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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt index 326ee9e2a2..3ea280cf68 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Updates since v2.17 UI, Workflows & Features - * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has + * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user there are replacements. - * The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the + * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working tree (and the other way around when checking in). @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using - newer version of bash. + newer version of bash-completion. * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17 after giving an error message. (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint). - * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log --graph" output better. (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint). @@ -508,6 +508,37 @@ Fixes since v2.17 not committishes. (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint). + * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule + repository's history did not have anything common between ours and + the upstream's, failed to execute. We need to fetch from them to + continue even in such a case. + (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint). + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented. + (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint). + + * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the + final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed + packfile available to itself. + (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint). + + * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib + that clobber unused portion of outbuf. + (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint). + + * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era. + (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint). + + * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading + past the end of the file, which has been corrected. + (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint). + + * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV + (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific + tweaks), which has been corrected. + (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint). (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). @@ -541,3 +572,12 @@ Fixes since v2.17 (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint). (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint). (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint). + (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint). + (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint). + (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint). + (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint). + (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint). + (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint). + (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint). + (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint). + (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint). |