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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt index a6cd592734..a8c9029aa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt @@ -46,6 +46,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words boundary for Rust has been added. + * "git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the + "--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable + status.aheadBehind. + + * "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in + non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. + The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable + this safety feature. + + * Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to + split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and + "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on + advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout" + command. + + * "git branch --list" learned to always output the detached HEAD as + the first item (when the HEAD is detached, of course), regardless + of the locale. + + * The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on + the branch the HEAD currently is on. + + * "git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to + squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for + pack-objects. + + * A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into + "git tag -s". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -71,6 +100,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core developers has been added. + * Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked + libraries from at runtime. + + * "git mergetool" and its tests now spawn fewer subprocesses. + + * Dev support update to help tracing out tests. + + * Support to build with MSVC has been updated. + + * "git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the + auto-gc only once at the very end. Fixes since v2.22 @@ -175,9 +215,84 @@ Fixes since v2.22 updated. (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint). + * "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out + in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with + '+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown + with '*' in front. + (merge 6e9381469e nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head later to maint). + + * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via + "import" based transports. + (merge f80d922355 fc/fetch-with-import-fix later to maint). + + * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime + may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be + closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to + an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a + new instance to replace it. + (merge 2d511cfc0b ds/close-object-store later to maint). + + * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse, + which did not work well. + (merge 2bd69b9024 pw/add-p-recount later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search. + (merge 568a05c5ec rs/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation later to maint). + + * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment + character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been + corrected. + (merge 29c83fc23f jk/trailers-use-config later to maint). + + * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting + rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected. + (merge 63b50c8ffe tg/stash-ref-by-index-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding + "git rebase -r", which has been corrected. + (merge d559f502c5 pw/rebase-abort-clean-rewritten later to maint). + + * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line + completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires + a repository outside one), which has been corrected. + (merge 69702523af nd/completion-no-cache-failure later to maint). + + * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has + been made more robust and also easier to follow. + (merge 39c575c969 rs/config-unit-parsing later to maint). + + * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output + without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been + fixed. + (merge bdbdf42f8a jk/delta-islands-progress-fix later to maint). + + * Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated, + but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been + corrected. The output of protocol capabilities for debugging has + been tweaked a bit. + + * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor + support to clear cruft in the progress output. + (merge 5b12e3123b sg/rebase-progress later to maint). + + * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed + to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the + "--recursive" option was in use. + (merge 30db18b148 ms/submodule-foreach-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint). (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint). (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint). (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint). (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint). + (merge 1fde99cfc7 po/doc-branch later to maint). + (merge 459842e1c2 dl/config-alias-doc later to maint). + (merge 5d137fc2c7 cb/fsmonitor-intfix later to maint). + (merge 921d49be86 rs/copy-array later to maint). + (merge cc8d872e69 js/t3404-typofix later to maint). + (merge 729a9b558b cb/mkstemps-uint-type-fix later to maint). + (merge 9dae4fe79f js/gcc-8-and-9 later to maint). + (merge ed33bd8f30 js/t0001-case-insensitive later to maint). + (merge dfa880e336 jw/gitweb-sample-update later to maint). + (merge e532a90a9f sg/t5551-fetch-smart-error-is-translated later to maint). |