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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt index 980adfb315..166d73c60f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt index 4bcff945e0..bbf177fc3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt index a2a34b43a7..0fccfb0bf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt index 6c7f7da7eb..79cb1b2b6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ To ease the transition plan, the receiving repository of such a push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt index 3ed1e01433..88b86a827e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ users will fare this time. Please refer to: - http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare + https://archive.kernel.org/oldwiki/git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq.html#non-bare https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8a9e17016e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,399 @@ +Git v2.41 Release Notes +======================= + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Allow information carried on the WWW-Authenticate header to be + passed to the credential helpers. + + * A new "fetch.hideRefs" option can be used to exclude specified refs + from "rev-list --objects --stdin --not --all" traversal for + checking object connectivity, most useful when there are many + unrelated histories in a single repository. + + * "git push" has been taught to allow deletion of refs with one-level + names to help repairing a repository who acquired such a ref by + mistake. In general, we don't encourage use of such a ref, and + creation or update to such a ref is rejected as before. + + * Allow "git bisect reset" to check out the original branch when the + branch is already checked out in a different worktree linked to the + same repository. + + * A few subcommands have been taught to stop users from working on a + branch that is being used in another worktree linked to the same + repository. + + * "git format-patch" learned to write a log-message only output file + for empty commits. + + * "git format-patch" honors the src/dst prefixes set to nonstandard + values with configuration variables like "diff.noprefix", causing + receiving end of the patch that expects the standard -p1 format to + break. "format-patch" has been taught to ignore end-user configuration + and always use the standard prefixes. + + This is a backward compatibility breaking change. + + * Lift the limitation that colored prompts can only be used with + PROMPT_COMMAND mode. + + * "git blame --contents=<file> <rev> -- <path>" used to be forbidden, + but now it finds the origins of lines starting at <file> contents + through the history that leads to <rev>. + + * "git pack-redundant" gave a warning when run, as the command has + outlived its usefulness long ago and is nominated for future + removal. Now we escalate to give an error. + + * "git clone" from an empty repository learned to propagate the + choice of the hash algorithm from the source repository to the + newly created repository over any one of the v0/v1/v2 protocol. + + * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learns a new configuration + guiDefault to optionally favor configured guitool over non-gui-tool + automatically when $DISPLAY is set. + + * "git branch -d origin/master" would say "no such branch", but it is + likely a missed "-r" if refs/remotes/origin/master exists. The + command has been taught to give such a hint in its error message. + + * Clean-up of the code path that deals with merge strategy option + handling in "git rebase". + + * "git clone --local" stops copying from an original repository that + has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that + happens has been updated. + + * The "--format=..." option of "git for-each-ref", "git branch", and + "git tag" commands learn "--omit-empty" to hide refs whose + formatting results in an empty string from the output. + + * The sendemail-validate validate hook learned to pass the total + number of input files and where in the sequence each invocation is + via environment variables. + + * When "gc" needs to retain unreachable objects, packing them into + cruft packs (instead of exploding them into loose object files) has + been offered as a more efficient option for some time. Now the use + of cruft packs has been made the default and no longer considered + an experimental feature. + + * The output given by "git blame" that attributes a line to contents + taken from the file specified by the "--contents" option shows it + differently from a line attributed to the working tree file. + + * "git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate + hook by passing an extra argument from the command line. + + * The credential subsystem learns to help OAuth framework. + + * The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably + short limit, which has been removed. + + * Error messages given when working on an unborn branch that is + checked out in another worktree have been improved. + + * The documentation was misleading about the interaction between + GIT_DEFAULT_HASH and "git clone", which has been clarified to + stress that the variable is to be ignored by the command. + + * "git send-email" learned "--header-cmd=<cmd>" that can inject + arbitrary e-mail header lines to the outgoing messages. + + * "git fsck" learned to detect bit-flip breakages in the reachability + bitmap files. + + * The "--stdin" option of "git name-rev" has been replaced with + the "--annotate-stdin" option more than a year ago. We stop + advertising it in the "git name-rev -h" output. + + * "git push --all" gained an alias "git push --branches". + + * "git fetch" learned the "--porcelain" option that emits what it did + in a machine-parseable format. + + * "git --attr-source=<tree> cmd $args" is a new way to have any + command to read attributes not from the working tree but from the + given tree object. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Code clean-up to clarify directory traversal API. + + * Code clean-up to clarify the rule that "git-compat-util.h" must be + the first to be included. + + * More work towards -Wunused. + + * Instead of forcing each command to choose to honor GPG related + configuration variables, make the subsystem lazily initialize + itself. + + * Remove workaround for ancient versions of DocBook to make it work + correctly with groff, which has not been necessary since docbook + 1.76 from 2010. + + * Code clean-up to include and/or uninclude parse-options.h file as + needed. + + * The code path that reports what "git fetch" did to each ref has + been cleaned up. + + * Assorted config API updates. + + * A few configuration variables to tell the cURL library that + different types of ssl-cert and ssl-key are in use have been added. + + * Split key function and data structure definitions out of cache.h to + new header files and adjust the users. + + * "git fetch --all" does not have to download and handle the same + bundleURI over and over, which has been corrected. + + * "git sparse-checkout" command learns a debugging aid for the sparse + rule definitions. + + * "git write-tree" learns to work better with sparse-index. + + * The on-disk reverse index that allows mapping from the pack offset + to the object name for the object stored at the offset has been + enabled by default. + + * "git fsck" learned to validate the on-disk pack reverse index