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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 1a0fcb2027..17e904cf4d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Updates since v2.7 UI, Workflows & Features * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. - (merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint). * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes too much time before emitting the first line of the result. @@ -42,6 +41,48 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output. + * Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text + that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control + their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated + to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they + used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR, + which is usually not what the users expect). + + * "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree + to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting + when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote + repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g. + refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch). + + * "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose + end-of-line problems. + + * "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote + repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at. + + * New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to + specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around + proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when + CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication + has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication + material in user's keyrings. + + * Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from + "git update-index" to "git config". + + * There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in + the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose + option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never + passed the verbose option down to that codepath. + + * Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower + precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by + setting the variable to an empty string. + + * A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a + commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the + given <pattern>. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -77,6 +118,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing only the number of changes). + * "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same + underlying machinery) has been optimized. + + * Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by + persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing + tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total + wallclock time. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -170,8 +219,57 @@ notes for details). 1.9.0 and later. (merge 0b66415 ew/svn-1.9.0-auth later to maint). + * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly + skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. + (merge 933cfeb dw/subtree-split-do-not-drop-merge later to maint). + + * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was + run from a subdirectory. + (merge a97262c nd/diff-with-path-params later to maint). + + * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options + and command specific syntax. + (merge fa4b5e3 jk/completion-rebase later to maint). + (merge f7c2e1a pw/completion-show-branch later to maint). + (merge d7d4ca8 pw/completion-stash later to maint). + (merge e6414b4 tb/complete-word-diff-regex later to maint). + + * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. + (merge e7d5ce8 js/dirname-basename later to maint). + + * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands + have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted + CPU cycles. + (merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint). + + * "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix + possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a + worktree to different places without telling Git (the original + repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but + "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will + obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse + when triggered. + (merge 618244e nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually later to maint). + + * The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line + termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that + are themselves CRLF line-terminated. + (merge 15980de js/xmerge-marker-eol later to maint). + + * "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push + needed to force (or fast-forwarded). + (merge b2e93f8 aw/push-force-with-lease-reporting later to maint). + + * The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been + tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output + that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would + not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE. + (merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint). (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint). + (merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint). |