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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 483ebb4f8d..783cba3af5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering specification used for partial cloning. + * Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which + could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables. + + * The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim + have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added. + + * "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first + breakage along the first-parent chain. + + * "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent + commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has + been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the + previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -60,6 +74,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it. + * A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro + does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static + inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the + former with the latter in <git-compat-util.h> header. + + * Test framework update. + (merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- @@ -110,6 +132,19 @@ Fixes since v2.28 it is. (merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint). + * The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to + cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed + to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory + buffer space. This has been corrected. + (merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index + and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file" + patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files" + and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the + command failed to do so for such a path. + (merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint). (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint). @@ -124,3 +159,4 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint). (merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint). (merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint). + (merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint). |