[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.8.0-rc4

From: Junio C Hamano
Date: Mon Mar 21 2016 - 17:32:24 EST


A release candidate Git v2.8.0-rc4 is now available for testing
at the usual places. It is comprised of 521 non-merge commits
since v2.7.0, contributed by 73 people, 21 of which are new faces.

Relative to v2.8.0-rc3, this reverts the change to the gitignore
mechanism (which also is used in a reverse sense to implement the
sparse checkout feature), as the code seemed to be a bit premature
for general consumption (I haven't queued any replacements yet, but
after 2.8 final I do expect the effort to continue). Also a new
workaround for GCC 4.2 that dies with "internal compiler error" has
been queued, which would help those who compile with that version of
the compiler (including MacOSX 10.6 and FreeBSD 9.x).

The tarballs are found at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the
'v2.8.0-rc4' 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 = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git

New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.7.0 are as follows.
Welcome to the Git development community!

ëëì, Adam Dinwoodie, Andrew Wheeler, Changwoo Ryu,
Christoph Egger, Christoph Hoopmann, Dan Aloni, Dave Ware, David
A. Wheeler, Dickson Wong, Felipe GonÃalves Assis, GyuYong Jung,
Jon Griffiths, Kazutoshi Satoda, Lars Vogel, Martin Amdisen,
Matthew Kraai, Paul Wagland, Rob Mayoff, Romain Picard, and
Victor Leschuk.

Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows.
Thanks for your continued support.

Alexander Kuleshov, Alexander Shopov, Alex Henrie, Audric
Schiltknecht, brian m. carlson, Carlos MartÃn Nieto, Christian
Couder, David A. Greene, David Turner, Dennis Kaarsemaker,
Dimitriy Ryazantcev, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz, Elia Pinto,
Eric Sunshine, Eric Wong, Guillermo S. Romero, Jacob Keller,
Jean-Noel Avila, Jeff King, Jiang Xin, Johannes Schindelin,
Johannes Sixt, John Keeping, Jonathan Nieder, Junio C Hamano,
Karsten Blees, Karthik Nayak, Knut Franke, Lars Schneider,
Matthieu Moy, Matt McCutchen, Michael J Gruber, Mike Hommey,
Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy, Ãyvind A. Holm, Patrick Steinhardt,
Pat Thoyts, Peter Krefting, Ralf Thielow, Ray Chen, Sebastian
Schuberth, Shawn O. Pearce, Stefan Beller, Stephen P. Smith,
SZEDER GÃbor, Thomas Ackermann, Thomas Braun, Thomas Gummerer,
Tobias Klauser, Torsten BÃgershausen, Trán Ngác QuÃn,
and Will Palmer.

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Git 2.8 Release Notes (draft)
=============================

Backward compatibility note
---------------------------

The rsync:// transport has been removed.


Updates since v2.7
------------------

UI, Workflows & Features

* It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
nobody noticed nor complained about it.

* "push" learned that its "--delete" option can be shortened to
"-d", just like "branch --delete" and "branch -d" are the same
thing.

* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
too much time before emitting the first line of the result.

* "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line)
how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.

* Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should
be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes
tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must
be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only
when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must
have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref).

* "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index"
behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a
new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this
cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
disabled.

* "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking
"rebase -i".

* "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed.

* "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
your workflow.

* "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.

* Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text
that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control
their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated
to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they
used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR,
which is usually not what the users expect).

* "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree
to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting
when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote
repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g.
refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch).

* "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose
end-of-line problems.

* "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote
repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at.

* New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to
specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around
proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when
CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication
has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
material in user's keyrings.

* Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from
"git update-index" to "git config".

* There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in
the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose
option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never
passed the verbose option down to that codepath.

* Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower
precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by
setting the variable to an empty string.

* A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a
commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
given <pattern>.

* The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable can be used to
force the user to always set user.email & user.name configuration
variables, serving as a reminder for those who work on multiple
projects and do not want to put these in their $HOME/.gitconfig.

* "git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be
told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6).

