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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-11-15 06:17:43 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-11-15 06:17:43 +0300 |
commit | 89ea799ffcc5c8a0547d3c9075eb979256ee95b8 (patch) | |
tree | 5a85cf2e34b37ce1182888f4e921c8b2c3f3b01d | |
parent | 3505ddecbdd4a2eaf3d2aaea746dc18d7a0b6a6b (diff) | |
parent | 5a1f5c3060427375de30d609d72ac032516be4c2 (diff) |
Sync with maint
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..15b24a0b76 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Git v2.15.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * TravisCI build updates. + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch + has been corrected. + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. + + * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run + outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation + and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in + such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + + * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} + configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". + + * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function + sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, + which has been fixed. + + * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now + tested just like Mingw builds. + + * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed + immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at + around Git 2.13). + + * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved + to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are + currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). + + * Updates from GfW project. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |