RelNotes: the third batch for 2.16

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2017-11-09 14:36:39 +09:00
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@ -59,6 +59,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* Code cleanup.
(merge 62a24c8923 rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup later to maint).
* A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split
into a structure with many bitfields.
(merge 0d1e0e7801 bw/diff-opt-impl-to-bitfields later to maint).
* TravisCI build updates.
(merge c2154953b8 sg/travis-fixes later to maint).
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -122,5 +132,35 @@ Fixes since v2.15
* Command line completion (in contrib/) update.
(merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint).
* Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date}
configuration variables have been added to "git config --help".
(merge de0bc11d13 sb/blame-config-doc later to maint).
* After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function
sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat,
which has been fixed.
(merge 10e0ca843d ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix later to maint).
* UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now
tested just like Mingw builds.
(merge f21d60b429 ad/5580-unc-tests-on-cygwin later to maint).
* Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed
immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at
around Git 2.13).
(merge fa4d8c783d js/early-config later to maint).
* The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved
to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are
currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded).
(merge 9c109e9bbc dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix later to maint).
* MinGW updates.
(merge 39bb86b4e5 js/mingw-full-version-in-resources later to maint).
(merge 601e1e7897 js/wincred-empty-cred later to maint).
(merge b2f55717c7 js/mingw-redirect-std-handles later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint).
(merge 8684dde10d jm/relnotes-2.15-typofix later to maint).
(merge cd3f8e2fc2 ks/mailmap later to maint).