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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index 993e49341e..f13eb759f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -12,13 +12,19 @@ Backward compatibility notes. release (yet). * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." - has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a - future release. + has been deprecated for quite some time, and is now removed. * The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket". + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + Updates since v2.12 ------------------- @@ -145,6 +151,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features doing other things, output from reset seeped out). These, and other chattyness has been fixed. + * "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that has been deprecated + since October 2007 has been removed. + + * The refs completion for large number of refs has been sped up, + partly by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs and partly by + eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref' + and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility. + + * On many keyboards, typing "@{" involves holding down SHIFT key and + one can easily end up with "@{Up..." when typing "@{upstream}". As + the upstream/push keywords do not appear anywhere else in the syntax, + we can safely accept them case insensitively without introducing + ambiguity or confusion to solve this. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -228,6 +248,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * An earlier version of sha1dc/sha1.c that was merged to 'master' compiled incorrectly on Windows, which has been fixed. + * "what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we + interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct + concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended, + paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many + submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple + worktrees for a project with submodules. + + * Some debugging output from "git describe" were marked for l10n, + but some weren't. Mark missing ones for l10n. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -377,8 +407,40 @@ notes for details). * Fix for NO_PTHREADS option. (merge 2225e1ea20 bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + (merge b1ef400eec jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final later to maint). + + * A few commands that recently learned the "--recurse-submodule" + option misbehaved when started from a subdirectory of the + superproject. + (merge b2dfeb7c00 bw/recurse-submodules-relative-fix later to maint). + + * FreeBSD implementation of getcwd(3) behaved differently when an + intermediate directory is unreadable/unsearchable depending on the + length of the buffer provided, which our strbuf_getcwd() was not + aware of. strbuf_getcwd() has been taught to cope with it better. + (merge a54e938e5b rs/freebsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint). + + * A recent update to "rebase -i" stopped running hooks for the "git + commit" command during "reword" action, which has been fixed. + + * Removing an entry from a notes tree and then looking another note + entry from the resulting tree using the internal notes API + functions did not work as expected. No in-tree users of the API + has such access pattern, but it still is worth fixing. + + * "git receive-pack" could have been forced to die by attempting + allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory with a crafted push + certificate; this has been fixed. + (merge f2214dede9 bc/push-cert-receive-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint). (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint). (merge 3e5b36c637 sg/skip-prefix-in-prettify-refname later to maint). (merge 2c5e2865cc jk/fast-import-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 4473060bc2 ab/test-readme-updates later to maint). + (merge 48a96972fd ab/doc-submitting later to maint). + (merge f5c2bc2b96 jk/make-coccicheck-detect-errors later to maint). |