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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt | 54 |
1 files changed, 51 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index ba19a3bcf1..b757fd119c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is checked out. + * Allow the http.postbuffer configuration variable to be set to a + size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than + ulong on some platforms. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -242,8 +246,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become possible. - * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. - * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track of the state of object reachability without clearing them after use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab @@ -278,13 +280,28 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Define a new task in .travis.yml that triggers a test session on Windows run elsewhere. - * Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues. + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. * The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible from the other worktrees. + * The string-list API used a custom reallocation strategy that was + very inefficient, instead of using the usual ALLOC_GROW() macro, + which has been fixed. + (merge 950a234cbd jh/string-list-micro-optim later to maint). + + * In a 2- and 3-way merge of trees, more than one source trees often + end up sharing an identical subtree; optimize by not reading the + same tree multiple times in such a case. + (merge d12a8cf0af jh/unpack-trees-micro-optim later to maint). + + * The index file has a trailing SHA-1 checksum to detect file + corruption, and historically we checked it every time the index + file is used. Omit the validation during normal use, and instead + verify only in "git fsck". + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -492,6 +509,32 @@ notes for details). checked out; it should use "symbolic-ref HEAD". (merge eff451101d ld/p4-current-branch-fix later to maint). + * "http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of + proxy. We broke this early last year. + (merge ae51d91105 sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix later to maint). + + * $GIT_DIR may in some cases be normalized with all symlinks resolved + while "gitdir" path expansion in the pattern does not receive the + same treatment, leading to incorrect mismatch. This has been fixed. + + * "git submodule" script does not work well with strange pathnames. + Protect it from a path with slashes in them, at least. + + * "git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the + upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message. It + showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data + loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message. + (merge 8e2c7bef03 jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting later to maint). + + * "ls-files --recurse-submodules" did not quite work well in a + project with nested submodules. + + * gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does + not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer + was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up + using garbage past the end of the buffer. + (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint). (merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint). @@ -509,3 +552,8 @@ notes for details). (merge 35ad44cbd8 sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint). (merge 0301f1fd92 va/i18n-perl-scripts later to maint). (merge 733e064d98 vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log later to maint). + (merge 85999743e7 tb/doc-eol-normalization later to maint). + (merge 0747fb49fd jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint). + (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint). + (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint). + (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint). |