Eleventh batch for 2.11

There still are a few topics that need to go in before -rc0 which
would make the shape of the upcoming release clearer, but here is
the final batch before it happens.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt

@@ -1,11 +1,32 @@
 Git 2.11 Release Notes
 ======================
 
+Backward compatibility notes.
+
+ * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant
+   'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that
+   finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"', which
+   ends up removing everything.  This release starts warning about the
+   use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and
+   asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead.
+
+   The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and
+   eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading
+   the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature.
+
+
+ * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
+   has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
+   next release (not this one).
+
+
 Updates since v2.10
 -------------------
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * Comes with new version of git-gui, now at its 0.21.0 tag.
+
  * "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch
    with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1]
    and [PATCH 1/1] by default.
@@ -89,6 +110,29 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * "git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the
    order of paths to present to the end user.
 
+ * "git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding
+   configuration variable to set it by default.
+
+ * "git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be
+   used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
+   only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
+   ignored files).  This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
+   side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
+   files from the top-level superproject.
+
+ * A new credential helper that talks via "libsecret" with
+   implementations of XDG Secret Service API has been added to
+   contrib/credential/.
+
+ * The GPG verification status shown in "%G?" pretty format specifier
+   was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired
+   key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc.  New output letters
+   have been assigned to express them.
+
+ * In addition to purely abbreviated commit object names, "gitweb"
+   learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787)
+   into clickable links in its output.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -160,6 +204,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate
    them to the repository or purge them immediately.
 
+ * The require_clean_work_tree() helper was recreated in C when "git
+   pull" was rewritten from shell; the helper is now made available to
+   other callers in preparation for upcoming "rebase -i" work.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" had its code cleaned-up and performance improved
+   by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was
+   replaced with a priority queue.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -416,7 +468,61 @@ notes for details).
    each other as if both belong to .git/config.  This has been fixed.
    (merge 72710165c9 sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path later to maint).
 
+ * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git
+   worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion
+   by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in
+   another worktree.  However, this also prevented checking out a
+   branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare
+   reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare
+   repository.  The check has been corrected to allow it.
+   (merge 171c646f8c dk/worktree-dup-checkout-with-bare-is-ok later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork
+   point from the upstream.
+   (merge 4f21454b55 jk/merge-base-fork-point-without-reflog later to maint).
+
+ * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant
+   to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles
+   when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not
+   going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.
+   (merge 5827a03545 jk/fetch-quick-tag-following later to maint).
+
+ * Protect our code from over-eager compilers.
+   (merge 0ac52a38e8 jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
+
+ * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
+   "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
+   to describe it.
+   (merge 15ef78008a bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc later to maint).
+
+ * A hot-fix for a test added by a recent topic that went to both
+   'master' and 'maint' already.
+   (merge 76e368c378 tg/add-chmod+x-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the
+   trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like
+   "Cc: Stable <[email protected]> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending
+   on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module.
+   (merge dcfafc5214 mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address later to maint).
+
+ * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with --verbose
+   option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be
+   misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed.  This resulted
+   in unnecessary failure.  This has been corrected by introducing a
+   new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose
+   output separately to the log file.
+   (merge 614fe01521 jk/tap-verbose-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
+   tabs in it.  Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
+   work around them.
+   (merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint).
    (merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint).
    (merge 30cfe72d37 rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge d709f1fb9d jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments later to maint).
+   (merge 13092a916d jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null later to maint).
+   (merge 86009f32bb pb/test-parse-options-expect later to maint).
+   (merge 749a2279a4 yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc later to maint).