Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt

   1 Git 2.17 Release Notes
   2 ======================
   3
   4 Updates since v2.16
   5 -------------------
   6
   7 UI, Workflows & Features
   8
   9  * "diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option
  10    to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object.
  11    (merge 4d8c51aa19 sb/diff-blobfind-pickaxe later to maint).
  12
  13
  14 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  15
  16  * More perf tests for threaded grep
  17    (merge 7b31b55db1 ab/perf-grep-threads later to maint).
  18
  19  * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server.
  20    (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint).
  21
  22
  23 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
  24
  25
  26 Fixes since v2.16
  27 -----------------
  28
  29  * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been
  30    fixed.
  31    (merge 1bba00130a dk/describe-all-output-fix later to maint).
  32
  33  * "git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making
  34    it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence
  35    making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not
  36    report the  old and new pathnames correctly.
  37    (merge 176ea74793 nd/ita-wt-renames-in-status later to maint).
  38
  39  * "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a
  40    svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers
  41    to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when
  42    svn.pushmergeinfo option is set.
  43    (merge 8aaed892fd jm/svn-pushmergeinfo-fix later to maint).
  44
  45  * API clean-up around revision traversal.
  46    (merge 6fcec2f9ae rs/lose-leak-pending later to maint).
  47
  48  * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when
  49    resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link.
  50    (merge fd48b46474 jc/merge-symlink-ours-theirs later to maint).
  51
  52  * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists
  53    as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly
  54    removed it upon a failure of the operation.
  55    (merge d45420c1c8 jk/abort-clone-with-existing-dest later to maint).
  56
  57  * "git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m<message>" option to be used
  58    at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more
  59    text.
  60    (merge 30884c9afc ab/commit-m-with-fixup later to maint).
  61
  62  * When resetting the working tree files recursively, the working tree
  63    of submodules are now also reset to match.
  64    (merge 7dcc1f4df8 sb/submodule-update-reset-fix later to maint).
  65
  66  * "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in
  67    the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected.
  68    (merge bba067d2fa tg/stash-with-pathspec-fix later to maint).
  69
  70  * Instead of maintaining home-grown email address parsing code, ship
  71    a copy of reasonably recent Mail::Address to be used as a fallback
  72    in 'git send-email' when the platform lacks it.
  73    (merge d60be8acab mm/send-email-fallback-to-local-mail-address later to maint).
  74
  75  * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as
  76    they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes
  77    anyway.
  78    (merge 12434efc1d nd/add-i-ignore-submodules later to maint).
  79
  80  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
  81    (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint).
  82    (merge f0a6068a9f ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
  83    (merge 30221a3389 as/read-tree-prefix-doc-fix later to maint).
  84    (merge 9bd2ce5432 ab/doc-cat-file-e-still-shows-errors later to maint).