UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Command-line completion scripts for tcsh and zsh have been added.
+
+ * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to
+ contrib/remote-helpers.
+
* 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
give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to
override the hardcoded default of 3 lines.
+ * When "git checkout" checks out a branch, it tells the user how far
+ behind (or ahead) the new branch is relative to the remote tracking
+ branch it builds upon. The message now also advises how to sync
+ them up by pushing or pulling.
+
* "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
API regression but it is expected that nobody will notice it in
practice.
+ * "git log -p -S<string>" now looks for the <string> after applying
+ the textconv filter (if defined); earlier it inspected the contents
+ of the blobs without filtering.
+
* "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give
notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output.
from the submodule working tree, "git rm" learned to detect this
case and removes the submodule working tree when it is safe.
+ * "git send-email" used to prompt for the sender address, even when
+ the committer identify is well specified (e.g. via user.name and
+ user.email configuration variables). The command no longer gives
+ this prompt when not necessary.
+
+ * "git send-email" did not allow non-address garbage strings to
+ appear after addresses on Cc: lines in the patch files (and when
+ told to pick them up to find more recipients), e.g.
+
+ Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@k.org> # for v3.2 and up
+
+ The command now strips " # for v3.2 and up" part before adding the
+ remainder of this line to the list of recipients.
+
* "git submodule add" learned to add a new submodule at the same
path as the path where an unrelated submodule was bound to in an
existing revision via the "--name" option.
* "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".
* "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 de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
+
+ * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for binary contents, the total
+ number of added and removed lines at the bottom was computed
+ incorrectly.
+ (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
+
+ * When "--stat-count" hides a diffstat for unmerged paths, the total
+ number of affected files at the bottom of the "diff --stat" output
+ was computed incorrectly.
+ (merge de9095955 lt/diff-stat-show-0-lines later to maint).
+
+ * "diff --shortstat" miscounted the total number of affected files
+ when there were unmerged paths.
+ (merge de9095955 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).