From ab7797dbe95fff38d9265869ea367020046db118 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:06:49 -0700 Subject: Start the post-2.9 cycle Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 68 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..eac12490a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Git 2.10 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +Updates since v2.9 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user + that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing. + + * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone + some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships. + + * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for + "@{-1}", the previous branch. + + * Update the funcname definition to support css files. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid + creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have, + using *.unpackLimit configuration. + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint). + + * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options + API. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint). + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates -- cgit v1.2.3