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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index f1dd8c8626..c7bd0f7e96 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in 2.11 (Nov 2016). + * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git + notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is + squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration. + + * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and + pass it down to "git merge". + + * The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a + list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable. + + * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x" + operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'" + pragma, which now we do. + + * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -24,15 +40,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage of this new facility. - (merge b74c90fb41 ma/lockfile-fixes later to maint). * Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example. - (merge a92b1095d1 jc/no-cmd-as-subroutine later to maint). * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that does not support "local" like bash/dash does. - (merge 01d3a526ad mh/test-local-canary later to maint). + + * An early part of piece-by-piece rewrite of "git bisect" in C. + + * GSoC to piece-by-piece rewrite "git submodule" in C. + + * Optimize the code to find shortest unique prefix of object names. + + * Pathspec-limited revision traversal was taught not to keep finding + unneeded differences once it knows two trees are different inside + given pathspec. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -80,5 +105,22 @@ Fixes since v2.15 commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). + * A (possibly flakey) test fix. + (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint). + + * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run + outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation + and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in + such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. + (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint). + + * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be + moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated, + and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly. + (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint). + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint). |