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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index de1e11e25a..6b2c6bfcc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ Backward compatibility warts Note to those who build from the source - * + * Since Git 2.31, our source assumed that the compiler you use to + build Git supports variadic macros, with an easy-to-use escape + hatch to allow compilation without variadic macros with an request + to report that you had to use the escape hatch to the list. + Because we haven't heard from anybody who actually needed to use + the escape hatch, it has been removed, making support of variadic + macros a hard requirement. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -40,6 +46,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + * A not-so-common mistake is to write a script to feed "git bisect + run" without making it executable, in which case all tests will + exit with 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked + as good. Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early. + + * When "index-pack" dies due to incoming data exceeding the maximum + allowed input size, include the value of the limit in the error + message. + + * The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified + to suggest the "--detach" option that is required. + + * In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree + could lead to later problems. Such files were hard to discover, and + harder to correct. Automatically detecting and correcting the marking + of such files has been added to avoid these problems. + + * "git cat-file" learns "--batch-command" mode, which is a more + flexible interface than the existing "--batch" or "--batch-check" + modes, to allow different kinds of inquiries made. + + * The level of verbose output from the ort backend during inner merge + has been aligned to that of the recursive backend. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -73,6 +103,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. paths were unnecessarily confusing since it did not differentiate inner merges and outer merges. + * Small modernization of the rerere-train script (in contrib/). + + * Use designated initializers we started using in mid 2017 in more + parts of the codebase that are relatively quiescent. + + * Improve failure case behaviour of xdiff library when memory + allocation fails. + + * General clean-up in reftable implementation, including + clarification of the API documentation, tightening the code to + honor documented length limit, etc. + + * Remove the escape hatch we added when we introduced the weather + balloon to use variadic macros unconditionally, to make it official + that we now have a hard dependency on the feature. + + * Makefile refactoring with a bit of suffixes rule stripping to + optimize the runtime overhead. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- @@ -232,6 +281,24 @@ Fixes since v2.35 * Document Taylor as a new member of Git PLC at SFC. Welcome. (merge e8d56ca863 tb/coc-plc-update later to maint). + * "git checkout -b branch/with/multi/level/name && git stash" only + recorded the last level component of the branch name, which has + been corrected. + + * "git fetch" can make two separate fetches, but ref updates coming + from them were in two separate ref transactions under "--atomic", + which has been corrected. + + * Check the return value from parse_tree_indirect() to turn segfaults + into calls to die(). + (merge 8d2eaf649a gc/parse-tree-indirect-errors later to maint). + + * Newer version of GPGSM changed its output in a backward + incompatible way to break our code that parses its output. It also + added more processes our tests need to kill when cleaning up. + Adjustments have been made to accommodate these changes. + (merge b0b70d54c4 fs/gpgsm-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint). (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint). @@ -256,3 +323,4 @@ Fixes since v2.35 (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint). (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint). (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint). + (merge 63a36017fe nj/read-tree-doc-reffix later to maint). |