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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index 63499b7c0e..3853b3dec6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -28,6 +28,34 @@ UI, Workflows & Features that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the users. + * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic + experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split + as "git diff" output. + (merge 46e3d17 jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics later to maint). + + * "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when + responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook. + (merge 20b20a2 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint). + + * Teach format-patch and mailsplit (hence "am") how a line that + happens to begin with "From " in the e-mail message is quoted with + ">", so that these lines can be restored to their original shape. + (merge d9925d1 ew/mboxrd-format-am later to maint). + + * "git repack" learned the "--keep-unreachable" option, which sends + loose unreachable objects to a pack instead of leaving them loose. + This helps heuristics based on the number of loose objects + (e.g. "gc --auto"). + (merge e26a8c4 jk/repack-keep-unreachable later to maint). + + * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width + relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to + draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It + also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative + to the right border. + (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint). + + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid @@ -48,6 +76,46 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more than once. + * HTTP transport gained an option to produce more detailed debugging + trace. + (merge 73e57aa ep/http-curl-trace later to maint). + + * Instead of taking advantage of a struct string_list that is + allocated with all NULs happens to be STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP kind, + initialize them explicitly as such, to document their behaviour + better. + (merge 2721ce2 jk/string-list-static-init later to maint). + + * HTTPd tests learned to show the server error log to help diagnosing + a failing tests. + (merge 44f243d nd/test-lib-httpd-show-error-log-in-verbose later to maint). + + * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to + be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. + (merge b7410f6 km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name later to maint). + + * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when + bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the + data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. + (merge 43ec550 jk/bisect-show-tree later to maint). + + * Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues. + (merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint). + + * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use + GPG signature have been documented. + (merge cc6ee97 mg/signature-doc later to maint). + + * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to + sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from + the standard output and the standard error of an external process, + which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking. + + The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been + updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for + errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status). + (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -80,54 +148,81 @@ notes for details). * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, configuration variables and environment variables are consistently typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. - (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint). * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is documented now. - (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint). * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. - (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint). * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the reflog was truncated. - (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint). * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. - (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint). * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile. - (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint). * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. - (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint). * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. - (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint). * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) - (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint). * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working tree". - (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint). * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). - (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint). * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git cherry-pick A..B" didn't. - (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint). + + * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" + that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also + be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream + of the submodules are not prepared for. + (merge 18a74a0 sb/clone-shallow-passthru later to maint). + + * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' + to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. + (merge 01247e0 lc/shell-default-value-noexpand later to maint). + + * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C + functions that do not take any parameters, which has been + corrected. + (merge 0767172 js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions later to maint). + + * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not + prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a + bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking + +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead + of aborting. + (merge bab7483 jk/tzoffset-fix later to maint). + + * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has + been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the + command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). + (merge d2addc3 ak/t7800-wo-readlink later to maint). + + * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it + is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. + (merge e3efa94 js/perf-on-apple later to maint). + + * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to + report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has + been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for + paths that are _inside_. + (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint). * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates - (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint). - (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint). - (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint). - (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint). + (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint). + (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint). + (merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint). + (merge 5819c2e sb/t5614-modernize later to maint). + (merge fe0537a cb/t7810-test-label-fix later to maint). + (merge 412b9a1 jc/t2300-setup later to maint). |