the command now requires
- you to "--force" it.
-
* The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented.
(merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint).