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Git 2.5 Release Notes
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Updates since v2.4
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Ports
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git p4" now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when
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the files are opened exclusively.
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* "git show-branch --topics HEAD" (with no other arguments) did not
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do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision
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against all the local branches by default.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "unsigned char [20]" used thoughout the code to represent object
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names are being converted into a semi-opaque "struct object_id".
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This effort is expected to interfere with other topics in flight,
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but hopefully will give us one extra level of abstraction in the
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end, when completed.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v2.4
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.4 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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* We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the
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".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but
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the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the
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root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to
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do, but still valid).
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(merge 84ccad8 jk/init-core-worktree-at-root later to maint).
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* "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost
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the daylight-saving-time offset.
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(merge f6e6362 jc/epochtime-wo-tz later to maint).
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* Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a
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slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code
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becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning.
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(merge ee1c6c3 jk/prune-mtime later to maint).
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* The codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files have been
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taught that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at
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the beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration
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files already.
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(merge 27547e5 cn/bom-in-gitignore later to maint).
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* a few helper scripts in the test suite did not report errors
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correcty.
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(merge de248e9 ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report later to maint).
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* The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global"
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that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email
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entries in it.
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(merge 7e11052 oh/fix-config-default-user-name-section later to maint).
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* "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no
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object type that is "bl".
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(merge b7994af jk/type-from-string-gently later to maint).
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* The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory
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showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the
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directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also,
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when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff"
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and compare the file with the file with the same name in the
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directory, instead of refusing to run.
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(merge 0615173 jc/diff-no-index-d-f later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
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(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
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(merge f86a374 sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint).
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(merge 05bfc7d sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak later to maint).
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