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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 3f2909498f..c617e37dd8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -77,6 +77,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other "convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data. + * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating + a branch whose name is "HEAD". + + * "git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by + default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled + by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a + recent change to "git tag --list". + + * "git grep -W", "git diff -W" and their friends learned a heuristic + to extend a pre-context beyond the line that matches the "function + pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if + exists, that immediately precedes it. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -249,7 +262,6 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. - (merge 782c030ea2 rs/config-write-section-fix later to maint). * Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command; |