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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-04-14 14:17:12 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-04-14 14:17:12 -0700
commitb32632c327236695df71b6649f711203ec19e799 (patch)
tree2761a07c66fb2071a9a8fd89c4bd3134adfc333b
parentSync with Git 2.35.3 (diff)
parentRelNotes: mention safe.directory (diff)
downloadtgif-b32632c327236695df71b6649f711203ec19e799.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/relnotes-updates'
Wording updates for 2.36 release notes. * jc/relnotes-updates: RelNotes: mention safe.directory RelNotes: clarify "bisect run unexecutable" tweak
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt19
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt
index d61ade21e2..f4c5e691bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ Backward compatibility warts
top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This
behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules.
+ * With the fixes for CVE-2022-24765 that are common with versions of
+ Git 2.30.4, 2.31.3, 2.32.2, 2.33.3, 2.34.3, and 2.35.3, Git has
+ been taught not to recognise repositories owned by other users, in
+ order to avoid getting affected by their config files and hooks.
+ You can list the path to the safe/trusted repositories that may be
+ owned by others on a multi-valued configuration variable
+ `safe.directory` to override this behaviour, or use '*' to declare
+ that you trust anything.
+
Note to those who build from the source
@@ -46,10 +55,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option.
- * A not-so-common mistake is to write a script to feed "git bisect
- run" without making it executable, in which case all tests will
- exit with 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked
- as good. Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early.
+ * A user can forget to make a script file executable before giving
+ it to "git bisect run". In such a case, all tests will exit with
+ 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked as good.
+ Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early.
* When "index-pack" dies due to incoming data exceeding the maximum
allowed input size, include the value of the limit in the error
@@ -397,8 +406,6 @@ Fixes since v2.35
entry it moved.
(merge b7f9130a06 vd/mv-refresh-stat later to maint).
- * Fix for CVE-2022-24765 has been merged up from 2.35.2 and others.
-
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint).
(merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint).