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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index 0d4a3ef931..5b934b77b5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Backward compatibility notes. has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a future release. + * The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the + socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has + been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket". + Updates since v2.12 ------------------- @@ -77,7 +81,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. - (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint). * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very @@ -113,6 +116,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature. The code has been restructured. + * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style + that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a + detached HEAD with "git describe --tags". + + * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path" + that includes the contents of the given path only when the + condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related + bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory". + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not + a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -141,11 +156,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been corrected not to do so. - (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint). * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. - (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint). * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from real_path() to a strbuf has been added. @@ -186,6 +199,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab facility. + * The "debug" helper used in the test framework learned to run + a command under "gdb" interactively. + (merge 59210dd56c sg/test-with-stdin later to maint). + + * The "detect attempt to create collisions" variant of SHA-1 + implementation by Marc Stevens (CWI) and Dan Shumow (Microsoft) + has been integrated and made the default. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -193,7 +213,7 @@ Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v2.12 ----------------- -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.12 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). @@ -204,19 +224,16 @@ notes for details). * The code to parse the command line "git grep <patterns>... <rev> [[--] <pathspec>...]" has been cleaned up, and a handful of bugs have been fixed (e.g. we used to check "--" if it is a rev). - (merge 131f3c96d2 jk/grep-no-index-fix later to maint). * "git ls-remote" and "git archive --remote" are designed to work without being in a directory under Git's control. However, recent updates revealed that we randomly look into a directory called .git/ without actually doing necessary set-up when working in a repository. Stop doing so. - (merge 4b0c3c7735 jn/remote-helpers-with-git-dir later to maint). * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them without checking for overflow. - (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint). * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when @@ -225,22 +242,18 @@ notes for details). be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least predictable. - (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint). * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. - (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint). * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. - (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint). * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have been fixed. - (merge 1274a155af jc/config-case-cmdline-take-2 later to maint). * user.email that consists of only cruft chars should consistently error out, but didn't. @@ -250,11 +263,9 @@ notes for details). report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. - (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint). * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases has been plugged. - (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint). * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, @@ -272,7 +283,6 @@ notes for details). * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the standard error stream, but we somehow did. - (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint). * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer @@ -286,7 +296,6 @@ notes for details). made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF conversion). - (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint). * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). @@ -314,11 +323,9 @@ notes for details). * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. - (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint). * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates response, which has been fixed. - (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint). * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git @@ -332,11 +339,30 @@ notes for details). * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a few strings were left as translatable by mistake. - (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint). + + * "git revert -m 0 $merge_commit" complained that reverting a merge + needs to say relative to which parent the reversion needs to + happen, as if "-m 0" weren't given. The correct diagnosis is that + "-m 0" does not refer to the first parent ("-m 1" does). This has + been fixed. + + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing + misconfiguration. + + * Fix for NO_PTHREADS build. + (merge 7b91929ba0 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint). + + * Fix for potential segv introduced in v2.11.0 and later (also + v2.10.2) to "git log --pickaxe-regex -S". + (merge f53c5de29c js/regexec-buf later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint). - (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint). - (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint). - (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint). (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint). + (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e94eac49e6 rs/http-push-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ba6746c08f rs/path-name-safety-cleanup later to maint). + (merge d41626ff9e rs/shortlog-cleanup later to maint). + (merge dce96c41f9 rs/update-hook-optim later to maint). |