diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt | 93 |
1 files changed, 90 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index 01db423a92..c8b7fbb700 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -22,16 +22,42 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Various updates to "git p4". + * "git p4" didn't interact with the internal of .git directory + correctly in the modern "git-worktree"-enabled world. + + * "git branch --list" and friends learned "--ignore-case" option to + optionally sort branches and tags case insensitively. + + * In addition to %(subject), %(body), "log --pretty=format:..." + learned a new placeholder %(trailers). + + * "git rebase" learned "--quit" option, which allows a user to + remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was + manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - * + * Commands that operate on a log message and add lines to the trailer + blocks, such as "format-patch -s", "cherry-pick (-x|-s)", and + "commit -s", have been taught to use the logic of and share the + code with "git interpret-trailer". + * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS. + (merge 5f703e8f02 ls/travis-update-p4-and-lfs later to maint). -Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + * The "fast hash" that had disastrous performance issues in some + corner cases has been retired from the internal diff. - * + * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0 + (merge 9e6e9aefdf bb/unicode-9.0 later to maint). + * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support. + (merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint). + + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v2.10 ----------------- @@ -81,6 +107,67 @@ notes for details). * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. (merge d5eb3cf5e7 ls/p4-empty-file-on-lfs later to maint). + * A corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in + during 2.10 development cycle has been fixed. + (merge 1c25d2d8ed jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint). + + * Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs + that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server + side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to + security issues. Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious + to the end user when it happens. + (merge cb4d2d35c4 jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9 later to maint). + + * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails + to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message + only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to + be reported with something sensible. + (merge 3680f16f9d jk/http-walker-limit-redirect later to maint). + + * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later, + it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash" + misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very + similar content is added. + (merge 9d4e28ead5 jk/stash-disable-renames-internally later to maint). + + * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option. + (merge 43d1948b7b jb/diff-no-index-no-abbrev later to maint). + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from + a subdirectory, which has been fixed. + (merge 853e10c197 da/difftool-dir-diff-fix later to maint). + + * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index + ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not + change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody + needed it so far. + (merge beb635ca9c ak/commit-only-allow-empty later to maint). + + * Git 2.11 had a minor regression in "merge --ff-only" that competed + with another process that simultanously attempted to update the + index. We used to explain what went wrong with an error message, + but the new code silently failed. The error message has been + resurrected. + + * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but + path normalization logic was unaware of it. + (merge 7814fbe3f1 js/normalize-path-copy-ceil later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since + we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without + invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. + (merge 33b842a1e9 jc/pull-rebase-ff later to maint). + + * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git + mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. + (merge 6cf5f6cef7 da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint). (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). + (merge 9c48b4fb23 ls/t0021-fixup later to maint). + (merge 584f99c87b sb/unpack-trees-grammofix later to maint). + (merge 54471fdcc3 jk/readme-gmane-is-no-more later to maint). + (merge 9e189f1a5c sb/t3600-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e2c20be57c lr/doc-fix-cet later to maint). + (merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint). |