RelNotes: the ninth batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
index 431bd5e34ace656c3462e5cb4cf6bd3b77adfece..3eeeb83674828787c3c715795db6c7bdcb0b76d3 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
    the "--autostash" option.
 
  * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
    the "--autostash" option.
 

+ * The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can
+   now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional
+   options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>.
+
+ * "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault,
+   which is being fixed.
+
+ * "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available
+   in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
+   checked to also include directories on $PATH.
+

 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 


@@ -143,6 +154,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
    without harming them.
 
    and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
    without harming them.
 

+ * An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is
+   introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various
+   codepaths has been started.
+
+ * The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized.
+
+ * An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has
+   been removed, as there is no remaining callers.
+

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


@@ -302,8 +322,19 @@ Fixes since v2.15
    accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
    (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint).
 
    accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
    (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint).
 

+ * @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state,
+   but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed.
+   (merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint).
+
+ * A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed.
+   (merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint).
+

  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
    (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
    (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint).
    (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint).
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
    (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
    (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint).
    (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint).

+   (merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint).
+   (merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
+   (merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).