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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index 856796f979..7001dbbf88 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -54,13 +54,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to mitigate the problem. + * "git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation + between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be + disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option. + + * "git diff" and friends learned funcname patterns for Go language + source files. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * More perf tests for threaded grep * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server. - (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint). * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. @@ -87,13 +93,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment variables as well. - (merge 090a09272a nd/trace-with-env later to maint). * Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str) - (merge cd9a4b6d93 rs/strbuf-cocci-workaround later to maint). * Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type. - (merge a3715d43e8 po/clang-format-functype-weight later to maint). * The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick", "git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it @@ -107,7 +110,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Avoid mmapping small files while using packed refs (especially ones with zero size, which would cause later munmap() to fail). - (merge ba41a8b600 kg/packed-ref-cache-fix later to maint). * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. @@ -122,6 +124,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our codebase. + * The executable is now built in 'script' phase in Travis CI integration, + to follow the established practice, rather than during 'before_script' + phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures better ('failed' + is project's fault, 'errored' is build environment's). + (merge 3c93b82920 sg/travis-build-during-script-phase later to maint). + + * Writing out the index file when the only thing that changed in it + is the untracked cache information is often wasteful, and this has + been optimized out. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -271,6 +283,26 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * Y2k20 fix ;-) for our perl scripts. (merge a40e06ee33 bw/perl-timegm-timelocal-fix later to maint). + * Threaded "git grep" has been optimized to avoid allocation in code + section that is covered under a mutex. + (merge 38ef24dccf rv/grep-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) scripted around "git log", whose + output got affected by end-user configuration like log.showsignature + (merge 8841b5222c sg/subtree-signed-commits later to maint). + + * While finding unique object name abbreviation, the code may + accidentally have read beyond the end of the array of object names + in a pack. + (merge 21abed500c ds/find-unique-abbrev-optim later to maint). + + * Micro optimization in revision traversal code. + (merge ebbed3ba04 ds/mark-parents-uninteresting-optim later to maint). + + * "git commit" used to run "gc --auto" near the end, which was lost + when the command was reimplemented in C by mistake. + (merge 095c741edd ab/gc-auto-in-commit later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). @@ -305,3 +337,6 @@ Fixes since v2.16 (merge 1316416903 ms/non-ascii-ticks later to maint). (merge 878056005e rs/strbuf-read-file-or-whine later to maint). (merge 79f0ba1547 jk/strbuf-read-file-close-error later to maint). + (merge edfb8ba068 ot/ref-filter-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint). + (merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint). |