git-2.20.0

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Git 2.20 Release Notes

Backward Compatibility Notes

• "git branch -l <foo>" used to be a way to ask a reflog to be created while creating a new branch, but that is no longer the case. It is a short-hand for "git branch --list <foo>" now.

• "git push" into refs/tags/* hierarchy is rejected without getting forced, but "git fetch" (misguidedly) used the "fast forwarding" rule used for the refs/heads/* hierarchy; this has been corrected, which means some fetches of tags that did not fail with older version of Git will fail without "--force" with this version.

• "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av"). Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..

• "git cpn --help", when "cpn" is an alias to, say, "cherry-pick -n", reported only the alias expansion of "cpn" in earlier versions of Git. It now runs "git cherry-pick --help" to show the manual page of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard error stream.

• "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 20793.