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@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git interpret-trailers" can now run outside of a Git repository.
+ * "git p4" learned to reencode the pathname it uses to communicate
+ with the p4 depot with a new option.
+
+ * Give progress meter to "git filter-branch".
+
+ * Allow a later "!/abc/def" to override an earlier "/abc" that
+ appears in the same .gitignore file to make it easier to express
+ "everything in /abc directory is ignored, except for ...".
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -105,5 +114,12 @@ notes for details).
in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.
(merge ef49e05 jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix later to maint).
+ * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call
+ inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause
+ glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler
+ tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce
+ these unsafe calls.
+ (merge 507d780 ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler later to maint).
+
* Code clean-up and minor fixes.
(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).