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-Git 2.14 Release Notes
-======================
-
-Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
-
- * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
-   'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
-   more explicit '.' for that instead.  The hope is that existing
-   users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
-   turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
-   this (mis)feature.  That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
-   release (yet).
-
- * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
-   sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository.  A corner case that
-   happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
-   We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
-   might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
-   greatly appreciated.
-
- * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual
-   diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now
-   become the default.
-
- * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
-   library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
-   in existing build scripts to build against the new version.  As the
-   upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
-   the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
-
-
-Updates since v2.13
--------------------
-
-UI, Workflows & Features
-
- * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
-   of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
-   configurable.
-
- * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags
-   initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
-   subsequent fetches.
-
- * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
-   necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
-
- * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
-
- * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
-
- * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
-   to pack-objects.
-
- * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
-   and reject a message before sending it out.
-
- * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
-   when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
-   even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
-
- * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in
-   2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,
-   and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in
-   "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work".
-   Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would
-   show. The include will happen if either one matches.
-
- * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The
-   diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"
-   for those who do not want it.
-
- * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
-   configuration.
-
- * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
-   --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
-   disambiguator and then finally pathspecs.  When "--" is not there,
-   we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
-   look like paths) and later ones are the other way around.  A
-   pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
-   the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
-   are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
-   required disambiguation more often.  The command line parser
-   learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
-   looks like so.
-
- * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
-   and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
-
- * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used
-   to define common functions/variables that can be used by other
-   filters.
-
- * Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
-   a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
-   would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others.  We
-   learned to give warnings when this happens.
-
- * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there
-   are in its output.
-
- * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
-   commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
-   i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users.
-   Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status
-   (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
-   line with the focus of "git commit").
-
- * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options
-    which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that
-    restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.
-
- * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it
-   has outlived its usefulness.
-
- * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the
-   branch in the submodules to an updated base.
-
- * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep"
-   already had such a synonym.
-
- * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with
-   --perl-regexp. This has been fixed.
-
-Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
-
- * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger
-   platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while
-   "gc" is running in parallel.
-
- * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
-   accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
-
- * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
-   remove the temporary directory used during the test.
-
- * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both
-   AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.
-
- * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
-   historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
-   represent some timestamp that the platform allows.  Invent a
-   separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distinguish
-   timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
-   move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
-   timestamp_t.
-
- * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho &
-   Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now.
-
- * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
-
- * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
-   default in-core index.
-
- * Add perf-test for wildmatch.
-
- * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
-   extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
-
- * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
-   index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
-   discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case
-   that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the
-   main index.  The untracked cache extension is copied across these
-   operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the
-   cache is properly invalidated).
-
- * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
-
- * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
-   recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
-   multi-line comments.
-
- * The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" have been
-   cleaned up, in preparation for further changes.
-
- * The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it
-   easier to use by cgit.
-
- * Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its
-   contents when we can successfully open it.  We can ignore a failure
-   to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to
-   report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O
-   error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open).
-
-   The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and
-   ENOTDIR (less obvious).  Instead of repeating comparison of errno
-   with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so.
-
- * We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is
-   optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
-   errors if they are not due to missing files.
-
- * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
-   create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
-   the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
-   which then may cause Git operations to fail.  Single out "the index
-   being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
-
- * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
-   to one.
-
- * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
-   with other parts of the system.
-
- * A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
-   (which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added.  The
-   pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
-   with "wildmatch".
-
- * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured
-   for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'.
-
- * A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
-   pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
-   FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
-
- * Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it
-   from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a
-   threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may
-   be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may
-   end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful).
-
- * Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to
-   work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with
-   the superproject and its submodules) in a single process.
-
- * Optimize "what are the object names already taken in an alternate
-   object database?" query that is used to derive the length of prefix
-   an object name is uniquely abbreviated to.
-
- * The hashmap API has been updated so that data to customize the
-   behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a
-   hashmap is initialized.
-
- * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is
-   now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to
-   ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get
-   it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped
-   as part of the tree.
-
- * A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while
-   compiling but supported only one sanitize option.  Allow more than
-   one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar".
-
- * Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly
-   to parse.
-
- * We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and friends, as
-   a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not
-   play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot"
-   that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot
-   file.  This is a possible workaround for that problem.
-
- * It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that
-   returns failure when a directory is opened for reading.
-
-Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
-
-
-Fixes since v2.13
------------------
-
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance
-track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
-notes for details).
-
- * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed
-   per-worktree refs.
-
- * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery
-   mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.
-   This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added
-   after completing the existing incomplete line.
-
- * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"
-   leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.
