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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt index 16d3110392..5673c064db 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt @@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to complete more subcommand parameters. + * The final report from "git bisect" used to show the suspected + culprit using a raw "diff-tree", with which there is no output for + a merge commit. This has been updated to use a more modern and + human readable output that still is concise enough. + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges" + option; the latter is now marked as deprecated. + + * Error message given while cloning with --recurse-submodules has + been updated. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -47,6 +58,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git prune" has been taught to take advantage of reachability bitmap when able. + * The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to + use the parse-options API. + + * Suggest GitGitGadget instead of submitGit as a way to submit + patches based on GitHub PR to us. + Fixes since v2.21 ----------------- @@ -85,6 +102,72 @@ Fixes since v2.21 ETAGS on. (merge 92b88eba9f js/find-lib-h-with-ls-files-when-possible later to maint). + * "git rebase" that was reimplemented in C did not set ORIG_HEAD + correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge cbd29ead92 js/rebase-orig-head-fix later to maint). + + * Dev support. + (merge f545737144 js/stress-test-ui-tweak later to maint). + + * CFLAGS now can be tweaked when invoking Make while using + DEVELOPER=YesPlease; this did not work well before. + (merge 6d5d4b4e93 ab/makefile-help-devs-more later to maint). + + * "git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift + the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into + unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling + objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be + overridden with the "--no-dangling" option). + (merge 8d8c2a5aef jk/fsck-doc later to maint). + + * On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX), + the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after + detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal, + which led to a flakey test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during + the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we + check the return status from our write(2)s). + (merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint). + + * A recent update broke "is this object available to us?" check for + well-known objects like an empty tree (which should yield "yes", + even when there is no on-disk object for an empty tree), which has + been corrected. + (merge f06ab027ef jk/virtual-objects-do-exist later to maint). + + * The setup code has been cleaned up to avoid leaks around the + repository_format structure. + (merge e8805af1c3 ma/clear-repository-format later to maint). + + * "git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color" + but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is + now fixed. + (merge cd8e7593b9 jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf later to maint). + + * When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the + working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no + point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is + sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now + allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output + from the clean filter process. + (merge 02156ab031 jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer later to maint). + + * "git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its + intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per + worktree, but it didn't quite work well. + (merge b9317d55a3 nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree later to maint). + + * "git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with "-s" did not suppress the patch + output as it should. This has been corrected. + (merge 05314efaea jk/line-log-with-patch later to maint). + + * "git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat + and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using + mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop. + (merge 7af01f2367 ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir later to maint). + + * Build update for SHA-1 with collision detection. + (merge 07a20f569b jk/sha1dc later to maint). + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint). (merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint). @@ -99,3 +182,8 @@ Fixes since v2.21 (merge 716a5af812 rd/gc-prune-doc-fix later to maint). (merge 50b206371d js/untravis-windows later to maint). (merge dbf47215e3 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint). + (merge 56cb2d30f8 dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev later to maint). + (merge 64eca306a2 ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge af91b0230c dl/ignore-docs later to maint). + (merge 59a06e947b ra/t3600-test-path-funcs later to maint). + (merge e041d0781b ar/t4150-remove-cruft later to maint). |