files. + + * strtok() and strtok_r() are banned in this codebase. + + * The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system + had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra + suffixes. The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like + "-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share + the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix. + + * ctype tests have been taught to test EOF, too. + + * The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed + size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of + the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has + been corrected. + + * The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common + ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive; + it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage. + + * Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation + formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better + output these days. + + * The tracing mechanism learned to notice and report when + auto-discovered bare repositories are being used, as allowing so + without explicitly stating the user intends to do so (with setting + GIT_DIR for example) can be used with social engineering as an + attack vector. + + * "git diff-files" learned not to expand sparse-index unless needed. + + +Fixes since v2.40 +----------------- + + * "git fsck" learned to check the index files in other worktrees, + just like "git gc" honors them as anchoring points. + (merge 8d3e7eac52 jk/fsck-indices-in-worktrees later to maint). + + * Fix a segfaulting loop. The function and its caller may need + further clean-up. + (merge c5773dc078 ew/commit-reach-clean-up-flags-fix later to maint). + + * "git restore" supports options like "--ours" that are only + meaningful during a conflicted merge, but these options are only + meaningful when updating the working tree files. These options are + marked to be incompatible when both "--staged" and "--worktree" are + in effect. + (merge ee8a88826a ak/restore-both-incompatible-with-conflicts later to maint). + + * Simplify UI to control progress meter given by "git bundle" command. + (merge 8b95521edb jk/bundle-progress later to maint). + + * "git bundle" learned that "-" is a common way to say that the input + comes from the standard input and/or the output goes to the + standard output. It used to work only for output and only from the + root level of the working tree. + (merge 0bbe10313e jk/bundle-use-dash-for-stdfiles later to maint). + + * Once we start running, we assumed that the list of alternate object + databases would never change. Hook into the machinery used to + update the list of packfiles during runtime to update this list as + well. + (merge e2d003dbed ds/reprepare-alternates-when-repreparing-packfiles later to maint). + + * The code to parse "git rebase -X<opt>" was not prepared to see an + unparsable option string, which has been corrected. + (merge 15a4cc912e ab/fix-strategy-opts-parsing later to maint). + + * "git add -p" while the index is unmerged sometimes failed to parse + the diff output it internally produces and died, which has been + corrected. + (merge 28d1122f9c jk/add-p-unmerged-fix later to maint). + + * Fix for a "ls-files --format="%(path)" that produced nonsense + output, which was a bug in 2.38. + (merge cfb62dd006 aj/ls-files-format-fix later to maint). + + * "git receive-pack" that responds to "git push" requests failed to + clean a stale lockfile when killed in the middle, which has been + corrected. + (merge c55c30669c ps/receive-pack-unlock-before-die later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse --quiet foo@{u}", or anything that asks @{u} to be + parsed with GET_OID_QUIETLY option, did not quietly fail, which has + been corrected. + (merge dfbfdc521d fc/oid-quietly-parse-upstream later to maint). + + * Transports that do not support protocol v2 did not correctly fall + back to protocol v0 under certain conditions, which has been + corrected. + (merge eaa0fd6584 jk/fix-proto-downgrade-to-v0 later to maint). + + * time(2) on glib 2.31+, especially on Linux, goes out of sync with + higher resolution timers used for gettimeofday(2) and by the + filesystem. Replace all calls to it with a git_time() wrapper and + (merge 370ddcbc89 pe/time-use-gettimeofday later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to use designated initializers in parse-options API. + (merge 353e6d4554 sg/parse-options-h-initializers later to maint). + + * A recent-ish change to allow unicode character classes to be used + with "grep -P" triggered a JIT bug in older pcre2 libraries. + The problematic change in Git built with these older libraries has + been disabled to work around the bug. + (merge 14b9a04479 mk/workaround-pcre-jit-ucp-bug later to maint). + + * The wildmatch library code unlearns exponential behaviour it + acquired some time ago since it was borrowed from rsync. + (merge 3dc0b7f0dc pw/wildmatch-fixes later to maint). + + * The index files can become corrupt under certain conditions when + the split-index feature is in use, especially together with + fsmonitor, which have been corrected. + (merge 061dd722dc js/split-index-fixes later to maint). + + * Document what the pathname-looking strings in "rev-list --object" + output are for and what they mean. + (merge 15364d2a3c jk/document-rev-list-object-name later to maint). + + * Fix unnecessary truncation of generation numbers used in-core. + (merge d3af1c193d ps/ahead-behind-truncation-fix later to maint). + + * Code clean-up around the use of the_repository. + (merge 4a93b899c1 ab/remove-implicit-use-of-the-repository later to maint). + + * Consistently spell "Message-ID" as such, not "Message-Id". + (merge ba4324c4e1 jc/spell-id-in-both-caps-in-message-id later to maint). + + * Correct use of an uninitialized structure member. + (merge dc12ee77ab jx/cap-object-info-uninitialized-fix later to maint). + + * Tests had a few places where we ignored PERL_PATH and blindly used + /usr/bin/perl, which have been corrected. + (merge c1917156a0 jk/use-perl-path-consistently later to maint). + + * Documentation mark-up fix. + (merge 78b6369e67 la/mfc-markup-fix later to maint). + + * Doc toolchain update to remove old workaround for AsciiDoc. + (merge 8806120de6 fc/remove-header-workarounds-for-asciidoc later to maint). + + * The userdiff regexp patterns for various filetypes that are built + into the system have been updated to avoid triggering regexp errors + from UTF-8 aware regex engines. + (merge be39144954 rs/userdiff-multibyte-regex later to maint). + + * The approxidate() API has been simplified by losing an extra + function that did the same thing as another one. + (merge 8a7f0b666f rs/remove-approxidate-relative later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to replace a hardcoded constant with a CPP macro. + (merge c870de6502 rs/get-tar-commit-id-use-defined-const later to maint). + + * Doc build simplification. + (merge 9a09ed3229 fc/doc-stop-using-manversion later to maint). + + * "git archive" run from a subdirectory mishandled attributes and + paths outside the current directory. + (merge 92b1dd1b9e rs/archive-from-subdirectory-fixes later to maint). + + * The code to parse capability list for v0 on-wire protocol fell into + an infinite loop when a capability appears multiple times, which + has been corrected. + + * Geometric repacking ("git repack --geometric=<n>") in a repository + that