A few more topics before 2.14-rc1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Author: gitster

Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Git 2.14 Release Notes
 ======================
 
-Backward compatibility notes.
+Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
 
  * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
    'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Backward compatibility notes.
    diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now
    become the default.
 
+ * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
+   library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
+   in existing build scripts to build against the new version.  As the
+   upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
+   the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
+
 
 Updates since v2.13
 -------------------
@@ -53,16 +59,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
    even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
 
- * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
-   mechanism has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
-   The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
-   a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return.  In such
-   a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
-   current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
-   should be included.
+ * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in
+   2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,
+   and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in
+   "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work".
+   Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would
+   show. The include will happen if either one matches.
 
- * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics
-   configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.
+ * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The
+   diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"
+   for those who do not want it.
 
  * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
    configuration.
@@ -91,8 +97,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others.  We
    learned to give warnings when this happens.
 
- * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
-   user has in its output.
+ * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there
+   are in its output.
 
  * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
    commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
@@ -101,9 +107,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
    line with the focus of "git commit").
 
- * "git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation
-   that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single
-   session.
+ * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options
+    which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that
+    restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.
 
  * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it
    has outlived its usefulness.
@@ -425,19 +431,17 @@ notes for details).
  * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests
    that would have caught it and others have been added.
 
- * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected.
+ * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected.
 
  * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.
 
- * The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting
+ * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting
    correctly.
 
  * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation
    learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation
    set does.
 
- * Update the sha1dc again to fix portability glitches.
-
  * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading.
    (merge 2d105451c0 rs/apply-avoid-over-reading later to maint).
 
@@ -461,6 +465,28 @@ notes for details).
    Git with address sanitizer more easily.
    (merge 566cf0b3bd jk/build-with-asan later to maint).
 
+ * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
+   ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
+   locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
+   slashes at the beginning.
+   (merge 496f256989 tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path later to maint).
+
+ * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had
+   0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval.  Instead
+   show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more
+   useful number.
+   (merge 0fae1e072a rs/progress-overall-throughput-at-the-end later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.
+   (merge 8db1ae5740 jn/hooks-pre-rebase-sample-fix later to maint).
+
+ * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before
+   daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background
+   auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the
+   early part at the same time.  This is now prevented by running the
+   early part also under the GC lock.
+   (merge c45af94dbc jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook later to maint).
+
  * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
    (merge 3f9c637ec7 pw/unquote-path-in-git-pm later to maint).
    (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).