| Git 2.19 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v2.18 |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths |
| added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents |
| of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new |
| files. They are now shown as new by default. |
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| "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an |
| otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new |
| paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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| * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. |
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| * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field, |
| which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the |
| code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a |
| more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. |
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| * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. |
| (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). |
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| * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" |
| throughout the object access API continues. |
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| * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various |
| pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the |
| codebase to report the list of configuration variables |
| subcommands care about to help complete them. |
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| * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to |
| slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. |
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| Fixes since v2.18 |
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| * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a |
| nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/) |
| has been taught about it. |
| (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint). |
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| * "git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off |
| point that is newer than the existing history used to end up |
| grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out. |
| (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint). |
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| * Code cleanup. |
| (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). |
