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Post 2.3 cycle (batch #12)

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Hopefully with another batch or two, we would be ready for -rc0
to close this cycle.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -4,24 +4,36 @@ Git 2.4 Release Notes
Backward compatibility warning(s)
---------------------------------
Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in
the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of
command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch
names, separated with a comma in between. E.g.
This release has a few changes in the user-visible output from
Porcelain commands, which the users may want to be aware of.
$ git log --decorate -1 master
commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master)
...
* Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in
the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of
command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch
names, separated with a comma in between. E.g.
This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip
of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is
shown as:
$ git log --decorate -1 master
commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master)
...
$ git log --decorate -1 master
commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master)
...
This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip
of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is
shown as:
$ git log --decorate -1 master
commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master)
...
* The phrasing "git branch" uses to describe a detached HEAD has been
updated to match that of "git status":
- When the HEAD is at the same commit as it was originally
detached, they now both show "detached at <commit object name>".
- When the HEAD has moved since it was originally detached,
they now both show "detached from <commit object name>".
Earlier "git branch" always used "from"
Updates since v2.3
@ -91,7 +103,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
actually at xyz and haven't been moved since it was detached in
such a case, but the user cannot read what the current value of
HEAD is when "detached from" is used.
(merge 4b06318 mg/detached-head-report later to maint).
* "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike
"cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op.
@ -100,6 +111,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to
specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0.
* A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags"
option on by default for the "git push" command.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -151,6 +165,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Code in "git daemon" to parse out and hold hostnames used in
request interpolation has been simplified.
* "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add
new configuration bits.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -370,7 +387,20 @@ notes for details).
branch names.
(merge 5ee8758 jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color later to maint).
* Code cleanups and documentaiton updates.
* The code that reads from the ctags file in the completion script
(in contrib/) did not spell ${param/pattern/string} substitution
correctly, which happened to work with bash but not with zsh.
(merge db8d750 js/completion-ctags-pattern-substitution-fix later to maint).
* The transfer.hiderefs support did not quite work for smart-http
transport.
(merge 8ddf3ca jk/smart-http-hide-refs later to maint).
* "git tag -h" used to show the "--column" and "--sort" options
that are about listing in a wrong section.
(merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint).
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint).
(merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint).
(merge 817d03e jc/diff-test-updates later to maint).
@ -381,3 +411,4 @@ notes for details).
(merge 8fa7975 ak/git-done-help-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 9a6f128 rs/deflate-init-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 6f75d45 rs/use-isxdigit later to maint).
(merge 376e4b3 jk/test-annoyances later to maint).