Second batch of topics for 2.10

gitster · gitster · commit cf4c2cfe52be · 2016-06-27T10:07:08.000-07:00
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
 
  * Update the funcname definition to support css files.
 
+ * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git
+   status" options.
+
+ * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the
+   receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way
+   that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the
+   users.
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -36,6 +43,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
    API.
 
+ * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the
+   first step to move many state variables into a structure that can
+   be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
+   than once.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -65,4 +77,57 @@ notes for details).
    which has been fixed.
    (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint).
 
+ * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
+   configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
+   typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
+   (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint).
+
+ * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
+   documented now.
+   (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
+   referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
+   (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
+   creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
+   reflog was truncated.
+   (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
+
+ * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
+   who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
+   (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint).
+
+ * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile.
+   (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
+   on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
+   (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint).
+
+ * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
+   hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
+   use it regularly.  "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
+   (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint).
+
+ * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
+   (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint).
+
+ * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working
+   tree".
+   (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint).
+
+ * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
+   the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
+   (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint).
+
+ * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
+   cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
+   (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint).
+
  * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
+   (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint).
+   (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint).
+   (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint).
