From 2fc74f41c50562d76defa0617db5bcb7e5216272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:35:18 -0800 Subject: Fifth batch for 2.17 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index db87393f4a..63e52dbc23 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * More perf tests for threaded grep - (merge 7b31b55db1 ab/perf-grep-threads later to maint). * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server. (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint). @@ -79,6 +78,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * More tests for wildmatch functions. + * The code to binary search starting from a fan-out table (which is + how the packfile is indexed with object names) has been refactored + into a reusable helper. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -87,7 +90,6 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been fixed. - (merge 1bba00130a dk/describe-all-output-fix later to maint). * "git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence @@ -99,19 +101,15 @@ Fixes since v2.16 svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when svn.pushmergeinfo option is set. - (merge 8aaed892fd jm/svn-pushmergeinfo-fix later to maint). * API clean-up around revision traversal. - (merge 6fcec2f9ae rs/lose-leak-pending later to maint). * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link. - (merge fd48b46474 jc/merge-symlink-ours-theirs later to maint). * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly removed it upon a failure of the operation. - (merge d45420c1c8 jk/abort-clone-with-existing-dest later to maint). * "git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m" option to be used at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more @@ -124,7 +122,6 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * "git stash -- " incorrectly blew away untracked files in the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected. - (merge bba067d2fa tg/stash-with-pathspec-fix later to maint). * Instead of maintaining home-grown email address parsing code, ship a copy of reasonably recent Mail::Address to be used as a fallback @@ -134,7 +131,6 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes anyway. - (merge 12434efc1d nd/add-i-ignore-submodules later to maint). * Avoid showing a warning message in the middle of a line of "git diff" output. @@ -178,11 +174,46 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * Test fixes. (merge 63b1a175ee sg/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + * Some bugs around "untracked cache" feature have been fixed. This + will notice corrupt data in the untracked cache left by old and + buggy code and issue a warning---the index can be fixed by clearing + the untracked cache from it. + (merge 0cacebf099 nd/fix-untracked-cache-invalidation later to maint). + (merge 7bf0be7501 ab/untracked-cache-invalidation-docs later to maint). + + * "git blame HEAD COPYING" in a bare repository failed to run, while + "git blame HEAD -- COPYING" run just fine. This has been corrected. + + * "git add" files in the same directory, but spelling the directory + path in different cases on case insensitive filesystem, corrupted + the name hash data structure and led to unexpected results. This + has been corrected. + (merge c95525e90d bp/name-hash-dirname-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p" mangled log messages of a merge commit, which is + now fixed. + (merge ed5144d7eb js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * Some low level protocol codepath could crash when they get an + unexpected flush packet, which is now fixed. + (merge bb1356dc64 js/packet-read-line-check-null later to maint). + + * "git check-ignore" with multiple paths got confused when one is a + file and the other is a directory, which has been fixed. + (merge d60771e930 rs/check-ignore-multi later to maint). + + * "git describe $garbage" stopped giving any errors when the garbage + happens to be a string with 40 hexadecimal letters. + (merge a8e7a2bf0f sb/describe-blob later to maint). + + * Code to unquote single-quoted string (used in the parser for + configuration files, etc.) did not diagnose bogus input correctly + and produced bogus results instead. + (merge ddbbf8eb25 jk/sq-dequote-on-bogus-input later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). (merge f0a6068a9f ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). - (merge 30221a3389 as/read-tree-prefix-doc-fix later to maint). - (merge 9bd2ce5432 ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors later to maint). (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). (merge e1b3f3dd38 ks/submodule-doc-updates later to maint). (merge fbac558a9b rs/describe-unique-abbrev later to maint). @@ -197,3 +228,10 @@ Fixes since v2.16 (merge b780e4407d jc/worktree-add-short-help later to maint). (merge ae239fc8e5 rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr later to maint). (merge 2e22a85e5c nd/ignore-glob-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 3738031581 jk/gettext-poison later to maint). + (merge 54360a1956 rj/sparse-updates later to maint). + (merge 12e31a6b12 sg/doc-test-must-fail-args later to maint). + (merge 760f1ad101 bc/doc-interpret-trailers-grammofix later to maint). + (merge 4ccf461f56 bp/fsmonitor later to maint). + (merge a6119f82b1 jk/test-hashmap-updates later to maint). + (merge 5aea9fe6cc rd/typofix later to maint). -- cgit v1.2.3