From 1d1bdafd64266e5ee3bd46c6965228f32e4022ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:57:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Third batch for 2.12 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index c8b7fbb700..159a1bbb83 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -35,6 +35,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort". + * "git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been + taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of + $super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the + superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to + also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories + embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of + the superproject. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -162,6 +170,38 @@ notes for details). mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. (merge 6cf5f6cef7 da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey later to maint). + * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back + to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when + the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user + did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt + the operation. + (merge ce73bb22d8 sb/sequencer-abort-safety later to maint). + + * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation. + (merge 649b0c316a nd/shallow-fixup later to maint). + + * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage + objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot + have a pathname with a colon in it (no surprise!), and this in turn + made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This + has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when + appending such a path to the colon-separated list. + (merge 5e74824fac jk/quote-env-path-list-component later to maint). + + * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:" + before the custom message programs give, when they want to die + with a message about wrong command line options followed by the + standard usage string. + (merge 87433261a4 jk/parseopt-usage-msg-opt later to maint). + + * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository, + but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that + corresponds to a packfile does not. + (merge 29401e1575 jk/index-pack-wo-repo-from-stdin later to maint). + + * Fix for NDEBUG builds. + (merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint). (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). -- 2.43.2