borrows from an alternate object database had various corner + case bugs, which have been corrected. + (merge d85cd18777 ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates later to maint). + + * The "%GT" placeholder for the "--format" option of "git log" and + friends caused BUG() to trigger on a commit signed with an unknown + key, which has been corrected. + (merge 7891e46585 jk/gpg-trust-level-fix later to maint). + + * The completion script used to use bare "read" without the "-r" + option to read the contents of various state files, which risked + getting confused with backslashes in them. This has been + corrected. + (merge 197152098a ek/completion-use-read-r-to-read-literally later to maint). + + * A small API fix to the ort merge strategy backend. + (merge 000c4ceca7 en/ort-finalize-after-0-merges-fix later to maint). + + * The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient + to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed + author/committer ident. + (merge 90ef0f14eb jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident later to maint). + + * Retitle a test script with an overly narrow name. + (merge 8bb19c14fb ob/t3501-retitle later to maint). + + * Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to + specify the end-of-line conversion. + (merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint). + + * Gitk updates from GfW project. + (merge 99e70f3077 js/gitk-fixes-from-gfw later to maint). + + * "git diff --dirstat" leaked memory, which has been plugged. + (merge 83973981eb jc/dirstat-plug-leaks later to maint). + + * "git merge-tree" reads the basic configuration, which can be used + by git forges to disable replace-refs feature. + (merge b6551feadf ds/merge-tree-use-config later to maint). + + * A few bugs in the sequencer machinery that results in miscounting + the steps have been corrected. + (merge 170eea9750 js/rebase-count-fixes later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint). + (merge 9b0c7f308a jc/am-doc-refer-to-format-patch later to maint). + (merge b10cbdac4c bb/unicode-width-table-15 later to maint). + (merge 3457b50e8c ab/retire-scripted-add-p later to maint). + (merge d52fcf493b ds/p2000-fix-grep-sparse later to maint). + (merge ec063d2591 ss/hashmap-typofix later to maint). + (merge 1aaed69d11 rs/archive-mtime later to maint). + (merge 2da2cc9b28 ob/rollback-after-commit-lock-failure later to maint). + (merge 54dbd0933b ob/sequencer-save-head-simplify later to maint). + (merge a93cbe8d78 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation later to maint). + (merge cc48ddd937 jk/chainlint-fixes later to maint). + (merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint). + (merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint). + (merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint). + (merge d45cbe3fe0 ob/sequencer-i18n-fix later to maint). + (merge b734fe49fd ob/messages-capitalize-exception later to maint). + (merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint). + (merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint). + (merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint). + (merge cbb83daeaf kh/doc-interpret-trailers-updates later to maint). + (merge 3d77fbb664 ar/config-count-tests-updates later to maint). + (merge b7cf25c8f4 jc/t9800-fix-use-of-show-s-raw later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0f1897ad5f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,329 @@ +Git v2.42 Release Notes +======================= + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git pack-refs" learns "--include" and "--exclude" to tweak the ref + hierarchy to be packed using pattern matching. + + * 'git worktree add' learned how to create a worktree based on an + orphaned branch with `--orphan`. + + * "git pack-objects" learned to invoke a new hook program that + enumerates extra objects to be used as anchoring points to keep + otherwise unreachable objects in cruft packs. + + * Add more "git var" for toolsmiths to learn various locations Git is + configured with either via the configuration or hard-coded defaults. + + * 'git notes append' was taught '--separator' to specify string to insert + between paragraphs. + + * The "git for-each-ref" family of commands learned placeholders + related to GPG signature verification. + + * "git diff --no-index" learned to read from named pipes as if they + were regular files, to allow "git diff <(process) <(substitution)" + some shells support. + + * Help newbies by suggesting that there are cases where force-pushing + is a valid and sensible thing to update a branch at a remote + repository, rather than reconciling with merge/rebase. + + * "git blame --contents=file" has been taught to work in a bare + repository. + + * "git branch -f X" to repoint the branch X said that X was "checked + out" in another worktree, even when branch X was not and instead + being bisected or rebased. The message was reworded to say the + branch was "in use". + + * Tone down the warning on SHA-256 repositories being an experimental + curiosity. We do not have support for them to interoperate with + traditional SHA-1 repositories, but at this point, we do not plan + to make breaking changes to SHA-256 repositories and there is no + longer need for such a strongly phrased warning. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git diff-tree" has been taught to take advantage of the + sparse-index feature. + + * Clang's sanitizer implementation seems to work better than GCC's. + (merge d88d727143 jk/ci-use-clang-for-sanitizer-jobs later to maint). + + * The object traversal using reachability bitmap done by + "pack-object" has been tweaked to take advantage of the fact that + using "boundary" commits as representative of all the uninteresting + ones can save quite a lot of object enumeration. + + * discover_git_directory() no longer touches the_repository. + + * "git worktree" learned to work better with sparse index feature. + + * When the external merge driver is killed by a signal, its output + should not be trusted as a resolution with conflicts that is + proposed by the driver, but the code did. + + * The set-up code for the get_revision() API now allows feeding + options like --all and --not in the --stdin mode. + + * Move functions that are not about pure string manipulation out of + strbuf.[ch] + + * "imap-send" codepaths got cleaned up to get rid of unused + parameters. + + * Enumerating refs in the packed-refs file, while excluding refs that + match certain patterns, has been optimized. + + * Mark-up unused parameters in the code so that we can eventually + enable -Wunused-parameter by default. + + * Instead of inventing a custom counter variables for debugging, + use existing trace2 facility in the fsync customization codepath. + + * "git branch --list --format=<format>" and friends are taught + a new "%(describe)" placeholder. + + * Clarify how to choose the starting point for a new topic in + developer guidance document. + + * The implementation of "get_sha1_hex()" that reads a hexadecimal + string that spells a full object name has been extended to cope + with any hash function used in the repository, but the "sha1" in + its name survived. Rename it to get_hash_hex(), a name that is + more consistent within its friends like get_hash_hex_algop(). + + * Command line parser fix, and a small parse-options API update. + + +Fixes since v2.41 +----------------- + + * "git tag" learned to leave the "$GIT_DIR/TAG_EDITMSG" file when the + command failed, so that the user can salvage what they typed. + (merge 08c12ec1d0 kh/keep-tag-editmsg-upon-failure later to maint). + + * The "-s" (silent, squelch) option of the "diff" family of commands + did not interact with other options that specify the output format + well. This has been cleaned up so that it will clear all the + formatting options given before. + (merge 9d484b92ed jc/diff-s-with-other-options later to maint). + + * Update documentation regarding Coccinelle patches. + (merge 3bd0097cfc gc/doc-cocci-updates later to maint). + + * Some atoms that can be used in "--format=<format>" for "git ls-tree" + were not supported by "git ls-files", even though they were relevant + in the context of the latter. + (merge 4d28c4f75f zh/ls-files-format-atoms later to maint). + + * Document more pseudo-refs and teach the command line completion + machinery to complete AUTO_MERGE. + (merge 982ff3a649 pb/complete-and-document-auto-merge-and-friends later to maint). + + * "git submodule" code trusted the data coming from the config (and + the in-tree .gitmodules file) too much without validating, leading + to NULL dereference if the user mucks with a repository (e.g. + submodule.<name>.url is removed). This has been corrected. + (merge fbc806acd1 tb/submodule-null-deref-fix later to maint). + + * The value of config.worktree is per-repository, but has been kept + in a singleton global variable per process. This has been OK as + most Git operations interacted with a single repository at a time, + but not right for operations like recursive "grep" that want to + access multiple repositories from a single process without forking. + + The global variable has been eliminated and made into a member in + the per-repository data structure. + (merge 3867f6d650 vd/worktree-config-is-per-repository later to maint). + + * "git [-c log.follow=true] log [--follow] ':(glob)f**'" used to barf. + (merge 8260bc5902 jk/log-follow-with-non-literal-pathspec later to maint). + + * Introduce a mechanism to disable replace refs globally and per + repository. + (merge 9c7d1b057f ds/disable-replace-refs later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --batch" and friends learned "-Z" that uses NUL + delimiter for both input and output. + (merge f79e18849b ps/cat-file-null-output later to maint). + + * The reimplemented "git add -i" did not honor color.ui configuration. + (merge 6f74648cea ds/add-i-color-configuration-fix later to maint). + + * Compilation fix for platforms without D_TYPE in struct dirent. + (merge 03bf92b9bf as/dtype-compilation-fix later to maint). + + * Suggest to refrain from using hex literals that are non-portable + when writing printf(1) format strings. + (merge f0b68f0546 jt/doc-use-octal-with-printf later to maint). + + * Simplify error message when run-command fails to start a command. + (merge 6d224ac286 rs/run-command-exec-error-on-noent later to maint). + + * Gracefully deal with a stale MIDX file that lists a packfile that + no longer exists. + (merge 06f3867865 tb/open-midx-bitmap-fallback later to maint). + + * Even when diff.ignoreSubmodules tells us to ignore submodule + changes, "git commit" with an index that already records changes to + submodules should include the submodule changes in the resulting + commit, but it did not. + (merge 5768478edc js/defeat-ignore-submodules-config-with-explicit-addition later to maint). + + * When "git commit --trailer=..." invokes the interpret-trailers + machinery, it knows what it feeds to interpret-trailers is a full + log message without any patch, but failed to express that by + passing the "--no-divider" option, which has been corrected. + (merge be3d654343 jk/commit-use-no-divider-with-interpret-trailers later to maint). + + * Avoid breakage of "git pack-objects --cruft" due to inconsistency + between the way the code enumerates packfiles in the repository. + (merge 73320e49ad tb/collect-pack-filenames-fix later to maint). + + * We create .pack and then .idx, we consider only packfiles that have + .idx usable (those with only .pack are not ready yet), so we should + remove .idx before removing .pack for consistency. + (merge 0dd1324a73 ds/remove-idx-before-pack later to maint). + + * Partially revert a sanity check that the rest of the config code + was not ready, to avoid triggering it in a corner case. + (merge a53f43f900 gc/config-partial-submodule-kvi-fix later to maint). + + * "git apply" punts when it is fed too large a patch input; the error + message it gives when it happens has been clarified. + (merge 42612e18d2 pw/apply-too-large later to maint). + + * During a cherry-pick or revert session that works on multiple + commits, "git status" did not give correct information, which has + been corrected. + (merge a096a889f4 jk/cherry-pick-revert-status later to maint). + + * A few places failed to differentiate the case where the index is + truly empty (nothing added) and we haven't yet read from the + on-disk index file, which have been corrected. + (merge 2ee045eea1 js/empty-index-fixes later to maint). + + * "git bugreport" tests did not test what it wanted to test, which + has been corrected. + (merge 1aa92b8500 ma/t0091-fixup later to maint). + + * Code snippets in a tutorial document no longer compiled after + recent header shuffling, which have been corrected. + (merge bbd7c7b7c0 vd/adjust-mfow-doc-to-updated-headers later to maint). + + * "git ls-files '(attr:X)D/'" that triggers the common prefix + optimization codepath failed to read from "D/.gitattributes", + which has been corrected. + (merge f4a8fde057 jc/pathspec-match-with-common-prefix later to maint). + + * "git fsck --no-progress" still spewed noise from the commit-graph + subsystem, which has been corrected. + (merge 9281cd07f0 tb/fsck-no-progress later to maint). + + * Various offset computation in the code that accesses the packfiles + and other data in the object layer has been hardened against + arithmetic overflow, especially on 32-bit systems. + (merge 9a25cad7e0 tb/object-access-overflow-protection later to maint). + + * Names of MinGW header files are spelled in mixed case in some + source files, but the build host can be using case sensitive + filesystem with header files with their name spelled in all + lowercase. + (merge 4a53d0d0bc mh/mingw-case-sensitive-build later to maint). + + * Update message mark-up for i18n in "git bundle". + (merge bbb6acd998 dk/bundle-i18n-more later to maint). + + * "git tag --list --points-at X" showed tags that directly refers to + object X, but did not list a tag that points at such a tag, which + has been corrected. + + * "./configure --with-expat=no" did not work as a way to refuse use + of the expat library on a system with the library installed, which + has been corrected. + (merge fb8f7269c2 ah/autoconf-fixes later to maint). + + * When the user edits "rebase -i" todo file so that it starts with a + "fixup", which would make it invalid, the command truncated the + rest of the file before giving an error and returning the control + back to the user. Stop truncating to make it easier to correct + such a malformed todo file. + (merge 9645a087c2 ah/sequencer-rewrite-todo-fix later to maint). + + * Rewrite the description of giving a custom command to the + submodule.