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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt index acc7415505..0c71d9d54d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt @@ -63,7 +63,27 @@ UI, Workflows & Features "quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d"). - * Many commands that creates commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase", + * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for + the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable + configuration option. + + * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have + been marked for i18n/l10n. + + * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that + is not a blob as an error. + + * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is + given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an + operation to update the configuration in the standard input of + course is rejected). + + * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted + for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly + speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely + to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy. + + * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase", learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line. * "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit @@ -85,6 +105,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases + ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3). + + * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix + well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC + over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the + "easy" interface. + * The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should significantly improve performance when serving objects form a repository that uses it. @@ -97,7 +125,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. suits your needs better when using the former. -Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many +of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject +exercises. Fixes since v1.9 series @@ -107,6 +137,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the + working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file + ".git" tells us where it is. + (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint). + + * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is + defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two + variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did + by mistake. + (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint). + + * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been + tightened. + (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory + in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is + the same as one of the versions being compared. + (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint). + + * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working + tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an + otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working + tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored. + (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint). + + * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree + did not work well when the working tree was specified via the + --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option. + (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint). + * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames involved. This has been corrected. |