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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt index 5030b24d85..87044504c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other. - Consider this as still an experimental feature; the UI will likely - to change. + Consider this as still an experimental feature; its UI is still + likely to change. * Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor XDG configuration file locations when specified. @@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git send-email" learned the alias file format used by the sendmail program (in a simplified form; we obviously do not feed pipes). - * "git am" learned am.threeWay configuration variable. - * Traditionally, external low-level 3-way merge drivers are expected to produce their results based solely on the contents of the three variants given in temporary files named by %O, %A and %B on their @@ -149,7 +147,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Many long-running operations show progress eye-candy, even when they are later backgrounded. Hide the eye-candy when the process is sent to the background instead. - (merge 9a9a41d lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint). + (merge a4fb76c lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint). Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -211,6 +209,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. underlying "git fetch" and then learned to use parse-options parser. + * Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ notes for details). * Memory usage of "git index-pack" has been trimmed by tens of per-cent. - (merge a78c5b3 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint). + (merge f0e7f11 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint). * "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs @@ -339,19 +339,6 @@ notes for details). the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it. (merge 099d2d8 jc/gitignore-precedence later to maint). - * After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD" - and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it - as "Changes to be committed". Such a path, however, is not yet to - be scheduled to be committed. "git diff" showed the change to the - path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its - output. - - Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already - know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD" - should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new - files yet to be added to the index. - (merge d95d728 nd/diff-i-t-a later to maint). - * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the test was written; turn it into a proper test. @@ -480,6 +467,65 @@ notes for details). tags as boundary commits. (merge 9b7a61d jc/do-not-feed-tags-to-clear-commit-marks later to maint). + * "git fetch --depth=<depth>" and "git clone --depth=<depth>" issued + a shallow transfer request even to an upload-pack that does not + support the capability. + (merge eb86a50 me/fetch-into-shallow-safety later to maint). + + * "git rebase" did not exit with failure when format-patch it invoked + failed for whatever reason. + (merge 60d708b cb/rebase-am-exit-code later to maint). + + * Fix a small bug in our use of umask() return value. + (merge 3096b2e jk/fix-refresh-utime later to maint). + + * An ancient test framework enhancement to allow color was not + entirely correct; this makes it work even when tput needs to read + from the ~/.terminfo under the user's real HOME directory. + (merge d5c1b7c rh/test-color-avoid-terminfo-in-original-home later to maint). + + * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count". + (merge c8a70d3 jk/rev-list-no-bitmap-while-pruning later to maint). + + * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the + underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still + open. + (merge 7a64592 kb/config-unmap-before-renaming later to maint). + + * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation. + (merge 6c8afe4 mh/strbuf-read-file-returns-ssize-t later to maint). + + * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse + yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took + control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but + that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked + GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local + communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was + spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many + "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints + its output in color by default. + + Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the + fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager. + (merge 124b519 jc/unexport-git-pager-in-use-in-pager later to maint). + + * Abandoning an already applied change in "git rebase -i" with + "--continue" left CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and confused later steps. + (merge 0e0aff4 js/rebase-i-clean-up-upon-continue-to-skip later to maint). + + * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method + available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to + talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to + always use the most secure authentication method, because the user + can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable + without using configuration variables. + (merge 5841520 et/http-proxyauth later to maint). + + * A fix to a minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era that started + complaining about a body-less tag object when it lacks a separator + empty line after its header to separate it with a non-existent body. + (merge 84d18c0 jc/fsck-retire-require-eoh later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint). (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint). @@ -506,3 +552,12 @@ notes for details). (merge 72dbb36 sg/completion-commit-cleanup later to maint). (merge e654eb2 es/utf8-stupid-compiler-workaround later to maint). (merge 34b935c es/osx-header-pollutes-mask-macro later to maint). + (merge ab7fade jc/prompt-document-ps1-state-separator later to maint). + (merge 25f600e mm/describe-doc later to maint). + (merge 83fe167 mm/branch-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge 75d2e5a ls/hint-rev-list-count later to maint). + (merge edc8f71 cb/subtree-tests-update later to maint). + (merge 5330e6e sb/p5310-and-chain later to maint). + (merge c4ac525 tb/checkout-doc later to maint). + (merge e479c5f jk/pretty-encoding-doc later to maint). + (merge 7e837c6 ss/clone-guess-dir-name-simplify later to maint). |