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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt index 0f82a089cd..8608e86e4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt @@ -67,6 +67,25 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git gui" l10n to Portuguese. + * When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more + realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error + "ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that + lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the + course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were + uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we + gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason. + + * "git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification + to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has + gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as + "^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the + history leading to nth parent was looking the other way. + + * In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is + disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a configuration + to selectively allow enabling this. + (merge 26a7b23429 ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation later to maint). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -114,6 +133,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them. + * We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of + the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us + omit it. + + * "git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to + spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to + the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used + packfile first. + (merge c9af708b1a jk/pack-objects-optim-mru later to maint). + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -155,35 +184,28 @@ notes for details). we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the intermediate tag B in some cases. - (merge b773dde jk/pack-tag-of-tag later to maint). * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui". - (merge 02748bc sy/git-gui-i18n-ja later to maint). * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted instead. - (merge d63ed6e jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto later to maint). * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match this change. - (merge f14a310 js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign later to maint). * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has been corrected. - (merge 7ef7903 et/add-chmod-x later to maint). * "git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time. The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to avoid the wastage. - (merge 7c81040 jk/patch-ids-no-merges later to maint). * The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session, which led to unnecessary API failures. - (merge 2abc848 ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle later to maint). * There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a @@ -202,13 +224,11 @@ notes for details). * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated configuration. - (merge cd5c281 ks/perf-build-with-autoconf later to maint). * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information has been moved above the signature line. - (merge 480871e jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig later to maint). * More i18n. (merge 43073f8 va/i18n later to maint). @@ -220,13 +240,11 @@ notes for details). than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase" would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed. - (merge 1e461c4 jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check later to maint). * "git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250, which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to 50. - (merge 07e7dbf jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth later to maint). * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is @@ -234,7 +252,6 @@ notes for details). When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been corrected. - (merge 14d16e2 mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto later to maint). * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a @@ -243,7 +260,6 @@ notes for details). * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been fixed. - (merge 92dece7 ep/doc-check-ref-format-example later to maint). * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow @@ -251,7 +267,6 @@ notes for details). file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate. This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the command was run from a subdirectory. - (merge b829b94 nd/checkout-disambiguation later to maint). * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read @@ -264,15 +279,12 @@ notes for details). internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we need to know to fix this. - (merge f86f49b ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix later to maint). * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step after that was (i.e. "--continue"). - (merge 37875b4 rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise later to maint). * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. - (merge 106b672 jk/doc-cvs-update later to maint). * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in recent update, which has been corrected. @@ -292,7 +304,6 @@ notes for details). * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first. - (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint). * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored @@ -327,12 +338,52 @@ notes for details). * Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does. (merge 04be69478f pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count later to maint). + * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default + setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into + underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason. + (merge 5293284b4d jc/blame-abbrev later to maint). + + * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of + output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which + has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody + tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though. + (merge 1647793524 jk/graph-padding-fix later to maint). + + * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command + has seen a micro-optimization. + (merge e94ce1394e sg/ref-filter-parse-optim later to maint). + + * When we started cURL to talk to imap server when a new enough + version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add + imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work + and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead. + (merge d2d07ab861 ak/curl-imap-send-explicit-scheme later to maint). + + * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how + to detect support of SSL by libcurl better. + (merge 924b7eb1c9 dp/autoconf-curl-ssl later to maint). + + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of + reference to "git cmd ^master". + (merge 49416ad22a cp/completion-negative-refs later to maint). + + * The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use + correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone + deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this + easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>" + and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify + "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and + "Give me only the history since that version". + (merge cccf74e2da nd/shallow-deepen later to maint). + + * It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path", + expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines + in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current + commit. + (merge e1d09701a4 jc/blame-reverse later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint). - (merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint). - (merge a8342a4 rs/strbuf-remove-fix later to maint). - (merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint). - (merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint). (merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint). (merge 45ccef87b3 rs/copy-array later to maint). (merge 8201688ecd dt/mailinfo later to maint). |