10 UI, Workflows & Features
12 * The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in
13 documentation have been tweaked for consistency.
15 * The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude
16 subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does.
18 * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do
19 not have the string "WIP" in their messages.
21 * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
22 update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
24 * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git
25 push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be
26 tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
28 * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
29 HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
32 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
34 * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us
37 * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the
38 reflogs better with the recently updated ref API.
41 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
47 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance
48 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
51 * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
52 tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
53 (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint).
55 * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did
56 not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree
57 files and failed to do so for whatever reason.
58 (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint).
60 * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce
62 (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint).
64 * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication
65 (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based
66 Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement.
67 (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint).
69 * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
71 (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint).
73 * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory
74 would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file.
75 (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint).
77 * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed.
78 (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint).
80 * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
81 only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
83 (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint).
85 * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the
86 dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other
88 (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint).
90 * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author
91 name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been
92 reworded to avoid misunderstanding.
93 (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint).
95 * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
97 (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint).
99 * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when
100 the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch.
101 (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint).
103 * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it"
104 interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when
105 the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the
106 user could have made was to choose nothing.
107 (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint).
109 * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor
110 core.abbrev settings.
111 (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint).
113 * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list"
114 command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD.
115 (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint).
117 * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when
118 the other side did not support the capability.
119 (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint).
121 * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in
122 "uintmax_t" correctly.
123 (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint).
125 * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone
126 CR, use to confuse the configuration parser.
127 (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint).
129 * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC.
130 (merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint).
132 * The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
133 "remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
134 via different transports, not two separate repositories.
135 (merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint).
137 * Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring
138 material we prepare for the tests to use.
139 (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint).
141 * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle
142 a user name with an at-sign in it.
143 (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint).
145 * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
147 (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint).
149 * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings
150 from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required
151 version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower)
153 (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint).
155 * Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from
156 "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system.
157 (merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint).
159 * In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that
160 borrows from an alternate object store.
161 (merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint).
163 * "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to
165 (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint).
167 * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory.
168 (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint).
170 * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory.
171 (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).