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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt index 85c35202d1..7b044dfd86 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Teach "git p4" to send large blobs outside the repository by talking to Git LFS. + * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo + backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository + format version "1", with an extension mechanism. + (merge 067fbd4 jk/repository-extension later to maint). + + * "git worktree" learned a "list" subcommand. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -58,7 +65,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Some features from "git tag -l" and "git branch -l" have been made available to "git for-each-ref" so that eventually the unified - implementation can be shared across all three. + implementation can be shared across all three. The version merged + to the 'master' branch earlier had a performance regression in "tag + --contains", which has since been corrected. * Because "test_when_finished" in our test framework queues the clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be @@ -83,6 +92,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error prone constructs such as xstrfmt. + * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it + logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser + of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API. + (merge bed4452 tk/stripspace later to maint). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -224,6 +238,26 @@ notes for details). but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash. (merge b2a7123 rd/test-path-utils later to maint). + * A test for interaction between untracked cache and sparse checkout + added in Git 2.5 days were flaky. + (merge 9b680fb dt/t7063-fix-flaky-test later to maint). + + * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string + to note where options should come on their command line, but we + spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days. + (merge d96a031 rt/placeholder-in-usage later to maint). + + * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read + list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they + only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. + (merge 33e8fc8 jc/usage-stdin later to maint). + + * "git am -3" had a small regression where it is aborted in its error + handling codepath when underlying merge-recursive failed in certain + ways, as it assumed that the internal call to merge-recursive will + never die, which is not the case (yet). + (merge c63d4b2 jc/am-3-fallback-regression-fix later to maint). + * Code clean-up and minor fixes. (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint). (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint). @@ -234,3 +268,4 @@ notes for details). (merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup later to maint). (merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint). (merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint). + (merge ae9f274 es/worktree-add later to maint). |