UI, Workflows & Features
+ * xdg-open can be used as a browser backend for "git web-browse"
+ (hence to show "git help -w" output), when available.
+
* "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option
when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git
grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile").
sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured
to build on some other branch that no longer exists.
- * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
- will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
- data over the wire.
-
* Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
* "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer"
optimization.
- * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both
- Makefile and makefile can be used in more places.
+ * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile
+ and makefile and ":(glob)foo/**/bar" that matches "bar" in "foo"
+ and any subdirectory of "foo" can be used in more places.
* The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
configuration applies. For example,
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * "git for-each-ref" when asking for merely the object name does not
+ have to parse the object pointed at by the refs; the codepath has
+ been optimized.
+
+ * The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able.
+
* "git repack" is now written in C.
* Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * An ancient How-To on serving Git repositories on an HTTP server
+ lacked a warning that it has been mostly superseded with more
+ modern way.
+ (merge 6d52bc3 sc/doc-howto-dumb-http later to maint).
+
+ * The interaction between use of Perl in our test suite and NO_PERL
+ has been clarified a bit.
+ (merge f8fc0ee jn/test-prereq-perl-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The synopsis section of "git unpack-objects" documentation has been
+ clarified a bit.
+ (merge 61e2e22 vd/doc-unpack-objects later to maint).
+
+ * We did not generate HTML version of documentation to "git subtree"
+ in contrib/.
+ (merge 95c62fb jk/subtree-install-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by
+ quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper forgot to unquote
+ such a path.
+ (merge 1136265 ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote later to maint).
+
+ * "git reset -p HEAD" has a codepath to special case it to behave
+ differently from resetting to contents of other commits, but a
+ recent change broke it.
+
+ * Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy.
+ (merge 339c17b hn/log-graph-color-octopus later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout topic", when there is not yet a local "topic" branch
+ but there is a unique remote-tracking branch for a remote "topic"
+ branch, pretended as if "git checkout -t -b topic remote/$r/topic"
+ (for that unique remote $r) was run. This hack however was not
+ implemented for "git checkout topic --".
+ (merge bca3969 mm/checkout-auto-track-fix later to maint).
+
+ * One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git
+ clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch
+ "HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess. A new
+ capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this
+ information so that cloning from a repository with more than one
+ branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now
+ reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository.
+ (merge 360a326 jc/upload-pack-send-symref later to maint).
+
+ * We did not handle cases where http transport gets redirected during
+ the authorization request (e.g. from http:// to https://).
+ (merge 70900ed jk/http-auth-redirects later to maint).
+
+ * Bash prompting code to deal with an SVN remote as an upstream
+ were coded in a way not supported by older Bash versions (3.x).
+ (merge 52ec889 sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The fall-back parsing of commit objects with broken author or
+ committer lines were less robust than ideal in picking up the
+ timestamps.
+ (merge 03818a4 jk/split-broken-ident later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list --objects ^v1.0^ v1.0" gave v1.0 tag itself in the
+ output, but "git rev-list --objects v1.0^..v1.0" did not.
+ (merge 895c5ba jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint).
+
* "git clone" gave some progress messages to the standard output, not
to the standard error, and did not allow suppressing them with the
--no-progress option.