From b994622632154fc3b17fb40a38819ad954a5fb88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 14:24:44 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] The eighth batch Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt index 9c7041eb08..2a8c6e8f28 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt @@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The approxidate parser learns to parse seconds with fraction and ignore fractional part. + * The userdiff patterns for Markdown documents have been added. + + * The sparse-checkout patterns have been forbidden from excluding all + paths, leaving an empty working tree, for a long time. This + limitation has been lifted. + + * "git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents + out of "HEAD", instead of erring out. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -372,6 +381,45 @@ Fixes since v2.26 correctly honor the core.sharedRepository settings and some were left read-write. + * In error messages that "git switch" mentions its option to create a + new branch, "-b/-B" options were shown, where "-c/-C" options + should be, which has been corrected. + (merge 7c16ef7577 dl/switch-c-option-in-error-message later to maint). + + * With the recent tightening of the code that is used to parse + various parts of a URL for use in the credential subsystem, a + hand-edited credential-store file causes the credential helper to + die, which is a bit too harsh to the users. Demote the error + behaviour to just ignore and keep using well-formed lines instead. + (merge c03859a665 cb/credential-store-ignore-bogus-lines later to maint). + + * The samples in the credential documentation has been updated to + make it clear that we depict what would appear in the .git/config + file, by adding appropriate quotes as needed.. + (merge 177681a07e jk/credential-sample-update later to maint). + + * "git branch" and other "for-each-ref" variants accepted multiple + --sort= options in the increasing order of precedence, but it + had a few breakages around "--ignore-case" handling, and tie-breaking + with the refname, which have been fixed. + (merge 7c5045fc18 jk/for-each-ref-multi-key-sort-fix later to maint). + + * The coding guideline for shell scripts instructed to refer to a + variable with dollar-sign inside arithmetic expansion to work + around a bug in old versions of dash, which is a thing of the past. + Now we are not forbidden from writing $((var+1)). + (merge 32b5fe7f0e jk/arith-expansion-coding-guidelines later to maint). + + * The header on NetBSD brings in its own definition of + hmac() function (eek), which conflicts with our own and unrelated + function with the same name. Our function has been renamed to work + around the issue. + (merge 3013118eb8 cb/avoid-colliding-with-netbsd-hmac later to maint). + + * The basic test did not honor $TEST_SHELL_PATH setting, which has + been corrected. + (merge 0555e4af58 cb/t0000-use-the-configured-shell later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint). (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint). @@ -399,3 +447,4 @@ Fixes since v2.26 (merge 4d9378bfad eb/gitweb-more-trailers later to maint). (merge bdccbf7047 mt/doc-worktree-ref later to maint). (merge ce9baf234f dl/push-recurse-submodules-fix later to maint). + (merge 4153274052 bc/doc-credential-helper-value later to maint).