turn this off, as a more explicit alternative over use of file://
URL.
+ * "git fetch" and friends used to say "remote side hung up
+ unexpectedly" when they failed to get response they expect from the
+ other side, but one common reason why they don't get expected
+ response is that the remote repository does not exist or cannot be
+ read. The error message in this case was updated to give better
+ hints to the user.
+
* git native protocol agents learned to show software version over
the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
distribution of clients.
+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
+ each commit in the resulting history.
+
+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
+
+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
+
+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
+
Foreign Interface
-Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* Some tests showed false failures caused by a bug in ecryptofs.
+ * We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
+ more modern style.
+
+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
+
+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
+ possible.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
-* Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
- history said "it requires these 0 commits".
+ * "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
+ the cloning to the specified branch.
+ (merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not correctly handle relative paths and
+ did not correctly give exit codes when run under "--quiet" option.
+ (merge 304970d th/diff-no-index-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
+ "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
+ simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
+ been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
+ taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification
+ logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
+ ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
+ (merge 6e513ba jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent later to maint).
+
+ * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
+ submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
+ equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
+ (merge 242f55f hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
+ (merge af63b54 jk/diff-no-index-pager later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
+ claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
+ (merge 023e37c mm/verify-filename-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
+ (merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" incorrectly computed the header checksum; the symptom
+ was observed only when using pathnames with hi-bit set.
+ (merge a5a46eb jc/ustar-checksum-is-unsigned later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git bundle verify" on a bundle that records a complete
+ history said "it requires these 0 commits".
(merge 8c3710f jc/bundle-complete-notice later to maint).
-* "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
- excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
- while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
- updated.
+ * "git ls-files --exclude=t -i" did not consider anything under t/ as
+ excluded, as it did not pay attention to exclusion of leading paths
+ while walking the index. Other two users of excluded() are also
+ updated.
(merge 0d316f0 jc/ls-files-i-dir later to maint).
-* "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
- with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
- but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
+ * "git request-pull $url dev" when the tip of "dev" branch was tagged
+ with "ext4-for-linus" used the contents from the tag in the output
+ but still asked the "dev" branch to be pulled, not the tag.
(merge 682853e jc/request-pull-match-tagname later to maint).