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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc index 1e5281188f..8c4ed4eef4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc @@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index". + * "git fast-import" learned that "--signed-commits=<how>" option that + corresponds to that of "git fast-export". + + * Marking a hunk 'selected' in "git add -p" and then splitting made + all the split pieces 'selected'; this has been changed to make them + all 'undecided', which gives better end-user experience. + + * Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value + (e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing + ":(optoinal)" before its value. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -83,9 +94,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. singleton variable, which has been updated to pass an instance throughout the callchain. + * The work to build on the bulk-checkin infrastructure to create many + objects at once in a transaction and to abstract it into the + generic object layer continues. + * CodingGuidelines now spells out how bitfields are to be written. - * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectivel enables tracing + * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectively enable tracing options, so that our tests can continue to work. (merge 1b5a6bfff3 jk/curl-global-trace-components later to maint). @@ -102,6 +117,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the future. + * The build procedure based on meson learned a target to only build + documentation, similar to "make doc". + (merge ff4ec8ded0 ps/meson-build-docs later to maint). + + * Dip our toes a bit to (optionally) use Rust implemented helper + called from our C code. + + * Documentation for "git log --pretty" options has been updated + to make it easier to translate. + Fixes since v2.51 ----------------- @@ -187,13 +212,13 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. name. (merge bcb20dda83 js/doc-gitk-history later to maint). - * Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution + * Update the instructions for using GGG in the MyFirstContribution document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git` instead of `gitgitgadget/git`. (merge 37001cdbc4 ds/doc-ggg-pr-fork-clarify later to maint). * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work - very well; serialize their execution to work it around. + very well; serialize their execution to work around this problem. (merge 0eeacde50e da/cargo-serialize later to maint). * "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which @@ -259,6 +284,51 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * "git last-modified" operating in non-recursive mode used to trigger a BUG(), which has been corrected. + * The use of "git config get" command to learn how ANSI color + sequence is for a particular type, e.g., "git config get + --type=color --default=reset no.such.thing", isn't very ergonomic. + (merge e4dabf4fd6 ps/config-get-color-fixes later to maint). + + * The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is + deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been + updated. + (merge 54a60e5b38 kh/you-still-use-whatchanged-fix later to maint). + + * Clang-format update to let our control macros be formatted the way we + had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without + space before the parentheses. + (merge 3721541d35 jt/clang-format-foreach-wo-space-before-parenthesis later to maint). + + * A few places where a size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without + checking has been updated to use the existing helper function. + (merge ecc5749578 js/curl-off-t-fixes later to maint). + + * "git reflog write" did not honor the configured user.name/email + which has been corrected. + + * Handling of an empty subdirectory of .git/refs/ in the ref-files + backend has been corrected. + + * Our CI script requires "sudo" that can be told to preserve + environment, but Ubuntu replaced with "sudo" with an implementation + that lacks the feature. Work this around by reinstalling the + original version. + (merge fddb484255 ps/ci-avoid-broken-sudo-on-ubuntu later to maint). + + * The reftable backend learned to sanity check its on-disk data more + carefully. + (merge 466a3a1afd kn/reftable-consistency-checks later to maint). + + * A lot of code clean-up of xdiff. + Split out of a larger topic. + (merge 8b9c5d2e3a en/xdiff-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the + underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up + comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output + you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton + patch. + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint). (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint). @@ -284,3 +354,8 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. (merge ac7096723b jc/doc-includeif-hasconfig-remote-url-fix later to maint). (merge fafc9b08b8 ag/doc-sendmail-gmail-example-update later to maint). (merge a66fc22bf9 rs/get-oid-with-flags-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e1d062e8ba ps/odb-clean-stale-wrappers later to maint). + (merge fdd21ba116 mh/doc-credential-url-prefix later to maint). + (merge 1c573a3451 en/doc-merge-tree-describe-merge-base later to maint). + (merge 84a6bf7965 ja/doc-markup-attached-paragraph-fix later to maint). + (merge 399694384b kh/doc-patch-id-markup-fix later to maint). |