* Some authentication methods do not need username or password, but
libcurl needs some hint that it needs to perform authentication.
Supplying an empty username and password string is a valid way to
do so, but you can set the http.[<url>.]emptyAuth configuration
variable to achieve the same, if you find it cleaner.

* You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned
public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL.

* The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
"git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
the values come from.

* The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever
directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the
filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process
chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup.

* When "git submodule update" did not result in fetching the commit
object in the submodule that is referenced by the superproject, the
command learned to retry another fetch, specifically asking for
that commit that may not be connected to the refs it usually
fetches.

* "git merge-recursive" learned "--no-renames" option to disable its
rename detection logic.

* Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to
get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting
push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn because the
transition was completed a long time ago.

* README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked
slightly to make it easier on the eyes.


Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

* Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use
it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel.

* A slight update to the Makefile to mark ".PHONY" targets as such
correctly.

* In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets
you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined.

* d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like
$GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias
handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to
affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which
resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init".
Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.

* The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has
been updated to share more code with the code that deals with
normal references.

* strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier
to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should
allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to
help users on DOSsy systems.

* "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information
regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It
has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected
(e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing
only the number of changes).

* "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same
underlying machinery) has been optimized.

* Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by
persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing
tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total
wallclock time.

* Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not
portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones
with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.

* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of protrams that are already safe
has been rewritten to avoid false warnings.

* The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct
the full path out of a series of path components while walking a
tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path
needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that
is already flat. The API has been removed and its users have been
rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity.

* Help those who debug http(s) part of the system.
(merge 0054045 sp/remote-curl-ssl-strerror later to maint).

* The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration
variables has been streamlined.

* The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in
preparation for "branch --format" and friends.

* Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed
to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
(merge 5549029 mg/work-tree-tests later to maint).

* Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
setting a configuration variable failed.
(merge 3d18064 ps/config-error later to maint).

* Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
tests.
(merge 43f3afc jk/epipe-in-async later to maint).

* There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
options in the Makefile.

* The way the test scripts configure the Apache web server has been
updated to work also for Apache 2.4 running on RedHat derived
distros.

* Out of maintenance gcc on OSX 10.6 fails to compile the code in
'master'; work it around by using clang by default on the platform.

* The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct
the full path out of a series of path components while walking a
tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path
needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that
is already flat, in many cases. The API has been removed and its
users have been rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity.
This incidentally also closes some heap-corruption holes.

* Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a
file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we
expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our
scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data,
even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from
end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when
using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option.



Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.


Fixes since v2.7
----------------

Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).

* An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by
exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree,
interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without
setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.

* The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of
fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot
to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed
array.

* Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not
quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they
already are in a harmful way.

* "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias
files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected.

* A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler
and have been fixed.

* The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
the '--signoff' option and DCO.

* "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be
at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault.

* The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file
listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change
that is responsible for the regression has been reverted.

* Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR
(e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is
done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to
be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous
user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling
unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.

* Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server
log.

Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps?
IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log,
so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good.

* "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not
ignore the exit code from "gc --auto".

* Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles
mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not
friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They
now close the packs before doing so.

* A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a
regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been
corrected.

* The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has
been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation.

* "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch
named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary
disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0.

* The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion
1.9.0 and later.

* The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly
skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected.

* A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was
run from a subdirectory.

* The command line completion learned a handful of additional options
and command specific syntax.

* dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it.

* The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands
has been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a
directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted
CPU cycles.

* "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
"mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
when triggered.

* The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
are themselves CRLF line-terminated.

* "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push
needed to force (or fast-forwarded).

* The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been
tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output
that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would
not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.

* The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
been the case.

* The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange
and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of
majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign
buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based
on that order.

* "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
characters in a tree object.
(merge aac4fac nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint).

* "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature
misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
(merge 17f1365 nd/git-common-dir-fix later to maint).

* "git worktree add -B <branchname>" did not work.

