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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt index e17f5de200..cfceb1f6cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt @@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git resurrect" script (in contrib/) learned that the object names may be longer than 40-hex depending on the hash function in use. + * "git diff A...B" learned "git diff --merge-base A B", which is a + longer short-hand to say the same thing. + + * A sample 'push-to-checkout' hook, that performs the same as + what the built-in default action does, has been added. + + * "git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to + ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern. + + * The userdiff pattern learned to identify the function definition in + POSIX shells and bash. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -45,6 +57,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * GitHub Actions automated test improvement to skip tests on a tree identical to what has already been tested. + * Test-coverage for running commit-graph task "git maintenance" has + been extended. + + * Our test scripts can be told to run only individual pieces while + skipping others with the "--run=..." option; they were taught to + take a substring of test title, in addition to numbers, to name the + test pieces to run. + + * Adjust tests so that they won't scream when the default initial + branch name is changed to 'main'. + Fixes since v2.29 ----------------- @@ -59,7 +82,64 @@ Fixes since v2.29 commits A and B. (merge 35166b1fb5 dl/checkout-p-merge-base later to maint). + * The side-band status report can be sent at the same time as the + primary payload multiplexed, but the demultiplexer on the receiving + end incorrectly split a single status report into two, which has + been corrected. + (merge 712b0377db js/avoid-split-sideband-message later to maint). + + * "git fast-import" wasted a lot of memory when many marks were in use. + (merge 3f018ec716 jk/fast-import-marks-alloc-fix later to maint). + + * A test helper "test_cmp A B" was taught to diagnose missing files A + or B as a bug in test, but some tests legitimately wanted to notice + a failure to even create file B as an error, in addition to leaving + the expected result in it, and were misdiagnosed as a bug. This + has been corrected. + (merge 262d5ad5a5 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + + * When "git commit-graph" detects the same commit recorded more than + once while it is merging the layers, it used to die. The code now + ignores all but one of them and continues. + (merge 85102ac71b ds/commit-graph-merging-fix later to maint). + + * The meaning of a Signed-off-by trailer can vary from project to + project; this and also what it means to this project has been + clarified in the documentation. + (merge 3abd4a67d9 bk/sob-dco later to maint). + + * "git credential' didn't honor the core.askPass configuration + variable (among other things), which has been corrected. + (merge 567ad2c0f9 tk/credential-config later to maint). + + * Dev support to catch a tentative definition of a variable in our C + code as an error. + (merge 5539183622 jk/no-common later to maint). + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" did not correctly pass --gpg-sign + command line option to underlying "git merge" when replaying a merge + using non-default merge strategy or when replaying an octopus merge + (because replaying a two-head merge with the default strategy was + done in a separate codepath, the problem did not trigger for most + users), which has been corrected. + (merge 43ad4f2eca sc/sequencer-gpg-octopus later to maint). + + * "git apply -R" did not handle patches that touch the same path + twice correctly, which has been corrected. This is most relevant + in a patch that changes a path from a regular file to a symbolic + link (and vice versa). + (merge b0f266de11 jt/apply-reverse-twice later to maint). + + * A recent oid->hash conversion missed one spot, breaking "git svn". + (merge 03bb366de4 bc/svn-hash-oid-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 3e0a5dc9af cc/doc-filter-branch-typofix later to maint). (merge 32c83afc2c cw/ci-ghwf-check-ws-errors later to maint). (merge 5eb2ed691b rs/tighten-callers-of-deref-tag later to maint). + (merge 6db29ab213 jk/fast-import-marks-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e5cf6d3df4 nk/dir-c-comment-update later to maint). + (merge 5710dcce74 jk/report-fn-typedef later to maint). + (merge 9a82db1056 en/sequencer-rollback-lock-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 4e1bee9a99 js/t7006-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f5bcde6c58 es/tutorial-mention-asciidoc-early later to maint). |