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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt index 257f1e7d29..a71615a6b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse configuration. + * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname + --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--" + disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there, + we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not + look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A + pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from + the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you + are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which + required disambiguation more often. The command line parser + learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax + looks like so. + (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint). + + * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT + and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -146,6 +162,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such errors if they are not due to missing files. + * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first + create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of + the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing, + which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index + being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -309,5 +331,12 @@ notes for details). * A flaky test has been corrected. (merge 7c2115aa07 jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint). + * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the + command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository + set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git + potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing. + (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint). + (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint). |