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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt index af876e2ce9..8d413feb8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry). + * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too + many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be + named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead, + e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c"). + + * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly + creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by + setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable. + * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used to result in intermittent errors in "git push"). @@ -68,10 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. - * The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp - to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow - all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something - other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases). + * The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it + more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none + atomic updates and migrating the storage to something other than + the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases). * The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up. @@ -248,3 +257,7 @@ notes for details). * "gitweb" used deprecated CGI::startfrom, which was removed from CGI.pm as of 4.04; use CGI::start_from instead. (merge 4750f4b rm/gitweb-start-form later to maint). + + * Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if + they are new enough to support the `--output` option. + (merge b12d045 da/mergetool-meld later to maint). |