An early preview release Git v2.5.0-rc0 is now available for
testing at the usual places. It is comprised of 492 non-merge
commits since v2.4.0, contributed by 54 people, 17 of which are
new faces.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the
'v2.5.0-rc0' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.4.0 are as follows.
Welcome to the Git development community!
Allen Hubbe, Ariel Faigon, Blair Holloway, Christian Neukirchen,
Danny Lin, Frans Klaver, Fredrik Medley, Lars Kellogg-Stedman,
Lex Spoon, Luke Mewburn, Miguel Torroja, Ossi Herrala, Panagiotis
Astithas, Quentin Neill, Remi Lespinet, Sébastien Guimmara,
and Thomas Schneider.
Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows.
Thanks for your continued support.
Alex Henrie, brian m. carlson, Carlos Martín Nieto, Charles
Bailey, David Aguilar, David Turner, Dennis Kaarsemaker,
Elia Pinto, Eric Sunshine, Fredrik Gustafsson, Jean-Noel
Avila, Jeff King, Jim Hill, Johannes Sixt, Jonathan Nieder,
Junio C Hamano, Karthik Nayak, Luke Diamand, Matthieu Moy, Max
Kirillov, Michael Coleman, Michael Haggerty, Michael J Gruber,
Mike Hommey, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Patrick Steinhardt, Paul
Tan, Phil Hord, Phillip Sz, Ramsay Allan Jones, René Scharfe,
Stefan Beller, SZEDER Gábor, Thomas Braun, Thomas Gummerer,
Torsten Bögershausen, and Vitor Antunes.
Git 2.5 Release Notes (draft)
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Updates since v2.4
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UI, Workflows Features
* The bash completion script (in contrib/) learned a few options that
git revert takes.
* Whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines can also be
painted in the output of git diff and friends with the new
--ws-error-highlight option.
* List of commands shown by git help are grouped along the workflow
elements to help early learners.
* git p4 now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when
the files are opened exclusively.
* git p4 attempts to better handle branches in Perforce.
* git p4 learned --changes-block-size n to read the changes in
chunks from Perforce, instead of making one call to p4 changes
that may trigger too many rows scanned error from Perforce.
* More workaround for Perforce's row number limit in git p4.
* Unlike $EDITOR and $GIT_EDITOR that can hold the path to the
command and initial options (e.g. /path/to/emacs -nw), 'git p4'
did not let the shell interpolate the contents of the environment
variable that name the editor $P4EDITOR (and $EDITOR, too).
This release makes it in line with the rest of Git, as well as with
Perforce.
* A new short-hand branch@{push} denotes the remote-tracking branch
that tracks the branch at the remote the branch would be pushed
to.
* git show-branch --topics HEAD (with no other arguments) did not
do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision
against all the local branches by default.
* A replacement for contrib/workdir/git-new-workdir that does not
rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
Consider this as still an experimental feature; the UI will likely
to change.
* Tweak the sample store backend of the credential helper to honor
XDG configuration file locations when specified.
* A heuristic we use to catch mistyped paths on the command line
git cmd revs pathspec is to make sure that all the non-rev
parameters in the later part of the command line are names of the
files in the working tree, but that means git grep $str -- \*.c
must always be disambiguated with --, because nobody sane will
create a file whose name literally is asterisk-dot-see. Loosen the
heuristic to declare that with a wildcard string the user likely
meant to give us a pathspec.
* git merge FETCH_HEAD learned that the previous git fetch could
be to create an Octopus merge, i.e. recording multiple branches
that are not marked as not-for-merge; this allows us to lose an
old style invocation git merge msg HEAD $commits... in the
implementation of git pull script; the old style syntax can now
be deprecated (but not removed yet).
* Filter scripts were run with SIGPIPE disabled on the Git side,
expecting that they may not read what Git feeds them to filter.
We however treated a filter that does not read its input fully
before exiting as an error. We no longer do and ignore
