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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt index f771854705..22b73618fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp + to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow + all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something + other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases). + + * We no longer attempt to keep track of individual dependencies to + the header files in the build procedure, relying on automated + dependency generation support from modern compilers. + * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented. The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion. @@ -37,12 +46,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. + * The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit + decoration has been updated to make it less cumbersome to use. + * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same - configuration files number of times has been added. + configuration files number of times has been added. A few commands + have been converted to use this subsystem. * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more. + * A few codepaths that died when large blobs that would not fit in + core are involved in their operation have been taught to punt + instead, by e.g. marking too large a blob as not to be diffed. + + * A few more code paths in "commit" and "checkout" have been taught + to repopulate the cache-tree in the index, to help speed up later + "write-tree" (used in "commit") and "diff-index --cached" (used in + "status"). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -89,3 +111,22 @@ notes for details). * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo. (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint). + + * "git checkout -m" did not switch to another branch while carrying + the local changes forward when a path was deleted from the index. + (merge 6a143aa jn/unpack-trees-checkout-m-carry-deletion later to maint). + + * With sufficiently long refnames, "git fast-import" could have + overflown an on-stack buffer. + (merge c252785 jk/fast-import-fixes later to maint). + + * After "pack-refs --prune" packed refs at the top-level, it failed + to prune them. + (merge afd11d3 jk/prune-top-level-refs-after-packing later to maint). + + * Progress output from "git gc --auto" was visible in "git fetch -q". + (merge 6fceed3 nd/fetch-pass-quiet-to-gc-child-process later to maint). + + * We used to pass -1000 to poll(2), expecting it to also mean "no + timeout", which should be spelled as -1. + (merge 6c71f8b et/spell-poll-infinite-with-minus-one-only later to maint). |