<name>.update configuration variable. + (merge 7cebc5bd78 pv/doc-submodule-update-settings later to maint). + + * Adjust to OpenSSL 3+, which deprecates its SHA-1 functions based on + its traditional API, by using its EVP API instead. + (merge bda9c12073 ew/hash-with-openssl-evp later to maint). + + * Exclude "." from the set of characters to be removed from the + beginning and the end of the human-readable name. + (merge 1c04cb0744 bc/ident-dot-is-no-longer-crud-letter later to maint). + + * "git bisect visualize" stopped running "gitk" on Git for Windows + when the command was reimplemented in C around Git 2.34 timeframe. + This has been corrected. + (merge fff1594fa7 ma/locate-in-path-for-windows later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" with a series of squash/fixup, when one of the + steps stopped in conflicts and ended up getting skipped, did not + handle the accumulated commit log messages, which has been + corrected. + (merge 6ce7afe163 pw/rebase-skip-commit-message-fix later to maint). + + * Adjust to newer Term::ReadLine to prevent it from breaking + the interactive prompt code in send-email. + (merge c016726c2d jk/send-email-with-new-readline later to maint). + + * Windows updates. + (merge 0050f8e401 ds/maintenance-on-windows-fix later to maint). + + * Correct use of lstat() that assumed a failing call would not + clobber the statbuf. + (merge 72695d8214 st/mv-lstat-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 51f9d2e563 sa/doc-ls-remote later to maint). + (merge c6d26a9dda jk/format-patch-message-id-unleak later to maint). + (merge f7e063f326 ps/fetch-cleanups later to maint). + (merge e4cf013468 tl/quote-problematic-arg-for-clarity later to maint). + (merge 20025fdfc7 tz/test-ssh-verifytime-fix later to maint). + (merge e48a21df65 tz/test-fix-pthreads-prereq later to maint). + (merge 68b51172e3 mh/commit-reach-get-reachable-plug-leak later to maint). + (merge aeee1408ce kh/use-default-notes-doc later to maint). + (merge 3b8724bce6 jc/test-modernization later to maint). + (merge 447a3b7331 jc/test-modernization-2 later to maint). + (merge d57fa7fc73 la/doc-interpret-trailers later to maint). + (merge 548afb0d9a la/docs-typofixes later to maint). + (merge 3744ffcbcd rs/doc-ls-tree-hex-literal later to maint). + (merge 6c26da8404 mh/credential-erase-improvements later to maint). + (merge 78e56cff69 tz/lib-gpg-prereq-fix later to maint). + (merge 80d32e84b5 rj/leakfixes later to maint). + (merge 0a868031ed pb/complete-diff-options later to maint). + (merge d4f28279ad jc/doc-hash-object-types later to maint). + (merge 1876a5ae15 ks/t4205-test-describe-with-abbrev-fix later to maint). + (merge 6e6a529b57 jk/fsck-indices-in-worktrees later to maint). + (merge 3e81b896f7 rs/packet-length-simplify later to maint). + (merge 4c9cb51fe7 mh/doc-credential-helpers later to maint). + (merge 3437f549dd jr/gitignore-doc-example-markup later to maint). + (merge 947ebd62a0 jc/am-parseopt-fix later to maint). + (merge e12cb98e1e jc/branch-parseopt-fix later to maint). + (merge d6f598e443 jc/gitignore-doc-pattern-markup later to maint). + (merge a2dad4868b jc/transport-parseopt-fix later to maint). + (merge 68cbb20e73 jc/parse-options-show-branch later to maint). + (merge 3821eb6c3d jc/parse-options-reset later to maint). + (merge c48af99a3e bb/trace2-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge c95ae3ff9c rs/describe-parseopt-fix later to maint). + (merge 36f76d2a25 rs/pack-objects-parseopt-fix later to maint). + (merge 30c8c55cbf jc/tree-walk-drop-base-offset later to maint). + (merge d089a06421 rs/bundle-parseopt-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 823839bda1 ew/sha256-gcrypt-leak-fixes later to maint). + (merge a5c01603b3 bc/ignore-clangd-cache later to maint). + (merge 12009a182b js/allow-t4000-to-be-indented-with-spaces later to maint). + (merge b3dcd24b8a jc/send-email-pre-process-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3d391b7dcd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +Git 2.42.1 Release Notes +======================== + +There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.42, this +release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the +'master' branch of the development towards Git 2.43 that has been +tagged as Git 2.43.0-rc0. + +Fixes since Git 2.42.0 +---------------------- + + * Tests that are known to pass with LSan are now marked as such. + + * Flaky "git p4" tests, as well as "git svn" tests, are now skipped + in the (rather expensive) sanitizer CI job. + + * Tests with LSan from time to time seem to emit harmless message + that makes our tests unnecessarily flaky; we work it around by + filtering the uninteresting output. + + * GitHub CI workflow has learned to trigger Coverity check. + + * Overly long label names used in the sequencer machinery are now + chopped to fit under filesystem limitation. + + * Scalar updates. + + * Tweak GitHub Actions CI so that pushing the same commit to multiple + branch tips at the same time will not waste building and testing + the same thing twice. + + * The commit-graph verification code that detects mixture of zero and + non-zero generation numbers has been updated. + + * "git diff -w --exit-code" with various options did not work + correctly, which is being addressed. + + * transfer.unpackLimit ought to be used as a fallback, but overrode + fetch.unpackLimit and receive.unpackLimit instead. + + * The use of API between two calls to require_clean_work_tree() from + the sequencer code has been cleaned up for consistency. + + * "git diff --no-such-option" and other corner cases around the exit + status of the "diff" command has been corrected. + + * "git for-each-ref --sort='contents:size'" sorts the refs according + to size numerically, giving a ref that points at a blob twelve-byte + (12) long before showing a blob hundred-byte (100) long. + + * Various fixes to the behavior of "rebase -i" when the command got + interrupted by conflicting changes. + + * References from description of the `--patch` option in various + manual pages have been simplified and improved. + + * "git grep -e A --no-or -e B" is accepted, even though the negation + of "or" did not mean anything, which has been tightened. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) has been taught to treat the + "-t" option to "git checkout" and "git switch" just like the + "--track" option, to complete remote-tracking branches. + + * "git diff --no-index -R <(one) <(two)" did not work correctly, + which has been corrected. + + * Update "git maintenance" timers' implementation based on systemd + timers to work with WSL. + + * "git diff --cached" codepath did not fill the necessary stat + information for a file when fsmonitor knows it is clean and ended + up behaving as if it is not clean, which has been corrected. + + * Clarify how "alias.foo = : git cmd ; aliased-command-string" should + be spelled with necessary whitespaces around punctuation marks to + work. + + * HTTP Header redaction code has been adjusted for a newer version of + cURL library that shows its traces differently from earlier + versions. + + * An error message given by "git send-email" when given a malformed + address did not give correct information, which has been corrected. + + * UBSan options were not propagated through the test framework to git + run via the httpd, unlike ASan options, which has been corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e0e5b535bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,323 @@ +Git v2.43 Release Notes +======================= + +Backward Compatibility Notes + + * The "--rfc" option of "git format-patch" used to be a