RelNotes update for 2.7

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2015-12-04 11:31:28 -08:00
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@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
usual "--[no-]progress".
* The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been
extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets
you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical
repository and virtually serve them as separate ones.
* send-email config variables whose values are pathnames now go
through the ~username/ expansion.
* bash completion learnt to TAB-complete recipient addresses given
to send-email.
* The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work
around issue when running Git from inside emacs.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -118,6 +132,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in
our test scripts has become a lot easier.
* The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which
upset some linkers.
* Cross completed task off of subtree project's todo list.
* Test cleanups for the subtree project.
* Clean up style in an ancient test t9300.
* Work around some test flakiness with p4d.
* Fsck did not correctly detect a NUL-truncated header in a tag.
* Use a safer behavior when we hit errors verifying remote certificates.
* Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting
commits, not tree data.
* The parse-options API has been updated to make "-h" command line
option work more consistently in all commands.
* "git svn rebase/mkdirs" got optimized by keeping track of empty
directories better.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -341,6 +379,19 @@ notes for details).
requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request
and it did not kick in.
* Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in
the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them.
(merge 478f34d dk/gc-idx-wo-pack later to maint).
* Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take
more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround
for it.
(merge 001fd7a ad/sha1-update-chunked later to maint).
* Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we
are on an orphan or an unborn branch.
(merge c26f70c sg/bash-prompt-dirty-orphan later to maint).
* Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
(merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).