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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 431bd5e34a..073a126a9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -96,6 +96,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take the "--autostash" option. + * The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can + now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional + options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>. + + * "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault, + which is being fixed. + + * "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available + in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be + checked to also include directories on $PATH. + + * "git diff" learned, "--anchored", a variant of the "--patience" + algorithm, to which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be + used as anchoring points. + + * The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from + where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit. + + * Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated + object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but + these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git + who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them + confusing with the range syntax. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -143,6 +167,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git without harming them. + * An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is + introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various + codepaths has been started. + + * The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized. + + * An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has + been removed, as there is no remaining callers. + + * Historically, the diff machinery for rename detection had a + hardcoded limit of 32k paths; this is being lifted to allow users + trade cycles with a (possibly) easier to read result. + + * The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no + tracing is requested. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -284,10 +324,10 @@ Fixes since v2.15 * "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of) removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days. The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its - synopsys section, which has been corrected. + synopsis section, which has been corrected. (merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint). - * Internaly we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the + * Internally we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating @@ -302,8 +342,45 @@ Fixes since v2.15 accept "git stash -mmessage" form. (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint). + * @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state, + but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed. + (merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint). + + * A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed. + (merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint). + + * The code internal to the recursive merge strategy was not fully + prepared to see a path that is renamed to try overwriting another + path that is only different in case on case insensitive systems. + This does not matter in the current code, but will start to matter + once the rename detection logic starts taking hints from nearby + paths moving to some directory and moves a new path along with them. + (merge 4cba2b0108 en/merge-recursive-icase-removal later to maint). + + * An v2.12-era regression in pathspec match logic, which made it look + into submodule tree even when it is not desired, has been fixed. + (merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint). + + * Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii + due to incorrect enconding conversion. + + * Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree" + by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront. + (merge fd66bcc31f bw/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). + + * Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the + user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor + opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets + lost. + (merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message 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). (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint). (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint). + (merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint). + (merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint). + (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). |