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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt index 55903d8d7e..02e150efcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt @@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ Backward compatibility notes easily opt into a set of newer features, which use of the v2 transport protocol is now a part of. + * It used to be that setting extensions.* configuration variables + alone, while leaving core.repositoryFormatVersion=0, made these + settings effective, which was a wrong thing to do. In version 0, + there was no special meaning in extensions.* configuration + variables. This has been corrected. If you need these repository + extensions to be effective, the core.repositoryFormatVersion + variable needs to be updated to 1 after vetting these extensions.* + variables are set correctly. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -22,6 +31,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The interface to redact sensitive information in the trace output has been simplified. + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete + options that the "git switch" command takes. + + * "git diff" used to take arguments in random and nonsense range + notation, e.g. "git diff A..B C", "git diff A..B C...D", etc., + which has been cleaned up. + + * "git diff-files" has been taught to say paths that are marked as + intent-to-add are new files, not modified from an empty blob. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -53,6 +72,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Workaround breakage in MSVC build, where "curl-config --cflags" gives settings appropriate for GCC build. + * Code clean-up of "git clean" resulted in a fix of recent + performance regression. + + * Code clean-up in the codepath that serves "git fetch" continues. + + * "git merge-base --is-ancestor" is taught to take advantage of the + commit graph. + + * Rewrite of parts of the scripted "git submodule" Porcelain command + continues; this time it is "git submodule set-branch" subcommand's + turn. + + * The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to + instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition + to the packed object data coming over the wire. + + * A misdesigned strbuf_write_fd() function has been retired. + + Fixes since v2.27 ----------------- @@ -110,9 +148,21 @@ Fixes since v2.27 * The effect of sparse checkout settings on submodules is documented. (merge e7d7c73249 en/sparse-with-submodule-doc later to maint). + * Code clean-up around "git branch" with a minor bugfix. + (merge dc44639904 dl/branch-cleanup later to maint). + + * A branch name used in a test has been clarified to match what is + going on. + (merge 08dc26061f pb/t4014-unslave later to maint). + + * An in-code comment in "git diff" has been updated. + (merge c592fd4c83 dl/diff-usage-comment-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint). (merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint). (merge 788db145c7 dl/t-readme-spell-git-correctly later to maint). (merge 45a87a83bb dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version later to maint). (merge b75a219904 es/advertise-contribution-doc later to maint). + (merge 0c9a4f638a rs/pull-leakfix later to maint). + (merge d546fe2874 rs/commit-reach-leakfix later to maint). |