tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
informational message.
+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
+ use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
+ untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
+ There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
+
* The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
now preserved when set.
- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
- understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
-
* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
existing the "--exclude" option.
* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
+ blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
+
* The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
trick the kernel folks came up with.
releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
+ used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
+ refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
+ HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
+ (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint).
+
+ * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
+ "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
+ give progress to the lengthy operation.
+ (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The
+ output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
+ terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
+ (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint).
+
* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
right.
NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
--patch and/or --stat, though.
(merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
-
- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
- (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
-
- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
- user futzed with her $PATH.
- (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
-
- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
- output had line breaks at wrong places.
- (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).