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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-31 13:19:53 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-10-31 13:19:53 -0700 |
commit | 1fe8f2cf461179c41f64efbd1dc0a9fb3b7a0fb1 (patch) | |
tree | c99032fd17c273620a12b0202c5a0726e5169b2e /Documentation | |
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Git 2.11-rc0v2.11.0-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt | 68 |
1 files changed, 41 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index 359062000..f8e8e3f39 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Backward compatibility notes. * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant 'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that - finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"', which - ends up removing everything. This release starts warning about the + finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"' by + mistake (when the user meant to give "$path"), which ends up + removing everything. This release starts warning about the use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead. @@ -144,6 +145,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the "Changes not staged for commit" section. + * The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned + to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined. A + new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first + request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and + all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple + paths, reducing the process creation overhead. + + * The user always has to say "stash@{$N}" when naming a single + element in the default location of the stash, i.e. reflogs in + refs/stash. The "git stash" command learned to accept "git stash + apply 4" as a short-hand for "git stash apply stash@{4}". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -230,6 +243,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement "rebase -i" continues. + * Git generally does not explicitly close file descriptors that were + open in the parent process when spawning a child process, but most + of the time the child does not want to access them. As Windows does + not allow removing or renaming a file that has a file descriptor + open, a slow-to-exit child can even break the parent process by + holding onto them. Use O_CLOEXEC flag to open files in various + codepaths. + + * Update "interpret-trailers" machinery and teaches it that people in + real world write all sorts of crufts in the "trailer" that was + originally designed to have the neat-o "Mail-Header: like thing" + and nothing else. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -341,7 +367,6 @@ notes for details). * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a color-reset sequence to the output. - (merge 82b83da8d3 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint). * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been fixed. @@ -358,7 +383,6 @@ notes for details). beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND extension. - (merge 842a516cb0 js/regexec-buf later to maint). * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a @@ -383,7 +407,6 @@ notes for details). mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches. This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due to a design bug, which has been fixed. - (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint). * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname @@ -433,11 +456,9 @@ notes for details). version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead. - (merge d2d07ab861 ak/curl-imap-send-explicit-scheme later to maint). * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how to detect support of SSL by libcurl better. - (merge 924b7eb1c9 dp/autoconf-curl-ssl later to maint). * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of @@ -464,27 +485,22 @@ notes for details). Kerberos. We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":" (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string. - (merge 5275c3081c dt/http-empty-auth later to maint). * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores. - (merge 22d3b8de1b jk/clone-copy-alternates-fix later to maint). * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up with what to commit. - (merge 7431596ab1 nd/commit-p-doc later to maint). * A stray symbolic link in $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name resolution loop forever, which has been corrected. - (merge e8c42cb9ce jk/ref-symlink-loop later to maint). * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed. - (merge 72710165c9 sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path later to maint). * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion @@ -493,29 +509,23 @@ notes for details). branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare repository. The check has been corrected to allow it. - (merge 171c646f8c dk/worktree-dup-checkout-with-bare-is-ok later to maint). * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork point from the upstream. - (merge 4f21454b55 jk/merge-base-fork-point-without-reflog later to maint). * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully. - (merge 5827a03545 jk/fetch-quick-tag-following later to maint). * Protect our code from over-eager compilers. - (merge 0ac52a38e8 jk/tighten-alloc later to maint). * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated to describe it. - (merge 15ef78008a bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc later to maint). * A hot-fix for a test added by a recent topic that went to both 'master' and 'maint' already. - (merge 76e368c378 tg/add-chmod+x-fix later to maint). * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like @@ -529,12 +539,10 @@ notes for details). in unnecessary failure. This has been corrected by introducing a new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose output separately to the log file. - (merge 614fe01521 jk/tap-verbose-fix later to maint). * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to work around them. - (merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint). * A minor regression fix for "git submodule" that was introduced when more helper functions were reimplemented in C. @@ -553,11 +561,17 @@ notes for details). required to serve. (merge 6bdb0083be jk/daemon-path-ok-check-truncation later to maint). + * Recent update to git-sh-setup (a library of shell functions that + are used by our in-tree scripted Porcelain commands) included + another shell library git-sh-i18n without specifying where it is, + relying on the $PATH. This has been fixed to be more explicit by + prefixing $(git --exec-path) output in front. + (merge 1073094f30 ak/sh-setup-dot-source-i18n-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint). - (merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint). - (merge 30cfe72d37 rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix later to maint). - (merge d709f1fb9d jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments later to maint). - (merge 13092a916d jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null later to maint). - (merge 86009f32bb pb/test-parse-options-expect later to maint). - (merge 749a2279a4 yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc later to maint). + (merge 5c238e29a8 jk/common-main later to maint). + (merge 5a5749e45b ak/pre-receive-hook-template-modefix later to maint). + (merge 6d834ac8f1 jk/rebase-config-insn-fmt-docfix later to maint). + (merge de9f7fa3b0 rs/commit-pptr-simplify later to maint). + (merge 4259d693fc sc/fmt-merge-msg-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 28fab7b23d nd/test-helpers later to maint). |