UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Command-line completion for tcsh has been added.
+
* We used to have a workaround for a bug in ancient "less" that
causes it to exit without any output when the terminal is resized.
The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the
workaround has been removed in this release.
+ * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text
+ format are now formatted in HTML as well.
+
+ * "git-prompt" scriptlet (in contrib/completion) can be told to paint
+ pieces of the hints in the prompt string in colors.
+
* A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to
give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
- * "git format-patch" leraned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
+ * "git config --get" used to diagnose presence of multiple
+ definitions of the same variable in the same configuration file as
+ an error, but it now applies the "last one wins" rule used by the
+ internal configuration logic. Strictly speaking, this may be an
+ API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
+ practice.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
* "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype"
configuration set to "perl".
+ * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only
+ accepting full hex object name.
+
* "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working
tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because
recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository
* "git submodule sync" learned the "--recursive" option.
+ * "diff.submodule" configuration variable can be used to give custom
+ default value to the "git diff --submodule" option.
+
* "git symbolic-ref" learned the "-d $symref" option to delete the
named symbolic ref, which is more intuitive way to spell it than
"update-ref -d --no-deref".
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now.
+
* The logic to generate the initial advertisement from
"upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side
of the connection) to list what refs are available in the
* The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has
been optimized.
+ * Use preloadindex in "git diff-index" and "git update-index", which
+ has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on
+ Linux).
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
(merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint).
* Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the
- From: line in the output from format-patch has been corrected.
+ From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected.
(merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint).
* Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout
- value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http
+ value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http
transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call.
A workaround has been added for this.
(merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint).
* "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking
for changes.
(merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint).
+
+ * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase
+ (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended
+ configuration, but the clients used to fail to authenticate with
+ such servers.
+ (merge 2e736fd jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans
+ across multiple lines.
+ (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint).
+
+ * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working.
+ (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint).
+
+ * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output.
+ (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint).
+
+ * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean
+ "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true").
+ (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say
+ "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases.
+ (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint).
+
+ * We failed to mention a file without any content change but whose
+ permission bit was modified, or (worse yet) a new file without any
+ content in the "git diff --stat" output.
+ (merge 74faaa1 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
+
+ * "update-ref -d --deref SYM" to delete a ref through a symbolic ref
+ that points to it did not remove it correctly.
+ (merge b274a71 jh/update-ref-d-through-symref later to maint).