diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index 3853b3dec6..4783e25ce1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -55,6 +55,26 @@ UI, Workflows & Features to the right border. (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint). + * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing + 0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both + 0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing + embarrassment and a minor confusion. Detect such an input and + offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out. + (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could + eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the + submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt. + + * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and + strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc. + + * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a + command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it. + (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint). + + * A couple of "git svn" updates. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -116,6 +136,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status). (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). + * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent + version of Git even when testing an older installed version. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -219,6 +242,23 @@ notes for details). paths that are _inside_. (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint). + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + (merge f793582 jn/preformatted-doc-url later to maint). + + * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and + finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is + commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank + lines to match. + (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint). + + * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our + colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on + Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years. + (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint). + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint). (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).