summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt40
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt
index 2a722e1e0f..905c9aa52b 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt
@@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point
at the same object.
+ * "git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option.
+
+ * "git ls-files" can and does show multiple entries when the index is
+ unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in
+ use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced.
+
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* A 3-year old test that was not testing anything useful has been
@@ -80,6 +87,38 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The .use_shell flag in struct child_process that is passed to
run_command() API has been clarified with a bit more documentation.
+ * Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree
+ extension in the index.
+
+ * The ls-refs protocol operation has been optimized to narrow the
+ sub-hierarchy of refs/ it walks to produce response.
+
+ * When removing many branches and tags, the code used to do so one
+ ref at a time. There is another API it can use to delete multiple
+ refs, and it makes quite a lot of performance difference when the
+ refs are packed.
+
+ * The "pack-objects" command needs to iterate over all the tags when
+ automatic tag following is enabled, but it actually iterated over
+ all refs and then discarded everything outside "refs/tags/"
+ hierarchy, which was quite wasteful.
+
+ * A perf script was made more portable.
+ (merge f08b6c553d jk/p5303-sed-portability-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up
+ once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow
+ other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can
+ find more failures in a single run.
+ (merge 2b0e14f640 pb/ci-matrix-wo-shortcut later to maint).
+
+ * We've carried compatibility codepaths for compilers without
+ variadic macros for quite some time, but the world may be ready for
+ them to be removed. Force compilation failure on exotic platforms
+ where variadic macros are not available to find out who screams in
+ such a way that we can easily revert if it turns out that the world
+ is not yet ready.
+
Fixes since v2.30
-----------------
@@ -159,3 +198,4 @@ Fixes since v2.30
(merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint).
(merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint).
(merge 4a5ec7d166 js/skip-dashed-built-ins-from-config-mak later to maint).
+ (merge 6eaf624dea pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff later to maint).