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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Updates since v2.3 Ports + * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some + platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2) + failures. + + * We did not check the curl library version before using + CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -28,6 +35,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side, HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests. + * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an + answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without + questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks + too short to be a valid encoding name. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -37,6 +49,39 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. + * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as + verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based + helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them + the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better. + + * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after + running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it + is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as + a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good + heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to + check what they really require. + (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint). + + * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in + the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers + can check only one place for all necessary information. + + * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in + the API manual. + + * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a + project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we + (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first + place. + + * Typofix in comments. + (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint). + + * Code clean-up. + (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint). + (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint). + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -169,3 +214,11 @@ notes for details). * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory. (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint). + + * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and + conclude the resulting packfile cleanly. + (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint). + + * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be + refreshed for whatever reason. + (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint). |