Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] git-gui pull request

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:23:18 -0700

Denton Liu <[email-masked]> writes:

> Hi Pratyush,
>
> Since you're the maintainer now, you should submit a patch to
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches to change
>
> 	- `git-gui/` comes from git-gui project, maintained by Pat Thoyts:
>
> 		git://repo.or.cz/git-gui.git
>
> to have your own information.

There also is MaintNotes on the todo branch, which I'll take care
of.

FWIW, the following update to the draft release notes will be part
of what I'll push out, together with the "Third batch" update to the
master.

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
index e123d2daa6..ff48d8582c 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Backward compatibility note
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
+ * We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of
+   the system.  Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering.
+
  * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
    standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
    first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
@@ -28,6 +31,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
  * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
    (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
 
+ * "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
+   strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.
+
+ * A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced.
+
+ * Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been
+   added.
+
+ * The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more
+   than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading
+   missing objects on demand.
+
+ * The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone)
+   learned to take a combined filter specification.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -39,6 +57,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * Further clean-up of the initialization code.
 
+ * xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address
+   space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation
+   failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex
+   and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource
+   users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms.
+   It has been simplified away.
+
+ * Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been
+   optimized away.
+
+ * The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports
+   learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been
+   corrected.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.23
 -----------------
@@ -99,6 +131,10 @@ Fixes since v2.23
    subsequent steps.
    (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
 
+ * Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the
+   xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency.
+   (merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
    (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).