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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt index 828a439dc1..eb6b3c3620 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want to resurrect the now-ignored use case. - * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand. + * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a + replacement by editing an existing object. * "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file @@ -106,11 +107,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag being edited as a comment in the editor. + * "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed + commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check + signed tags, was added. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up. + * An experimental format to use two files (the base file and + incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been + introduced; this may reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index + when only small part of the working tree changes. + + * Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top + by upstreaming them continues. + + * Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being + upstreamed here a bit by bit. + + * The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been + micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few + breakages during its development have been caught and fixed already + but there might remain some more still; please test and report if + you find any. + * The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB. @@ -125,6 +147,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this API. + * skip_prefix() and strip_suffix() API functions are used a lot more + widely throughout the codebase now. + * Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation, e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7 and run everything else. @@ -166,6 +191,10 @@ notes for details). be checked out currently. (merge e3fa568 jc/revision-dash-count-parsing later to maint). + * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was + subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed. + (merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint). + * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10 in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did @@ -173,6 +202,17 @@ notes for details). columns are different. (merge 7d50987 as/pretty-truncate later to maint). + * "%G" (nothing after G) is an invalid pretty format specifier, but + the parser did not notice it as garbage. + (merge 958b2eb jk/pretty-G-format-fixes later to maint). + + * A handful of code paths had to read the commit object more than + once when showing header fields that are usually not parsed. The + internal data structure to keep track of the contents of the commit + object has been updated to reduce the need for this double-reading, + and to allow the caller find the length of the object. + (merge 218aa3a jk/commit-buffer-length later to maint). + * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path). (merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint). @@ -182,6 +222,10 @@ notes for details). couple of options unique to "git merge". (merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint). + * An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library + function in a rarely used code path. + (merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint). + * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have. @@ -197,6 +241,11 @@ notes for details). line endings. (merge 4d4813a bc/blame-crlf-test later to maint). + * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were + following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch, + because it incorrectly used strstr(). + (merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint). + * "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the commit did not have any log message. (merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint). @@ -206,6 +255,11 @@ notes for details). bit. (merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint). + * "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when + all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even + under "--prune-empty". + (merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint). + * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow" option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with exactly one pathspec. @@ -231,6 +285,13 @@ notes for details). distinguish missing objects from type errors. (merge 77583e7 jk/index-pack-report-missing later to maint). + * "log --show-signature" incorrectly decided the color to paint a + mergetag that was and was not correctly validated. + (merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint). + + * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option. + (merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint). + * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch. (merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint). @@ -240,6 +301,11 @@ notes for details). except for case differences. (merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint). + * Merging changes into a file that ends in an incomplete line made the + last line into a complete one, even when the other branch did not + change anything around the end of file. + (merge ba31180 mk/merge-incomplete-files later to maint). + * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table from scratch anyway. @@ -270,6 +336,10 @@ notes for details). emptying the insn sheet. (merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint). + * During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be + skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted. + (merge 95104c7 bc/fix-rebase-merge-skip later to maint). + * "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit an extra blank line after a merge commit. (merge ad2f725 mk/show-s-no-extra-blank-line-for-merges later to maint). |