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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt | 35 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index 9c3f94ae2d..0c6eed2007 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -108,7 +108,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph" rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has been introduced. - (merge 512aba261a nd/log-graph-configurable-colors later to maint). + + * "git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned + to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option. + + * When a submodule "A", which has another submodule "B" nested within + it, is "absorbed" into the top-level superproject, the inner + submodule "B" used to be left in a strange state. The logic to + adjust the .git pointers in these submodules has been corrected. + + * The user can specify a custom update method that is run when + "submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This + was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and + we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the + path in the superproject's index. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that + "git diff --submodule=" can take "diff" as a recently added option. + + * The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been + enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs + other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches, + remote-tracking branches and notes). Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -129,13 +150,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git opens has been simplified. - (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint). * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one. - (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint). * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a @@ -162,7 +181,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. TravisCI. * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C. - (merge 94d3997ecc js/difftool-builtin later to maint). + + * "make -C t failed" will now run only the tests that failed in the + previous run. This is usable only when prove is not use, and gives + a useless error message when run after "make clean", but otherwise + is serviceable. + + * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -374,7 +399,6 @@ notes for details). natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not, to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the codepath reentrant. - (merge 83fc4d64fe rs/qsort-s later to maint). * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all. (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint). @@ -411,7 +435,6 @@ notes for details). needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality. - (merge 55d2d812e4 bc/use-asciidoctor-opt later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). |