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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt index 28a6863640..e71fe3dee1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt @@ -137,11 +137,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour. - * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option. - - * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random" - settings now also uses commit-graph and midx. - * "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like "git difftool" does. @@ -185,6 +180,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + * Developer builds now use -Wunused-function compilation option. + + * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random" + settings now also uses commit-graph and midx. + * When there are too many packfiles in a repository (which is not recommended), looking up an object in these would require consulting many pack .idx files; a new mechanism to have a single @@ -258,8 +258,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. used during tests are getting renamed for consistency. (merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint). - * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows - the index file to be read in parallel for performance. + * A pair of new extensions to the index file have been introduced. + They allow the index file to be read in parallel for performance. * The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece - included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily. + to be included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily. * Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git fetch" with hashmaps. @@ -362,6 +362,39 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. meant for underlying "git am" has been revamped, which fixed for options with parameters that were not passed correctly. + * Our testing framework uses a special i18n "poisoned localization" + feature to find messages that ought to stay constant but are + incorrectly marked to be translated. This feature has been made + into a runtime option (it used to be a compile-time option). + + * "git push" used to check ambiguities between object-names and + refnames while processing the list of refs' old and new values, + which was unnecessary (as it knew that it is feeding raw object + names). This has been optimized out. + + * The xcurl_off_t() helper function is used to cast size_t to + curl_off_t, but some compilers gave warnings against the code to + ensure the casting is done without wraparound, when size_t is + narrower than curl_off_t. This warning has been squelched. + + * Code preparation to replace ulong vars with size_t vars where + appropriate continues. + + * The "test installed Git" mode of our test suite has been updated to + work better. + + * A coding convention around the Coccinelle semantic patches to have + two classes to ease code migration process has been proposed and + its support has been added to the Makefile. + + * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml + file is getting prepared for the transition. + (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint). + + * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the + '--verbose-log' option. + (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint). + Fixes since v2.19 ----------------- @@ -519,14 +552,6 @@ Fixes since v2.19 didn't make much sense. This has been corrected. (merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint). - * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml - file is getting prepared for the transition. - (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint). - - * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the - '--verbose-log' option. - (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint). - * A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite loop while processing truncated loose objects. (merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint). @@ -553,7 +578,7 @@ Fixes since v2.19 * "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches" - and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time") + and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time) worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the same way, which has been fixed. (merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint). @@ -605,6 +630,31 @@ Fixes since v2.19 been corrected. (merge 2c8ee1f53c jk/close-duped-fd-before-unlock-for-bundle later to maint). + * "git format-patch --stat=<width>" can be used to specify the width + used by the diffstat (shown in the cover letter). + (merge 284aeb7e60 nd/format-patch-cover-letter-stat-width later to maint). + + * The way .git/index and .git/sharedindex* files were initially + created gave these files different perm bits until they were + adjusted for shared repository settings. This was made consistent. + (merge c9d6c78870 cc/shared-index-permbits later to maint). + + * "git rebase --stat" to transplant a piece of history onto a totally + unrelated history were not working before and silently showed wrong + result. With the recent reimplementation in C, it started to instead + die with an error message, as the original logic was not prepared + to cope with this case. This has now been fixed. + + * The advice message to tell the user to migrate an existing graft + file to the replace system when a graft file was read was shown + even when "git replace --convert-graft-file" command, which is the + way the message suggests to use, was running, which made little + sense. + (merge 8821e90a09 ab/replace-graft-with-replace-advice later to maint). + + * "git diff --raw" lost ellipses to adjust the output columns for + some time now, but the documentation still showed them. + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint). (merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint). @@ -645,3 +695,6 @@ Fixes since v2.19 (merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint). (merge 71571cd7d6 ma/sequencer-do-reset-saner-loop-termination later to maint). (merge 9a4cb8781e cb/notes-freeing-always-null-fix later to maint). + (merge 3006f5ee16 ma/reset-doc-rendering-fix later to maint). + (merge 4c2eb06419 sg/daemon-test-signal-fix later to maint). + (merge d27525e519 ss/msvc-strcasecmp later to maint). |