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