From e83352ef23cca2701953ed3c915f1db49b255a7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 12:39:46 +0900 Subject: Third batch for 2.14 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt index 4fc8f0d..ee6c607 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -36,6 +36,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint). + * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules. + (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint). + + * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads= option and pass it + to pack-objects. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -65,6 +73,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -118,9 +129,91 @@ notes for details). not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint). + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a + submodule that itself has submodules. + (merge 218c883783 sb/checkout-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the + split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the + future. + (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint). + + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other + options are in use, and need to be disabled. + (merge da5a1f8100 jk/disable-pack-reuse-when-broken later to maint). + + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). + (merge 443a12f37b js/plug-leaks later to maint). + + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish + to be merged. + (merge b9b10d3681 jc/read-tree-empty-with-m later to maint). + + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. + (merge 2779f66505 js/eol-on-ourselves later to maint). + + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). + (merge 3d7dd2d3b6 jk/bug-to-abort later to maint). + + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf..path + configuration variables. + (merge ce933ebd5a jk/doc-config-include later to maint). + + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. + (merge 6963893943 ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions later to maint). + + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the + documentation have been updated to https:// links. + (merge 5e68729fd9 jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint). + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. + (merge 613a0e52ea kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint). + + * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'. + (merge d096d7f1ef pw/rebase-i-regression-fix later to maint). + + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has + a new "push" subcommand. + (merge 3851e4483f tg/stash-push-fixup later to maint). + + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. + (merge d76650b8d1 bm/interpret-trailers-cut-line-is-eom later to maint). + + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling + traces from "receive-pack" in the test. + (merge 71406ed4d6 jk/alternate-ref-optim later to maint). + + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they + should silently be ignored instead) + (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint). (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint). (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint). (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint). (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint). + (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint). -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6