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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt index 7f53db7de9..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 @@ -75,6 +82,43 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option. + * The peel_ref() API has been replaced with peel_iterated_oid(). + + * 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 ----------------- @@ -127,6 +171,13 @@ Fixes since v2.30 does. (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint). + * Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become + incorrect. + (merge 28cc00a13d ab/fsck-doc-fix later to maint). + + * Doc fix for packfile URI feature. + (merge bfc2a36ff2 jt/packfile-as-uri-doc later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint). (merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint). @@ -146,3 +197,5 @@ Fixes since v2.30 (merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint). (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). |