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1 Git 2.14 Release Notes
2 ======================
4 Backward compatibility notes.
6 * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
7 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
8 more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
9 users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
10 turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
11 this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
12 release (yet).
14 * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
15 sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
16 happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
17 We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
18 might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
19 greatly appreciated.
22 Updates since v2.13
23 -------------------
25 UI, Workflows & Features
27 * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
28 of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
29 configurable.
31 * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags
32 initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
33 subsequent fetches.
35 * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
36 necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
37 (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
40 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
42 * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger
43 platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while
44 "gc" is running in parallel.
46 * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
47 accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
48 (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint).
50 * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
51 remove the temporary directory used during the test.
53 * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both
54 AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.
55 (merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint).
57 * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
58 historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
59 represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a
60 separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish
61 timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
62 move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
63 timestamp_t.
66 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
69 Fixes since v2.13
70 -----------------
72 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance
73 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
74 notes for details).
76 * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed
77 per-worktree refs.
79 * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery
80 mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.
81 This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added
82 after completing the existing incomplete line.
83 (merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint).
85 * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"
86 leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.
87 (merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint).
89 * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the
90 per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did
91 not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed.
92 (merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint).
94 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
95 (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
96 (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
97 (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint).