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@@ -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.