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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt index 47041f3..7f53db7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt @@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ Git 2.31 Release Notes Updates since v2.30 ------------------- +Backward incompatible and other important changes + + * The "pack-redundant" command, which has been left stale with almost + unusable performance issues, now warns loudly when it gets used, as + we no longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d" + instead). + + * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to + update from v1.4 that we have been using. + + UI, Workflows & Features * The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it @@ -29,6 +40,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git maintenance" learned to drive scheduled maintenance on platforms whose native scheduling methods are not 'cron'. + * After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for + the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and + @{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1} + + * "git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the + standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point + at the same object. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -39,6 +57,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The topological walk codepath is covered by new trace2 stats. + * Update the Code-of-conduct to version 2.0 from the upstream (we've + been using version 1.4). + + * "git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing + a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git + fsck". + + * Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via + environment variables have been introduced, and the way + GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked + to make it more robust. + + * Tests have been updated so that they do not to get affected by the + name of the default branch "git init" creates. + + * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none + fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option. + Fixes since v2.30 ----------------- @@ -71,6 +107,26 @@ Fixes since v2.30 * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac. (merge 3831132ace jc/macos-install-dependencies-fix later to maint). + * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD + display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up. + (merge 4045f659bd ab/branch-sort later to maint). + + * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are + now forbidden. + (merge 6aed56736b jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url later to maint). + + * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as + "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is + that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty", + which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree + as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed. + + * When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one + side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a + commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it + does. + (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint). (merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint). @@ -89,3 +145,4 @@ Fixes since v2.30 (merge 52fc4f195c dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion later to maint). (merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint). (merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint). + (merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint). |