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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index f23759b0c0..3590620000 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -14,11 +14,16 @@ Backward compatibility notes. eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. - * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the next release (not this one). + * The default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, now + scales as the repository grows, using the approximate number of + objects in the reopsitory and a bit of math around the birthday + paradox. The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux + kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself. + Updates since v2.10 ------------------- @@ -133,6 +138,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787) into clickable links in its output. + * When new paths were added by "git add -N" to the index, it was + enough to circumvent the check by "git commit" to refrain from + making an empty commit without "--allow-empty". The same logic + prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the + "Changes not staged for commit" section. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -212,6 +223,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was replaced with a priority queue. + * "git diff --no-index" codepath has been updated not to try to peek + into .git/ directory that happens to be under the current + directory, when we know we are operating outside any repository. + + * Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement + "rebase -i" continues. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -518,6 +536,23 @@ notes for details). work around them. (merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint). + * A minor regression fix for "git submodule" that was introduced + when more helper functions were reimplemented in C. + (merge 77b63ac31e sb/submodule-ignore-trailing-slash later to maint). + + * The code that we have used for the past 10+ years to cycle + 4-element ring buffers turns out to be not quite portable in + theoretical world. + (merge bb84735c80 rs/ring-buffer-wraparound later to maint). + + * "git daemon" used fixed-length buffers to turn URL to the + repository the client asked for into the server side directory + path, using snprintf() to avoid overflowing these buffers, but + allowed possibly truncated paths to the directory. This has been + tightened to reject such a request that causes overlong path to be + required to serve. + (merge 6bdb0083be jk/daemon-path-ok-check-truncation later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint). (merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint). |