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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt | 46 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 |
2 files changed, 45 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt index 3100b268a0..b516335f68 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other. - Consider this as still an experimental feature; the UI will likely - to change. + Consider this as still an experimental feature; its UI is still + likely to change. * Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor XDG configuration file locations when specified. @@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. underlying "git fetch" and then learned to use parse-options parser. + * Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -487,6 +489,45 @@ notes for details). * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count". (merge c8a70d3 jk/rev-list-no-bitmap-while-pruning later to maint). + * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the + underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still + open. + (merge 7a64592 kb/config-unmap-before-renaming later to maint). + + * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation. + (merge 6c8afe4 mh/strbuf-read-file-returns-ssize-t later to maint). + + * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse + yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took + control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but + that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked + GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local + communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was + spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many + "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints + its output in color by default. + + Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the + fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager. + (merge 124b519 jc/unexport-git-pager-in-use-in-pager later to maint). + + * Abandoning an already applied change in "git rebase -i" with + "--continue" left CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and confused later steps. + (merge 0e0aff4 js/rebase-i-clean-up-upon-continue-to-skip later to maint). + + * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method + available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to + talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to + always use the most secure authentication method, because the user + can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable + without using configuration variables. + (merge 5841520 et/http-proxyauth later to maint). + + * A fix to a minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era that started + complaining about a body-less tag object when it lacks a separator + empty line after its header to separate it with a non-existent body. + (merge 84d18c0 jc/fsck-retire-require-eoh later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint). (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint). @@ -521,3 +562,4 @@ notes for details). (merge 5330e6e sb/p5310-and-chain later to maint). (merge c4ac525 tb/checkout-doc later to maint). (merge e479c5f jk/pretty-encoding-doc later to maint). + (merge 7e837c6 ss/clone-guess-dir-name-simplify later to maint). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index b34941cfd8..8ffa336dc3 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v2.5.0-rc1 +DEF_VER=v2.5.0-rc2 LF=' ' |