* The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for
UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 6.3 better.
+ * HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from
+ the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
+
+ * The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default
+ enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
+ multiple cores they have.
+
* "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more
timestamp formats, including "--date=now".
already starts a line in the message being edited for cases like
"git commit --amend".
+ * "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to take the mail
+ signature from.
+
* "git grep" learned grep.fullname configuration variable to force
"--full-name" to be default. This may cause regressions on
scripted users that do not expect this new behaviour.
* "git imap-send" learned to ask the credential helper for auth
material.
+ * "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" set to the
+ "log.decorate" configuration variable to enable the "--decorate"
+ option automatically when the output is sent to tty.
+
* "git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream
defined for the current branch, refused to run until
merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that
users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want
to resurrect the now-ignored use case.
+ * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand.
+
* "git svn" learned to cope with malformed timestamps with only one
digit in the hour part, e.g. 2014-01-07T5:01:02.048176Z, emitted
by some broken subversion server implementations.
example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this
API.
+ * Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation,
+ e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7
+ and run everything else.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
corrected.
(merge e61a6c1 pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
+ * Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing
+ loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as
+ the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true.
+ (merge d6c8a05 jk/report-fail-to-read-objects-better later to maint).
+
+ * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
+ commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
+ in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
+ not take into account that number of bytes and number of display
+ columns are different.
+ (merge 7d50987 as/pretty-truncate later to maint).
+
+ * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
+ expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
+ (merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint).
+
+ * The completion scripts (in contrib/) did not know about quite a few
+ options that are common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a
+ couple of options unique to "git merge".
+ (merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint).
+
* "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
commit did not have any log message.
(merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint).
+ * "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode
+ bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged
+ bit.
+ (merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow"
+ option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with
+ exactly one pathspec.
+ (merge dd63f16 jk/diff-follow-must-take-one-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * "git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to
+ give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the
+ terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should
+ be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs.
+ (merge 62aad18 nd/daemonize-gc later to maint).
+
* "git grep -O" to show the lines that hit in the pager did not work
well with case insensitive search. We now spawn "less" with its
"-I" option when it is used as the pager (which is the default).
except for case differences.
(merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint).
+ * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when
+ extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table
+ from scratch anyway.
+ (merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint).
+
* "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle
was set to a non-default value.
(merge de3d8bb fc/rerere-conflict-style later to maint).
+ * "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many
+ refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very
+ many refs exist in the packed-refs file.
+ (merge e6bea66 jl/remote-rm-prune later to maint).
+
* "git log --exclude=<glob> --all | git shortlog" worked as expected,
but "git shortlog --exclude=<glob> --all", which is supposed to be
identical to the above pipeline, was not accepted at the command
line argument parser level.
(merge eb07774 jc/shortlog-ref-exclude later to maint).
+ * The autostash mode of "git rebase -i" did not restore the dirty
+ working tree state if the user aborted the interactive rebase by
+ emptying the insn sheet.
+ (merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint).
+
* "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit
an extra blank line after a merge commit.
(merge ad2f725 mk/show-s-no-extra-blank-line-for-merges later to maint).
is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index.
(merge 426ddee ym/fix-opportunistic-index-update-race later to maint).
+ * "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
+ submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
+ which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
+ output during the course of development, and should not to hide
+ changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
+ them.
+ (merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint).
+
* "git update-index --cacheinfo" in 2.0 release crashed on a
malformed command line.
(merge c8e1ee4 jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words later to maint).