The third batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
index 7a5c7ff..0bd2dc7 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,35 @@
exists, and neither --[no-]rebase nor --ff-only is given (which
would result a merge).
+ * "git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to
+ bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook).
+
+ * "git pull" shares many options with underlying "git fetch", but
+ some of them were not documented and some of those that would make
+ sense to pass down were not passed down.
+
+ * "git rebase" learned the "--no-gpg-sign" option to countermand
+ commit.gpgSign the user may have.
+
+ * The output from "git format-patch" uses RFC 2047 encoding for
+ non-ASCII letters on From: and Subject: headers, so that it can
+ directly be fed to e-mail programs. A new option has been added
+ to produce these headers in raw.
+
+ * "git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited
+ history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a
+ side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown
+ in addition to the commits that introduce real changes.
+
+ * The interactive input from various codepaths are consolidated and
+ any prompt possibly issued earlier are fflush()ed before we read.
+
+ * Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be
+ already in the upstream, without checking first.
+
+ * The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true',
+ enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -60,6 +89,19 @@
* "git stash" has kept an escape hatch to use the scripted version
for a few releases, which got stale. It has been removed.
+ * Enable tests that require GnuPG on Windows.
+
+ * Minor test usability improvement.
+
+ * Trace2 enhancement to allow logging of the environment variables.
+
+ * Test clean-up continues.
+
+ * Perf-test update.
+
+ * A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against
+ misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors.
+
Fixes since v2.26
-----------------
@@ -85,6 +127,74 @@
was rewritten in C back in 2.20 era, which has been corrected.
(merge f08132f889 at/rebase-fork-point-regression-fix later to maint).
+ * The import-tars importer (in contrib/fast-import/) used to create
+ phony files at the top-level of the repository when the archive
+ contains global PAX headers, which made its own logic to detect and
+ omit the common leading directory ineffective, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge c839fcff65 js/import-tars-do-not-make-phony-files-from-pax-headers later to maint).
+
+ * Simplify the commit ancestry connectedness check in a partial clone
+ repository in which "promised" objects are assumed to be obtainable
+ lazily on-demand from promisor remote repositories.
+ (merge 2b98478c6f jt/connectivity-check-optim-in-partial-clone later to maint).
+
+ * The server-end of the v2 protocol to serve "git clone" and "git
+ fetch" was not prepared to see a delim packets at unexpected
+ places, which led to a crash.
+ (merge cacae4329f jk/harden-protocol-v2-delim-handling later to maint).
+
+ * When fed a midx that records no objects, some codepaths tried to
+ loop from 0 through (num_objects-1), which, due to integer
+ arithmetic wrapping around, made it nonsense operation with out of
+ bounds array accesses. The code has been corrected to reject such
+ an midx file.
+ (merge 796d61cdc0 dr/midx-avoid-int-underflow later to maint).
+
+ * Utitiles run via the run_command() API were not spawned correctly
+ on Cygwin, when the paths to them are given as a full path with
+ backslashes.
+ (merge 05ac8582bc ak/run-command-on-cygwin-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" tried to run a rebase even after noticing that
+ the pull results in a fast-forward and no rebase is needed nor
+ sensible, for the past few years due to a mistake nobody noticed.
+ (merge fbae70ddc6 en/pull-do-not-rebase-after-fast-forwarding later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" with the merge backend did not work well when the
+ rebase.abbreviateCommands configuration was set.
+ (merge de9f1d3ef4 ag/rebase-merge-allow-ff-under-abbrev-command later to maint).
+
+ * The logic to auto-follow tags by "git clone --single-branch" was
+ not careful to avoid lazy-fetching unnecessary tags, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 167a575e2d jk/use-quick-lookup-in-clone-for-tag-following later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" did not leave the reflog entries correctly.
+ (merge 1f6965f994 en/sequencer-reflog-action later to maint).
+
+ * The more aggressive updates to remote-tracking branches we had for
+ the past 7 years or so were not reflected in the documentation,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge a44088435c pb/pull-fetch-doc later to maint).
+
+ * We've left the command line parsing of "git log :/a/b/" broken for
+ about a full year without anybody noticing, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 0220461071 jc/missing-ref-store-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Misc fixes for Windows.
+ (merge 3efc128cd5 js/mingw-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" (again) learns to honor "--no-keep-empty", which lets
+ the user to discard commits that are empty from the beginning (as
+ opposed to the ones that become empty because of rebasing). The
+ interactive rebase also marks commits that are empty in the todo.
+ (merge 50ed76148a en/rebase-no-keep-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Parsing the host part out of URL for the credential helper has been corrected.
+ (merge 4c5971e18a jk/credential-parsing-end-of-host-in-URL 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).
@@ -92,3 +202,16 @@
(merge 757c2ba3e2 en/oidset-uninclude-hashmap later to maint).
(merge 8312aa7d74 jc/config-tar later to maint).
(merge d00a5bdd50 ss/submodule-foreach-cb later to maint).
+ (merge 64d1022e14 ar/test-style-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge 4a465443a6 ds/doc-clone-filter later to maint).
+ (merge bb2dbe301b jk/t3419-drop-expensive-tests later to maint).
+ (merge d3507cc712 js/test-junit-finalization-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 2149b6748f bc/faq later to maint).
+ (merge 12dc0879f1 jk/test-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 344420bf0f pb/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 7cd54d37dc dl/wrapper-fix-indentation later to maint).
+ (merge 78725ebda9 jc/allow-strlen-substitution-in-shell-scripts later to maint).
+ (merge 2ecfcdecc6 jm/gitweb-fastcgi-utf8 later to maint).
+ (merge 0740d0a5d3 jk/oid-array-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge a1aba0c95c js/t0007-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 76ba7fa225 ma/config-doc-fix later to maint).