valid way to + override an earlier "--subject-prefix=<something>" on the command + line and replace it with "[RFC PATCH]", but from this release, it + merely prefixes the string "RFC " in front of the given subject + prefix. If you are negatively affected by this change, please use + "--subject-prefix=PATCH --rfc" as a replacement. + + * In Git 2.42, "git rev-list --stdin" learned to take non-revisions + (like "--not") from the standard input, but the way such a "--not" was + handled was quite confusing, which has been rethought. The updated + rule is that "--not" given from the command line only affects revs + given from the command line that comes but not revs read from the + standard input, and "--not" read from the standard input affects + revs given from the standard input and not revs given from the + command line. + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A message written in olden time prevented a branch from getting + checked out, saying it is already checked out elsewhere. But these + days, we treat a branch that is being bisected or rebased just like + a branch that is checked out and protect it from getting modified + with the same codepath. The message has been rephrased to say that + the branch is "in use" to avoid confusion. + + * Hourly and other schedules of "git maintenance" jobs are randomly + distributed now. + + * "git cmd -h" learned to signal which options can be negated by + listing such options like "--[no-]opt". + + * The way authentication related data other than passwords (e.g., + oauth token and password expiration data) are stored in libsecret + keyrings has been rethought. + + * Update the libsecret and wincred credential helpers to correctly + match which credential to erase; they erased the wrong entry in + some cases. + + * Git GUI updates. + + * "git format-patch" learned a new "--description-file" option that + lets cover letter description to be fed; this can be used on + detached HEAD where there is no branch description available, and + also can override the branch description if there is one. + + * Use of the "--max-pack-size" option to allow multiple packfiles to + be created is now supported even when we are sending unreachable + objects to cruft packs. + + * "git format-patch --rfc --subject-prefix=<foo>" used to ignore the + "--subject-prefix" option and used "[RFC PATCH]"; now we will add + "RFC" prefix to whatever subject prefix is specified. + + * "git log --format" has been taught the %(decorate) placeholder for + further customization over what the "--decorate" option offers. + + * The default log message created by "git revert", when reverting a + commit that records a revert, has been tweaked, to encourage people + to describe complex "revert of revert of revert" situations better in + their own words. + + * The command-line completion support (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git commit --trailer=" for possible trailer keys. + + * "git update-index" learned the "--show-index-version" option to + inspect the index format version used by the on-disk index file. + + * "git diff" learned the "diff.statNameWidth" configuration variable, + to give the default width for the name part in the "--stat" output. + + * "git range-diff --notes=foo" compared "log --notes=foo --notes" of + the two ranges, instead of using just the specified notes tree, + which has been corrected to use only the specified notes tree. + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) can be told to + complete aliases by including ": git <cmd> ;" in the alias to tell + it that the alias should be completed in a similar way to how "git + <cmd>" is completed. The parsing code for the alias has been + loosened to allow ';' without an extra space before it. + + * "git for-each-ref" and friends learned to apply mailmap to + authorname and other fields in a more flexible way than using + separate placeholder letters like %a[eElL] every time we want to + come up with small variants. + + * "git repack" machinery learned to pay attention to the "--filter=" + option. + + * "git repack" learned the "--max-cruft-size" option to prevent cruft + packs from growing without bounds. + + * "git merge-tree" learned to take strategy backend specific options + via the "-X" option, like "git merge" does. + + * "git log" and friends learned the "--dd" option that is a + short-hand for "--diff-merges=first-parent -p". + + * The attribute subsystem learned to honor the "attr.tree" + configuration variable that specifies which tree to read the + .gitattributes files from. + + * "git merge-file" learns a mode to read three variants of the + contents to be merged from blob objects. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git check-attr" has been taught to work better with sparse-index. + + * It may be tempting to leave the help text NULL for a command line + option that is either hidden or too obvious, but "git subcmd -h" + and "git subcmd --help-all" would have segfaulted if done so. Now + the help text is truly optional. + + * Tests that are known to pass with LSan are now marked as such. + + * Flaky "git p4" tests, as well as "git svn" tests, are now skipped + in the (rather expensive) sanitizer CI job. + + * Tests with LSan from time to time seem to emit harmless messages + that make our tests unnecessarily flaky; we work around it by + filtering the uninteresting output. + + * Unused parameters to functions are marked as such, and/or removed, + in order to bring us closer to "-Wunused-parameter" clean. + + * The code to keep track of existing packs in the repository while + repacking has been refactored. + + * The "streaming" interface used for bulk-checkin codepath has been + narrowed to take only blob objects for now, with no real loss of + functionality. + + * GitHub CI workflow has learned to trigger Coverity check. + + * Test coverage for trailers has been improved. + + * The code to iterate over loose references has been optimized to + reduce the number of lstat() system calls. + + * The codepaths that read "chunk" formatted files have been corrected + to pay attention to the chunk size and notice broken files. + + * Replace macos-12 used at GitHub CI with macos-13. + (merge 682a868f67 js/ci-use-macos-13 later to maint). + + +Fixes since v2.42 +----------------- + + * Overly long label names used in the sequencer machinery are now + chopped to fit under filesystem limitation. + + * Scalar updates. + + * Tweak GitHub Actions CI so that pushing the same commit to multiple + branch tips at the same time will not waste building and testing + the same thing twice. + + * The commit-graph verification code that detects a mixture of zero and + non-zero generation numbers has been updated. + + * "git diff -w --exit-code" with various options did not work + correctly, which has been corrected. + + * The "transfer.unpackLimit" configuration variable ought to be used + as a fallback, but overrode the more specific "fetch.unpackLimit" + and "receive.unpackLimit" configuration variables by mistake, which + has been corrected. + + * The use of API between two calls to require_clean_work_tree() from + the sequencer code has been cleaned up for consistency. + + * "git diff --no-such-option" and other corner cases around the exit + status of the "diff" command have been corrected. + + * "git for-each-ref --sort='contents:size'" sorted the refs according + to size numerically, giving a ref that points at a blob twelve-byte + (12) long before showing a blob hundred-byte (100) long, which has + been corrected. + + * We now limit the depth of the tree objects and maximum length of + pathnames recorded in tree objects. + (merge 4d5693ba05 jk/tree-name-and-depth-limit later to maint). + + * Various fixes to the behavior of "rebase -i", when the command got + interrupted by conflicting changes, have been made. + + * References from a description of the `--patch` option in various + manual pages have been simplified and improved. + + * "git grep -e A --no-or -e B" is accepted, even though the negation + of the "--or" option did not mean anything, which has been tightened. