UI, Workflows & Features
+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
+ around issues on Mac OS.
+
+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
+
* Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
Foreign Interface
+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
+ attachments.
+
+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
+ limitations, etc.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
more modern style.
+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
+ their log messages.
+
* "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
in-core while they are doing their thing.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
+ unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
+ walks.
+ (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
+ comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
+ involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git
+ diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
+ any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
+ incorrectly read from the standard input.
+ (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint).
+
* We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
filters out an empty commit in the original history.
(merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).