* The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
(merge 708b8cc jc/am-i-v-fix later to maint).

* "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
system.
(merge 907681e jk/no-diff-emit-common later to maint).

* The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
tricky, has been documented a bit better.
(merge a64e6a4 jk/more-comments-on-textconv later to maint).

* Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
(merge 08c95df jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).

* The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
not set.
(merge f6b1fb3 mm/push-simple-doc later to maint).

* Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the
tests to sidestep the problem.
(merge 3b1442d jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test later to maint).

* A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
(e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
(merge 2b56bb7 sb/submodule-module-list-fix later to maint).

* "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
but didn't say the reason correctly.
(merge 638fa62 js/config-set-in-non-repository later to maint).

* The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
data in the idx.
(merge 7465feb jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint).

* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge f459823 ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep later to maint).
(merge 63ca1c0 ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command later to maint).
(merge 4867f11 ps/plug-xdl-merge-leak later to maint).
(merge 4938686 dt/initial-ref-xn-commit-doc later to maint).
(merge 9537f21 ma/update-hooks-sample-typofix later to maint).

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Changes since v2.7.0 are as follows:

Adam Dinwoodie (1):
t9117: test specifying full url to git svn init -T

Alex Henrie (1):
stripspace: call U+0020 a "space" instead of a "blank"

Alexander Kuleshov (3):
format-patch: introduce format.outputDirectory configuration
exec_cmd.c: use find_last_dir_sep() for code simplification
git.c: simplify stripping extension of a file in handle_builtin()

Alexander Shopov (1):
gitk: Update Bulgarian translation (311t)

Andrew Wheeler (1):
push: fix ref status reporting for --force-with-lease

Audric Schiltknecht (1):
l10n: fr.po: Correct case in sentence

Carlos MartÃn Nieto (1):
Disown ssh+git and git+ssh

Changwoo Ryu (4):
l10n: ko.po: Add Korean translation
l10n: ko.po: Update Korean translation
l10n: ko: Update Korean translation
l10n: ko.po: Update Korean translation

Christian Couder (11):
dir: free untracked cache when removing it
update-index: use enum for untracked cache options
update-index: add --test-untracked-cache
update-index: add untracked cache notifications
update-index: move 'uc' var declaration
dir: add {new,add}_untracked_cache()
dir: add remove_untracked_cache()
dir: simplify untracked cache "ident" field
config: add core.untrackedCache
test-dump-untracked-cache: don't modify the untracked cache
t7063: add tests for core.untrackedCache

Christoph Egger (1):
http: implement public key pinning

Christoph Hoopmann (1):
l10n: de.po: fix typo

Dan Aloni (1):
ident: add user.useConfigOnly boolean for when ident shouldn't be guessed

Dave Ware (1):
contrib/subtree: fix "subtree split" skipped-merge bug

David A. Greene (1):
contrib/subtree: Make testing easier

David A. Wheeler (1):
Expand documentation describing --signoff

David Turner (3):
do_compare_entry: use already-computed path
unpack-trees: fix accidentally quadratic behavior
refs: document transaction semantics

Dennis Kaarsemaker (1):
reflog-walk: don't segfault on non-commit sha1's in the reflog

Dickson Wong (1):
mergetool: reorder vim/gvim buffers in three-way diffs

Dimitriy Ryazantcev (3):
l10n: ru.po: update Russian translation
l10n: ru.po: update Russian translation
l10n: ru.po: update Russian translation

Edmundo Carmona Antoranz (1):
blame: add support for --[no-]progress option

Elia Pinto (92):
Makefile: add missing phony target
contrib/examples/git-commit.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
contrib/examples/git-fetch.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
contrib/examples/git-merge.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
contrib/examples/git-repack.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
contrib/examples/git-revert.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
contrib/thunderbird-patch-inline/appp.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
git-gui/po/glossary/txt-to-pot.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/lib-httpd.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
test-sha1.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
unimplemented.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1100-commit-tree-options.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1401-symbolic-ref.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1410-reflog.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1511-rev-parse-caret.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1512-rev-parse-disambiguation.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t1700-split-index.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t2025-worktree-add.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t2102-update-index-symlinks.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3030-merge-recursive.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3100-ls-tree-restrict.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3101-ls-tree-dirname.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3210-pack-refs.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3403-rebase-skip.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3511-cherry-pick-x.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3600-rm.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t3700-add.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5100-mailinfo.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5300-pack-object.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5301-sliding-window.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5302-pack-index.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5303-pack-corruption-resilience.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5304-prune.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5305-include-tag.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5500-fetch-pack.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5505-remote.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5506-remote-groups.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5510-fetch.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5515-fetch-merge-logic.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5516-fetch-push.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5517-push-mirror.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5522-pull-symlink.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5530-upload-pack-error.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5532-fetch-proxy.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5537-fetch-shallow.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5538-push-shallow.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5550-http-fetch-dumb.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5570-git-daemon.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5601-clone.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5700-clone-reference.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5710-info-alternate.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t5900-repo-selection.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t6001-rev-list-graft.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t6002-rev-list-bisect.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t6015-rev-list-show-all-parents.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t6032-merge-large-rename.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t6132-pathspec-exclude.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7001-mv.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7003-filter-branch.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7004-tag.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7006-pager.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7103-reset-bare.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7406-submodule-update.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7408-submodule-reference.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7504-commit-msg-hook.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7505-prepare-commit-msg-hook.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7602-merge-octopus-many.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t7700-repack.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t8003-blame-corner-cases.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t/t9001-send-email.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9100-git-svn-basic.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9101-git-svn-props.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9104-git-svn-follow-parent.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9105-git-svn-commit-diff.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9107-git-svn-migrate.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9108-git-svn-glob.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9109-git-svn-multi-glob.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9110-git-svn-use-svm-props.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9114-git-svn-dcommit-merge.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9118-git-svn-funky-branch-names.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9119-git-svn-info.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9129-git-svn-i18n-commitencoding.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9130-git-svn-authors-file.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9132-git-svn-broken-symlink.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9137-git-svn-dcommit-clobber-series.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9138-git-svn-authors-prog.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9145-git-svn-master-branch.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9150-svk-mergetickets.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9300-fast-import.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9350-fast-export.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution
t9901-git-web--browse.sh: use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution

Eric Sunshine (2):
git-compat-util: st_add4: work around gcc 4.2.x compiler crash
Revert "config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6"

Eric Wong (10):
git-send-email: do not double-escape quotes from mutt
for-each-ref: document `creatordate` and `creator` fields
git-svn: fix auth parameter handling on SVN 1.9.0+
pass transport verbosity down to git_connect
connect & http: support -4 and -6 switches for remote operations
t5570: add tests for "git {clone,fetch,pull} -v"
git-svn: hoist out utf8 prep from t9129 to lib-git-svn
tests: remove no-op full-svn-test target
git-svn: shorten glob error message
git-svn: fix URL canonicalization during init w/ SVN 1.7+

Felipe GonÃalves Assis (7):
merge-recursive: option to disable renames
merge-recursive: more consistent interface
merge-strategies.txt: fix typo
merge-recursive: find-renames resets threshold
t3034: add rename threshold tests
t3034: test option to disable renames
t3034: test deprecated interface

Guillermo S. Romero (1):
gitk: Follow themed bgcolor in help dialogs

GyuYong Jung (1):
git-cvsserver.perl: fix typo

Jacob Keller (1):
notes: allow merging from arbitrary references

Jean-Noel Avila (5):
l10n: fr.po v2.8.0 round 1 2509t
l10n: fr.po v2.8.0 round 2
l10n: fr.po v2.8.0 round 3
gitk: Update French translation (311t)
gitk: fr.po: Sync translations with git

