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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt | 166 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index 248ba70c3d..cdd761bcc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)". - * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the + * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blobs in the history overview page. * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable @@ -109,13 +109,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and - essentialpart of the system to catch people who care about + essential part of the system to catch people who care about older compilers that do not grok them. * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long latency give a "delayed" response. - * Many uses of comparision callback function the hashmap API uses + * Many uses of comparison callback function the hashmap API uses cast the callback function type when registering it to hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e46197f478 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +Git 2.16 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is now an error. + + +Updates since v2.15 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" + i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first + 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. + + * An earlier update made it possible to use an on-stack in-core + 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. + + * 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. + + * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that + does not support "local" like bash/dash does. + + * 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. + + * Code cleanup. + (merge 62a24c8923 rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup later to maint). + + * A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split + into a structure with many bitfields. + (merge 0d1e0e7801 bw/diff-opt-impl-to-bitfields later to maint). + + * TravisCI build updates. + (merge c2154953b8 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch + has been corrected. + (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. + (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + 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). + + * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} + configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". + (merge de0bc11d13 sb/blame-config-doc later to maint). + + * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function + sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, + which has been fixed. + (merge 10e0ca843d ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix later to maint). + + * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now + tested just like Mingw builds. + (merge f21d60b429 ad/5580-unc-tests-on-cygwin later to maint). + + * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed + immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at + around Git 2.13). + (merge fa4d8c783d js/early-config later to maint). + + * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved + to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are + currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). + (merge 9c109e9bbc dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix later to maint). + + * MinGW updates. + (merge 39bb86b4e5 js/mingw-full-version-in-resources later to maint). + (merge 601e1e7897 js/wincred-empty-cred later to maint). + (merge b2f55717c7 js/mingw-redirect-std-handles 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). + (merge 8684dde10d jm/relnotes-2.15-typofix later to maint). + (merge cd3f8e2fc2 ks/mailmap later to maint). |