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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 8f0461eefd..0c81c5915f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -62,8 +62,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. - * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other - operations that need to see which paths have been modified. + * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new + fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations + that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only + support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of + git-update-index(1) for more detail. * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. @@ -341,7 +344,7 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the "--copy" option of "git branch". - * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git + * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has been corrected. @@ -433,6 +436,23 @@ Fixes since v2.15 from strings read from various "state" files. (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint). + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + + * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made + credential helper fail. + (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly + down to underlying merge strategy backend. + (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint). (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint). @@ -456,3 +476,7 @@ Fixes since v2.15 (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint). (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint). (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint). + (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint). + (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint). + (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint). |