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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index e46197f478..12b86ebb4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -33,6 +33,36 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". + * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied + closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be + controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is + ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude + mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up + to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be + added. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + work with mediawiki namespaces. + + * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show + the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side + that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)" + and friends. + + * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym + for "bisect visualize". + + * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go + ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has + been corrected by making the command error out. + + * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an + HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. + (merge 049e64aa50 bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc later to maint). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -67,8 +97,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. (merge 0d1e0e7801 bw/diff-opt-impl-to-bitfields later to maint). * TravisCI build updates. - (merge c2154953b8 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + * Parts of a test to drive the long-running content filter interface + has been split into its own module, hopefully to eventually become + reusable. + (merge 0fe8d516bb cc/git-packet-pm later to maint). + + * Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index + read from the filesystem at runtime. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -81,86 +117,95 @@ Fixes since v2.15 "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the latter, which has been fixed. - (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch has been corrected. - (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. - (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the HEAD points at, which have been fixed. - (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. - (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the directory itself as ignored. - (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. - (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. - (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). * A (possibly flakey) test fix. - (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint). * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. - (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint). * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated, and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly. - (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint). * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. - (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint). * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". - (merge de0bc11d13 sb/blame-config-doc later to maint). * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, which has been fixed. - (merge 10e0ca843d ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix later to maint). * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now tested just like Mingw builds. - (merge f21d60b429 ad/5580-unc-tests-on-cygwin later to maint). * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at around Git 2.13). - (merge fa4d8c783d js/early-config later to maint). * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). - (merge 9c109e9bbc dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix later to maint). * MinGW updates. - (merge 39bb86b4e5 js/mingw-full-version-in-resources later to maint). - (merge 601e1e7897 js/wincred-empty-cred later to maint). - (merge b2f55717c7 js/mingw-redirect-std-handles later to maint). + + * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been + improved. + (merge 618ec81abb rs/imap-send-next-arg-fix later to maint). + + * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started + rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been + optimized again for most trivial cases. + (merge 7c6bd25c7d mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs later to maint). + + * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have + been fixed. + (merge 0a288d1ee9 sr/wrapper-quote-filenames later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that + is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has + been corrected. + (merge c6d8ccf3a2 bw/rebase-i-ignored-submodule-fix later to maint). + + * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed. + (merge 2fff1e196d ab/pcre-v2 later to maint). + + * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system + that does not help anything; it has been corrected. + (merge f28e36686a jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint). - (merge 8684dde10d jm/relnotes-2.15-typofix later to maint). - (merge cd3f8e2fc2 ks/mailmap later to maint). + (merge 804862209b ao/merge-verbosity-getenv-just-once later to maint). + (merge 9360ec0002 rs/sequencer-rewrite-file-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f4e45cb3eb ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 4da72644b7 ma/reduce-heads-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 3dc5433fd5 ad/rebase-i-serie-typofix later to maint). + (merge 5313bee032 tz/fsf-address-update later to maint). + (merge 5555a2aa4b cb/t4201-robustify later to maint). |