Update draft release notes to 2.2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano
2014-09-11 11:19:47 -07:00
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@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow
all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something
other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
* We no longer attempt to keep track of individual dependencies to
the header files in the build procedure, relying on automated
dependency generation support from modern compilers.
* In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites
long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented. long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented.
The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion. The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion.
@ -37,12 +46,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the
lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern.
* The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit
decoration has been updated to make it less cumbersome to use.
* An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same
configuration files number of times has been added. configuration files number of times has been added. A few commands
have been converted to use this subsystem.
* Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using
"strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more. "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more.
* A few codepaths that died when large blobs that would not fit in
core are involved in their operation have been taught to punt
instead, by e.g. marking too large a blob as not to be diffed.
* A few more code paths in "commit" and "checkout" have been taught
to repopulate the cache-tree in the index, to help speed up later
"write-tree" (used in "commit") and "diff-index --cached" (used in
"status").
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -89,3 +111,22 @@ notes for details).
* Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo. * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo.
(merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint). (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint).
* "git checkout -m" did not switch to another branch while carrying
the local changes forward when a path was deleted from the index.
(merge 6a143aa jn/unpack-trees-checkout-m-carry-deletion later to maint).
* With sufficiently long refnames, "git fast-import" could have
overflown an on-stack buffer.
(merge c252785 jk/fast-import-fixes later to maint).
* After "pack-refs --prune" packed refs at the top-level, it failed
to prune them.
(merge afd11d3 jk/prune-top-level-refs-after-packing later to maint).
* Progress output from "git gc --auto" was visible in "git fetch -q".
(merge 6fceed3 nd/fetch-pass-quiet-to-gc-child-process later to maint).
* We used to pass -1000 to poll(2), expecting it to also mean "no
timeout", which should be spelled as -1.
(merge 6c71f8b et/spell-poll-infinite-with-minus-one-only later to maint).