From d4a392452e292ff924e79ec8458611c0f679d6d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 21:53:09 -0700 Subject: Git 2.29-rc1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++------------- GIT-VERSION-GEN | 2 +- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 43d7296efa..06ba2f803f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. barrier to adoption. * The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that - there is no inter-operability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 + there is no interoperability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 repositories yet. * CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile. @@ -184,10 +184,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file.. - * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to - execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" - form, which have been corrected. - * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands have been turned into into built-in. @@ -216,10 +212,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken. + * The logic to skip testing on the tagged commit and the tag itself + was not quite consistent which led to failure of Windows test + tasks. It has been revamped to consistently skip revisions that + have already been tested, based on the tree object of the revision. + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- + * The "mediawiki" remote backend which lives in contrib/mw-to-git/ + and is not built with git by default, had an RCE bug allowing a + malicious MediaWiki server operator to inject arbitrary commands + for execution by a cloning client. This has been fixed. + + The bug was discovered and reported by Joern Schneeweisz of GitLab + to the git-security mailing list. Its practical impact due to the + obscurity of git-remote-mediawiki was deemed small enough to forgo + a dedicated security release. + * "git clone --separate-git-dir=$elsewhere" used to stomp on the contents of the existing directory $elsewhere, which has been taught to fail when $elsewhere is not an empty directory. @@ -355,16 +366,13 @@ Fixes since v2.28 "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does. (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint). - * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + * Various callers of run_command API have been modernized. (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). * List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were inconsistent, which have been corrected. (merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint). - * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. - (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). - * "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such paths from the stat output. @@ -381,7 +389,7 @@ Fixes since v2.28 information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even if the record were available, the relationship between branches may - have changed), at least hide the error to allow "status" show its + have changed), at least hide the error and allow "status" to show its output. * "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but @@ -398,7 +406,7 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint). * There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the - repository, which is mean to run once per process invocation, but + repository, which is meant to run once per process invocation, but it ran every time the estimated value was requested. (merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint). @@ -411,8 +419,8 @@ Fixes since v2.28 which has been corrected. (merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all later to maint). - * The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" used incorrectly used - commit^N where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation + * The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" incorrectly used commit^N + where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation ancestor, which has been corrected. (merge 0acbf5997f ld/p4-unshelve-fix later to maint). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index c5027c4556..0ebd699cf0 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v2.29.0-rc0 +DEF_VER=v2.29.0-rc1 LF=' ' -- cgit v1.2.3