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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63499b7c0e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +Git 2.10 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +Updates since v2.9 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user + that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing. + + * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone + some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships. + + * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for + "@{-1}", the previous branch. + + * Update the funcname definition to support css files. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git + status" options. + + * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the + receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way + that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the + users. + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid + creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have, + using *.unpackLimit configuration. + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint). + + * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options + API. + + * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the + first step to move many state variables into a structure that can + be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more + than once. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint). + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint). + + * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, + configuration variables and environment variables are consistently + typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. + (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint). + + * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is + documented now. + (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint). + + * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when + referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. + (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint). + + * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch + creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the + reflog was truncated. + (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint). + + * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those + who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. + (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint). + + * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile. + (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint). + + * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data + on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. + (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint). + + * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape + hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to + use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. + (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint). + + * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) + (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint). + + * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working + tree". + (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint). + + * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with + the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). + (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git + cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint). + (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint). + (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint). + (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed2bca038b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v2.9.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |