From 8da8889a4bdff30c12b75e36d4b9de4788761ff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 15:00:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fifth batch for 2.6 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt index f938768b2a..6ba67b60c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt @@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A negative !ref entry in multi-value transfer.hideRefs configuration can be used to say "don't hide this one". + * After "git am" without "-3" stops, running "git am -" pays attention + to "-3" only for the patch that caused the original invocation + to stop. + + * When linked worktree is used, simultaneous "notes merge" instances + for the same ref in refs/notes/* are prevented from stomping on + each other. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -110,6 +118,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. to misuse, as the callers need to be careful to keep the number of active results below 4. Their uses have been reduced. + * The "lockfile" API has been rebuilt on top of a new "tempfile" API. + + * To prepare for allowing a different "ref" backend to be plugged in + to the system, update_ref()/delete_ref() have been taught about + ref-like things like MERGE_HEAD that are per-worktree (they will + always be written to the filesystem inside $GIT_DIR). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -212,6 +227,23 @@ notes for details). in C. (merge 22d6857 mm/pull-upload-pack later to maint). + * When trying to see that an object does not exist, a state errno + leaked from our "first try to open a packfile with O_NOATIME and + then if it fails retry without it" logic on a system that refuses + O_NOATIME. This confused us and caused us to die, saying that the + packfile is unreadable, when we should have just reported that the + object does not exist in that packfile to the caller. + (merge dff6f28 cb/open-noatime-clear-errno later to maint). + + * The codepath to produce error messages had a hard-coded limit to + the size of the message, primarily to avoid memory allocation while + calling die(). + (merge f4c3edc jk/long-error-messages later to maint). + + * strbuf_read() used to have one extra iteration (and an unnecessary + strbuf_grow() of 8kB), which was eliminated. + (merge 3ebbd00 jh/strbuf-read-use-read-in-full 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). @@ -221,3 +253,4 @@ notes for details). (merge 4a6ada3 ad/bisect-cleanup later to maint). (merge da4c5ad ta/docfix-index-format-tech later to maint). (merge ae25fd3 sb/check-return-from-read-ref later to maint). + (merge b3325df nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint).