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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt index 5974734bb4..17360e5d53 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt @@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 6.3 better. + * HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from + the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport. + + * The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default + enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the + multiple cores they have. + * "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more timestamp formats, including "--date=now". @@ -49,6 +56,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features already starts a line in the message being edited for cases like "git commit --amend". + * "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to take the mail + signature from. + * "git grep" learned grep.fullname configuration variable to force "--full-name" to be default. This may cause regressions on scripted users that do not expect this new behaviour. @@ -56,6 +66,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git imap-send" learned to ask the credential helper for auth material. + * "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" set to the + "log.decorate" configuration variable to enable the "--decorate" + option automatically when the output is sent to tty. + * "git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream defined for the current branch, refused to run until merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that @@ -76,6 +90,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want to resurrect the now-ignored use case. + * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand. + * "git svn" learned to cope with malformed timestamps with only one digit in the hour part, e.g. 2014-01-07T5:01:02.048176Z, emitted by some broken subversion server implementations. @@ -102,6 +118,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this API. + * Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation, + e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7 + and run everything else. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -129,6 +149,27 @@ notes for details). corrected. (merge e61a6c1 pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint). + * Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing + loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as + the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true. + (merge d6c8a05 jk/report-fail-to-read-objects-better later to maint). + + * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of + commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10 + in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did + not take into account that number of bytes and number of display + columns are different. + (merge 7d50987 as/pretty-truncate later to maint). + + * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde + expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path). + (merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint). + + * The completion scripts (in contrib/) did not know about quite a few + options that are common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a + couple of options unique to "git merge". + (merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint). + * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have. @@ -148,6 +189,22 @@ notes for details). commit did not have any log message. (merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint). + * "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode + bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged + bit. + (merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint). + + * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow" + option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with + exactly one pathspec. + (merge dd63f16 jk/diff-follow-must-take-one-pathspec later to maint). + + * "git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to + give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the + terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should + be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs. + (merge 62aad18 nd/daemonize-gc later to maint). + * "git grep -O" to show the lines that hit in the pager did not work well with case insensitive search. We now spawn "less" with its "-I" option when it is used as the pager (which is the default). @@ -171,16 +228,31 @@ notes for details). except for case differences. (merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint). + * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when + extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table + from scratch anyway. + (merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint). + * "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle was set to a non-default value. (merge de3d8bb fc/rerere-conflict-style later to maint). + * "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many + refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very + many refs exist in the packed-refs file. + (merge e6bea66 jl/remote-rm-prune later to maint). + * "git log --exclude=<glob> --all | git shortlog" worked as expected, but "git shortlog --exclude=<glob> --all", which is supposed to be identical to the above pipeline, was not accepted at the command line argument parser level. (merge eb07774 jc/shortlog-ref-exclude later to maint). + * The autostash mode of "git rebase -i" did not restore the dirty + working tree state if the user aborted the interactive rebase by + emptying the insn sheet. + (merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint). + * "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit an extra blank line after a merge commit. (merge ad2f725 mk/show-s-no-extra-blank-line-for-merges later to maint). @@ -192,6 +264,14 @@ notes for details). is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index. (merge 426ddee ym/fix-opportunistic-index-update-race later to maint). + * "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified + submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set, + which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff + output during the course of development, and should not to hide + changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit + them. + (merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint). + * "git update-index --cacheinfo" in 2.0 release crashed on a malformed command line. (merge c8e1ee4 jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words later to maint). |