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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index 759e75fbde..e1e509b5b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -19,6 +19,46 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server. (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint). + * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by + weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. + + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery + for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been + taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a + packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that + promises to make them available on-demand and lazily. + + * The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and + unpacking objects, has been told how to omit certain objects using + the filtering mechanism introduced by another topic. It now knows + to mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing + objects, laying foundation for "narrow" clones. + + * The first step to getting rid of mru API and using the + doubly-linked list API directly instead. + + * Retire mru API as it does not give enough abstraction over + underlying list API to be worth it. + + * Rewrite two more "git submodule" subcommands in C. + + * The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment + variables as well. + (merge 090a09272a nd/trace-with-env later to maint). + + * Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str) + (merge cd9a4b6d93 rs/strbuf-cocci-workaround later to maint). + + * Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type. + (merge a3715d43e8 po/clang-format-functype-weight later to maint). + + * The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick", + "git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it + needs to create a commit. It has been taught to do so internally, + when able, by reusing the codepath "git commit" itself uses, which + gives performance boost for a few tens of percents in some sample + scenarios. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -77,8 +117,45 @@ Fixes since v2.16 anyway. (merge 12434efc1d nd/add-i-ignore-submodules later to maint). + * Avoid showing a warning message in the middle of a line of "git + diff" output. + (merge 4e056c989f nd/diff-flush-before-warning later to maint). + + * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, + learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output + so that it can be more safely sharable. + (merge 8ba18e6fa4 jt/http-redact-cookies later to maint). + + * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock + what it did not acquire lock on. + (merge 81fcb698e0 mr/packed-ref-store-fix later to maint). + + * The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed. + (merge ae59a4e44f tg/split-index-fixes later to maint). + + * Assorted fixes to "git daemon". + (merge ed15e58efe jk/daemon-fixes later to maint). + + * Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work + well in non-C locale. + (merge 7cc763aaa3 nd/list-merge-strategy later to maint). + + * Workaround for segfault with more recent versions of SVN. + (merge 7f6f75e97a ew/svn-branch-segfault-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). (merge f0a6068a9f ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). (merge 30221a3389 as/read-tree-prefix-doc-fix later to maint). (merge 9bd2ce5432 ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors later to maint). + (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e1b3f3dd38 ks/submodule-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge fbac558a9b rs/describe-unique-abbrev later to maint). + (merge 8462ff43e4 tb/crlf-conv-flags later to maint). + (merge 7d68bb0766 rb/hashmap-h-compilation-fix later to maint). + (merge 3449847168 cc/sha1-file-name later to maint). + (merge ad622a256f ds/use-get-be64 later to maint). + (merge f919ffebed sg/cocci-move-array later to maint). + (merge 4e801463c7 jc/mailinfo-cleanup-fix later to maint). + (merge ef5b3a6c5e nd/shared-index-fix later to maint). + (merge 9f5258cbb8 tz/doc-show-defaults-to-head later to maint). |