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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt index c9e2e19721..fd5aecf8e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this - work. + work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the + working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what + our side originally had. * "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to @@ -256,16 +258,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store the objects are to be located). - * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has - learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, - z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also - want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory - 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename - to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this - work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the - working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what - our side originally had. - * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry" while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance quite a bit. |