@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5454 is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when
5555 asked to write a cover letter for the series.
5656
57+ * "git format-patch" learned "-v $count" option, and prepends a
58+ string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also
59+ automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This
60+ allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different
61+ names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages.
62+
5763 * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
5864 fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
5965
@@ -119,6 +125,11 @@ details).
119125 signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
120126 (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
121127
128+ * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
129+ reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
130+ spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
131+ (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint).
132+
122133 * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
123134 pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
124135 (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
@@ -136,6 +147,10 @@ details).
136147 way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
137148 (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
138149
150+ * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
151+ streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
152+ (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint).
153+
139154 * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
140155 failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
141156 This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
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