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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index 0ef70fd9b1..f4da28ab66 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR format. - (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint). + (merge 560b0e8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint). + * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository. @@ -179,7 +180,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. the standard output and the standard error of an external process, which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking. - The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been + * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status). (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). @@ -252,6 +253,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. combination has been fixed to be equivalent to doing $ git config core.autocrlf true + * Documentation has been updated to show better example usage + of the updated "text=auto" attribute. + * A few tests that specifically target "git rebase -i" have been added. @@ -303,11 +307,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths. - (merge b3dfeeb kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint). + (merge ba67504 kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint). * A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have been fixed. + * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much + refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has + been reduced to help translators. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -563,7 +571,7 @@ notes for details). caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the behaviour of the fast-path. - * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library. + * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library. * A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame" has been plugged. @@ -631,6 +639,32 @@ notes for details). taught to notice these exit status codes. (merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint). + * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored, + which has been corrected. + (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint). + + * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration + variable definition at the end of the search order was described in + git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely + place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot + override, and if so how?" + (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint). + + * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open + a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then + finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either + removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a + subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the + subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is + made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has + the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag + to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT). + (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint). + + * Correct an age-old calco (is that a typo-like word for calc) + in the documentation. + (merge 7841c48 ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint). (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint). @@ -638,3 +672,4 @@ notes for details). (merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint). (merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint). (merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint). + (merge 4369523 hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint). |