4 Backward compatibility note
5 ---------------------------
7 The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and
8 "git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use
9 "diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
15 UI, Workflows & Features
17 * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
18 now enables the rename detection by default.
20 * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and
21 there is no good way to override it from the command line. As
22 a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves
23 as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.
25 * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to
26 customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.
29 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
31 * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build
32 the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate
34 (merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint).
36 * A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can
37 easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG.
38 (merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint).
40 * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a
41 repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git
42 subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch
43 references when we are not in a repository.
44 (merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint).
47 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
53 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
54 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
57 * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git
58 config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status
59 when there was no matching configuration.
60 (merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint).
62 * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git
63 rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's
64 option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era.
65 (merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint).
67 * "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work.
68 (merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint).
70 * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't
71 work across remote-curl transport.
72 (merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint).
74 * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff
76 (merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint).
78 * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain
79 corner cases in its error codepath.
80 (merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint).
82 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
83 (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
84 (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).