From 08bb3500a2a718c3c78b0547c68601cafa7a8fd9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 13:26:16 -0700 Subject: Sixth batch of topics for 2.10 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index 4252eb7..fe921dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features format. (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint). + * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to + specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -141,6 +144,31 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent version of Git even when testing an older installed version. + * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the + data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths + used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step + to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these + codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE* + instead. + + * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id + continues. + + * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to + each ref that was fetched. + (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint). + + * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so + that "git diff -W" and friends would work better. + (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may + feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file() + helper function. + + * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its + temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -280,6 +308,47 @@ notes for details). tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected. (merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). + * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file. + (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint). + + * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel + submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and + could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner + case condition. + (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint). + + * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales + correctly. + (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint). + + * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command + is not necessarily available everywhere. + (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). + + * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at + the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not + built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git" + potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone + programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that + calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to + make it harder to make mistakes. + (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint). + + * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to + check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal. + (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint). + + * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a + single-liner to a file. + (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint). + + * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called + stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours", + which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of + the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in + contrast to "ours". + (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint). (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint). @@ -287,3 +356,4 @@ notes for details). (merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint). (merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint). (merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint). + (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint). -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6