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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-10-21 20:35:44 (GMT)
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Update draft release notes to 2.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -42,6 +42,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve
and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry).
+ * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too
+ many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be
+ named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead,
+ e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c").
+
+ * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly
+ creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
+ setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
+
* 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").
@@ -68,10 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
- * The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
- to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow
- all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something
- other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
+ * The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it
+ more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none
+ atomic updates and migrating the storage to something other than
+ the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
* The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up.
@@ -248,3 +257,7 @@ notes for details).
* "gitweb" used deprecated CGI::startfrom, which was removed from
CGI.pm as of 4.04; use CGI::start_from instead.
(merge 4750f4b rm/gitweb-start-form later to maint).
+
+ * Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if
+ they are new enough to support the `--output` option.
+ (merge b12d045 da/mergetool-meld later to maint).