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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 6eb16ebb6f..2f6b4948e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -236,6 +236,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Out of maintenance gcc on OSX 10.6 fails to compile the code in 'master'; work it around by using clang by default on the platform. + * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct + the full path out of a series of path components while walking a + tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path + needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that + is already flat, in many cases. The API has been removed and its + users have been rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity. + This incidentally also closes some heap-corruption holes. + + * Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a + file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we + expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our + scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data, + even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from + end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when + using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |