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1 Git 2.11 Release Notes
2 ======================
4 Updates since v2.10
5 -------------------
7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch
10 with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1]
11 and [PATCH 1/1] by default.
13 * An incoming "git push" that attempts to push too many bytes can now
14 be rejected by setting a new configuration variable at the receiving
15 end.
17 * "git nosuchcommand --help" said "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand",
18 which was not intuitive, given that "git nosuchcommand" said "git:
19 'nosuchcommand' is not a git command".
21 * "git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to
22 reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing
23 $path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it
24 learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
25 repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
27 * The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced
28 to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule
29 commits bound to the superproject.
32 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
34 * The delta-base-cache mechanism has been a key to the performance in
35 a repository with a tightly packed packfile, but it did not scale
36 well even with a larger value of core.deltaBaseCacheLimit.
38 * Enhance "git status --porcelain" output by collecting more data on
39 the state of the index and the working tree files, which may
40 further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer
41 calls to git.
43 * Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors
44 script file "git am" internally uses.
45 (merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint).
48 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
51 Fixes since v2.10
52 -----------------
54 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
55 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
56 notes for details).
58 * Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
59 documentation.
60 (merge a117be4 po/range-doc later to maint).
62 * "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
63 "git log -p --graph" output.
64 (merge 3dbfe2b bh/diff-highlight-graph later to maint).
66 * The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
67 count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
68 test script plus the process ID. The latter however turned out not
69 to serve any useful purpose. The process ID part of the filename
70 has been removed.
71 (merge 5c885c1 jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results later to maint).
73 * Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
74 caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.
75 (merge 10f5c52 jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir later to maint).
77 * "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
78 the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command
79 to forbid removal of HEAD.
80 (merge 12cfa79 jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD later to maint).
82 * A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
83 prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
84 script on some platforms.
85 (merge 5babb5b js/t6026-clean-up later to maint).
87 * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
88 newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
89 (merge 14e2411 ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests later to maint).
91 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
92 (merge 3e1952e jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3 later to maint).
93 (merge ca2baa3 rs/compat-strdup later to maint).
94 (merge d233097 rs/hex2chr later to maint).
95 (merge c00bfc9 js/t9903-chaining later to maint).
96 (merge 5e4e5bb sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl later to maint).
97 (merge 5cb5fe4 sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr later to maint).