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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-04-23 22:08:33 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-04-23 22:34:04 -0700
commite2cb6ab84c94f147f1259260961513b40c36108a (patch)
tree19f812f4fafdf7a0d76072bf2068c71d5f01ba2f /Documentation/RelNotes
parentMerge branch 'dt/xgethostname-nul-termination' (diff)
downloadtgif-e2cb6ab84c94f147f1259260961513b40c36108a.tar.xz
Getting ready for -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt54
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
index ba19a3bcf1..b757fd119c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is
checked out.
+ * Allow the http.postbuffer configuration variable to be set to a
+ size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than
+ ulong on some platforms.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -242,8 +246,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
possible.
- * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
-
* "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track
of the state of object reachability without clearing them after
use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
@@ -278,13 +280,28 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Define a new task in .travis.yml that triggers a test session on
Windows run elsewhere.
- * Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues.
+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is
replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also
when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible
from the other worktrees.
+ * The string-list API used a custom reallocation strategy that was
+ very inefficient, instead of using the usual ALLOC_GROW() macro,
+ which has been fixed.
+ (merge 950a234cbd jh/string-list-micro-optim later to maint).
+
+ * In a 2- and 3-way merge of trees, more than one source trees often
+ end up sharing an identical subtree; optimize by not reading the
+ same tree multiple times in such a case.
+ (merge d12a8cf0af jh/unpack-trees-micro-optim later to maint).
+
+ * The index file has a trailing SHA-1 checksum to detect file
+ corruption, and historically we checked it every time the index
+ file is used. Omit the validation during normal use, and instead
+ verify only in "git fsck".
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -492,6 +509,32 @@ notes for details).
checked out; it should use "symbolic-ref HEAD".
(merge eff451101d ld/p4-current-branch-fix later to maint).
+ * "http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of
+ proxy. We broke this early last year.
+ (merge ae51d91105 sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix later to maint).
+
+ * $GIT_DIR may in some cases be normalized with all symlinks resolved
+ while "gitdir" path expansion in the pattern does not receive the
+ same treatment, leading to incorrect mismatch. This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git submodule" script does not work well with strange pathnames.
+ Protect it from a path with slashes in them, at least.
+
+ * "git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the
+ upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message. It
+ showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data
+ loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message.
+ (merge 8e2c7bef03 jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * "ls-files --recurse-submodules" did not quite work well in a
+ project with nested submodules.
+
+ * gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does
+ not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer
+ was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up
+ using garbage past the end of the buffer.
+ (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint).
(merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint).
@@ -509,3 +552,8 @@ notes for details).
(merge 35ad44cbd8 sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
(merge 0301f1fd92 va/i18n-perl-scripts later to maint).
(merge 733e064d98 vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log later to maint).
+ (merge 85999743e7 tb/doc-eol-normalization later to maint).
+ (merge 0747fb49fd jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).
+ (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint).
+ (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint).
+ (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint).