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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index 8b29f7712d..858ed4d674 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -38,6 +38,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features lacked an equivalent mechanism to run the "Git-to-outside-world" conversion. The command learned the "--filters" option to do so. + * Output from "git diff" can be made easier to read by selecting + which lines are common and which lines are added/deleted + intelligently when the lines before and after the changed section + are the same. A command line option is added to help with the + experiment to find a good heuristics. + + * In some projects, it is common to use "[RFC PATCH]" as the subject + prefix for a patch meant for discussion rather than application. A + new option "--rfc" was a short-hand for "--subject-prefix=RFC PATCH" + to help the participants of such projects. + + * "git add --chmod=+x <pathspec>" added recently only toggled the + executable bit for paths that are either new or modified. This has + been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match + the given pathspec. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -196,9 +212,59 @@ notes for details). 50. (merge 07e7dbf jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth later to maint). + * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use + of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is + 'false', instead of saying their default is taken from `color.ui`. + When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to + 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been + corrected. + (merge 14d16e2 mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto later to maint). + + * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of + commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a + color-reset sequence to the output. + (merge c99ad27 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint). + + * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been + fixed. + (merge 92dece7 ep/doc-check-ref-format-example later to maint). + + * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation + rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow + checking out a branch 'foo' in a project that happens to have a + file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. + This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the + command was run from a subdirectory. + (merge b829b94 nd/checkout-disambiguation later to maint). + + * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was + mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read + beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing + a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND + extension. + (merge b7d36ff js/regexec-buf later to maint). + + * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the + internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a + no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we + need to know to fix this. + (merge f86f49b ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix later to maint). + + * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the + user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step + after that was (i.e. "--continue"). + (merge 37875b4 rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise later to maint). + + * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. + (merge 106b672 jk/doc-cvs-update later to maint). + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in + recent update, which has been corrected. + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint). (merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint). (merge a8342a4 rs/strbuf-remove-fix later to maint). (merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint). (merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint). + (merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint). |