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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt | 102 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt | 30 |
3 files changed, 140 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 073a126a9c..0c81c5915f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -62,8 +62,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. - * We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other - operations that need to see which paths have been modified. + * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new + fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations + that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only + support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of + git-update-index(1) for more detail. * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in carriage return at the end of line. @@ -120,6 +123,31 @@ UI, Workflows & Features who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them confusing with the range syntax. + * With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set, + "git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter + command names. + + * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like + "git checkout" does, after the initial checkout. + + * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as + recent versions of Subversion rejects them. + + * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when + making a request to the server, which has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up. + + * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy + when using recent versions of libcurl. + + * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures + configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures' + option was given from the command line. + + * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a + <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -183,6 +211,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no tracing is requested. + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object + walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some + objects from enumeration. + + * A few structures and variables that are implementation details of + the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented + better. + + * Assorted updates for TravisCI integration. + (merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + + * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that + expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>". + + * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and + the exact commit object name the binary was built from. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -299,7 +344,7 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the "--copy" option of "git branch". - * When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git + * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has been corrected. @@ -374,6 +419,40 @@ Fixes since v2.15 lost. (merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint). + * The "safe crlf" check incorrectly triggered for contents that does + not use CRLF as line endings, which has been corrected. + (merge 649f1f0948 tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf later to maint). + + * "git clone --shared" to borrow from a (secondary) worktree did not + work, even though "git clone --local" did. Both are now accepted. + (merge b3b05971c1 es/clone-shared-worktree later to maint). + + * The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also + the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html + documents to install. + (merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint). + + * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR + from strings read from various "state" files. + (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + + * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made + credential helper fail. + (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly + down to underlying merge strategy backend. + (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint). (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint). @@ -384,3 +463,20 @@ Fixes since v2.15 (merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint). (merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint). (merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 1b09073514 rs/am-builtin-leakfix later to maint). + (merge addcf6cfde rs/fmt-merge-msg-string-leak-fix later to maint). + (merge c3ff8f6c14 rs/strbuf-read-once-reset-length later to maint). + (merge 6b0eb884f9 db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer later to maint). + (merge 8c87bdfb21 jk/cvsimport-quoting later to maint). + (merge 176cb979fe rs/fmt-merge-msg-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 5a03360e73 tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma later to maint). + (merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint). + (merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint). + (merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint). + (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint). + (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint). + (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint). + (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint). + (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint). + (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..66e64361fd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.16.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.16 +----------------- + + * "git clone" segfaulted when cloning a project that happens to + track two paths that differ only in case on a case insensitive + filesystem. + +Does not contain any other documentation updates or code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a216466d3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Git v2.16.2 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.16.1 +------------------- + + * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been + fixed. + + * "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a + svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers + to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when + svn.pushmergeinfo option is set. + + * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when + resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link. + + * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists + as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly + removed it upon a failure of the operation. + + * "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in + the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected. + + * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as + they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes + anyway. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |