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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index 8c3b52b352..2448a7eb7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -16,12 +16,20 @@ The output formats of "git log" that indents the commit log message by 4 spaces now expands HT in the log message by default. You can use the "--no-expand-tabs" option to disable this. +"git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign +its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration +variable, which was an ancient mistake, which this release corrects. +A script that drives commit-tree, if it relies on this mistake, now +needs to read commit.gpgsign and pass the -S option as necessary. + Updates since v2.8 ------------------ UI, Workflows & Features + * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/). + * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" now enables the rename detection by default. @@ -343,6 +351,35 @@ notes for details). * Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test. (merge 9e220fe ls/p4-lfs-test-fix-2.7.0 later to maint). + * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from + its "lfs pointer" subcommand. + (merge 82f2567 ls/p4-lfs later to maint). + + * "git fetch" test t5510 was flaky while running a (forced) automagic + garbage collection. + (merge bb05510 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). + + * Documentation updates to help contributors setting up Travis CI + test for their patches. + (merge 0e5d028 ls/travis-submitting-patches later to maint). + + * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part + of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in + gitweb. + (merge 029f372 sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding later to maint). + + * "git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign + its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration + variable, which was an ancient mistake. Rework "git rebase" that + relied on this mistake so that it reads commit.gpgsign and pass (or + not pass) the -S option to "git commit-tree" to keep the end-user + expectation the same, while teaching "git commit-tree" to ignore + the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to + sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of + "git stash". + (merge 6694856 jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint). (merge 99dab16 sb/misc-cleanups later to maint). @@ -352,3 +389,7 @@ notes for details). (merge 060e776 jk/fix-attribute-macro-in-2.5 later to maint). (merge d16df0c rt/string-list-lookup-cleanup later to maint). (merge 376eb60 sb/config-exit-status-list later to maint). + (merge 9cea46c ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap later to maint). + (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint). + (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint). + (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint). |