Jeff King (86):
pack-revindex: drop hash table
pack-revindex: store entries directly in packed_git
create_symref: modernize variable names
create_symref: use existing ref-lock code
create_symref: write reflog while holding lock
run-command: don't warn on SIGPIPE deaths
avoid shifting signed integers 31 bits
bswap: add NO_UNALIGNED_LOADS define
checkout,clone: check return value of create_symref
lock_ref_sha1_basic: always fill old_oid while holding lock
lock_ref_sha1_basic: handle REF_NODEREF with invalid refs
rebase: ignore failures from "gc --auto"
shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin
shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin
shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer
shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode
shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization
shortlog: optimize out useless string list
shortlog: don't warn on empty author
filter-branch: resolve $commit^{tree} in no-index case
clean: make is_git_repository a public function
resolve_gitlink_ref: ignore non-repository paths
t6300: use test_atom for some un-modern tests
tag: do not show ambiguous tag names as "tags/foo"
transport: drop support for git-over-rsync
give "nbuf" strbuf a more meaningful name
checkout-index: simplify "-z" option parsing
checkout-index: handle "--no-prefix" option
checkout-index: handle "--no-index" option
checkout-index: disallow "--no-stage" option
apply, ls-files: simplify "-z" parsing
fmt_ident: refactor strictness checks
test-path-utils: use xsnprintf in favor of strcpy
rerere: replace strcpy with xsnprintf
checkout: reorder check_filename conditional
check_filename: tighten dwim-wildcard ambiguity
get_sha1: don't die() on bogus search strings
http-push: stop using name_path
show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
list-objects: drop name_path entirely
list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks
git-config: better document default behavior for `--include`
ref-filter: use string_list_split over strbuf_split
reflog_expire_cfg: NUL-terminate pattern field
add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
diff: clarify textconv interface
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
argv-array: add detach function
convert manual allocations to argv_array
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
merge-one-file: use empty blob for add/add base
merge-tree: drop generate_common strategy
xdiff: drop XDL_EMIT_COMMON
t5313: test bounds-checks of corrupted/malicious pack/idx files
nth_packed_object_offset: bounds-check extended offset
use_pack: handle signed off_t overflow
write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads
fetch-pack: ignore SIGPIPE in sideband demuxer
test_must_fail: report number of unexpected signal
t5504: handle expected output from SIGPIPE death
compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
t9700: fix test for perl older than 5.14
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
http-push: stop using name_path
add helpers for detecting size_t overflow
show_object_with_name: simplify by using path_name()
list-objects: convert name_path to a strbuf
list-objects: drop name_path entirely
list-objects: pass full pathname to callbacks

Jiang Xin (7):
l10n: git.pot: v2.8.0 round 1 (48 new, 16 removed)
http: honor no_http env variable to bypass proxy
l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.8.0 l10n round 1
l10n: git.pot: v2.8.0 round 2 (21 new, 1 removed)
l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.8.0 l10n round 2
l10n: git.pot: Add one new message for Git 2.8.0
l10n: zh_CN: for git v2.8.0 l10n round 3

Johannes Schindelin (47):
commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos
Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos
Refactor skipping DOS drive prefixes
compat/basename: make basename() conform to POSIX
compat/basename.c: provide a dirname() compatibility function
t0060: verify that basename() and dirname() work as expected
config.mak.uname: support MSys2
config.mak.uname: supporting 64-bit MSys2
fetch: release pack files before garbage-collecting
am: release pack files before garbage-collecting
merge: release pack files before garbage-collecting
receive-pack: release pack files before garbage-collecting
pull: allow interactive rebase with --rebase=interactive
remote: handle the config setting branch.*.rebase=interactive
completion: add missing branch.*.rebase values
nedmalloc: allow compiling with MSys2's compiler
compat/mingw: support MSys2-based MinGW build
compat/winansi: support compiling with MSys2
t0060: loosen overly strict expectations
mingw: avoid redefining S_* constants
mingw: avoid warnings when casting HANDLEs to int
mingw: squash another warning about a cast
mingw: uglify (a, 0) definitions to shut up warnings
mingw: let's use gettext with MSYS2
mingw: do not trust MSYS2's MinGW gettext.sh
Git.pm: stop assuming that absolute paths start with a slash
mingw: prepare the TMPDIR environment variable for shell scripts
mingw: let lstat() fail with errno == ENOTDIR when appropriate
merge-file: let conflict markers match end-of-line style of the context
merge-file: ensure that conflict sections match eol style
mingw: fix t5601-clone.sh
mingw: accomodate t0060-path-utils for MSYS2
mingw: disable mkfifo-based tests
tests: turn off git-daemon tests if FIFOs are not available
mingw: skip test in t1508 that fails due to path conversion
mingw: fix t9700's assumption about directory separators
mingw: work around pwd issues in the tests
mingw: mark t9100's test cases with appropriate prereqs
mingw: avoid illegal filename in t9118
mingw: handle the missing POSIXPERM prereq in t9124
mingw: skip a test in t9130 that cannot pass on Windows
mingw: do not bother to test funny file names
test-lib: limit the output of the yes utility
gitignore: ignore generated test-fake-ssh executable
t5505: 'remote add x y' should work when url.y.insteadOf = x
git config: report when trying to modify a non-existing repo config
Mark win32's pthread_exit() as NORETURN

