* Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
+ * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to
+ be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the
+ concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git".
+ All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
+ caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
+
* In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
tools in server settings.
E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a
subdirectory of "foo".
+ * When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names
+ that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as
+ pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must
+ not be interpretable as object names. This disambiguation rule has
+ been tweaked so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is
+ always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer
+ needed, you can just say "git cmd :/".
+
+ * Various "hint" lines Git gives when it asks the user to edit
+ messages in the editor are commented out with '#' by default. The
+ core.commentchar configuration variable can be used to customize
+ this '#' to a different character.
+
+ * "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec issues warning to
+ make users aware that they are only operating on paths inside the
+ subdirectory they are in. Use ":/" (everything from the top) or
+ "." (everything from the $cwd) to disambiguate.
+
* "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option.
* "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
+ * Error messages from "git push" when it stops to prevent remote refs
+ from getting overwritten by mistake have been improved to explain
+ various situations separately.
+
* "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push"
hook exists and exits with a failure.
* A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/.
- * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling.
+ * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is
+ also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. In addition, its various
+ portability issues for Cygwin have been addressed.
* The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few
fixes.
* Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
characters has been optimized further.
+ * We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points
+ at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config"
+ quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and
+ then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily.
+
* "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in
general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but
there could be corner cases, especially when running the command
USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you
find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal.
+ * Some reimplementations of Git do not write all the stat info back
+ to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit).
+ A configuration option can tell Git to ignore changes to most of
+ the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime and size, which
+ these implementations can reliably update. This can be used to
+ avoid excessive revalidation of contents.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that
signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
- (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
+ (merge 0398fc34 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
* A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
+ * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from
+ /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug
+ lost the "user@" part.
+
* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that
was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance
degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
- (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).
* "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
- (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint).
* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
excess trailing blank lines.
* "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
+ * "git archive" did not parse configuration values in tar.* namespace
+ correctly.
+ (merge b3873c3 jk/config-parsing-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while
+ being on a detached HEAD, errored out.
+
* "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an
failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
+ * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The
+ resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was
+ unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the
+ command, and documentation was misleading.
+ (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later
+ try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.
+ (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).
+
+ * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
+ killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
+ (merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint).
+
* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
created new refs had a nasty race.
+ * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
+ has been broken since v1.7.12.
+ (merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint).
+
* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
* "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions
of Git.
- (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint).
* "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
status of the hook.
+ * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
+ dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
+ (merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint).
+
* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
* Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
- (merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint).
* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
+ * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
+ versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
+ unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
+ distros.
+ (merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint).
+
* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
old version of the tutorial; removed.
* t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some
time ago.
- (merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint).
* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
broke on OpenBSD.
need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
* t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
+
+ * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was
+ affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH.
+ (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint).
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