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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index 2a19064f6e..f7d5e9cf14 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -75,13 +75,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. code with "git interpret-trailer". * The default Travis-CI configuration specifies newer P4 and GitLFS. - (merge 5f703e8f02 ls/travis-update-p4-and-lfs later to maint). * The "fast hash" that had disastrous performance issues in some corner cases has been retired from the internal diff. * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0 - (merge 9e6e9aefdf bb/unicode-9.0 later to maint). * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support. (merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint). @@ -115,7 +113,6 @@ notes for details). standard I/O streams are connected to a TTY, but isatty() that comes with Windows incorrectly returned true if it is used on NUL (i.e. an equivalent to /dev/null). This has been fixed. - (merge cbb3f3c9b1 js/mingw-isatty later to maint). * "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and some configuration variable it uses were not documented. @@ -123,70 +120,56 @@ notes for details). * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!". - (merge a2e7b04c44 jk/rev-parse-symbolic-parents-fix later to maint). * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a submodule directory there, which has been fixed.. - (merge 5423d2e700 dt/empty-submodule-in-merge later to maint). * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable number of refs. - (merge 250ab24ab3 hv/submodule-not-yet-pushed-fix later to maint). * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't "--dry-run" in the submodules. - (merge 0301c821c5 bw/push-dry-run later to maint). * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order, and was unstable. - (merge 4df1d4d466 nd/worktree-list-fixup later to maint). * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply to built-in tools, but now it does. - (merge 2967284456 da/mergetool-trust-exit-code later to maint). * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. - (merge d5eb3cf5e7 ls/p4-empty-file-on-lfs later to maint). * A corner case in merge-recursive regression that crept in during 2.10 development cycle has been fixed. - (merge 1c25d2d8ed jc/renormalize-merge-kill-safer-crlf later to maint). * Transport with dumb http can be fooled into following foreign URLs that the end user does not intend to, especially with the server side redirects and http-alternates mechanism, which can lead to security issues. Tighten the redirection and make it more obvious to the end user when it happens. - (merge cb4d2d35c4 jk/http-walker-limit-redirect-2.9 later to maint). * Update the error messages from the dumb-http client when it fails to obtain loose objects; we used to give sensible error message only upon 404 but we now forbid unexpected redirects that needs to be reported with something sensible. - (merge 3680f16f9d jk/http-walker-limit-redirect later to maint). * When diff.renames configuration is on (and with Git 2.9 and later, it is enabled by default, which made it worse), "git stash" misbehaved if a file is removed and another file with a very similar content is added. - (merge 9d4e28ead5 jk/stash-disable-renames-internally later to maint). * "git diff --no-index" did not take "--no-abbrev" option. - (merge 43d1948b7b jb/diff-no-index-no-abbrev later to maint). * "git difftool --dir-diff" had a minor regression when started from a subdirectory, which has been fixed. - (merge 853e10c197 da/difftool-dir-diff-fix later to maint). * "git commit --allow-empty --only" (no pathspec) with dirty index ought to be an acceptable way to create a new commit that does not change any paths, but it was forbidden, perhaps because nobody needed it so far. - (merge beb635ca9c ak/commit-only-allow-empty later to maint). * Git 2.11 had a minor regression in "merge --ff-only" that competed with another process that simultanously attempted to update the @@ -196,26 +179,21 @@ notes for details). * A pathname that begins with "//" or "\\" on Windows is special but path normalization logic was unaware of it. - (merge 7814fbe3f1 js/normalize-path-copy-ceil later to maint). * "git pull --rebase", when there is no new commits on our side since we forked from the upstream, should be able to fast-forward without invoking "git rebase", but it didn't. - (merge 33b842a1e9 jc/pull-rebase-ff later to maint). * The way to specify hotkeys to "xxdiff" that is used by "git mergetool" has been modernized to match recent versions of xxdiff. - (merge 6cf5f6cef7 da/mergetool-xxdiff-hotkey later to maint). * Unlike "git am --abort", "git cherry-pick --abort" moved HEAD back to where cherry-pick started while picking multiple changes, when the cherry-pick stopped to ask for help from the user, and the user did "git reset --hard" to a different commit in order to re-attempt the operation. - (merge ce73bb22d8 sb/sequencer-abort-safety later to maint). * Code cleanup in shallow boundary computation. - (merge 649b0c316a nd/shallow-fixup later to maint). * A recent update to receive-pack to make it easier to drop garbage objects made it clear that GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES cannot @@ -223,49 +201,39 @@ notes for details). made it impossible to push into a repository at such a path. This has been fixed by introducing a quoting mechanism used when appending such a path to the colon-separated list. - (merge 5e74824fac jk/quote-env-path-list-component later to maint). * The function usage_msg_opt() has been updated to say "fatal:" before the custom message programs give, when they want to die with a message about wrong command line options followed by the standard usage string. - (merge 87433261a4 jk/parseopt-usage-msg-opt later to maint). * "git index-pack --stdin" needs an access to an existing repository, but "git index-pack file.pack" to generate an .idx file that corresponds to a packfile does not. - (merge 29401e1575 jk/index-pack-wo-repo-from-stdin later to maint). * Fix for NDEBUG builds. - (merge 08414938a2 jt/mailinfo-fold-in-body-headers later to maint). * A lazy "git push" without refspec did not internally use a fully specified refspec to perform 'current', 'simple', or 'upstream' push, causing unnecessary "ambiguous ref" errors. - (merge b284495e93 jc/push-default-explicit later to maint). * "git p4" misbehaved when swapping a directory and a symbolic link. - (merge df8a9e86db ld/p4-compare-dir-vs-symlink later to maint). * Even though an fix was attempted in Git 2.9.3 days, but running "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This has been fixed. - (merge ce6926974e jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint). * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed by many empty commits. This has been fixed. - (merge 9943e5b979 gv/p4-multi-path-commit-fix later to maint). * A potential but unlikely buffer overflow in Windows port has been fixed. - (merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint). * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition and abort the transfer. - (merge f8edeaa05d dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away later to maint). * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration. @@ -285,16 +253,4 @@ notes for details). (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint). - (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). - (merge 9c48b4fb23 ls/t0021-fixup later to maint). - (merge 584f99c87b sb/unpack-trees-grammofix later to maint). - (merge 54471fdcc3 jk/readme-gmane-is-no-more later to maint). - (merge 9e189f1a5c sb/t3600-cleanup later to maint). - (merge e2c20be57c lr/doc-fix-cet later to maint). - (merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint). (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint). - (merge 6cc823c5c1 jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map later to maint). - (merge 235ec24352 mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc later to maint). - (merge f1350d0c12 mm/gc-safety-doc later to maint). |