1 files changed, 117 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt
index 6ba67b60c2..7288aaf716 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs
    configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one".
 
- * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -" pays attention
+ * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -3" pays attention
    to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation
    to stop.
 
@@ -64,6 +64,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    for the same ref in refs/notes/* are prevented from stomping on
    each other.
 
+ * "git send-email" learned a new option --smtp-auth to limit the SMTP
+   AUTH mechanisms to be used to a subset of what the system library
+   supports.
+
+ * A new configuration variable http.sslVersion can be used to specify
+   what specific version of SSL/TLS to use to make a connection.
+
+ * "git notes merge" can be told with "--strategy=<how>" option how to
+   automatically handle conflicts; this can now be configured by
+   setting notes.mergeStrategy configuration variable.
+
+ * "git log --cc" did not show any patch, even though most of the time
+   the user meant "git log --cc -p -m" to see patch output for commits
+   with a single parent, and combined diff for merge commits.  The
+   command is taught to DWIM "--cc" (without "--raw" and other forms
+   of output specification) to "--cc -p -m".
+
+ * "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of
+   multiple lines.  "--name-only" option is added to help this.
+
+ * A handful of usability & cosmetic fixes to gitk and l10n updates.
+
+ * A completely empty e-mail address <> is now allowed in the authors
+   file used by git-svn, to match the way it accepts the output from
+   authors-prog.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -125,6 +151,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will
    always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR).
 
+ * The gitmodules API that is accessed from the C code learned to
+   cache stuff lazily.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -189,7 +218,7 @@ notes for details).
  * "Is this subdirectory a separate repository that should not be
    touched?" check "git clean" was inefficient.  This was replaced
    with a more optimized check.
-   (merge 38ae878 ee/clean-remove-dirs later to maint).
+   (merge fbf2fec ee/clean-remove-dirs later to maint).
 
  * The "new-worktree-mode" hack in "checkout" that was added in
    nd/multiple-work-trees topic has been removed by updating the
@@ -225,7 +254,7 @@ notes for details).
 
    Note that this is irrelevant for 'master' with "git pull" rewritten
    in C.
-   (merge 22d6857 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint).
+   (merge 13e0e28 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint).
 
  * When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno
    leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and
@@ -244,6 +273,76 @@ notes for details).
    strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated.
    (merge 3ebbd00 jh/strbuf-read-use-read-in-full later to maint).
 
+ * We rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl but this reimplements
+   in Bourne shell.
+   (merge 57cee8a sg/help-group later to maint).
+
+ * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with
+   a few levels of subdirectories are involved.
+   (merge 73f9145 dt/untracked-subdir later to maint).
+
+ * "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a single-liner log message that
+   has a colon as the end of existing trailer.
+
+ * The "interpret-trailers" helper mistook a multi-paragraph title of
+   a commit log message with a colon in it as the end of the trailer
+   block.
+   (merge 5c99995 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git describe" without argument defaulted to describe the HEAD
+   commit, but "git describe --contains" didn't.  Arguably, in a
+   repository used for active development, such defaulting would not
+   be very useful as the tip of branch is typically not tagged, but it
+   is better to be consistent.
+   (merge 2bd0706 sg/describe-contains later to maint).
+
+ * The client side codepaths in "git push" have been cleaned up
+   and the user can request to perform an optional "signed push",
+   i.e. sign only when the other end accepts signed push.
+   (merge 68c757f db/push-sign-if-asked later to maint).
+
+ * Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and
+   "pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo'
+   as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these
+   keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a
+   git command'.  These warning messages have been squelched.
+   (merge 9e9de18 jk/fix-alias-pager-config-key-warnings later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain
+   when one is given.
+   (merge 2aea7a5 jk/rev-list-has-no-notes later to maint).
+
+ * When re-priming the cache-tree opportunistically while committing
+   the in-core index as-is, we mistakenly invalidated the in-core
+   index too aggressively, causing the experimental split-index code
+   to unnecessarily rewrite the on-disk index file(s).
+   (merge 475a344 dt/commit-preserve-base-index-upon-opportunistic-cache-tree-update later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive" did not use zip64 extension when creating an archive
+   with more than 64k entries, which nobody should need, right ;-)?
+   (merge 88329ca rs/archive-zip-many later to maint).
+
+ * The code in "multiple-worktree" support that attempted to recover
+   from an inconsistent state updated an incorrect file.
+   (merge 82fde87 nd/fixup-linked-gitdir later to maint).
+
+ * On case insensitive systems, "git p4" did not work well with client
+   specs.
+
+ * "git init empty && git -C empty log" said "bad default revision 'HEAD'",
+   which was found to be a bit confusing to new users.
+   (merge ce11360 jk/log-missing-default-HEAD later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression in
+   "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the built-in
+   version on the 'master' front.  Fix the regression in the last
+   scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track and older.
+   (merge b9d6689 js/maint-am-skip-performance-regression later to maint).
+
+ * The branch descriptions that are set with "git branch --edit-description"
+   option were used in many places but they weren't clearly documented.
+   (merge 561d2b7 po/doc-branch-desc later to maint).
+
  * Code cleanups and documentation updates.
    (merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint).
    (merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint).
@@ -254,3 +353,18 @@ notes for details).
    (merge da4c5ad ta/docfix-index-format-tech later to maint).
    (merge ae25fd3 sb/check-return-from-read-ref later to maint).
    (merge b3325df nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint).
+   (merge 7aa9b9b sg/wt-status-header-inclusion later to maint).
+   (merge f04c690 as/docfix-reflog-expire-unreachable later to maint).
+   (merge 1269847 sg/t3020-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 8b54c23 jc/calloc-pathspec later to maint).
+   (merge a6926b8 po/po-readme later to maint).
+   (merge 54d160e ss/fix-config-fd-leak later to maint).
+   (merge b80fa84 ah/submodule-typofix-in-error later to maint).
+   (merge 99885bc ah/reflog-typofix-in-error later to maint).
+   (merge 9476c2c ah/read-tree-usage-string later to maint).
+   (merge b8c1d27 ah/pack-objects-usage-strings later to maint).
+   (merge 486e1e1 br/svn-doc-include-paths-config later to maint).
+   (merge 1733ed3 ee/clean-test-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge 5fcadc3 gb/apply-comment-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge b894d3e mp/t7060-diff-index-test later to maint).
+   (merge d238710 as/config-doc-markup-fix later to maint).