Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt

Git 2.10 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes
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Updates since v2.9
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UI, Workflows & Features

 * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user
   that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing.

 * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone
   some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships.

 * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for
   "@{-1}", the previous branch.

 * Update the funcname definition to support css files.

 * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git
   status" options.

 * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the
   receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way
   that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the
   users.

Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

 * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid
   creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have,
   using *.unpackLimit configuration.

 * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
   connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
   for a long time, wasting resources.  The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
   been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
   (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint).

 * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
   API.

 * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the
   first step to move many state variables into a structure that can
   be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
   than once.


Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.


Fixes since v2.9
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).

 * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
   string.  This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
   --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
   a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
   "auto".
   (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint).

 * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
   option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
   bitmap index.
   (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint).

 * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
   by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
   file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
   which has been fixed.
   (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).

 * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
   configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
   typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
   (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint).

 * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
   documented now.
   (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint).

 * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
   referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
   (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint).

 * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
   creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
   reflog was truncated.
   (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).

 * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
   who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
   (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint).

 * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile.
   (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint).

 * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
   on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
   (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint).

 * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
   hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
   use it regularly.  "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
   (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint).

 * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
   (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint).

 * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
   tree".
   (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint).

 * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
   the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
   (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint).

 * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
   cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
   (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint).

 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
   (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint).
   (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint).
   (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint).
   (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint).