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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt index 3b65461c0b..13c7ec51e9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt @@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want to resurrect the now-ignored use case. - * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand. + * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a + replacement by editing an existing object. * "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file @@ -115,6 +116,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up. + * The support for the profile-feedback build, which has been left + bit-rotten for quite a while, has been updated. + + * An experimental format to use two files (the base file and + incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been + introduced; this may reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index + when only small part of the working tree changes. + * Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top by upstreaming them continues. @@ -141,6 +150,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this API. + * skip_prefix() and strip_suffix() API functions are used a lot more + widely throughout the codebase now. + * Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation, e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7 and run everything else. @@ -185,6 +197,7 @@ notes for details). * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed. (merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint). + (merge 539e750 ek/alt-odb-entry-fix later to maint). * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10 @@ -213,6 +226,10 @@ notes for details). couple of options unique to "git merge". (merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint). + * An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library + function in a rarely used code path. + (merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint). + * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have. @@ -242,6 +259,11 @@ notes for details). bit. (merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint). + * "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when + all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even + under "--prune-empty". + (merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint). + * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow" option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with exactly one pathspec. @@ -267,6 +289,13 @@ notes for details). distinguish missing objects from type errors. (merge 77583e7 jk/index-pack-report-missing later to maint). + * "log --show-signature" incorrectly decided the color to paint a + mergetag that was and was not correctly validated. + (merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint). + + * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option. + (merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint). + * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch. (merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint). @@ -276,6 +305,11 @@ notes for details). except for case differences. (merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint). + * Merging changes into a file that ends in an incomplete line made the + last line into a complete one, even when the other branch did not + change anything around the end of file. + (merge ba31180 mk/merge-incomplete-files later to maint). + * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table from scratch anyway. |