3c4ce8e69b · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Backward compatibility notes.

11 is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet).

12

13 * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."

14 - has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the

15 - upcoming release.

14 + has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a

15 + future release.

16

17

18 Updates since v2.11

@@ -85,6 +85,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

85 same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2

86 are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2).

87

88 + * "git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to

89 + push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject.

90 +

91 + * "git tag" and "git verify-tag" learned to put GPG verification

92 + status in their "--format=<placeholders>" output format.

93 +

94 + * An ancient repository conversion tool left in contrib/ has been

95 + removed.

96 +

97 + * "git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" because the user is not

98 + interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, and used with

99 + "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out,

100 + i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected.

101 +

102

103 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

104

@@ -131,6 +145,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

145 * Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not

146 breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc.

147

148 + * The sequencer machinery has been further enhanced so that a later

149 + set of patches can start using it to reimplement "rebase -i".

150 +

151 + * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by

152 + TravisCI.

153 + (merge 672f51cb83 ls/travis-p4-on-macos later to maint).

154 +

155 + * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.

156 + (merge 94d3997ecc js/difftool-builtin later to maint).

157 +

158

159 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

160

@@ -327,9 +351,44 @@ notes for details).

351 a PRE regexp engine.

352 (merge 7675c7bd01 jk/grep-e-could-be-extended-beyond-posix later to maint).

353

354 + * An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it

355 + can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic

356 + when a remote side gives such an error message that the local side

357 + will relay with a "remote: " prefix.

358 + (merge f290089879 jk/vreport-sanitize later to maint).

359 +

360 + * "git fsck" inspects loose objects more carefully now.

361 + (merge cce044df7f jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).

362 +

363 + * A crashing bug introduced in v2.11 timeframe has been found (it is

364 + triggerable only in fast-import) and fixed.

365 + (merge abd5a00268 jk/clear-delta-base-cache-fix later to maint).

366 +

367 + * With an anticipatory tweak for remotes defined in ~/.gitconfig

368 + (e.g. "remote.origin.prune" set to true, even though there may or

369 + may not actually be "origin" remote defined in a particular Git

370 + repository), "git remote rename" and other commands misinterpreted

371 + and behaved as if such a non-existing remote actually existed.

372 + (merge e459b073fb js/remote-rename-with-half-configured-remote later to maint).

373 +

374 + * A few codepaths had to rely on a global variable when sorting

375 + elements of an array because sort(3) API does not allow extra data

376 + to be passed to the comparison function. Use qsort_s() when

377 + natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not,

378 + to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the

379 + codepath reentrant.

380 + (merge 83fc4d64fe rs/qsort-s later to maint).

381 +

382 + * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all.

383 + (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint).

384 +

385 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.

386 (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).

387 (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).

388 (merge 3f05402ac0 ad/bisect-terms later to maint).

389 (merge 874444b704 rh/diff-orderfile-doc later to maint).

390 (merge c68d2d7c2b ws/request-pull-code-cleanup later to maint).

391 + (merge 007ac54401 js/exec-path-coverity-workaround later to maint).

392 + (merge 1797dc5176 jk/coding-guidelines-update later to maint).

393 + (merge 1d3f065e0e js/mingw-isatty later to maint).

394 + (merge 830c912a0e sb/in-core-index-doc later to maint).

Eighth batch for 2.12