[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.0-rc1
A release candidate Git v2.16.0-rc1 is now available for testing at the usual places. It is comprised of 455 non-merge commits since v2.15.0, contributed by 79 people, 23 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 'v2.16.0-rc1' 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://github.com/gitster/git New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.15.0 are as follows. Welcome to the Git development community! Albert Astals Cid, Antoine Beaupré, Damien Marié, Daniel Bensoussan, Florian Klink, Gennady Kupava, Guillaume Castagnino, Haaris Mehmood, Hans Jerry Illikainen, Ingo Ruhnke, Jakub Bereżański, Jean Carlo Machado, Julien Dusser, J Wyman, Kevin, Łukasz Stelmach, Marius Paliga, Olga Telezhnaya, Rafael Ascensão, Robert Abel, Robert P. J. Day, Shuyu Wei, and Wei Shuyu. Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows. Thanks for your continued support. Adam Dinwoodie, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Alex Vandiver, Anders Kaseorg, Andrey Okoshkin, Ann T Ropea, Beat Bolli, Ben Peart, Brandon Williams, brian m. carlson, Carlos Martín Nieto, Charles Bailey, Christian Couder, Dave Borowitz, Dennis Kaarsemaker, Derrick Stolee, Elijah Newren, Emily Xie, Eric Sunshine, Eric Wong, Heiko Voigt, Jacob Keller, Jameson Miller, Jean-Noel Avila, Jeff Hostetler, Jeff King, Johannes Schindelin, Jonathan Nieder, Jonathan Tan, Junio C Hamano, Kaartic Sivaraam, Kevin Daudt, Lars Schneider, Liam Beguin, Luke Diamand, Martin Ågren, Michael Haggerty, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Phil Hord, Phillip Wood, Pranit Bauva, Prathamesh Chavan, Ramsay Jones, Randall S. Becker, Rasmus Villemoes, René Scharfe, Simon Ruderich, Stefan Beller, Steffen Prohaska, Stephan Beyer, SZEDER Gábor, Thomas Braun, Thomas Gummerer, Todd Zullinger, Torsten Bögershausen, and W. Trevor King. Git 2.16 Release Notes (draft) == Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for 'everything matches' is now an error. Updates since v2.15 --- UI, Workflows & Features * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in 2.11 (Nov 2016). * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration. * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and pass it down to "git merge". * The "--push-option=" option to "git push" now defaults to a list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable. * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x" operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'" pragma, which now we do. * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied closely with its "--untracked=" option, but now it can be controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored. * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be added. * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to work with mediawiki namespaces. * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)" and friends. * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym for "bisect visualize". * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has been corrected by making the command error out. * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. * Places that know about "sendemail.to", like documentation and shell completion (in contrib/) have been taught about "sendemail.tocmd", too. * "git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact
[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.16.0-rc1
A release candidate Git v2.16.0-rc1 is now available for testing at the usual places. It is comprised of 455 non-merge commits since v2.15.0, contributed by 79 people, 23 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 'v2.16.0-rc1' 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://github.com/gitster/git New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.15.0 are as follows. Welcome to the Git development community! Albert Astals Cid, Antoine Beaupré, Damien Marié, Daniel Bensoussan, Florian Klink, Gennady Kupava, Guillaume Castagnino, Haaris Mehmood, Hans Jerry Illikainen, Ingo Ruhnke, Jakub Bereżański, Jean Carlo Machado, Julien Dusser, J Wyman, Kevin, Łukasz Stelmach, Marius Paliga, Olga Telezhnaya, Rafael Ascensão, Robert Abel, Robert P. J. Day, Shuyu Wei, and Wei Shuyu. Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows. Thanks for your continued support. Adam Dinwoodie, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Alex Vandiver, Anders Kaseorg, Andrey Okoshkin, Ann T Ropea, Beat Bolli, Ben Peart, Brandon Williams, brian m. carlson, Carlos Martín Nieto, Charles Bailey, Christian Couder, Dave Borowitz, Dennis Kaarsemaker, Derrick Stolee, Elijah Newren, Emily Xie, Eric Sunshine, Eric Wong, Heiko Voigt, Jacob Keller, Jameson Miller, Jean-Noel Avila, Jeff Hostetler, Jeff King, Johannes Schindelin, Jonathan Nieder, Jonathan Tan, Junio C Hamano, Kaartic Sivaraam, Kevin Daudt, Lars Schneider, Liam Beguin, Luke Diamand, Martin Ågren, Michael Haggerty, Nicolas Morey-Chaisemartin, Phil Hord, Phillip Wood, Pranit Bauva, Prathamesh Chavan, Ramsay Jones, Randall S. Becker, Rasmus Villemoes, René Scharfe, Simon Ruderich, Stefan Beller, Steffen Prohaska, Stephan Beyer, SZEDER Gábor, Thomas Braun, Thomas Gummerer, Todd Zullinger, Torsten Bögershausen, and W. Trevor King. Git 2.16 Release Notes (draft) == Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for 'everything matches' is now an error. Updates since v2.15 --- UI, Workflows & Features * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in 2.11 (Nov 2016). * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration. * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and pass it down to "git merge". * The "--push-option=" option to "git push" now defaults to a list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable. * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x" operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'" pragma, which now we do. * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied closely with its "--untracked=" option, but now it can be controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored. * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be added. * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to work with mediawiki namespaces. * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)" and friends. * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym for "bisect visualize". * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has been corrected by making the command error out. * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. * Places that know about "sendemail.to", like documentation and shell completion (in contrib/) have been taught about "sendemail.tocmd", too. * "git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact
