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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt | 58 |
1 files changed, 45 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index c617e37dd8..431bd5e34a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. - (merge 049e64aa50 bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc later to maint). * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other operations that need to see which paths have been modified. @@ -90,6 +89,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if exists, that immediately precedes it. + * "git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from + the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int" + would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts. + + * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take + the "--autostash" option. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -130,6 +136,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index read from the filesystem at runtime. + * The build procedure has been taught to avoid some unnecessary + instability in the build products. + + * A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed + and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git + without harming them. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -206,7 +219,6 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been optimized again for most trivial cases. - (merge 7c6bd25c7d mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs later to maint). * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have been fixed. @@ -226,39 +238,31 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as it was clear what it computed but not why/what for. - (merge 6d1700b8af jc/merge-base-fork-point-doc later to maint). * A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected their error output. These have been corrected. - (merge eadf1c8f45 tz/redirect-fix later to maint). * "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, which was corrected. - (merge 89b9e31dd5 tz/notes-error-to-stderr later to maint). * The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been fixed (or "papered over"). - (merge c641ca6707 sb/test-cherry-pick-submodule-getting-in-a-way later to maint). * The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed. - (merge bd58886775 pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index later to maint). * "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change" triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed. - (merge 4855de1233 rs/apply-inaccurate-eof-with-incomplete-line later to maint). * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the "--copy" option of "git branch". - (merge 41ca0f773e tz/complete-branch-copy later to maint). * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has been corrected. - (merge ae3b2b04bb ew/rebase-mboxrd later to maint). * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. @@ -266,12 +270,40 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command; they have been corrected. - (merge 82cb775c06 ks/rebase-no-git-foo later to maint). * Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been corrected. - (merge ffb4568afe sw/pull-ipv46-passthru later to maint). + + * "git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of + the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule + repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but + still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case. + (merge 57f22bf997 sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head later to maint). + + * "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of) + removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days. + The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its + synopsys section, which has been corrected. + (merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint). + + * Internaly we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the + codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check + while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know + there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating + it anew" by passing 0{40} for the 'old' side), and expect that a + codepath to locate an in-core object to return NULL as a sign that + the object does not exist. A look-up for an object that does not + exist however is quite costly with a repository with large number + of packfiles. This access pattern has been optimized. + (merge 87b5e236a1 jk/fewer-pack-rescan later to maint). + + * In addition to "git stash -m message", the command learned to + accept "git stash -mmessage" form. + (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge c5e3bc6ec4 sd/branch-copy later to maint). + (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint). + (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint). + (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint). + (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint). |