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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt | 34 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt index b102837bb0..3b2f62817b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -79,12 +79,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would - invoke interatively. + invoke interactively. + + * The index file can be taught with "update-index --untracked-cache" + to optionally remember already seen untracked files, in order to + speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - * "unsigned char [20]" used thoughout the code to represent object + * "unsigned char [20]" used throughout the code to represent object names are being converted into a semi-opaque "struct object_id". This effort is expected to interfere with other topics in flight, but hopefully will give us one extra level of abstraction in the @@ -180,9 +184,9 @@ notes for details). * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git() call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history - with LF line ending to make their project portabile across - platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with - CRLF for their platform. + with LF line ending to make their project portable across platforms + while terminating lines in their working tree files with CRLF for + their platform. (merge 4bf256d tb/blame-resurrect-convert-to-git later to maint). * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the @@ -208,7 +212,7 @@ notes for details). (merge 27547e5 cn/bom-in-gitignore later to maint). * a few helper scripts in the test suite did not report errors - correcty. + correctly. (merge de248e9 ep/fix-test-lib-functions-report later to maint). * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" @@ -308,6 +312,24 @@ notes for details). (merge ad3967a jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix later to maint). (merge 975e382 ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix later to maint). + * The code to read pack-bitmap wanted to allocate a few hundred + pointers to a structure, but by mistake allocated and leaked memory + enough to hold that many actual structures. Correct the allocation + size and also have it on stack, as it is small enough. + (merge 599dc76 rs/plug-leak-in-pack-bitmaps later to maint). + + * The pull.ff configuration was supposed to override the merge.ff + configuration, but it didn't. + (merge db9bb28 pt/pull-ff-vs-merge-ff later to maint). + + * "git pull --log" and "git pull --no-log" worked as expected, but + "git pull --log=20" did not. + (merge 5061a44 pt/pull-log-n later to maint). + + * "git rerere forget" in a repository without rerere enabled gave a + cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead. + (merge 0544574 jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled 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). |