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) has been taught to treat the + "-t" option to "git checkout" and "git switch" just like the + "--track" option, to complete remote-tracking branches. + + * "git diff --no-index -R <(one) <(two)" did not work correctly, + which has been corrected. + + * "git maintenance" timers' implementation has been updated, based on + systemd timers, to work with WSL. + + * "git diff --cached" codepath did not fill the necessary stat + information for a file when fsmonitor knows it is clean and ended + up behaving as if it were not clean, which has been corrected. + + * How "alias.foo = : git cmd ; aliased-command-string" should be + spelled with necessary whitespace around punctuation marks to work + has been more clearly documented (but this will be moot with newer + versions of Git where the parsing rules have been improved). + + * HTTP Header redaction code has been adjusted for a newer version of + cURL library that shows its traces differently from earlier + versions. + + * An error message given by "git send-email", when given a malformed + address, did not show the offending address, which has been corrected. + + * UBSan options were not propagated through the test framework to git + run via the httpd, unlike ASan options, which has been corrected. + + * "checkout --merge -- path" and "update-index --unresolve path" did + not resurrect conflicted state that was resolved to remove path, + but now they do. + (merge 5bdedac3c7 jc/unresolve-removal later to maint). + + * The display width table for unicode characters has been updated for + Unicode 15.1 + (merge 872976c37e bb/unicode-width-table-15 later to maint). + + * Update mailmap entry for Derrick. + (merge 6e5457d8c7 ds/mailmap-entry-update later to maint). + + * In the ".gitmodules" files, submodules are keyed by their names, + and the path to the submodule whose name is $name is specified by + the submodule.$name.path variable. There were a few codepaths that + mixed the name and path up when consulting the submodule database, + which have been corrected. It took long for these bugs to be found + as the name of a submodule initially is the same as its path, and + the problem does not surface until it is moved to a different path, + which apparently happens very rarely. + + * "git diff --merge-base X other args..." insisted that X must be a + commit and errored out when given an annotated tag that peels to a + commit, but we only need it to be a committish. This has been + corrected. + (merge 4adceb5a29 ar/diff-index-merge-base-fix later to maint). + + * "git merge-tree" used to segfault when the "--attr-source" + option is used, which has been corrected. + (merge e95bafc52f jc/merge-ort-attr-index-fix later to maint). + + * Unlike "git log --pretty=%D", "git log --pretty="%(decorate)" did + not auto-initialize the decoration subsystem, which has been + corrected. + + * Feeding "git stash store" with a random commit that was not created + by "git stash create" now errors out. + (merge d9b6634589 jc/fail-stash-to-store-non-stash later to maint). + + * The index file has room only for the lower 32-bit of the file size in + the cached stat information, which means cached stat information + will have 0 in its sd_size member for a file whose size is a multiple + of 4GiB. This is mistaken for a racily clean path. Avoid it by + storing a bogus sd_size value instead for such files. + (merge 5143ac07b1 bc/racy-4gb-files later to maint). + + * "git p4" tried to store symlinks to LFS when told, but has been + fixed not to do so, because it does not make sense. + (merge 10c89a02b0 mm/p4-symlink-with-lfs later to maint). + + * The codepath to handle recipient addresses `git send-email + --compose` learns from the user was completely broken, which has + been corrected. + (merge 3ec6167567 jk/send-email-fix-addresses-from-composed-messages later to maint). + + * "cd sub && git grep -f patterns" tried to read "patterns" file at + the top level of the working tree; it has been corrected to read + "sub/patterns" instead. + + * "git reflog expire --single-worktree" has been broken for the past + 20 months or so, which has been corrected. + + * "git send-email" did not have certain pieces of data computed yet + when it tried to validate the outgoing messages and its recipient + addresses, which has been sorted out. + + * "git bugreport" learned to complain when it received a command line + argument that it will not use. + + * The codepath to traverse the commit-graph learned to notice that a + commit is missing (e.g., corrupt repository lost an object), even + though it knows something about the commit (like its parents) from + what is in commit-graph. + (merge 7a5d604443 ps/do-not-trust-commit-graph-blindly-for-existence later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --missing" did not work for missing commit objects, + which has been corrected. + + * "git rev-list --unpacked --objects" failed to exclude packed + non-commit objects, which has been corrected. + (merge 7b3c8e9f38 tb/rev-list-unpacked-fix later to maint). + + * "To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code + comments and documentation but without description in the glossary. + (merge 893dce2ffb vd/glossary-dereference-peel later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge c2c349a15c xz/commit-title-soft-limit-doc later to maint). + (merge 1bd809938a tb/format-pack-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 8f81532599 an/clang-format-typofix later to maint). + (merge 3ca86adc2d la/strvec-header-fix later to maint). + (merge 6789275d37 jc/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + (merge 9972cd6004 ps/leakfixes later to maint). + (merge 46edab516b tz/send-email-helpfix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..020692cda3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +Git v2.44 Release Notes +======================= + +Backward Compatibility Notes + + * "git chekcout -B <branch>" used to allow switching to a branch that + is in use on another worktree, but this was by mistake. The users + need to use "--ignore-other-worktrees" option. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)" + magic pathspec. + + * "git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase, + but it is still incompatible with the apply backend. + + * Introduce "git replay", a tool meant on the server side without + working tree to recreate a history. + + * "git merge-file" learned to take the "--diff-algorithm" option to + use algorithm different from the default "myers" diff. