* "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.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
- * The DWIM behaviour for "log --pretty=format:%gd -g" was somewhat
- broken and gave undue precedence to configured log.date, causing
- "git stash list" to show "stash@{time stamp string}".
- (merge 55ccf85 jk/maint-reflog-walk-count-vs-time later to maint).
-
- * Running "git checkout" on an unborn branch used to corrupt HEAD.
- (merge 8338f77 ef/checkout-empty later to maint).
+ * When a submodule repository uses alternate object store mechanism,
+ some commands that were started from the superproject did not
+ notice it and failed with "No such object" errors. The subcommands
+ of "git submodule" command that properly recursed into the
+ submodule in a separate process were OK; only the ones that cheated
+ and peeked directly into the submodule's repository from the
+ primary process were affected.
+ (merge 5e73633 hv/submodule-alt-odb later to maint).
- * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
- used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
- refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
- HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
- (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint).
-
- * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
- "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
- give progress to the lengthy operation.
- (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint).
+ * The directory path used in "git diff --no-index", when it recurses
+ down, was broken with a recent update after v1.7.10.1 release.
+ (merge 176a335 bp/diff-no-index-strbuf-fix later to maint).
* "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The
output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
right.
-
- * "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).