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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt index b8017a6140..826b0e420d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Ports * The support to build with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected. + * Compilation options has been updated a bit to support z/OS port + better. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -33,10 +36,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log messages with bland and simple strings to help them. + * "git difftool" learned an option to stop feeding paths to the + diff backend when it exits with a non-zero status. + * "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives datetime output that is more strictly conformant. + * The logic "git prune" uses is more resilient against various corner + cases. + * A broken reimplementation of Git could write an invalid index that records both stage #0 and higher stage entries for the same path. We now notice and reject such an index, as there is no sensible @@ -53,6 +62,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable. + * "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of + BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it + feels awkward to say "--tool bc3". + * The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used to result in intermittent errors in "git push"). @@ -150,6 +163,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to allocate and deallocate them. + * Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our + documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as + AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |