@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Updates since v2.6
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77UI, Workflows & Features
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9+ * The appearance of "gitk", particularly on high DPI monitors, have
10+ been improved. "gitk" also comes with an undated translation for
11+ Swedish and Japanese.
12+
913 * "git remote" learned "get-url" subcommand to show the URL for a
1014 given remote name used for fetching and pushing.
1115
@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
2226
2327 * Users who are too busy to type three extra keystrokes to ask for
2428 "git stash show -p" can now set stash.showPatch configuration
25- varible to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list
29+ variable to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list
2630 of paths affected with feel for the extent of damage via diffstat.
2731
2832 * "quiltimport" allows to specify the series file by honoring the
@@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
6569 a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
6670 usual "--[no-]progress".
6771
68- * The semantics of tranfer .hideRefs configuration variable have been
72+ * The semantics of transfer .hideRefs configuration variable have been
6973 extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets
7074 you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical
7175 repository and virtually serve them as separate ones.
@@ -79,6 +83,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
7983 * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work
8084 around issue when running Git from inside emacs.
8185
86+ * "git push" learned new configuration for doing "--recurse-submodules"
87+ on each push.
88+
89+ * "format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit
90+ object name on the mbox "From " line.
91+
8292
8393Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -370,4 +380,21 @@ notes for details).
370380 them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a
371381 backward compatibility knob.
372382
383+ * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column"
384+ (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices
385+ (merge 160fcdb sg/completion-no-column later to maint).
386+
387+ * The error reporting from "git send-email", when SMTP TLS fails, has
388+ been improved.
389+ (merge 9d60524 jk/send-email-ssl-errors later to maint).
390+
391+ * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not
392+ in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the
393+ codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed
394+ and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts
395+ questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is
396+ obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function
397+ in non-strict mode.
398+ (merge 92bcbb9 jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid later to maint).
399+
373400 * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
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