Johannes Sixt (3):
t/t5100: no need to use 'echo' command substitutions for globbing
mingw: avoid linking to the C library's isalpha()
t0001: fix GIT_* environment variable check under --valgrind

John Keeping (3):
completion: add missing git-rebase options
t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
t9200: avoid grep on non-ASCII data

Jon Griffiths (3):
credential-cache--daemon: refactor check_socket_directory
credential-cache--daemon: disallow relative socket path
credential-cache--daemon: change to the socket dir on startup

Jonathan Nieder (1):
submodule.c: write "Fetching submodule <foo>" to stderr

Junio C Hamano (58):
First batch for post 2.7 cycle
strbuf: miniscule style fix
strbuf: make strbuf_getline_crlf() global
strbuf: introduce strbuf_getline_{lf,nul}()
mktree: there are only two possible line terminations
check-attr: there are only two possible line terminations
check-ignore: there are only two possible line terminations
update-index: there are only two possible line terminations
checkout-index: there are only two possible line terminations
strbuf: give strbuf_getline() to the "most text friendly" variant
hash-object: read --stdin-paths with strbuf_getline()
revision: read --stdin with strbuf_getline()
rev-parse: read parseopt spec with strbuf_getline()
ident.c: read /etc/mailname with strbuf_getline()
remote.c: read $GIT_DIR/remotes/* with strbuf_getline()
clone/sha1_file: read info/alternates with strbuf_getline()
transport-helper: read helper response with strbuf_getline()
cat-file: read batch stream with strbuf_getline()
column: read lines with strbuf_getline()
send-pack: read list of refs with strbuf_getline()
grep: read -f file with strbuf_getline()
test-sha1-array: read command stream with strbuf_getline()
test-lib: clarify and tighten SANITY
Second batch for 2.8 cycle
Third batch for 2.8 cycle
git: remove an early return from save_env_before_alias()
git: protect against unbalanced calls to {save,restore}_env()
git: simplify environment save/restore logic
Fourth batch for 2.8.cycle
Getting closer to 2.7.1
restore_env(): free the saved environment variable once we are done
Fifth batch for 2.8 cycle
Git 2.7.1
Sixth batch for the 2.8 cycle
pager: lose a separate argv[]
pager: factor out a helper to prepare a child process to run the pager
am -i: fix "v"iew
Start preparing for 2.7.2
Seventh batch for the 2.8 cycle
Git 2.7.2
Eighth batch for 2.8
Git 2.8-rc0
Git 2.8-rc1
gitignore: document that unignoring a directory unignores everything in it
Git 2.7.3
Git 2.8-rc2
sane_grep: pass "-a" if grep accepts it
rebase-i: clarify "is this commit relevant?" test
RelNotes for 2.8.0: typofix
Git 2.8-rc3
Git 2.4.11
Git 2.5.5
Git 2.6.6
Git 2.7.4
Revert "Merge branch 'jc/exclusion-doc'"
Revert "Merge branch 'nd/exclusion-regression-fix'"
RelNotes: remove the mention of !reinclusion
Git 2.8-rc4

