1111
1212 * The support to build with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected.
1313
14+ * Compilation options has been updated a bit to support z/OS port
15+ better.
16+
1417
1518UI, Workflows & Features
1619
@@ -33,10 +36,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
3336 to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log
3437 messages with bland and simple strings to help them.
3538
39+ * "git difftool" learned an option to stop feeding paths to the
40+ diff backend when it exits with a non-zero status.
41+
3642 * "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is
3743 made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives
3844 datetime output that is more strictly conformant.
3945
46+ * The logic "git prune" uses is more resilient against various corner
47+ cases.
48+
4049 * A broken reimplementation of Git could write an invalid index that
4150 records both stage #0 and higher stage entries for the same path.
4251 We now notice and reject such an index, as there is no sensible
@@ -53,6 +62,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5362 creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
5463 setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
5564
65+ * "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of
66+ BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it
67+ feels awkward to say "--tool bc3".
68+
5669 * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
5770 to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
5871 to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
@@ -150,6 +163,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
150163 array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to
151164 allocate and deallocate them.
152165
166+ * Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our
167+ documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as
168+ AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up.
169+
153170
154171Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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