* A credential helper to allow access to the Gnome keyring has been
added.
+ * When "git am" sanitizes the Subject: line, we strip the prefix from
+ "Re: subject" and also from a less common "re: subject", but left
+ even less common "RE: subject" intact.
+
* It was tempting to say "git branch --set-upstream origin/master",
but that tells Git to arrange the local branch "origin/master" to
integrate with the currently checked out branch, which is highly
* "git cherry-pick" learned the "--allow-empty-message" option to
allow it to replay a commit without any log message.
+ * After "git cherry-pick -s" gave control back to the user asking
+ help to resolve conflicts, concluding "git commit" used to need to
+ be run with "-s" if the user wants to sign it off; now the command
+ leaves the sign-off line in the log template.
+
* "git daemon" learned the "--access-hook" option to allow an
external command to decline service based on the client address,
repository path, etc.
* "git merge-base" learned "--is-ancestor A B" option to tell if A is
an ancestor of B. The result is indicated by its exit status code.
+ * The "-Xours" backend option to "git merge -s recursive" now takes
+ effect even on binary files.
+
Foreign Interface
* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
+ * "git p4" learned "--conflicts" option to specify what to do when
+ encountering a conflict during "p4 submit".
+
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* Git ships with a fall-back regexp implementation for platforms with
* Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
+ * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
+ been added.
+
+ * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
+ defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
+ appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
+ The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis
+ when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a
+ good name for a branch).
+
* Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
* Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
been marked for translation.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
+ * "git blame MAKEFILE" run in a history that has "Makefile" but not
+ "MAKEFILE" should say "No such file MAKEFILE in HEAD", but got
+ confused on a case insensitive filesystem and failed to do so.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Even during a conflicted merge, "git blame $path" always meant to
+ blame uncommitted changes to the "working tree" version; make it
+ more useful by showing cleanly merged parts as coming from the other
+ branch that is being merged.
+ (merge 9aeaab6 jc/maint-blame-no-such-path later to maint).
+
+ * Documentation talked about "first line of commit log" when it meant
+ the title of the commit. The description was clarified by defining
+ how the title is decided and rewording the casual mention of "first
+ line" to "title".
+ (merge 52ffe99 jw/doc-commit-title later to maint).
+
+ * The attribute system may be asked for a path that itself or its
+ leading directories no longer exists in the working tree, and it is
+ fine if we cannot open .gitattribute file in such a case. Failure
+ to open per-directory .gitattributes with error status other than
+ ENOENT and ENOTDIR should be diagnosed, but it wasn't.
+
+ * "git log --all-match --grep=A --grep=B" ought to show commits that
+ mention both A and B, but when these three options are used with
+ --author or --committer, it showed commits that mention either A or
+ B (or both) instead.
+ (merge 39f2e01 jc/maint-log-grep-all-match later to maint).
+
+ * Earlier we made the diffstat summary line that shows the number of
+ lines added/deleted localizable, but it was found irritating having
+ to see them in various languages on a list whose discussion language
+ is English.
+ (merge 218adaa nd/maint-diffstat-summary later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
+ (merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint).
+
+ * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
+ "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
+ (merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).
+
+ * After "gitk" showed the contents of a tag, neither "Reread
+ references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the
+ contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f".
+
+ * "git cvsimport" did not thoroughly cleanse tag names that it
+ inferred from the names of the tags it obtained from CVS, which
+ caused "git tag" to barf and stop the import in the middle.
+
* "git show --format='%ci'" did not give timestamp correctly for
commits created without human readable name on "committer" line.
(merge e27ddb6 jc/maint-ident-missing-human-name later to maint).
branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
(merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
- * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
- option.
- (merge 3b51222 kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort later to maint).
-
- * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
- the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
- configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
- for POST.
- (merge b81401c jk/maint-http-half-auth-push later to maint).
-
* When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
files that we cannot read.
- * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
- branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
- option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
- documentation misleading. There may be room in documentation pages
- of other commands for similar improvements (hint, hint).
- (merge 45aaf03 jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name later to maint).
-
- * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
- when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
- Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
- a case.
- (merge 003c84f jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory later to maint).
-
- * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
- correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
- places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
- does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
- changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
- in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
- this problem.
- (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint).
-
* The interactive prompt "git send-email" gives was error prone. It
asked "What e-mail address do you want to use?" with the address it
guessed (correctly) the user would want to use in its prompt,
tempting the user to say "y". But the response was taken as "No,
please use 'y' as the e-mail address instead", which is most
certainly not what the user meant.
- (merge 51bbccf jc/send-email-reconfirm later to maint).
+ (merge 6183749 sb/send-email-reconfirm-fix later to maint).