From ed843436dd4924c10669820cc73daf50f0b4dabd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:27:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] First batch for 2.19 cycle Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt index 284e07f6a3..2954653d10 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -6,9 +6,52 @@ Updates since v2.18 UI, Workflows & Features + * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths + added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents + of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new + files. They are now shown as new by default. + + "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an + otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new + paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. + + * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field, + which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the + code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a + more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. + + * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. + (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the + codebase to report the list of configuration variables + subcommands care about to help complete them. + + * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to + slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. + Fixes since v2.18 ----------------- + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/) + has been taught about it. + (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint). + + * "git fetch --shallow-since=" that specifies the cut-off + point that is newer than the existing history used to end up + grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out. + (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint). + + * Code cleanup. + (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). -- 2.11.4.GIT