* The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant
annotated tags when pushing branches out.
-
-Foreign Interface
-
+ * "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the
+ order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually
+ shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend
+ expects.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
repeatedly growing and rehashing.
+ * The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was
+ necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome
+ to use correctly and also inefficient.
+
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
correct objects.
- (merge e8e92e0 jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix later to maint).
* The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
- (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
* The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
was described poorly.
to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
in-tree users use.
- (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint).
* "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
* "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
informational message when the translated version of it was too
long.
- (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint).
* 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
$msg already ended with one.
* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
- (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint).
* perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
- (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint).
* "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
parameters and issue errors in many cases.
- (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint).
* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
or en/US locale.
most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
spellings of UTF-8.
- (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint).
* When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
size of the file.
- (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint).
* "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
alphabetical order.
- (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint).
* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
acccumulate the prefix paths.
- (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint).
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