* Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
+ * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to
+ update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side
+ does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
+ --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.
UI, Workflows & Features
inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
+ * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure
+ that the history behind refs are complete.
+
* Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
squelched.
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
+ end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
+ cases.
+ (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so
+ it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push
+ out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the
+ command was started.
+ (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint).
+
+ * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch
+ being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the
+ plain vanilla "rebase".
+ (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint).
+
* Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
broken in the update to v1.8.3.
(merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).