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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index 5c2348db6c..0d4a3ef931 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -90,6 +90,29 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath. + * The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few + configuration variables to make it easier to use. + + * From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse" + lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another + project, and where the root level of the working tree of that + project (i.e. your superproject) is. + + * The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that + match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached + via the gitattributes mechanism. + + * Our source code has used the SHA1_HEADER cpp macro after "#include" + in the C code to switch among the SHA-1 implementations. Instead, + list the exact header file names and switch among implementations + using "#ifdef BLK_SHA1/#include "block-sha1/sha1.h"/.../#endif"; + this helps some IDE tools. + + * The start-up sequence of "git" needs to figure out some configured + settings before it finds and set itself up in the location of the + repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature. + The code has been restructured. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -134,11 +157,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. against a server that does not authenticate without a username (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth pointless). - (merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint). * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1 routines, so let them. - (merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint). * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not @@ -147,13 +168,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with Travis CI. - (merge 88dedd5e72 js/travis-32bit-linux later to maint). * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose) output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before the breakage reaches to any released version. + * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the + older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become + possible. + (merge bd4d9d993c jk/interop-test later to maint). + + * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. + + * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track + of the state of object reachability without clearing them after + use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab + facility. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -227,19 +259,16 @@ notes for details). * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message. - (merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint). * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p" directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been fixed. - (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint). * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault. - (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint). * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the standard error stream, but we somehow did. @@ -248,11 +277,9 @@ notes for details). * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer has been fixed. - (merge aaae0bf787 ax/line-log-range-merge-fix later to maint). * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems. - (merge 07f546cda5 vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix later to maint). * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function @@ -289,9 +316,27 @@ notes for details). when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint). + * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates + response, which has been fixed. + (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint). + + * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a + list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git + ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see + which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec + language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are + equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This + helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on + some platforms. + (merge 7288e12cce jk/add-i-use-pathspecs later to maint). + + * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a + few strings were left as translatable by mistake. + (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint). (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint). (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint). (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint). (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint). + (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint). |