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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt index d4001c5ae5..e47e6ca8d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each stash entry is represented as a merge commit. It learned to show the difference between the base commit version and the working tree - version, which is in line with what "git show" gives. + version, which is in line with what "git stash show" gives. * Sometimes users want to report a bug they experience on their repository, but they are not at liberty to share the contents of @@ -59,15 +59,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead, - e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c"). + e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c", to allow us to have multiple variants). - * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly + * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses can be placed in a newly created temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable. * "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it - feels awkward to say "--tool bc3". + feels awkward to say "--tool bc3" to run version 4. * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used @@ -86,17 +86,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features without having to "trust" the server. * "git interpret-trailers" is a new filter to programmatically edit - the tail end of the commit log messages. + the tail end of the commit log messages, e.g. "Signed-off-by:". * "git help everyday" shows the "Everyday Git in 20 commands or so" - document, whose contents have been updated to more modern Git - practice. + document, whose contents have been updated to match more modern + Git practice. * On the "git svn" front, work to reduce memory consumption and to improve handling of mergeinfo progresses. -Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none @@ -118,8 +118,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have - to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the - lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. + to update the file again while still holding the lock; now the + lockfile API has support for such an access pattern. * The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit decoration has been updated to make it less cumbersome to use. @@ -166,12 +166,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. a shell-trace of each command run in them. * The "run-command" API learned to manage the argv and environment - array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to + arrays for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to allocate and deallocate them. * Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our - documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as - AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up. + documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted to be usable + by both, as AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input + mark-up. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |