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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index dcb39fe56c..de91b846d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -16,7 +16,13 @@ Backward compatibility warts Note to those who build from the source - * + * Since Git 2.31, our source assumed that the compiler you use to + build Git supports variadic macros, with an easy-to-use escape + hatch to allow compilation without variadic macros with an request + to report that you had to use the escape hatch to the list. + Because we haven't heard from anybody who actually needed to use + the escape hatch, it has been removed, making support of variadic + macros a hard requirement. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -52,6 +58,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified to suggest the "--detach" option that is required. + * In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree + could lead to later problems. Such files were hard to discover, and + harder to correct. Automatically detecting and correcting the marking + of such files has been added to avoid these problems. + + * "git cat-file" learns "--batch-command" mode, which is a more + flexible interface than the existing "--batch" or "--batch-check" + modes, to allow different kinds of inquiries made. + + * The level of verbose output from the ort backend during inner merge + has been aligned to that of the recursive backend. + + * "git remote rename A B", depending on the number of remote-tracking + refs involved, takes long time renaming them. The command has been + taught to show progress bar while making the user wait. + + * Bundle file format gets extended to allow a partial bundle, + filtered by similar criteria you would give when making a + partial/lazy clone. + + * A new built-in userdiff driver for kotlin has been added. + + * "git repack" learned a new configuration to disable triggering of + age-old "update-server-info" command, which is rarely useful these + days. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -90,6 +122,36 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Use designated initializers we started using in mid 2017 in more parts of the codebase that are relatively quiescent. + * Improve failure case behaviour of xdiff library when memory + allocation fails. + + * General clean-up in reftable implementation, including + clarification of the API documentation, tightening the code to + honor documented length limit, etc. + + * Remove the escape hatch we added when we introduced the weather + balloon to use variadic macros unconditionally, to make it official + that we now have a hard dependency on the feature. + + * Makefile refactoring with a bit of suffixes rule stripping to + optimize the runtime overhead. + + * "git stash drop" is reimplemented as an internal call to + reflog_delete() function, instead of invoking "git reflog delete" + via run_command() API. + + * Count string_list items in size_t, not "unsigned int". + + * The single-key interactive operation used by "git add -p" has been + made more robust. + + * Remove unneeded <meta http-equiv=content-type...> from gitweb + output. + + * "git name-rev" learned to use the generation numbers when setting + the lower bound of searching commits used to explain the revision, + when available, instead of committer time. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- @@ -253,6 +315,35 @@ Fixes since v2.35 recorded the last level component of the branch name, which has been corrected. + * "git fetch" can make two separate fetches, but ref updates coming + from them were in two separate ref transactions under "--atomic", + which has been corrected. + + * Check the return value from parse_tree_indirect() to turn segfaults + into calls to die(). + (merge 8d2eaf649a gc/parse-tree-indirect-errors later to maint). + + * Newer version of GPGSM changed its output in a backward + incompatible way to break our code that parses its output. It also + added more processes our tests need to kill when cleaning up. + Adjustments have been made to accommodate these changes. + (merge b0b70d54c4 fs/gpgsm-update later to maint). + + * The untracked cache newly computed weren't written back to the + on-disk index file when there is no other change to the index, + which has been corrected. + + * "git config -h" did not describe the "--type" option correctly. + (merge 5445124fad mf/fix-type-in-config-h later to maint). + + * The way generation number v2 in the commit-graph files are + (not) handled has been corrected. + (merge 6dbf4b8172 ds/commit-graph-gen-v2-fixes later to maint). + + * The method to trigger malloc check used in our tests no longer work + with newer versions of glibc. + (merge baedc59543 ep/test-malloc-check-with-glibc-2.34 later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint). (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint). @@ -277,3 +368,8 @@ Fixes since v2.35 (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint). (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint). (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint). + (merge 63a36017fe nj/read-tree-doc-reffix later to maint). + (merge eed36fce38 sm/no-git-in-upstream-of-pipe-in-tests later to maint). + (merge c614beb933 ep/t6423-modernize later to maint). + (merge 57be9c6dee ab/reflog-prep-fix later to maint). + (merge 5327d8982a js/in-place-reverse-in-sequencer later to maint). |