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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index dcb39fe56c..d7c23b17c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ Backward compatibility warts Note to those who build from the source - * + * Since Git 2.31, our source assumed that the compiler you use to + build Git supports variadic macros, with an easy-to-use escape + hatch to allow compilation without variadic macros with an request + to report that you had to use the escape hatch to the list. + Because we haven't heard from anybody who actually needed to use + the escape hatch, it has been removed, making support of variadic + macros a hard requirement. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -52,6 +58,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified to suggest the "--detach" option that is required. + * In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree + could lead to later problems. Such files were hard to discover, and + harder to correct. Automatically detecting and correcting the marking + of such files has been added to avoid these problems. + + * "git cat-file" learns "--batch-command" mode, which is a more + flexible interface than the existing "--batch" or "--batch-check" + modes, to allow different kinds of inquiries made. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -90,6 +105,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Use designated initializers we started using in mid 2017 in more parts of the codebase that are relatively quiescent. + * Improve failure case behaviour of xdiff library when memory + allocation fails. + + * General clean-up in reftable implementation, including + clarification of the API documentation, tightening the code to + honor documented length limit, etc. + + * Remove the escape hatch we added when we introduced the weather + balloon to use variadic macros unconditionally, to make it official + that we now have a hard dependency on the feature. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- |