@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3333 * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is
3434 questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme.
3535
36+ * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to
37+ be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the
38+ concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git".
39+ All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small
40+ caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided.
41+
3642 * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read
3743 mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these
3844 tools in server settings.
@@ -273,6 +279,10 @@ details).
273279 try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed.
274280 (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint).
275281
282+ * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output,
283+ killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history.
284+ (merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint).
285+
276286 * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
277287 GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
278288
@@ -285,6 +295,10 @@ details).
285295 * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
286296 created new refs had a nasty race.
287297
298+ * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule
299+ has been broken since v1.7.12.
300+ (merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint).
301+
288302 * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
289303 index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
290304
@@ -303,6 +317,10 @@ details).
303317 commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
304318 status of the hook.
305319
320+ * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch
321+ dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message.
322+ (merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint).
323+
306324 * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
307325 trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
308326 there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
@@ -342,6 +360,12 @@ details).
342360 * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
343361 "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
344362
363+ * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy
364+ versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which
365+ unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient
366+ distros.
367+ (merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint).
368+
345369 * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
346370 old version of the tutorial; removed.
347371
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