could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short
while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped.
+The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the
+command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same
+command line without the option.
+
+A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
+finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).
+
Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
- * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotinate, uses "100
+ * The HTTP transport, when talking GSS-Negotiate, uses "100
Continue" response to avoid having to rewind and resend a large
payload, which may not be always doable.
* "git rev-parse --parseopt" learned a new "--stuck-long" option to
help scripts parse options with an optional parameter.
+ * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
+ fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
+ what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the
work has been based on.
+ * A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can
+ advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use
+ the thin-pack optimization. Our receive-pack has always been
+ capable of accepting and fattening a thin-pack, and will continue
+ not to ask "git push" to use a non-thin pack.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.