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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-21 15:11:13 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-21 15:11:13 -0700
commit92f74a61921a774f2f3e7386fc927247a54a0d22 (patch)
treeea72acd2afc39d427c0027ae509e0d420b3230f8
parentfbcfbc4d5de6b307a9a7dc12fb6e969914abd17c (diff)
downloadgit-92f74a61921a774f2f3e7386fc927247a54a0d22.tar.gz
Sixth batch for 2.13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt40
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
index 0d4a3ef931..63e2e8add9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
- (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint).
* When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working
tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very
@@ -113,6 +112,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature.
The code has been restructured.
+ * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style
+ that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a
+ detached HEAD with "git describe --tags".
+
+ * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path"
+ that includes the contents of the given path only when the
+ condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related
+ bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory".
+
+ * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not
+ a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -141,11 +152,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
corrected not to do so.
- (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint).
* The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
- (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint).
* An helper function to make it easier to append the result from
real_path() to a strbuf has been added.
@@ -216,7 +225,6 @@ notes for details).
* "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
without checking for overflow.
- (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint).
* A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
@@ -225,17 +233,14 @@ notes for details).
be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
predictable.
- (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint).
* "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
- (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint).
* A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
- (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint).
* The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
@@ -250,11 +255,9 @@ notes for details).
report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
- (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint).
* A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
has been plugged.
- (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint).
* When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
@@ -272,7 +275,6 @@ notes for details).
* There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
standard error stream, but we somehow did.
- (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint).
* The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
@@ -286,7 +288,6 @@ notes for details).
made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
conversion).
- (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint).
* A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
@@ -318,7 +319,6 @@ notes for details).
* "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
response, which has been fixed.
- (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint).
* "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a
list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git
@@ -332,11 +332,17 @@ notes for details).
* "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
- (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint).
+
+ * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
+ variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
+ misconfiguration.
+ (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
- (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
- (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).
- (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint).
(merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint).
+ (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint).
+ (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint).