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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). |