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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 5d953134aa..b9bef7d3c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in your workflow. + * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in + place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -62,7 +65,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has been updated to share more code with the code that deals with normal references. - (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint). + + * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier + to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should + allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to + help users on DOSsy systems. + + * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information + regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It + has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected + (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing + only the number of changes). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -138,6 +152,15 @@ notes for details). now close the packs before doing so. (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). + * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a + regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been + corrected. + (merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint). + + * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has + been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. + (merge 719c3da jk/sanity later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). |