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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-04-29 01:50:33 +0300 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2020-04-29 01:50:33 +0300 |
commit | 86ab15cb154862b6fa5cc646dac27532f881e1fb (patch) | |
tree | 010761b8c05a5037833420c17a42e7f27c469750 /Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt | |
parent | e896a286df44d9d0ae9a81bf172236dd521f5c39 (diff) |
The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt index 0bd2dc713d..3d9bdf0890 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true', enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21. + * "git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and + "commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical + accident. This has been documented. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -102,6 +106,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors. + * Various tests have been updated to work around issues found with + shell utilities that come with busybox etc. + + * The config API made mixed uses of int and size_t types to represent + length of various pieces of text it parsed, which has been updated + to use the correct type (i.e. size_t) throughout. + + * The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git + log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable + log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the + family. + Fixes since v2.26 ----------------- @@ -195,6 +211,81 @@ Fixes since v2.26 * Parsing the host part out of URL for the credential helper has been corrected. (merge 4c5971e18a jk/credential-parsing-end-of-host-in-URL later to maint). + * Document the recommended way to abort a failing test early (e.g. by + exiting a loop), which is to say "return 1". + (merge 7cc112dc95 jc/doc-test-leaving-early later to maint). + + * The code that refreshes the last access and modified time of + on-disk packfiles and loose object files have been updated. + (merge 312cd76130 lr/freshen-file-fix later to maint). + + * Validation of push certificate has been made more robust against + timing attacks. + (merge 719483e547 bc/constant-memequal later to maint). + + * The custom hash function used by "git fast-import" has been + replaced with the one from hashmap.c, which gave us a nice + performance boost. + (merge d8410a816b jk/fast-import-use-hashmap later to maint). + + * The "git submodule" command did not initialize a few variables it + internally uses and was affected by variable settings leaked from + the environment. + (merge 65d100c4dd lx/submodule-clear-variables later to maint). + + * Raise the minimum required version of docbook-xsl package to 1.74, + as 1.74.0 was from late 2008, which is more than 10 years old, and + drop compatibility cruft from our documentation suite. + (merge 3c255ad660 ma/doc-discard-docbook-xsl-1.73 later to maint). + + * "git log" learns "--[no-]mailmap" as a synonym to "--[no-]use-mailmap" + (merge 88acccda38 jc/log-no-mailmap later to maint). + + * "git commit-graph write --expire-time=<timestamp>" did not use the + given timestamp correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge b09b785c78 ds/commit-graph-expiry-fix later to maint). + + * Tests update to use "test-chmtime" instead of "touch -t". + (merge e892a56845 ds/t5319-touch-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff" in a partial clone learned to avoid lazy loading blob + objects in more casese when they are not needed. + (merge 95acf11a3d jt/avoid-prefetch-when-able-in-diff later to maint). + + * "git push --atomic" used to show failures for refs that weren't + even pushed, which has been corrected. + (merge dfe1b7f19c jx/atomic-push later to maint). + + * Code in builtin/*, i.e. those can only be called from within + built-in subcommands, that implements bulk of a couple of + subcommands have been moved to libgit.a so that they could be used + by others. + (merge 9460fd48b5 dl/libify-a-few later to maint). + + * Allowing the user to split a patch hunk while "git stash -p" does + not work well; a band-aid has been added to make this (partially) + work better. + + * "git diff-tree --pretty --notes" used to hit an assertion failure, + as it forgot to initialize the notes subsystem. + (merge 5778b22b3d tb/diff-tree-with-notes later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" fixes. + (merge 8d1675eb7f vd/range-diff-with-custom-pretty-format-fix later to maint). + + * "git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other + commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run + from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected. + (merge 45115d8490 mt/grep-cquote-path later to maint). + + * GNU/Hurd is also among the ones that need the fopen() wrapper. + (merge 274a1328fb jc/gnu-hurd-lets-fread-read-dirs later to maint). + + * Those fetching over protocol v2 from linux-next and other kernel + repositories are reporting that v2 often fetches way too much than + needed. + (merge 11c7f2a30b jn/demote-proto2-from-default later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint). (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint). @@ -215,3 +306,7 @@ Fixes since v2.26 (merge 0740d0a5d3 jk/oid-array-cleanups later to maint). (merge a1aba0c95c js/t0007-typofix later to maint). (merge 76ba7fa225 ma/config-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 826f0c0df2 js/subtree-doc-update-to-asciidoctor-2 later to maint). + (merge 88eaf361e0 eb/mboxrd-doc later to maint). + (merge 051cc54941 tm/zsh-complete-switch-restore later to maint). + (merge 39102cf4fe ms/doc-revision-illustration-fix later to maint). |