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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt index 5075bad51f..8f8da9f9c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should continue with submitting. + * The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent + bad objects from entering repository can be customized via + receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a + counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with + fetch.fsck.* configuration variables. + + * "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a short-hand for + "interactive". Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -193,6 +201,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. failed tests. (merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint). + * The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing + placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically + without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option + arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and + fixed. + (merge 5f0df44cd7 rs/parse-opt-lithelp later to maint). + + * Noiseword "extern" has been removed from function decls in the + header files. + + * A few atoms like %(objecttype) and %(objectsize) in the format + specifier of "for-each-ref --format=<format>" can be filled without + getting the full contents of the object, but just with the object + header. These cases have been optimized by calling + oid_object_info() API (instead of reading and inspecting the data). + + * The end result of documentation update has been made to be + inspected more easily to help developers. + Fixes since v2.18 ----------------- @@ -399,6 +426,39 @@ Fixes since v2.18 bit (and not materializing the file in the working tree). (merge 2b75fb601c en/merge-recursive-skip-fix later to maint). + * The "author-script" file "git rebase -i" creates got broken when + we started to move the command away from shell script, which is + getting fixed now. + (merge 5522bbac20 es/rebase-i-author-script-fix later to maint). + + * The automatic tree-matching in "git merge -s subtree" was broken 5 + years ago and nobody has noticed since then, which is now fixed. + (merge 2ec4150713 jk/merge-subtree-heuristics later to maint). + + * "git fetch $there refs/heads/s" ought to fetch the tip of the + branch 's', but when "refs/heads/refs/heads/s", i.e. a branch whose + name is "refs/heads/s" exists at the same time, fetched that one + instead by mistake. This has been corrected to honor the usual + disambiguation rules for abbreviated refnames. + (merge 60650a48c0 jt/refspec-dwim-precedence-fix later to maint). + + * Futureproofing a helper function that can easily be misused. + (merge 65bb21e77e es/want-color-fd-defensive later to maint). + + * The http-backend (used for smart-http transport) used to slurp the + whole input until EOF, without paying attention to CONTENT_LENGTH + that is supplied in the environment and instead expecting the Web + server to close the input stream. This has been fixed. + (merge eebfe40962 mk/http-backend-content-length later to maint). + + * "git merge --abort" etc. did not clean things up properly when + there were conflicted entries in the index in certain order that + are involved in D/F conflicts. This has been corrected. + (merge ad3762042a en/abort-df-conflict-fixes later to maint). + + * "git diff --indent-heuristic" had a bad corner case performance. + (merge 301ef85401 sb/indent-heuristic-optim later to maint). + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint). @@ -421,3 +481,7 @@ Fixes since v2.18 (merge ffbd51cc60 nd/pack-objects-threading-doc later to maint). (merge e9dac7be60 es/mw-to-git-chain-fix later to maint). (merge fe583c6c7a rs/remote-mv-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 69885ab015 en/t3031-title-fix later to maint). + (merge 8578037bed nd/config-blame-sort later to maint). + (merge 8ad169c4ba hn/config-in-code-comment later to maint). + (merge b7446fcfdf ar/t4150-am-scissors-test-fix later to maint). |