@@ -63,7 +63,27 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
6363 "quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which
6464 you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
6565
66- * Many commands that creates commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
66+ * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for
67+ the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
68+ configuration option.
69+
70+ * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
71+ been marked for i18n/l10n.
72+
73+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
74+ is not a blob as an error.
75+
76+ * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
77+ given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
78+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
79+ course is rejected).
80+
81+ * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
82+ for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
83+ speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
84+ to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
85+
86+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
6787 learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
6888
6989 * "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
@@ -85,6 +105,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
85105
86106Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
87107
108+ * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases
109+ ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3).
110+
111+ * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
112+ well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
113+ over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
114+ "easy" interface.
115+
88116 * The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
89117 significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
90118 repository that uses it.
@@ -97,7 +125,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
97125 suits your needs better when using the former.
98126
99127
100- Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
128+ Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many
129+ of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject
130+ exercises.
101131
102132
103133Fixes since v1.9 series
@@ -107,6 +137,37 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance
107137track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
108138notes for details).
109139
140+ * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the
141+ working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file
142+ ".git" tells us where it is.
143+ (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
144+
145+ * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
146+ defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
147+ variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
148+ by mistake.
149+ (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
150+
151+ * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
152+ tightened.
153+ (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
154+
155+ * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
156+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
157+ the same as one of the versions being compared.
158+ (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
159+
160+ * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
161+ tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an
162+ otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working
163+ tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored.
164+ (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint).
165+
166+ * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
167+ did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
168+ --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
169+ (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
170+
110171 * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
111172 an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames
112173 involved. This has been corrected.
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