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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index 0d4a3ef931..63e2e8add9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. - (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint). * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very @@ -113,6 +112,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature. The code has been restructured. + * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style + that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a + detached HEAD with "git describe --tags". + + * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path" + that includes the contents of the given path only when the + condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related + bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory". + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not + a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -141,11 +152,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been corrected not to do so. - (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint). * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. - (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint). * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from real_path() to a strbuf has been added. @@ -216,7 +225,6 @@ notes for details). * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them without checking for overflow. - (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint). * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when @@ -225,17 +233,14 @@ notes for details). be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least predictable. - (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint). * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. - (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint). * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. - (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint). * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have @@ -250,11 +255,9 @@ notes for details). report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. - (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint). * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases has been plugged. - (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint). * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, @@ -272,7 +275,6 @@ notes for details). * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the standard error stream, but we somehow did. - (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint). * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer @@ -286,7 +288,6 @@ notes for details). made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF conversion). - (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint). * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). @@ -318,7 +319,6 @@ notes for details). * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates response, which has been fixed. - (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint). * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git @@ -332,11 +332,17 @@ notes for details). * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a few strings were left as translatable by mistake. - (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint). + + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing + misconfiguration. + (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint). - (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint). - (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint). - (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint). (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint). + (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint). + (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint). |