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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt32
-rwxr-xr-xGIT-VERSION-GEN2
2 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
index 085bf1dba1..d6db0e19cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Funcname pattern used for C# now recognizes "async" keyword.
+ * In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager
+ setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the
+ pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the
+ purpose of the operation is not to "show").
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -154,6 +159,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Various pieces of Perl code we have have been cleaned up.
+ * Internal API clean-up to allow write_locked_index() optionally skip
+ writing the in-core index when it is not modified.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -326,6 +334,24 @@ Fixes since v2.16
* Allow running a couple of tests with "sh -x".
(merge c20bf94abc sg/cvs-tests-with-x later to maint).
+ * The codepath to replace an existing entry in the index had a bug in
+ updating the name hash structure, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 0e267b7a24 bp/refresh-cache-ent-rehash-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The transfer.fsckobjects configuration tells "git fetch" to
+ validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
+ pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
+ narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
+ from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
+
+ * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
+ building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge b8fd6008ec rj/http-code-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Shell script portability fix.
+ (merge 206a6ae013 ml/filter-branch-portability-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint).
(merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -364,3 +390,9 @@ Fixes since v2.16
(merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint).
(merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint).
(merge 2caa7b8d27 ab/man-sec-list later to maint).
+ (merge 40c17eb184 ks/t3200-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge bd9958c358 dp/merge-strategy-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9ee0540a40 js/ming-strftime later to maint).
+ (merge 1775e990f7 tz/complete-tag-delete-tagname later to maint).
+ (merge 00a4b03501 rj/warning-uninitialized-fix later to maint).
+ (merge b635ed97a0 jk/attributes-path-doc later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 067e9e7f44..b4fb7d9a39 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.17.0-rc0
+DEF_VER=v2.17.0-rc1
LF='
'