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commit:     7ca20833feaeaa8364b0ef4911cb81ccfa041de4
Author:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue May 23 00:25:49 2023 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue May 23 00:25:49 2023 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=7ca20833

NEWS: update for merge improvements w/ CoW

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/722270
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org>

 NEWS | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index baf1140f8..429669eaf 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ Breaking changes:
 * Output deprecation warnings for portageq, prepstrip and prepallstrip
   when they are called from an ebuild (bug #906129, bug #906156).
 
+Features:
+* Optimize merge process by only writing files to disk if a package's
+  contents have changed. This is particularly beneficial on CoW filesystems
+  with snapshots. This is always enabled. See bug #722270.
+
+  This also adds an additional optional optimization to overwrite only if
+  the hashes have changed, via FEATURES="ignore-mtime". Note that this violates
+  a condition in PMS so should not be relied upon. It is off by default.
+
 Bug fixes:
 * fowners, fperms: Fix handling of relative pathnames (bug #905223).