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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt index f938768b2a..050371d94c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt @@ -56,6 +56,21 @@ 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 + to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation + to stop. + + * When linked worktree is used, simultaneous "notes merge" instances + 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. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -110,6 +125,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced. + * The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API. + + * To prepare for allowing a different "ref" backend to be plugged in + to the system, update_ref()/delete_ref() have been taught about + ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will + always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -212,6 +234,35 @@ notes for details). in C. (merge 22d6857 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 + then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses + O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the + packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the + object does not exist in that packfile to the caller. + (merge dff6f28 cb/open-noatime-clear-errno later to maint). + + * The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to + the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while + calling die(). + (merge f4c3edc jk/long-error-messages later to maint). + + * strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary + 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 82aec45 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. + (merge 6262fe9 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix 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). @@ -221,3 +272,10 @@ notes for details). (merge 4a6ada3 ad/bisect-cleanup later to maint). (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). |