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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt21
-rwxr-xr-xGIT-VERSION-GEN2
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt
index 21df61c3be..0e70681828 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt
@@ -297,6 +297,16 @@ notes for details).
a user name with an at-sign in it.
(merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint).
+ * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) used to show byte-by-byte
+ differences, which meant that multi-byte characters can be chopped
+ in the middle. It learned to pay attention to character boundaries
+ (assuming the UTF-8 payload).
+ (merge 8d00662 jk/colors later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge --quiet" did not squelch messages from the underlying
+ merge-recursive strategy.
+ (merge 2bf15a3 jk/merge-quiet later to maint).
+
* Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
the documentation.
(merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint).
@@ -361,7 +371,7 @@ notes for details).
* We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH
transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git
correctly.
- (merge 3f55cca tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 6b6c5f7 tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint).
* The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
discover in the documentation.
@@ -473,4 +483,11 @@ notes for details).
(merge 260d585 sg/completion-gitcomp-nl-for-refs later to maint).
(merge 777c55a jc/report-path-error-to-dir later to maint).
(merge fddfaf8 ph/push-doc-cas later to maint).
- (merge 129260c ss/pull-rebase-preserve later to maint).
+ (merge d50d31e ss/pull-rebase-preserve later to maint).
+ (merge c8c3f1d pt/enter-repo-comment-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d7bfb9e jz/gitweb-conf-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f907282 jk/cherry-pick-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge d3c0811 iu/fix-parse-options-h-comment later to maint).
+ (merge 6c3b2af jg/cguide-we-cannot-count later to maint).
+ (merge 2b8bd44 jk/pack-corruption-post-mortem later to maint).
+ (merge 9585cb8 jn/doc-fast-import-no-16-octopus-limit later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 40f8841678..aa8519ca28 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#!/bin/sh
GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.4.0-rc1
+DEF_VER=v2.4.0-rc2
LF='
'