Second batch after 2.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 10, 2017 at 13:24 UTC
625568cd8813bf32b2172eaf59e45e9da5978ce3
1 file changed
+65
Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
+65
@@ -73,6 +73,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
73
but caused renaming of the current branch to something else not to
74
be logged in a useful way.
75
76
+ * "Cc:" on the trailer part does not have to conform to RFC strictly,
77
+ unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
78
+ ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
79
+ cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
80
+ (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint).
81
+
82
+ * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working
83
+ tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very
84
+ common setup.
85
+ (merge d1b3b81aab sb/submodule-init-url-selection later to maint).
86
+
87
+ * "git stash save" takes a pathspec so that the local changes can be
88
+ stashed away only partially.
89
+ (merge 9e140909f6 tg/stash-push later to maint).
90
+
91
92
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
93
@@ -96,6 +111,29 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
111
* Some warning() messages from "git clean" were updated to show the
112
errno from failed system calls.
113
114
+ * The "parse_config_key()" API function has been cleaned up.
115
+ (merge ad8c7cdadd jk/parse-config-key-cleanup later to maint).
116
+
117
+ * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
118
+ corrected not to do so.
119
+ (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint).
120
+
121
+ * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
122
+ updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
123
+ (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint).
124
+
125
+ * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from
126
+ real_path() to a strbuf has been added.
127
+ (merge 33ad9ddd0b rs/strbuf-add-real-path later to maint).
128
+
129
+ * Reduce authentication round-trip over HTTP when the server supports
130
+ just a single authentication method. This also improves the
131
+ behaviour when Git is misconfigured to enable http.emptyAuth
132
+ against a server that does not authenticate without a username
133
+ (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
134
+ pointless).
135
+ (merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint).
136
+
137
138
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
139
@@ -147,5 +185,32 @@ notes for details).
185
default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
186
(merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint).
187
188
+ * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
189
+ variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
190
+ been fixed.
191
+ (merge 1274a155af jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 later to maint).
192
+
193
+ * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently
194
+ error out, but didn't.
195
+ (merge 94425552f3 jk/ident-empty later to maint).
196
+
197
+ * "git upload-pack", which is a counter-part of "git fetch", did not
198
+ report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
199
+ This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
200
+ before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
201
+ (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint).
202
+
203
+ * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
204
+ has been plugged.
205
+ (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint).
206
+
207
+ * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
208
+ redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
209
+ and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
210
+ (merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint).
211
+
212
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
213
(merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
214
+ (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
215
+ (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
216
+ (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).