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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index 9b5c417b0e..290cad5287 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean operation learned to show the progress meter. + * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be + used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and + friends. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -167,6 +171,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also + can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update + the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then + make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually + deprecate and remove the former. + + * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing + out coding style issues. + + * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules + has been added. + (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work + at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that + expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been + fixed. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -296,6 +318,47 @@ Fixes since v2.14 to match the behaviour of the former. (merge c818e74332 rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim later to maint). + * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks + go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function, + which have been corrected. + (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint). + + * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is". + (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint). + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + (merge 4318094047 rs/archive-excluded-directory later to maint). + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + (merge c788c54cde tg/refs-allowed-flags later to maint). + + * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been + slightly tweaked. + (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint). + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + (merge afe2fab72c aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix later to maint). + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint). + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + (merge 1a6d46895d tb/test-lint-echo-e later to maint). + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + (merge ac7da78ede mh/for-each-string-list-item-empty-fix later to maint). + + * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string. + (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint). @@ -309,3 +372,7 @@ Fixes since v2.14 (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). (merge 3bc4b8f7c7 bb/doc-eol-dirty later to maint). (merge c1bb33c99c jk/system-path-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ab46e6fc72 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint). + (merge f7a32dd97f kd/doc-for-each-ref later to maint). + (merge be94568bc7 ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix later to maint). + (merge 01e4be6c3d ks/test-readme-phrasofix later to maint). |