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@@ -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).