7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
10 location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is
11 $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)".
14 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
16 * "git bisect" spawned "git show-branch" only to pretty-print the
17 title of the commit after checking out the next version to be
18 tested; this has been rewritten in C.
20 * "git add" can work better with the sparse index.
22 * Support for ancient versions of cURL library (pre 7.19.4) has been
25 * A handful of tests that assumed implementation details of files
26 backend for refs have been cleaned up.
28 * trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what
29 context Git was invoked.
31 * Loading of ref tips to prepare for common ancestry negotiation in
32 "git fetch-pack" has been optimized by taking advantage of the
33 commit graph when available.
39 * Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
41 (merge 561fa03529 ab/pack-stdin-packs-fix later to maint).
43 * Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
45 (merge 82823118b9 jt/push-negotiation-fixes later to maint).
47 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
48 (merge 1d9c8daef8 ab/bundle-doc later to maint).