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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f1dd8c8626 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Git 2.16 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is now an error. + + +Updates since v2.15 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" + i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first + deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in + 2.11 (Nov 2016). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * An earlier update made it possible to use an on-stack in-core + lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an + on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage + of this new facility. + (merge b74c90fb41 ma/lockfile-fixes later to maint). + + * Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is + a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example. + (merge a92b1095d1 jc/no-cmd-as-subroutine later to maint). + + * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that + does not support "local" like bash/dash does. + (merge 01d3a526ad mh/test-local-canary later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch + has been corrected. + (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. + (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. + (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint). @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt
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