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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt index ee6c6075ad..d0f7ef5590 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -44,6 +44,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it to pack-objects. + * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect + and reject a message before sending it out. + (merge 6489660b4b jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint). + + * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail + when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref, + even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant. + + * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." + mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account. + The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to + a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such + a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the + current repository to determine if the contents from the named path + should be included. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -75,6 +91,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the + default in-core index. + (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint). + + * Add perf-test for wildmatch. + (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint). + + * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been + extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module. + (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint). + + * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core + index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are + discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case + that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the + main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these + operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the + cache is properly invalidated). Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -209,6 +243,26 @@ notes for details). should silently be ignored instead) (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint). + * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that + they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the + same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same + age as the underlying commit would. + (merge ef1e74065c jc/name-rev-lw-tag later to maint). + + * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust + against dead-locking in a threaded environment. + (merge e3f43ce765 bw/forking-and-threading later to maint). + + * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the + tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or + unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP + tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. + (merge 2e397e4ddf jc/skip-test-in-the-middle later to maint). + + * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only + when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively. + (merge 0ead000c3a dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint). (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint). @@ -217,3 +271,4 @@ notes for details). (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint). (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint). (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint). + (merge c5a9157393 jh/memihash-opt later to maint). |