Karsten Blees (1):
mingw: factor out Windows specific environment setup

Karthik Nayak (10):
ref-filter: bump 'used_atom' and related code to the top
ref-filter: introduce struct used_atom
ref-filter: introduce parsing functions for each valid atom
ref-filter: introduce color_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce parse_align_position()
ref-filter: introduce align_atom_parser()
ref-filter: align: introduce long-form syntax
ref-filter: introduce remote_ref_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce contents_atom_parser()
ref-filter: introduce objectname_atom_parser()

Kazutoshi Satoda (2):
git-svn: enable "svn.pathnameencoding" on dcommit
git-svn: apply "svn.pathnameencoding" before URL encoding

Knut Franke (2):
http: allow selection of proxy authentication method
http: use credential API to handle proxy authentication

Lars Schneider (8):
travis-ci: run previously failed tests first, then slowest to fastest
travis-ci: explicity use container-based infrastructure
convert: treat an empty string for clean/smudge filters as "cat"
t: do not hide Git's exit code in tests using 'nul_to_q'
rename git_config_from_buf to git_config_from_mem
config: add 'origin_type' to config_source struct
config: add '--show-origin' option to print the origin of a config value
add DEVELOPER makefile knob to check for acknowledged warnings

Lars Vogel (1):
git-add doc: do not say working directory when you mean working tree

Martin Amdisen (1):
templates/hooks: fix minor typo in the sample update-hook

Matt McCutchen (1):
Documentation/git-clean.txt: don't mention deletion of .git/modules/*

Matthew Kraai (1):
Documentation: remove unnecessary backslashes

Matthieu Moy (8):
Documentation/git-push: document that 'simple' is the default
README: use markdown syntax
README.md: add hyperlinks on filenames
README.md: move the link to git-scm.com up
README.md: don't call git stupid in the title
README.md: move down historical explanation about the name
push: remove "push.default is unset" warning message
Documentation: fix broken linkgit to git-config

Michael J Gruber (5):
t9100: fix breakage when SHELL_PATH is not /bin/sh
tests: rename work-tree tests to *work-tree*
t/lib-httpd: load mod_unixd
t5510: do not leave changed cwd
wt-status: allow "ahead " to be picked up by l10n

Mike Hommey (1):
notes: allow treeish expressions as notes ref

Nguyán ThÃi Ngác Duy (25):
blame: remove obsolete comment
add and use a convenience macro ce_intent_to_add()
Revert "setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like $GIT_DIR"
git.c: make it clear save_env() is for alias handling only
setup.c: re-fix d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when ..
git.c: make sure we do not leak GIT_* to alias scripts
grep: make it clear i-t-a entries are ignored
dir.c: clean the entire struct in clear_exclude_list()
Revert "dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely if neg pattern may match"
worktree.c: fix indentation
diff-no-index: do not take a redundant prefix argument
diff: make -O and --output work in subdirectory
worktree: stop supporting moving worktrees manually
rev-parse: take prefix into account in --git-common-dir
dir.c: fix match_pathname()
dir.c: support tracing exclude
dir.c: support marking some patterns already matched
dir.c: don't exclude whole dir prematurely
worktree: fix "add -B"
worktree add -B: do the checkout test before update branch
sha1_file.c: mark strings for translation
builtin/checkout.c: mark strings for translation
builtin/clone.c: mark strings for translation
ref-filter.c: mark strings for translation
trailer.c: mark strings for translation

Pat Thoyts (1):
t0008: avoid absolute path

Patrick Steinhardt (18):
push: add '--delete' flag to synopsis
push: add '-d' as shorthand for '--delete'
config: introduce set_or_die wrappers
branch: report errors in tracking branch setup
branch: die on config error when unsetting upstream
branch: die on config error when editing branch description
submodule: die on config error when linking modules
submodule--helper: die on config error when cloning module
remote: die on config error when setting URL
remote: die on config error when setting/adding branches
remote: die on config error when manipulating remotes
clone: die on config error in cmd_clone
init-db: die on config errors when initializing empty repo
sequencer: die on config error when saving replay opts
compat: die when unable to set core.precomposeunicode
config: rename git_config_set to git_config_set_gently
config: rename git_config_set_or_die to git_config_set
xdiff/xmerge: fix memory leak in xdl_merge

