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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt index 8a9a8dd496..7a49deddf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features the fast-export side has been made. * "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully - qualified refname and not clear what the end user meant. The + qualified refname and it is not clear what the end user meant. The codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under @@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new date format "--date=human" that morphs its output depending on how far the time is from the current time has been introduced. - "--date=auto" can be used to use this new format when the output is - going to the pager or to the terminal and otherwise the default - format. + "--date=auto:human" can be used to use this new format (or any + existing format) when the output is going to the pager or to the + terminal, and otherwise the default format. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. (non-)existence of loose objects. * More codepaths have become aware of working with in-core repository - instance other than the default "the_repository". + instances other than the default "the_repository". * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions. @@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The in-core repository instances are passed through more codepaths. * Update the protocol message specification to allow only the limited - use of scaled quantities. This is ensure potential compatibility - issues will not go out of hand. + use of scaled quantities. This is to ensure potential compatibility + issues will not get out of hand. * Micro-optimize the code that prepares commit objects to be walked by "git rev-list" when the commit-graph is available. - * "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchange over + * "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchanges over the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol. * The codepath to write out commit-graph has been optimized by @@ -180,6 +180,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A flakey "p4" test has been removed. + * The code and tests assume that the system supplied iconv() would + always use BOM in its output when asked to encode to UTF-16 (or + UTF-32), but apparently some implementations output big-endian + without BOM. A compile-time knob has been added to help such + systems (e.g. NonStop) to add BOM to the output to increase + portability. + Fixes since v2.20 ----------------- @@ -439,3 +446,6 @@ Fixes since v2.20 (merge 2e285e7803 tz/gpg-test-fix later to maint). (merge 5427de960b kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix later to maint). (merge 3815f64b0d js/mingw-host-cpu later to maint). + (merge 5fe81438b5 rj/sequencer-sign-off-header-static later to maint). + (merge 18a4f6be6b nd/fileno-may-be-macro later to maint). + (merge 99e9ab54ab kd/t0028-octal-del-is-377-not-777 later to maint). |