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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f4fa57e439 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +Git 2.11 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.10 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch + with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1] + and [PATCH 1/1] by default. + + * An incoming "git push" that attempts to push too many bytes can now + be rejected by setting a new configuration variable at the receiving + end. + + * "git nosuchcommand --help" said "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand", + which was not intuitive, given that "git nosuchcommand" said "git: + 'nosuchcommand' is not a git command". + + * "git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to + reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing + $path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it + learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding + repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able. + + * The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced + to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule + commits bound to the superproject. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The delta-base-cache mechanism has been a key to the performance in + a repository with a tightly packed packfile, but it did not scale + well even with a larger value of core.deltaBaseCacheLimit. + + * Enhance "git status --porcelain" output by collecting more data on + the state of the index and the working tree files, which may + further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer + calls to git. + + * Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors + script file "git am" internally uses. + (merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint). + + * Lifts calls to exit(2) and die() higher in the callchain in + sequencer.c files so that more helper functions in it can be used + by callers that want to handle error conditions themselves. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.10 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the + documentation. + (merge a117be4 po/range-doc later to maint). + + * "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with + "git log -p --graph" output. + (merge 3dbfe2b bh/diff-highlight-graph later to maint). + + * The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure + count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the + test script plus the process ID. The latter however turned out not + to serve any useful purpose. The process ID part of the filename + has been removed. + (merge 5c885c1 jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results later to maint). + + * Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt + caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever. + (merge 10f5c52 jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir later to maint). + + * "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but + the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command + to forbid removal of HEAD. + (merge 12cfa79 jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD later to maint). + + * A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes + prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the + script on some platforms. + (merge 5babb5b js/t6026-clean-up later to maint). + + * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the + newer GIT_TRACE_CURL. + (merge 14e2411 ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests later to maint). + + * "git pack-objects --include-tag" was taught that when we know that + we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at + C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the + intermediate tag B in some cases. + (merge b773dde jk/pack-tag-of-tag later to maint). + + * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui". + (merge 02748bc sy/git-gui-i18n-ja later to maint). + + * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted + instead. + (merge d63ed6e jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto later to maint). + + * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration + variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we + forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match + this change. + (merge f14a310 js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 3e1952e jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3 later to maint). + (merge ca2baa3 rs/compat-strdup later to maint). + (merge d233097 rs/hex2chr later to maint). + (merge c00bfc9 js/t9903-chaining later to maint). + (merge 5e4e5bb sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl later to maint). + (merge 5cb5fe4 sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr later to maint). + (merge a1c8044 ah/misc-message-fixes later to maint). + (merge ca9b37e sb/diff-cleanup later to maint). |