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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt | 55 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt index 369383b..3383940 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt @@ -59,4 +59,59 @@ Fixes since v2.9 * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic + experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split + as "git diff" output. + + * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width + relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to + draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It + also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative + to the right border. + + * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to + be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. + + * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when + bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the + data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. + + * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use + GPG signature have been documented. + + * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" + that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also + be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream + of the submodules are not prepared for. + + * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' + to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. + + * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C + functions that do not take any parameters, which has been + corrected. + + * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not + prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a + bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking + +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead + of aborting. + + * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has + been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the + command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). + + * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it + is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. + + * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to + report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has + been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for + paths that are _inside_. + + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 38c3da2..bb32435 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.9.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.9] +* link:v2.9.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.9.1.txt[2.9.1], link:RelNotes/2.9.0.txt[2.9]. * link:v2.8.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.8.4] |