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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt index 39efc411c7..175a644f82 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt @@ -60,6 +60,31 @@ UI, Workflows & Features locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained a --verbose option. + * "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by + HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol + did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an + empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so. + + * There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a + "commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git + range-diff" did not understand them. + + * The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option + to show only one side of the compared range. + + * "git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of + a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally + prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved. + + * The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a + working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read + by accident, which has been corrected. + + * "git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task. + + * The error message given when a configuration variable that is + expected to have a boolean value has been improved. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -136,6 +161,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may not be controversial. + * Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which + traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core. + + * The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of + the generation number to help topological revision traversal. + + * Piecemeal of rewrite of "git bisect" in C continues. + Fixes since v2.30 ----------------- @@ -188,5 +221,51 @@ Fixes since v2.30 processing. This has been corrected. (merge f7d42ceec5 js/rebase-i-commit-cleanup-fix later to maint). + * Fix in passing custom args from "git clone" to "upload-pack" on the + other side. + (merge ad6b5fefbd jv/upload-pack-filter-spec-quotefix later to maint). + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) completed "git branch -d" + with branch names, but "git branch -D" offered tagnames in addition, + which has been corrected. "git branch -M" had the same problem. + (merge 27dc071b9a jk/complete-branch-force-delete later to maint). + + * When commands are started from a subdirectory, they may have to + compare the path to the subdirectory (called prefix and found out + from $(pwd)) with the tracked paths. On macOS, $(pwd) and + readdir() yield decomposed path, while the tracked paths are + usually normalized to the precomposed form, causing mismatch. This + has been fixed by taking the same approach used to normalize the + command line arguments. + (merge 5c327502db tb/precompose-prefix-too later to maint). + + * Even though invocations of "die()" were logged to the trace2 + system, "BUG()"s were not, which has been corrected. + (merge 0a9dde4a04 jt/trace2-BUG later to maint). + + * "git grep --untracked" is meant to be "let's ALSO find in these + files on the filesystem" when looking for matches in the working + tree files, and does not make any sense if the primary search is + done against the index, or the tree objects. The "--cached" and + "--untracked" options have been marked as mutually incompatible. + (merge 0c5d83b248 mt/grep-cached-untracked later to maint). + + * Fix "git fsck --name-objects" which apparently has not been used by + anybody who is motivated enough to report breakage. + (merge e89f89361c js/fsck-name-objects-fix later to maint). + + * Avoid individual tests in t5411 from getting affected by each other + by forcing them to use separate output files during the test. + (merge 822ee894f6 jx/t5411-unique-filenames later to maint). + + * Test to make sure "git rev-parse one-thing one-thing" gives + the same thing twice (when one-thing is --since=X). + (merge a5cdca4520 ew/rev-parse-since-test later to maint). + + * When certain features (e.g. grafts) used in the repository are + incompatible with the use of the commit-graph, we used to silently + turned commit-graph off; we now tell the user what we are doing. + (merge c85eec7fc3 js/commit-graph-warning later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint). |