might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
greatly appreciated.
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
Updates since v2.14
-------------------
* "git merge" learned a "--signoff" option to add the Signed-off-by:
trailer with the committer's name.
+ * "git diff" learned to optionally paint new lines that are the same
+ as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new lines.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" learned to take the trailer specifications
+ from the command line that overrides the configured values.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
+ other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
+ trailer lines from a commit log message.
+
+ * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the
+ history overview page.
+
+ * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable
+ is defined to take an integer counting the number of days. It now
+ is allowed.
+
+ * The code to acquire a lock on a reference (e.g. while accepting a
+ push from a client) used to immediately fail when the reference is
+ already locked---now it waits for a very short while and retries,
+ which can make it succeed if the lock holder was holding it during
+ a read-only operation.
+
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
+ * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean
+ operation learned to show the progress meter.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
been simplified.
(merge 8aade107dd jc/simplify-progress later to maint).
+ * Code clean-up to avoid mixing values read from the .gitmodules file
+ and values read from the .git/config file.
+
+ * We used to spend more than necessary cycles allocating and freeing
+ piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been
+ optimized.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.
- (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint).
* A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
* "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
has been fixed---it now shows nothing.
- (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint).
* The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
- (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint).
* "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.
- (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint).
* Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
fixed.
- (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint).
* "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
option down to submodules.
- (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint).
* Test portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
- (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint).
* Portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint).
* "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.
- (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint).
* "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
current time, which has been corrected.
- (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint).
* Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged.
- (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint).
* "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the
".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the
* bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.
- (merge 5fc92f8828 kd/stash-with-bash-4.4 later to maint).
* "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
codes; this has been corrected.
- (merge e1f68c66d5 as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix later to maint).
* When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process
asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program
the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected.
- (merge d3ba566342 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a
+ taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line
+ endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git()
+ that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index
+ entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply"
+ is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all.
+ This has been fixed.
+
+ * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left
+ the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD,
+ which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was
+ a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the
+ export-ignore attribute.
+
+ * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft"
+ was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it
+ needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer
+ section.
+ (merge cc90750677 mm/send-email-cc-cruft later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated
+ to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree
+ was in use. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
- (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint).
- (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint).
- (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint).
- (merge f1068efefe jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
- (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint).
- (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint).
- (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint).
- (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint).
- (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint).
- (merge 7f0a02be2f ah/doc-empty-string-is-false later to maint).
- (merge 70ec6bd63b rs/t1002-do-not-use-sum later to maint).
- (merge 2456990dfd sb/sha1-file-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 2aac933c62 hv/t5526-andand-chain-fix later to maint).
- (merge c8d0c4fe9b sb/submodule-parallel-update later to maint).
- (merge 794b7e1674 mg/format-ref-doc-fix later to maint).
- (merge 24da8a26a9 rs/commit-h-single-parent-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 4e36907fa3 jk/doc-the-this later to maint).
+ (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
+ (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint).
+ (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint).