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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index 3bc074fc0..f23759b0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -1,11 +1,32 @@ Git 2.11 Release Notes ====================== +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 + use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and + asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead. + + The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and + eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading + the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. + + + * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." + has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the + next release (not this one). + + Updates since v2.10 ------------------- UI, Workflows & Features + * Comes with new version of git-gui, now at its 0.21.0 tag. + * "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1] and [PATCH 1/1] by default. @@ -89,6 +110,29 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the order of paths to present to the end user. + * "git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding + configuration variable to set it by default. + + * "git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be + used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this + only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or + ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream + side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree + files from the top-level superproject. + + * A new credential helper that talks via "libsecret" with + implementations of XDG Secret Service API has been added to + contrib/credential/. + + * The GPG verification status shown in "%G?" pretty format specifier + was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired + key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc. New output letters + have been assigned to express them. + + * In addition to purely abbreviated commit object names, "gitweb" + learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787) + into clickable links in its output. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -160,6 +204,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate them to the repository or purge them immediately. + * The require_clean_work_tree() helper was recreated in C when "git + pull" was rewritten from shell; the helper is now made available to + other callers in preparation for upcoming "rebase -i" work. + + * "git upload-pack" had its code cleaned-up and performance improved + by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was + replaced with a priority queue. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -416,7 +468,61 @@ notes for details). 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 + by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in + another worktree. However, this also prevented checking out a + 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 + "Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending + on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module. + (merge dcfafc5214 mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address later to maint). + + * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with --verbose + option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be + misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed. This resulted + 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). + * 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). |