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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt | 67 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index 9165443f54..7bf95f8519 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ Merging two branches that have no common ancestor with "git merge" is by default forbidden now to prevent creating such an unusual merge by mistake. +The output formats of "git log" that indents the commit log message by +4 spaces now expands HT in the log message by default. You can use +the "--no-expand-tabs" option to disable this. + Updates since v2.8 ------------------ @@ -51,12 +55,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features default, with an escape hatch "--allow-unrelated-histories" option to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects that started their lives independently. - (merge e379fdf jc/merge-refuse-new-root later to maint). * "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were skipped via --include/--exclude mechanism or being outside the current working directory. - (merge 3f57944 nd/apply-report-skip later to maint). + + * Shell completion (in contrib/) updates. + + * The commit object name reported when "rebase -i" stops has been + shortened. + + * "git worktree add" can be given "--no-checkout" option to only + create an empty worktree without checking out the files. + + * "git mergetools" learned to drive ExamDiff. + + * "git pull --rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option, so that + the rebase.autostash configuration variable set to true can be + overridden from the command line. + + * When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the + remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author + originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in + such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option, + "--no-expand-tabs". Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -92,6 +114,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Build updates for MSVC. (merge 0ef60af ss/msvc later to maint). + * The repository set-up sequence has been streamlined (the biggest + change is that there is no longer git_config_early()), so that we + do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a + Git repository. + (merge 274db84 jk/check-repository-format later to maint). + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -145,6 +174,33 @@ notes for details). which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it). (merge b84e65d jv/merge-nothing-into-void later to maint). + * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -d" allowed + deletion of a branch that is checked out in another worktree, + which was wrong. + (merge f292244 ky/branch-d-worktree later to maint). + + * "git diff -M" used to work better when two originally identical + files A and B got renamed to X/A and X/B by pairing A to X/A and B + to X/B, but this was broken in the 2.0 timeframe. + (merge ca4e3ca sg/diff-multiple-identical-renames later to maint). + + * "git send-pack --all <there>" was broken when its command line + option parsing was written in the 2.6 timeframe. + (merge c677756 sk/send-pack-all-fix later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these + are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option + from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the + diff, and the documentation now hides these options as well. + (merge b73a1bc es/format-patch-doc-hide-no-patch later to maint). + + * When running "git blame $path" with unnormalized data in the index + for the path, the data in the working tree was blamed, even though + "git add" would not have changed what is already in the index, due + to "safe crlf" that disables the line-end conversion. It has been + corrected. + (merge a08feb8 tb/blame-force-read-cache-to-workaround-safe-crlf later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint). (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint). @@ -155,3 +211,10 @@ notes for details). (merge 16a86d4 nd/apply-doc later to maint). (merge c3f6b85 pb/opt-cmdmode-doc later to maint). (merge 30211fb oa/doc-diff-check later to maint). + (merge 01d98e8 ak/use-hashmap-iter-first-in-submodule-config later to maint). + (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint). + (merge 9c60d9f sb/misc-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 7a6a44c cc/apply later to maint). + (merge 8e9b208 js/mingw-tests-2.8 later to maint). + (merge d55de70 jc/makefile-redirection-stderr later to maint). + (merge 4232b21 ep/trace-doc-sample-fix later to maint). |