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete path + arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout" + better. + + * "git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is + in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which + might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a + breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to + unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B" + overrides the safety. + + * The builtin_objectmode attribute is populated for each path + without adding anything in .gitattributes files, which would be + useful in magic pathspec, e.g., ":(attr:builtin_objectmode=100755)" + to limit to executables. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started. + + * Add support for GitLab CI. + + * "git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically + which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output + in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take + advantage of. + + * Simplify API implementation to delete references by eliminating + duplication. + + * Subject approxidate() and show_date() machinery to OSS-Fuzz. + + * A new helper to let us pretend that we called lstat() when we know + our cache_entry is up-to-date via fsmonitor. + + * The optimization based on fsmonitor in the "diff --cached" + codepath is resurrected with the "fake-lstat" introduced earlier. + + * Test balloon to use C99 "bool" type from <stdbool.h> has been + added. + + * "git clone" has been prepared to allow cloning a repository with + non-default hash function into a repository that uses the reftable + backend. + + * Streaming spans of packfile data used to be done only from a + single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It + has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too. + + +Fixes since v2.43 +----------------- + + * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test + suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected. + (merge e7e03ef995 js/ci-discard-prove-state later to maint). + + * Update ref-related tests. + + * "git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when + preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected. + + * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our + (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version + requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow + simplifying our implementation. + (merge 6ff658cc78 tz/send-email-negatable-options later to maint). + + * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records + information about commits that are lost from the object store, + which has negative performance implications. The default has been + flipped to disable this pessimization. + (merge b1df3b3867 ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid later to maint). + + * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or + archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. + (merge 62b4f7b9c6 js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment later to maint). + + * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed + authentication material, which has been corrected. + (merge 16fa3eebc0 jh/trace2-redact-auth later to maint). + + * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new + paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice + an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when + rename detection was enabled. + (merge d9fd71fa2a jp/use-diff-index-in-pre-commit-sample later to maint). + + * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too + loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the + extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been + tightened up. + (merge 71a1e94821 jc/revision-parse-int later to maint). + + * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed + to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was + fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout". + (merge 9385174627 jk/end-of-options later to maint). + + * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs + even when BISECT_START file is gone. + (merge daaa03e54c jk/bisect-reset-fix later to maint). + + * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables + specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected. + (merge d49cb162fa jk/implicit-true later to maint). + + * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git + show-ref". + (merge 7382497372 rs/show-ref-incompatible-options later to maint). + + * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid + recursion. + (merge dee182941f jk/mailinfo-iterative-unquote-comment later to maint). + + * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message, + which has been corrected. + (merge 18ce48918c jx/fetch-atomic-error-message-fix later to maint). + + * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better + with the reftable backend. + (merge 44dbb3bf29 sh/completion-with-reftable later to maint). + + * "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and + being rebased when both are in effect at the same time. + (merge 990adccbdf rj/status-bisect-while-rebase later to maint). + + * "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command + line parameters, which has been corrected. + (merge d6b6cd1393 jc/archive-list-with-extra-args later to maint). + + * "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the + patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been + corrected. + (merge 53ded839ae jc/sparse-checkout-set-default-fix later to maint). + + * "git sparse-checkout (add|set) --[no-]cone --end-of-options" did + not handle "--end-of-options" correctly after a recent update. + + * Unlike other environment variables that took the usual + true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1, + which has been corrected. + (merge 556e68032f cp/git-flush-is-an-env-bool later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 50f1abcff6 js/packfile-h-typofix later to maint). + (merge cbf498eb53 jb/reflog-expire-delete-dry-run-options later to maint). + (merge 7854bf4960 rs/i18n-cannot-be-used-together later to maint). + (merge cd3c28c53a rs/column-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 866a1b9026 ps/ref-tests-update-more later to maint). + (merge e4299d26d4 mk/doc-gitfile-more later to maint). + (merge 792b86283b rs/incompatible-options-messages later to maint). + (merge ea8f9494ab jk/config-cleanup later to maint). + (merge d1bd3a8c34 jk/mailinfo-oob-read-fix later to maint). + (merge c0cadb0576 ps/reftable-fixes later to maint). + (merge 647b5e0998 ps/chainlint-self-check-update later to maint). + (merge 68fcebfb1a es/add-doc-list-short-form-of-all-in-synopsis later to maint). + (merge bc62d27d5c jc/doc-most-refs-are-not-that-special later to maint). + (merge 6d6f1cd7ee jc/doc-misspelt-refs-fix later to maint). + (merge 37e8d795be sp/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + (merge fbc6526ea6 rs/t6300-compressed-size-fix later to maint). + (merge 45184afb4d rs/rebase-use-strvec-pushf later to maint). + (merge a762af3dfd jc/retire-cas-opt-name-constant later to maint). + (merge de7c27a186 la/trailer-cleanups later to maint). + (merge d44b517137 jc/orphan-unborn later to maint). + (merge 63956c553d ml/doc-merge-updates later to maint). + (merge d57c671a51 en/header-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 5b7eec4bc5 rs/fast-import-simplify-mempool-allocation later to maint). + (merge 291873e5d6 js/contributor-docs-updates later to maint). + (merge 54d8a2531b jk/t1006-cat-file-objectsize-disk later to maint). + (merge 7033d5479b jx/sideband-chomp-newline-fix later to maint). + (merge 9cd30af991 ms/rebase-insnformat-doc-fix later to maint). |