* Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
+ * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to
+ be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the
+ concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git".
+ All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
+ caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
+
* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings.
* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
+ * "git branch" now rejects some nonsense combinations of command line
+ arguments (e.g. giving more than one branch name to rename) with
+ more case-specific error messages.
+
* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
been added.
rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap
mechanism.
+ * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available
+ tool backends in a more consistent manner.
+
+ * "git mergetool" is aware of TortoiseGitMerge now and uses it over
+ TortoiseMerge when available.
+
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.
(merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).
+ * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
+ killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
+
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a nasty race.
+ * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
+ has been broken since v1.7.12.
+
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
+ * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
+ dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
+
* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
mistake.
+ * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or
+ gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via
+ HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers.
+ (merge 5748558 ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme later to maint).
+
* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
to add a newline after such a line.
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
+ * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
+ versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
+ unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
+ distros.
+
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
* Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
- (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint).