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@@ -71,6 +71,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A new configuration variable http.sslVersion can be used to specify
what specific version of SSL/TLS to use to make a connection.
+ * "git notes merge" can be told with "--strategy=<how>" option how to
+ automatically handle conflicts; this can now be configured by
+ setting notes.mergeStrategy configuration variable.
+
+ * "git log --cc" did not show any patch, even though most of the time
+ the user meant "git log --cc -p -m" to see patch output for commits
+ with a single parent, and combined diff for merge commits. The
+ command is taught to DWIM "--cc" (without "--raw" and other forms
+ of output specification) to "--cc -p -m".
+
+ * "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of
+ multiple lines. "--name-only" option is added to help this.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -132,6 +145,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will
always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR).
+ * The gitmodules API that is accessed from the C code learned to
+ cache stuff lazily.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -255,6 +271,37 @@ notes for details).
in Bourne shell.
(merge 82aec45 sg/help-group later to maint).
+ * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
+ a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
+ (merge 73f9145 dt/untracked-subdir later to maint).
+
+ * "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
+ has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
+ (merge 6262fe9 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git describe" without argument defaulted to describe the HEAD
+ commit, but "git describe --contains" didn't. Arguably, in a
+ repository used for active development, such defaulting would not
+ be very useful as the tip of branch is typically not tagged, but it
+ is better to be consistent.
+ (merge 2bd0706 sg/describe-contains later to maint).
+
+ * The client side codepaths in "git push" have been cleaned up
+ and the user can request to perform an optional "signed push",
+ i.e. sign only when the other end accepts signed push.
+ (merge 68c757f db/push-sign-if-asked later to maint).
+
+ * Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and
+ "pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo'
+ as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these
+ keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a
+ git command'. These warning messages have been squelched.
+ (merge 9e9de18 jk/fix-alias-pager-config-key-warnings later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain
+ when one is given.
+ (merge 2aea7a5 jk/rev-list-has-no-notes later to maint).
+
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint).
(merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint).