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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index 6facf57af8..0a8b3ea601 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session. + * "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author + names. + + * "git rebase -x" can be used without passing "-i" option. + + * "git -c credential.<var>=<value> submodule" can now be used to + propagate configuration variables related to credential helper + down to the submodules. + + * "git tag" can create an annotated tag without explicitly given an + "-a" (or "-s") option (i.e. when a tag message is given). A new + configuration variable, tag.forceSignAnnotated, can be used to tell + the command to create signed tag in such a situation. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -35,7 +49,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG. - (merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint). * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git @@ -43,6 +56,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. references when we are not in a repository. (merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint). + * The command line argument parser for "receive-pack" has been + rewritten to use parse-options. + + * A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take + advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in + parallel. + + * Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization. + (merge 8fbb03a sb/clone-t57-t56 later to maint). + + * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide + configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment. + (merge 1fad503 jk/test-httpd-config-nosystem later to maint). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -79,6 +106,28 @@ notes for details). corner cases in its error codepath. (merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint). + * "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides + deleted. + (merge a298604 da/mergetool-delete-delete-conflict later to maint). + + * "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format + when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them. + (merge a277d1e jk/send-email-rtrim-mailrc-alias later to maint). + + * When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding + "git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log + messages from all the squashed commits. + (merge b64c1e0 ss/commit-squash-msg later to maint). + + * "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging + nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage, + which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). + (merge b84e65d jv/merge-nothing-into-void later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint). (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint). + (merge f870899 ss/exc-flag-is-a-collection-of-bits later to maint). + (merge dde7891 pb/t7502-drop-dup later to maint). + (merge 3bd1b51 cc/doc-recommend-performance-trace-to-file later to maint). + (merge 7d5e9c9 jk/credential-cache-comment-exit later to maint). @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.1.txt
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