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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-03-13 21:01:17 (GMT)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-03-14 21:27:26 (GMT)
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Update draft release notes to Git 2.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -63,7 +63,27 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
"quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which
you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
- * Many commands that creates commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
+ * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for
+ the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
+ configuration option.
+
+ * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
+ been marked for i18n/l10n.
+
+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
+ is not a blob as an error.
+
+ * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
+ given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
+ course is rejected).
+
+ * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
+ for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
+ speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
+ to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
+
+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
@@ -85,6 +105,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases
+ ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3).
+
+ * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
+ well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
+ over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
+ "easy" interface.
+
* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
repository that uses it.
@@ -97,7 +125,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
suits your needs better when using the former.
-Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many
+of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject
+exercises.
Fixes since v1.9 series
@@ -107,6 +137,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
notes for details).
+ * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the
+ working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file
+ ".git" tells us where it is.
+ (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
+ defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
+ variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
+ by mistake.
+ (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
+
+ * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
+ tightened.
+ (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
+ the same as one of the versions being compared.
+ (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
+ tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an
+ otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working
+ tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored.
+ (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
+ did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
+ --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
+ (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
+
* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames
involved. This has been corrected.