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RelNotes: the tenth batch

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -107,6 +107,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be
checked to also include directories on $PATH.
* "git diff" learned, "--anchored", a variant of the "--patience"
algorithm, to which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be
used as anchoring points.
* The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from
where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit.
* Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated
object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but
these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git
who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them
confusing with the range syntax.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -163,6 +176,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has
been removed, as there is no remaining callers.
* Historically, the diff machinery for rename detection had a
hardcoded limit of 32k paths; this is being lifted to allow users
trade cycles with a (possibly) easier to read result.
* The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no
tracing is requested.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -329,6 +349,31 @@ Fixes since v2.15
* A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed.
(merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint).
* The code internal to the recursive merge strategy was not fully
prepared to see a path that is renamed to try overwriting another
path that is only different in case on case insensitive systems.
This does not matter in the current code, but will start to matter
once the rename detection logic starts taking hints from nearby
paths moving to some directory and moves a new path along with them.
(merge 4cba2b0108 en/merge-recursive-icase-removal later to maint).
* An v2.12-era regression in pathspec match logic, which made it look
into submodule tree even when it is not desired, has been fixed.
(merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint).
* Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii
due to incorrect enconding conversion.
* Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree"
by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront.
(merge fd66bcc31f bw/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
* Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the
user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor
opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets
lost.
(merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
@ -338,3 +383,4 @@ Fixes since v2.15
(merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint).
(merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint).
(merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint).
(merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint).