UI, Workflows & Features
+ * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to
+ show how many changes there are in total and how many have been
+ replayed during a "git rebase" session.
+
* "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
which defaults to blue).
* "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files
being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the
- same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it
- tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy
- in the working tree.
+ same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working
+ tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged
+ manually.
* There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from
outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing
+ up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the
+ callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it.
+ (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint).
+
+ * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous
+ command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors.
+ (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint).
+
* When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in
order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hung