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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-01-19 02:15:36 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-01-19 02:15:36 +0300 |
commit | 787f75f0567aa8c7347544c65e9d3bc6640a27d4 (patch) | |
tree | 934823f45a163370114e5ed809f218ea0bc2c7c7 /Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt | |
parent | 6903f33c402ac7c38e8d9500e10889cd83df888f (diff) |
Sixth batch for 2.12
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index f7d5e9cf14..efff5264d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features more widely known when conversion fails from/to it. (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint). + * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules. + + * "git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own + git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move + the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject + instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there + will be no loss of local modifications, that is). + + * A recent updates to "git p4" was not usable for older p4 but it + could be made to work with minimum changes. Do so. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -99,6 +110,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added. + * "git push \\server\share\dir" has recently regressed and then + fixed. A test has retroactively been added for this breakage. + + * Build updates for Cygwin. + + * The implementation of "real_path()" was to go there with chdir(2) + and call getcwd(3), but this obviously wouldn't be usable in a + threaded environment. Rewrite it to manually resolve relative + paths including symbolic links in path components. + + * Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not + breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -252,5 +276,45 @@ notes for details). * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed. (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint). + * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack + everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning + when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap, + leading to disabling further "gc". + (merge 1c409a705c dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc later to maint). + + * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and + failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff + driver configuration. + (merge 965cba2e7e jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config later to maint). + + * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path> + pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files. + (merge 4e76832984 jk/blame-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect + count when squashing more than 10 commits. + (merge 356b8ecff1 jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix later to maint). + + * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has + been corrected to error out with a message. + (merge b10731f43d km/branch-get-push-while-detached later to maint). + + * Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored + out, but without a meaningful error message. + (merge 2d81c48fa7 sb/pathspec-errors later to maint). + + * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and + took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree + structure. This has been fixed. + (merge 46df6906f3 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint). + + * "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is + run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which + has been fixed. + + * Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area. + (merge 3120925c25 sb/remove-gitview later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint). |