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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt index 3b2f62817b..0b7fe2af33 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Ports UI, Workflows & Features + * List of commands shown by "git help" are grouped along the workflow + elements to help early learners. + * "git p4" now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when the files are opened exclusively. @@ -85,6 +88,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features to optionally remember already seen untracked files, in order to speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft. + * "git mergetool" learned to drive WinMerge as a backend. + + * "git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve + commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are + reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant + configuration variable. + + * "git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks" + option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an + object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at + Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command + behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as + input instead. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -330,10 +347,39 @@ notes for details). cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead. (merge 0544574 jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled later to maint). + * "git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely, + when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn). + (merge 141ff8f mm/rebase-i-post-rewrite-exec later to maint). + + * Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated + concepts. + (merge 92de921 mm/log-format-raw-doc later to maint). + + * Make "git stash something --help" error out, so that users can + safely say "git stash drop --help". + (merge 5ba2831 jk/stash-options later to maint). + + * The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an + empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through). + It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for + an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange + things, then why not? + (merge f6a1e1e jh/filter-empty-contents later to maint). + + * Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can + lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request. + Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a + request first into core (to a reasonable limit). + (merge 636614f jk/http-backend-deadlock later to maint). + + * "git clean pathspec..." tried to lstat(2) and complain even for + paths outside the given pathspec. + (merge 838d6a9 dt/clean-pathspec-filter-then-lstat later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint). (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint). - (merge f86a374 sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint). + (merge d201a1e sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint). (merge 05bfc7d sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak later to maint). (merge 846e5df pt/xdg-config-path later to maint). (merge 1154aa4 jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak later to maint). @@ -342,3 +388,6 @@ notes for details). (merge bbf431c ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file later to maint). (merge 309a9e3 jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl later to maint). (merge ccd593c dl/branch-error-message later to maint). + (merge 22570b6 rs/janitorial later to maint). + (merge 5c2a581 mc/commit-doc-grammofix later to maint). + (merge ce41720 ah/usage-strings later to maint). |