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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-10-08 21:53:09 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2020-10-08 21:53:26 -0700
commitd4a392452e292ff924e79ec8458611c0f679d6d4 (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'js/default-branch-name-part-3' (diff)
downloadtgif-d4a392452e292ff924e79ec8458611c0f679d6d4.tar.xz
Git 2.29-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt34
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 13 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).