- Using dashed forms of git commands (e.g. "git-commit") from the

command line has been informally deprecated since early 2006, but

now it officially is, and will be removed in the future. Use

- Using dashed forms from your scripts, without first prepending the

return value from "git --exec-path" to the scripts' PATH, has been

command line in the generated log message, when told to cherry-pick a

commit by naming a tag that points at it. It does not anymore.

various date fields in different formats.

* "git gc --auto" is a low-impact way to automatically run a variant of

* "git pull --rebase" is a different way to integrate what you fetched

into your current branch.

to reproduce the history recorded in a git repository.

* "git add -i" takes pathspecs to limit the set of files to work on.

* "git help" learned "-w" option to show documentation in browsers.

- many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,

brought from the msysgit effort.

* The way "git diff --check" behaves is much more consistent with the way

"git apply --whitespace=warn" works.

and project names.

* "git config" did not work correctly on platforms that define

documentation; a workaround has been implemented.

* "git diff --color-words" colored context lines in a wrong color.