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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 7cbe8a6b94..33f4ae3ebe 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme. + * Mention of "GIT/Git/git" in the documentation have been updated to + be more uniform and consistent. The name of the system and the + concept it embodies is "Git"; the command the users type is "git". + All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small + caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided. + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these tools in server settings. @@ -50,6 +56,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a subdirectory of "foo". + * When giving arguments without "--" disambiguation, object names + that come earlier on the command line must not be interpretable as + pathspecs and pathspecs that come later on the command line must + not be interpretable as object names. This disambiguation rule has + been tweaked so that ":/" (no other string before or after) is + always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer + needed, you can just say "git cmd :/". + + * Various "hint" lines Git gives when it asks the user to edit + messages in the editor are commented out with '#' by default. The + core.commentchar configuration variable can be used to customize + this '#' to a different character. + + * "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec issues warning to + make users aware that they are only operating on paths inside the + subdirectory they are in. Use ":/" (everything from the top) or + "." (everything from the $cwd) to disambiguate. + * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has @@ -84,6 +108,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + * Error messages from "git push" when it stops to prevent remote refs + from getting overwritten by mistake have been improved to explain + various situations separately. + * "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push" hook exists and exits with a failure. @@ -112,7 +140,9 @@ Foreign Interface * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/. - * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. + * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is + also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. In addition, its various + portability issues for Cygwin have been addressed. * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few fixes. @@ -126,6 +156,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard characters has been optimized further. + * We stopped paying attention to $GIT_CONFIG environment that points + at a single configuration file from any command other than "git config" + quite a while ago, but "git clone" internally set, exported, and + then unexported the variable during its operation unnecessarily. + * "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but there could be corner cases, especially when running the command @@ -153,6 +188,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal. + * Some reimplementations of Git do not write all the stat info back + to the index due to their implementation limitations (e.g. jgit). + A configuration option can tell Git to ignore changes to most of + the stat fields and only pay attention to mtime and size, which + these implementations can reliably update. This can be used to + avoid excessive revalidation of contents. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -167,47 +209,53 @@ details). * An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. - (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does not exist there" and moving on. - (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint). * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that signal and die. We ignore these signals now. - (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + (merge 0398fc34 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. - (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint). * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. - (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). + + * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from + /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug + lost the "user@" part. * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. - (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint). + + * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, + when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing excess trailing blank lines. - (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint). * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. - (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint). * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. - (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint). + + * "git archive" did not parse configuration values in tar.* namespace + correctly. + (merge b3873c3 jk/config-parsing-cleanup later to maint). + + * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while + being on a detached HEAD, errored out. * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a @@ -220,27 +268,39 @@ details). * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. - (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint). + + * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The + resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was + unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the + command, and documentation was misleading. + (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint). + + * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later + try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed. + (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free later to maint). + + * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, + killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. + (merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint). * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. - (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). * The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the code did not expect. - (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint). * http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the authentication is done by certificate identity. - (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint). * "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that created new refs had a nasty race. - (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint). + + * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule + has been broken since v1.7.12. + (merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint). * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. - (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there options at the same time, which was nonsensical. @@ -248,54 +308,50 @@ details). * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions of Git. - (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint). * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded without getting seen in the editor. - (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint). * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit status of the hook. - (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint). + + * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch + dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message. + (merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint). * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way. - (merge 6310071 nz/send-email-headers-are-case-insensitive later to maint). * Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction with "--untracked". - (merge a45fb69 ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory later to maint). * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely nothing in it early, which was not very useful. - (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). * "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by mistake. - (merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint). * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed to add a newline after such a line. - (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>. - (merge ca87dd6 ds/completion-silence-in-tree-path-probe later to maint). * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space after completing a single directory name. - (merge 92f1c04 mk/complete-tcsh later to maint). + + * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with + older versions of bash by using a newer array notation. * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. - (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when PYTHON_PATH changed. @@ -303,24 +359,30 @@ details). * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. - (merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). + + * A fix was added to the build procedure to work around buggy + versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which + unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient + distros. + (merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint). * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. - (merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint). + + * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some + time ago. * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that broke on OpenBSD. - (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. - (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). - (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct. - (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint). - (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint). + + * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was + affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH. + (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint). |