Paul Wagland (2):
completion: complete show-branch "--date-order"
completion: update completion arguments for stash

Peter Krefting (3):
l10n: sv.po: Fix inconsistent translation of "progress meter"
l10n: sv.po: Update Swedish translation (2509t0f0u)
l10n: sv.po: Update Swedish translation (2530t0f0u)

Ralf Thielow (8):
l10n: TEAMS: update Ralf Thielow's email address
l10n: de.po: add space to abbreviation "z. B."
l10n: de.po: fix interactive rebase message
l10n: de.po: translate "command" as "Befehl"
l10n: de.po: translate 48 new messages
l10n: de.po: translate 22 new messages
l10n: de.po: add missing newlines
gitk: Update German translation

Ray Chen (1):
l10n: zh_CN: review for git v2.8.0 l10n round 2

Rob Mayoff (1):
contrib/subtree: unwrap tag refs

Romain Picard (1):
git-p4.py: add support for filetype change

SZEDER GÃbor (2):
t6050-replace: make failing editor test more robust
completion: fix mis-indentation in _git_stash()

Sebastian Schuberth (3):
docs: clarify that passing --depth to git-clone implies --single-branch
docs: say "commits" in the --depth option wording for git-clone
docs: clarify that --depth for git-fetch works with newly initialized repos

Shawn O. Pearce (1):
remote-curl: include curl_errorstr on SSL setup failures

Stefan Beller (10):
xread: poll on non blocking fds
strbuf: add strbuf_read_once to read without blocking
sigchain: add command to pop all common signals
run-command: add an asynchronous parallel child processor
fetch_populated_submodules: use new parallel job processing
submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentation
submodule helper list: respect correct path prefix
submodule: try harder to fetch needed sha1 by direct fetching sha1
run-command: do not pass child process data into callbacks
Documentation: reword rebase summary

Stephen P. Smith (4):
user-manual: remove temporary branch entry from todo list
glossary: define the term shallow clone
user-manual: add section documenting shallow clones
user-manual: add addition gitweb information

Thomas Ackermann (1):
documentation: fix some typos

Thomas Braun (1):
completion: complete "diff --word-diff-regex="

Thomas Gummerer (11):
t7810: correct --no-index test
builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config
ls-remote: document --quiet option
ls-remote: document --refs option
ls-remote: fix synopsis
ls-remote: use parse-options api
ls-remote: add support for showing symrefs
remote: use parse_config_key
remote: simplify remote_is_configured()
remote: actually check if remote exits
remote: use remote_is_configured() for add and rename

Tobias Klauser (2):
trailer: allow to write to files other than stdout
interpret-trailers: add option for in-place editing

Torsten BÃgershausen (9):
ls-files: add eol diagnostics
t0027: add tests for get_stream_filter()
convert.c: remove unused parameter 'path'
convert.c: remove input_crlf_action()
convert.c: use text_eol_is_crlf()
convert.c: refactor crlf_action
convert.c: simplify text_stat
convert.c: correct attr_action()
config.mak.uname: use clang for Mac OS X 10.6

Trán Ngác QuÃn (1):
l10n: vi.po (2509t): Updated Vietnamese translation

Victor Leschuk (4):
grep: allow threading even on a single-core machine
grep: slight refactoring to the code that disables threading
grep: add --threads=<num> option and grep.threads configuration
git-svn: loosen config globs limitations

Will Palmer (2):
test for '!' handling in rev-parse's named commits
object name: introduce '^{/!-<negative pattern>}' notation

brian m. carlson (1):
http: add option to try authentication without username

Ãyvind A. Holm (1):
gitweb: squelch "uninitialized value" warning

ëëì (1):
mingw: try to delete target directory before renaming