From 16163602bacb2804d00d599049a62b7af0b0b7b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:40:24 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Eighth batch for 2.6 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt index 050371d94c..09ece6c002 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt @@ -71,6 +71,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new configuration variable http.sslVersion can be used to specify what specific version of SSL/TLS to use to make a connection. + * "git notes merge" can be told with "--strategy=" option how to + automatically handle conflicts; this can now be configured by + setting notes.mergeStrategy configuration variable. + + * "git log --cc" did not show any patch, even though most of the time + the user meant "git log --cc -p -m" to see patch output for commits + with a single parent, and combined diff for merge commits. The + command is taught to DWIM "--cc" (without "--raw" and other forms + of output specification) to "--cc -p -m". + + * "git config --list" output was hard to parse when values consist of + multiple lines. "--name-only" option is added to help this. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -132,6 +145,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR). + * The gitmodules API that is accessed from the C code learned to + cache stuff lazily. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -263,6 +279,29 @@ notes for details). has a colon as the end of existing trailer. (merge 6262fe9 cc/trailers-corner-case-fix later to maint). + * "git describe" without argument defaulted to describe the HEAD + commit, but "git describe --contains" didn't. Arguably, in a + repository used for active development, such defaulting would not + be very useful as the tip of branch is typically not tagged, but it + is better to be consistent. + (merge 2bd0706 sg/describe-contains later to maint). + + * The client side codepaths in "git push" have been cleaned up + and the user can request to perform an optional "signed push", + i.e. sign only when the other end accepts signed push. + (merge 68c757f db/push-sign-if-asked later to maint). + + * Because the configuration system does not allow "alias.0foo" and + "pager.0foo" as the configuration key, the user cannot use '0foo' + as a custom command name anyway, but "git 0foo" tried to look these + keys up and emitted useless warnings before saying '0foo is not a + git command'. These warning messages have been squelched. + (merge 9e9de18 jk/fix-alias-pager-config-key-warnings later to maint). + + * "git rev-list" does not take "--notes" option, but did not complain + when one is given. + (merge 2aea7a5 jk/rev-list-has-no-notes later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint). (merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint). -- 2.43.2