@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3838 * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do
3939 not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings.
4040
41+ * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that
42+ matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo".
43+
44+ * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn
45+ branch.
46+
4147 * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
4248 with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
4349 the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
@@ -51,6 +57,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5157 * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
5258 fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
5359
60+ * When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due
61+ to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if
62+ there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has
63+ been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as
64+ it hurts the common case of not failing at all.
65+
5466 * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
5567 tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
5668 recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
@@ -75,6 +87,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
7587 * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
7688 quoting code from http-push codepath.
7789
90+ * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/
91+ directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by
92+ default).
93+
7894
7995Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
8096
@@ -116,6 +132,15 @@ details).
116132 excess trailing blank lines.
117133 (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
118134
135+ * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
136+ way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
137+ (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
138+
139+ * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
140+ failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
141+ This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
142+ (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint).
143+
119144 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
120145 GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
121146 (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
@@ -136,6 +161,11 @@ details).
136161 index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
137162 (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
138163
164+ * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
165+ on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
166+ without getting seen in the editor.
167+ (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint).
168+
139169 * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
140170 commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
141171 status of the hook.
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