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1 Git 2.10 Release Notes
2 ======================
4 Backward compatibility notes
5 ----------------------------
7 Updates since v2.9
8 ------------------
10 UI, Workflows & Features
12 * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user
13 that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing.
15 * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
16 some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.
18 * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for
19 "@{-1}", the previous branch.
21 * Update the funcname definition to support css files.
23 * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git
24 status" options.
26 * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the
27 receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way
28 that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the
29 users.
31 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
33 * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid
34 creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have,
35 using *.unpackLimit configuration.
37 * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
38 connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
39 for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
40 been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
41 (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint).
43 * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
44 API.
46 * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the
47 first step to move many state variables into a structure that can
48 be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
49 than once.
52 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
55 Fixes since v2.9
56 ----------------
58 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
59 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
60 notes for details).
62 * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
63 string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
64 --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
65 a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
66 "auto".
67 (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint).
69 * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
70 option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
71 bitmap index.
72 (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint).
74 * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
75 by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
76 file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
77 which has been fixed.
78 (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).
80 * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
81 configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
82 typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
83 (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint).
85 * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
86 documented now.
87 (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint).
89 * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
90 referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
91 (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint).
93 * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
94 creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
95 reflog was truncated.
96 (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
98 * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
99 who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
100 (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint).
102 * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile.
103 (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint).
105 * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
106 on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
107 (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint).
109 * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
110 hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
111 use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
112 (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint).
114 * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
115 (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint).
117 * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
118 tree".
119 (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint).
121 * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
122 the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
123 (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint).
125 * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
126 cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
127 (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint).
129 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
130 (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint).
131 (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint).
132 (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint).
133 (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint).