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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index 778145a3ed..2a19064f6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime. + * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in + the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is + more widely known when conversion fails from/to it. + (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -81,6 +86,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support. (merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint). + * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git + opens has been simplified. + (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint). + + * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift + the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of + them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the + "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one. + (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint). + + * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it + easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a + superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former + that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -242,6 +261,29 @@ notes for details). fixed. (merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint). + * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http + rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that + will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition + and abort the transfer. + (merge f8edeaa05d dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away later to maint). + + * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across + three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration. + Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and + pack.compression variables the same way. + (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint). + + * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes + tree, which has been fixed. + (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint). + + * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales + lacked documentation update, which has been corrected. + (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint). + + * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed. + (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint). (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). @@ -253,3 +295,6 @@ notes for details). (merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint). (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). (merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint). + (merge 6cc823c5c1 jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map later to maint). + (merge 235ec24352 mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc later to maint). + (merge f1350d0c12 mm/gc-safety-doc later to maint). |