* The 'maint' branch has these fixes since the last announcement.
t3403-rebase-skip failed when run while its standard input is
connected to /dev/null. It turns out that an earlier safety
check to prevent git-am to be fed a new patch while there is
a leftover .dotest/ directory was incorrect. Fixed.
There was an unnecessary xmalloc() in builtin-add. Removed.
* The 'master' branch has these since the last announcement.
Recent change to http-fetch.c did not play well with older
curl releases. Fixed.
Clean-up of gitweb continues. Notably, generation the
summary page makes fewer call to git executable.
Receive-pack has an added safety check that lets the
repository owner to forbid non-fast-forward push into a
shared repository by setting receive.denyNonFastforwards
configuration variable.
Output from git-describe can now be used as an abbreviated
object name.
git-resolve is now officially deprecated. The next "master"
release (1.4.3) will ship with a version that gives an
annoying "deprecation warning" message, and the command will
be removed from the release after that.
There was a build problem in upload-archive on OpenBSD. Fixed.
git-zip-tree is now superseded by "git-archive --format=zip".
Miscellaneous clean-ups and documentation updates.
* The 'next' branch, in addition, has these.
A new command git-show-ref was added to list and verify local
references.
A new command git-for-each-ref was added to help Porcelains
to make smaller number of calls to git binary to obtain
summary information for refs.
cvsimport was updated to use git-for-each-ref.
Git.pm topic lost Git.xs for now.
The resolve_ref() internal API was straightened out to work
solely on refname (i.e. string that begins with "refs/"),
instead of pathnames. To deal with many refs efficiently,
there is now a "packed-ref" format where many refs are stored
in a single flat file instead of the traditional
one-ref-per-file format.
git-diff --color highlights trailing whitespaces and SP
followed by TAB in indentation as common whitespace errors.
git-daemon now has a virtual host support.
upload-pack stops the fetch-pack on the other side when
downloader has more roots than uploader; otherwise the
downloader would send "have" from a development line that
the uploader does not know about til its root.
git-log learned --author=, --committer= and --grep= options
to filter commits.
pack-objects now creates version 3 packs; this allows a copy
of larger block of data to be expressed.
Per branch configuration items branch."branchname".remote can
specify what remotes/ file instead of usual "origin" should
be used when no option is given to "git fetch" while on the
named branch. Similarly, branch."branchname".merge can
specify which remote branches to be merged while on the named
branch.
git-svnimport learned a new trick to parse log message for
Signed-off-by: lines and pick authorship information from
there. I haven't heard Ack nor Nack from any subversion
users, but we will hopefully hear somebody scream if it
breaks things after pushing it out to "master".
* The 'pu' branch, in addition, has these.
git-apply --whitespace learned to notice SP before TAB in
indent as a common whitespace error, in addition to the
trailing whitespaces it already knew about.
git-diff output is unfriendly to GNU patch when the filename
contained a SP. Appending a TAB after filename in this case
works the problem around. However, git-apply needs to learn
about it as well, so it did.
There is one new data type in the pack format that records
delta base object by offset in the stream instead of 20-byte
object name. This reduces the resulting packsize by 3 to 5%.
One additional test for git-branch is in, but the current
implementation of git-branch fails it.
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>