shorter than a page).
* The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for
- UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 6.3 better.
+ UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 7.0 better.
* HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from
the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
+ * The completion script for bash (in contrib/) has been updated to
+ handle aliases that define complex sequence of commands better.
+
* The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default
enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
multiple cores they have.
* "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand.
+ * "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to
+ tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file
+ when emitting later input files.
+
* "git svn" learned to cope with malformed timestamps with only one
digit in the hour part, e.g. 2014-01-07T5:01:02.048176Z, emitted
by some broken subversion server implementations.
* Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
corrected.
- (merge e61a6c1 pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
+ (merge 97c1364be6b pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).
* Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing
loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as
the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true.
(merge d6c8a05 jk/report-fail-to-read-objects-better later to maint).
+ * "git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting
+ from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to
+ be checked out currently.
+ (merge e3fa568 jc/revision-dash-count-parsing later to maint).
+
* The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
from scratch anyway.
(merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint).
+ * Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
+ are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
+ mistake.
+ (merge d078d85 jk/repack-pack-keep-objects later to maint).
+
* "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle
was set to a non-default value.
(merge de3d8bb fc/rerere-conflict-style later to maint).
them.
(merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint).
+ * Documentation for "git submodule sync" forgot to say that the subcommand
+ can take the "--recursive" option.
+ (merge 9393ae7 mc/doc-submodule-sync-recurse later to maint).
+
* "git update-index --cacheinfo" in 2.0 release crashed on a
malformed command line.
(merge c8e1ee4 jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words later to maint).