RelNotes: the seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -77,6 +77,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other
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"convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data.
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+ * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating
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+ a branch whose name is "HEAD".
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+ * "git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by
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+ default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled
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+ by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a
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+ recent change to "git tag --list".
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+ * "git grep -W", "git diff -W" and their friends learned a heuristic
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+ to extend a pre-context beyond the line that matches the "function
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+ pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if
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+ exists, that immediately precedes it.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -249,7 +262,6 @@ Fixes since v2.15
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* There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a
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section of a configuration section, which has been corrected.
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- (merge 782c030ea2 rs/config-write-section-fix later to maint).
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* Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained
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in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command;