-
- * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the
-   per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did
-   not work well when val is an empty string.  This has been fixed.
-
- * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take
-   effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.
-
- * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch
-   tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory.
-
- * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though
-   the articles are still accessible via NTTP.  Replace the links with
-   ones to public-inbox.org.  Because their message identification is
-   based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier
-   to migrate away from it if/when necessary.
-
- * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate
-   records the same set of push options used for pushing.
-
- * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism
-   to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are
-   not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them.
-
- * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
-   submodule that itself has submodules.
-
- * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
-   the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
-   in the output, without inspecting individual objects.  This
-   strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
-   options are in use, and need to be disabled.
-
- * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
-
- * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
-   --empty if you want to clear the index".  With "-m", such a request
-   will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
-   to be merged.
-
- * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
-   with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
-   Windows.  Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
-   themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
-   checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
-
- * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ...").
-
- * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
-   configuration variables.
-
- * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
-   not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
-   speakers.  Attempt to rephrase them.
-
- * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
-   documentation have been updated to https:// links.
-
- * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to
-   resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,
-   which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.
-
- * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'.
-
- * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
-   a new "push" subcommand.
-
- * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit
-   -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,
-   i.e. at the end of the "diff" output.  The command has been
-   corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to
-   the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.
-
- * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other
-   end write their traces into the same file.  This is OK on platforms
-   that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND,
-   but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing
-   intermittent test failures.  This has been fixed by disabling
-   traces from "receive-pack" in the test.
-
- * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
-   missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
-   should silently be ignored instead)
-
- * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that
-   they were almost never considered.  Instead, give them about the
-   same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same
-   age as the underlying commit would.
-
- * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust
-   against dead-locking in a threaded environment.
-
- * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the
-   tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or
-   unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server.  Non HTTP
-   tests have been salvaged to always run in this script.
-
- * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only
-   when needed.  Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively.
-
- * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no
-   slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as
-   that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem.
-
- * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,
-   even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".
-   "git status --ignored"  did not list ignored and untracked files
-   without "-uall".  These have been corrected.
-
- * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff
-   $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full
-   object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to
-   use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes.
-
- * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13
-   was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that
-   do not like unaligned fetches.  Update to the upstream code which
-   has already fixed these issues.
-
- * "git am -h" triggered a BUG().
-
- * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's
-   whitelisting is now documented better.
-
- * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is
-   closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by
-   fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written
-   but not yet closed.
-
- * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history
-   fast-forwards to the upstream.
-
- * A flaky test has been corrected.
-
- * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
-   command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
-   set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
-   potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
-   (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint).
-
- * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub.
-
- * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all.
-   Bugfix for a topic in v2.13
-
- * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to
-   strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are
-   impossible to produce.  Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z
-   and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
-   (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
-
- * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds
-   around underlying meld.
-
- * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
-   configuration has been corrected.
-
- * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an
-   optimization that no longer works correctly.  In preparation/hope
-   of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization
-   that is broken.
-
- * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
-   configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
-   then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
-   unnecessarily complex.  Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
-   early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.
-
- * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
-   that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
-   into its own header file.
-   (merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint).
-
- * "git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom
-   core.commentchar but the implementation was buggy and a
-   metacharacter like $ and * did not work.
-
- * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests
-   that would have caught it and others have been added.
-
- * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected.
-
- * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.
-
- * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting
-   correctly.
-
- * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation
-   learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation
-   set does.
-
- * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading.
-
- * A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates
-   did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in
-   the certificate correctly.
-
- * Update the character width tables.
-
- * After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the
-   code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends
-   incorrectly stopped at the reflog entry that records the renaming
-   of the branch.
-
- * The rewrite of "git branch --list" using for-each-ref's internals
-   that happened in v2.13 regressed its handling of color.branch.local;
-   this has been fixed.
-
- * The build procedure has been improved to allow building and testing
-   Git with address sanitizer more easily.
-   (merge 425ca6710b jk/build-with-asan later to maint).
-
- * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
-   ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
-   locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
-   slashes at the beginning.
-
- * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had
-   0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval.  Instead
-   show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more
-   useful number.
-
- * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.
-
- * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before
-   daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background
-   auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the
-   early part at the same time.  This is now prevented by running the
-   early part also under the GC lock.
-
- * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter.
-
- * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
-   (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).
-   (merge 42c78a216e rs/use-div-round-up later to maint).
-   (merge 5e8d2729ae rs/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
-   (merge bc9b7e207f as/diff-options-grammofix later to maint).
-   (merge ac05222b31 ah/patch-id-doc later to maint).