@@ -26,13 +26,49 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
2626 * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
2727 questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
2828
29+ * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
30+ mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
31+ tools in server settings.
32+
33+ * Color specifiers, e.g. "%C(blue)Hello%C(reset)", used in the
34+ "--format=" option of "git log" and friends can be disabled when
35+ the output is not sent to a terminal by prefixing them with
36+ "auto,", e.g. "%C(auto,blue)Hello%C(auto,reset)".
37+
38+ * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do
39+ not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings.
40+
41+ * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
42+ with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
43+ the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
44+ real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated
45+ anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch.
46+
47+ * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
48+ fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
49+
50+ * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
51+ tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
52+ recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
53+
54+
2955Foreign Interface
3056
31- *
57+ * "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of
58+ the remote helper interface.
59+
3260
3361Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
3462
35- *
63+ * "git fsck" has been taught to be pickier about entries in tree
64+ objects that should not be there, e.g. ".", ".git", and "..".
65+
66+ * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard
67+ characters has been optimized further.
68+
69+ * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
70+ quoting code from http-push codepath.
71+
3672
3773Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
3874
@@ -71,6 +107,11 @@ details).
71107 pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
72108 (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
73109
110+ * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
111+ applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
112+ exclude mechanism does.
113+ (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint).
114+
74115 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
75116 GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
76117 (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
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