* The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
- * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
- operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
+ * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new
+ fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations
+ that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only
+ support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of
+ git-update-index(1) for more detail.
* The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in
carriage return at the end of line.
* "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
"git checkout" does, after the initial checkout.
+ * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as
+ recent versions of Subversion rejects them.
+
+ * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when
+ making a request to the server, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up.
+
+ * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy
+ when using recent versions of libcurl.
+
+ * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures
+ configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures'
+ option was given from the command line.
+
+ * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a
+ <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Assorted updates for TravisCI integration.
(merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint).
+ * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that
+ expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>".
+
+ * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and
+ the exact commit object name the binary was built from.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
"--copy" option of "git branch".
- * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
+ * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
been corrected.
documents to install.
(merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint).
+ * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR
+ from strings read from various "state" files.
+ (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+
+ * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made
+ credential helper fail.
+ (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly
+ down to underlying merge strategy backend.
+ (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is
+ dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current
+ HEAD, which has been fixed.
+ (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
(merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint).
(merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint).
(merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint).
+ (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint).
+ (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint).
+ (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint).
+ (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint).
+ (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint).
+ (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint).