release (yet).
* The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
- has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
- future release.
+ has been deprecated for quite some time, and is now removed.
* The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the
socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has
been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket".
+ * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
+ sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
+ We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
+ might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
+ greatly appreciated.
+
Updates since v2.12
-------------------
doing other things, output from reset seeped out). These, and
other chattyness has been fixed.
+ * "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that has been deprecated
+ since October 2007 has been removed.
+
+ * The refs completion for large number of refs has been sped up,
+ partly by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs and partly by
+ eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref'
+ and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility.
+
+ * On many keyboards, typing "@{" involves holding down SHIFT key and
+ one can easily end up with "@{Up..." when typing "@{upstream}". As
+ the upstream/push keywords do not appear anywhere else in the syntax,
+ we can safely accept them case insensitively without introducing
+ ambiguity or confusion to solve this.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* An earlier version of sha1dc/sha1.c that was merged to 'master'
compiled incorrectly on Windows, which has been fixed.
+ * "what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we
+ interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct
+ concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended,
+ paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many
+ submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple
+ worktrees for a project with submodules.
+
+ * Some debugging output from "git describe" were marked for l10n,
+ but some weren't. Mark missing ones for l10n.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* Fix for NO_PTHREADS option.
(merge 2225e1ea20 bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint).
+ * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
+ sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
+ (merge b1ef400eec jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final later to maint).
+
+ * A few commands that recently learned the "--recurse-submodule"
+ option misbehaved when started from a subdirectory of the
+ superproject.
+ (merge b2dfeb7c00 bw/recurse-submodules-relative-fix later to maint).
+
+ * FreeBSD implementation of getcwd(3) behaved differently when an
+ intermediate directory is unreadable/unsearchable depending on the
+ length of the buffer provided, which our strbuf_getcwd() was not
+ aware of. strbuf_getcwd() has been taught to cope with it better.
+ (merge a54e938e5b rs/freebsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update to "rebase -i" stopped running hooks for the "git
+ commit" command during "reword" action, which has been fixed.
+
+ * Removing an entry from a notes tree and then looking another note
+ entry from the resulting tree using the internal notes API
+ functions did not work as expected. No in-tree users of the API
+ has such access pattern, but it still is worth fixing.
+
+ * "git receive-pack" could have been forced to die by attempting
+ allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory with a crafted push
+ certificate; this has been fixed.
+ (merge f2214dede9 bc/push-cert-receive-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint).
(merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint).
(merge 3e5b36c637 sg/skip-prefix-in-prettify-refname later to maint).
(merge 2c5e2865cc jk/fast-import-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 4473060bc2 ab/test-readme-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 48a96972fd ab/doc-submitting later to maint).
+ (merge f5c2bc2b96 jk/make-coccicheck-detect-errors later to maint).