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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt index 7f44e7a5f2..bda29d224a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt @@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit graph after finishing. + * "git add -i" has been taught to show the total number of hunks and + the hunks that has been processed so far when showing prompts. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -107,6 +110,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a path is "included". + * "git stash" learned to write refreshed index back to disk. + + * Coccinelle checks are done on more source files than before now. + + * The cache-tree code has been taught to be less aggressive in + attempting to see if a tree object it computed already exists in + the repository. + + * The code to parse and use the commit-graph file has been made more + robust against corrupted input. + + * The hg-to-git script (in contrib/) has been updated to work with + Python 3. + + * Update the way build artifacts in t/helper/ directory are ignored. + + * Preparation for SHA-256 upgrade continues. Fixes since v2.23 @@ -192,6 +212,91 @@ Fixes since v2.23 current branch, which has been corrected. (merge bf1e28e0ad bw/rebase-autostash-keep-current-branch later to maint). + * Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain. + (merge 83b0b8953e ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo later to maint). + + * Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0 + no longer works with the older one. + (merge f6461b82b9 bc/doc-use-docbook-5 later to maint). + + * The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with + asciidoctor. + (merge c4d2f6143a ma/user-manual-markup-update later to maint). + + * Make sure the grep machinery does not abort when seeing a payload + that is not UTF-8 even when JIT is not in use with PCRE1. + (merge ad7c543e3b cb/skip-utf8-check-with-pcre1 later to maint). + + * The name of the blob object that stores the filter specification + for sparse cloning/fetching was interpreted in a wrong place in the + code, causing Git to abort. + + * "git log --decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" was incorrectly + overruled when the "--simplify-by-decoration" option is used, which + has been corrected. + (merge 0cc7380d88 rs/simplify-by-deco-with-deco-refs-exclude later to maint). + + * The "upload-pack" (the counterpart of "git fetch") needs to disable + commit-graph when responding to a shallow clone/fetch request, but + the way this was done made Git panic, which has been corrected. + + * The object traversal machinery has been optimized not to load tree + objects when we are only interested in commit history. + (merge 72ed80c784 jk/list-objects-optim-wo-trees later to maint). + + * The object name parser for "Nth parent" syntax has been made more + robust against integer overflows. + (merge 59fa5f5a25 rs/nth-parent-parse later to maint). + + * The code used in following tags in "git fetch" has been optimized. + (merge b7e2d8bca5 ms/fetch-follow-tag-optim later to maint). + + * Regression fix for progress output. + (merge 2bb74b53a4 sg/progress-fix later to maint). + + * A bug in merge-recursive code that triggers when a branch with a + symbolic link is merged with a branch that replaces it with a + directory has been fixed. + (merge 83e3ad3b12 jt/merge-recursive-symlink-is-not-a-dir-in-way later to maint). + + * The rename detection logic sorts a list of rename source candidates + by similarity to pick the best candidate, which means that a tie + between sources with the same similarity is broken by the original + location in the original candidate list (which is sorted by path). + Force the sorting by similarity done with a stable sort, which is + not promised by system supplied qsort(3), to ensure consistent + results across platforms. + (merge 2049b8dc65 js/diff-rename-force-stable-sort later to maint). + + * The code to skip "UTF" and "UTF-" prefix, when computing an advice + message, did not work correctly when the prefix was "UTF", which + has been fixed. + (merge b181676ce9 rs/convert-fix-utf-without-dash later to maint). + + * The author names taken from SVN repositories may have extra leading + or trailing whitespaces, which are now munged away. + (merge 4ddd4bddb1 tk/git-svn-trim-author-name later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" showed a wrong HEAD while "reword" open the editor. + (merge b0a3186140 pw/rebase-i-show-HEAD-to-reword later to maint). + + * A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface. + (merge c581e4a749 ab/pcre-jit-fixes later to maint). + + * PCRE fixes. + (merge ff61681b46 cb/pcre1-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" segfaulted when diff.noprefix configuration was + used, as it blindly expected the patch it internally generates to + have the standard a/ and b/ prefixes. The command now forces the + internal patch to be built without any prefix, not to be affected + by any end-user configuration. + (merge 937b76ed49 js/range-diff-noprefix later to maint). + + * "git stash apply" in a subdirectory of a secondary worktree failed + to access the worktree correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge dfd557c978 js/stash-apply-in-secondary-worktree later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint). (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint). @@ -208,3 +313,25 @@ Fixes since v2.23 (merge 0a8bc7068f dt/remote-helper-doc-re-lock-option later to maint). (merge 27fd1e4ea7 en/merge-options-ff-and-friends later to maint). (merge 502c386ff9 sg/clean-nested-repo-with-ignored later to maint). + (merge 26e3d1cbea am/mailmap-andrey-mazo later to maint). + (merge 47b27c96fa ss/get-time-cleanup later to maint). + (merge dd2e50a84e jk/commit-graph-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 4fd39c76e6 cs/pretty-formats-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 40e747e89d dl/submodule-set-branch later to maint). + (merge 689a146c91 rs/commit-graph-use-list-count later to maint). + (merge 0eb7c37a8a js/doc-patch-text later to maint). + (merge 4b3aa170d1 rs/nth-switch-code-simplification later to maint). + (merge 0d4304c124 ah/doc-submodule-ignore-submodules later to maint). + (merge af78249463 cc/svn-fe-py-shebang later to maint). + (merge 7bd97d6dff rs/alias-use-copy-array later to maint). + (merge c46ebc2496 sg/travis-help-debug later to maint). + (merge 24c681794f ps/my-first-contribution-alphasort later to maint). + (merge 75b2c15435 cb/do-not-use-test-cmp-with-a later to maint). + (merge cda0d497e3 bw/submodule-helper-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge fe0ed5d5e9 am/visual-studio-config-fix later to maint). + (merge 2e09c01232 sg/name-rev-cutoff-underflow-fix later to maint). + (merge ddb3c856f3 as/shallow-slab-use-fix later to maint). + (merge 71f4960b91 js/mingw-spawn-with-spaces-in-path later to maint). + (merge 53d687bf5f ah/cleanups later to maint). + (merge f537485fa5 rs/test-remove-useless-debugging-cat later to maint). + (merge 11a3d3aadd dl/rev-list-doc-cleanup later to maint). |