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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index 31f7b0ed03..9b5c417b0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -136,6 +136,38 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been optimized. + * Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection + library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of + our source tree. + + * Code around "notes" have been cleaned up. + (merge 3964281524 mh/notes-cleanup later to maint). + + * The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it + is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and + tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming + errors. + + * Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when + adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add + an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around. + + * Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic + storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply + exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid + reporting false positives. Plug many existing leaks and introduce + a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory + pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools. + + * As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the + commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that + cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't. + + * The codepath for "git merge-recursive" has been cleaned up. + + * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -245,9 +277,35 @@ Fixes since v2.14 was in use. This has been fixed. (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint). + * "git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a + single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs + of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making + objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to + garbage collection. + + * A regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update has been fixed. + (merge 1d0538e486 mh/packed-ref-store-prep later to maint). + + * "git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the + "--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line. + This has been corrected. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + (merge c818e74332 rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint). (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint). (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint). (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint). + (merge 74f1bd912b dw/diff-highlight-makefile-fix later to maint). + (merge f991761eb8 jk/config-lockfile-leak-fix later to maint). + (merge 150efef1e7 ma/pkt-line-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 5554451de6 mg/timestamp-t-fix later to maint). + (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). + (merge 3bc4b8f7c7 bb/doc-eol-dirty later to maint). + (merge c1bb33c99c jk/system-path-cleanup later to maint). |