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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt index 93f0654109..4246c68ff5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Git 2.14 Release Notes ====================== -Backward compatibility notes. +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Backward compatibility notes. diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now become the default. + * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE + library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease + in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the + upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but + the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended. + Updates since v2.13 ------------------- @@ -53,16 +59,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref, even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant. - * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." - mechanism has further been taught to take symlinks into account. - The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to - a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such - a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the - current repository to determine if the contents from the named path - should be included. + * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in + 2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched, + and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in + "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work". + Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would + show. The include will happen if either one matches. - * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics - configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it. + * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The + diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false" + for those who do not want it. * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse configuration. @@ -91,8 +97,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We learned to give warnings when this happens. - * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the - user has in its output. + * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there + are in its output. * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit, @@ -101,13 +107,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in line with the focus of "git commit"). - * "git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation - that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single - session. + * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options + which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that + restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session. * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it has outlived its usefulness. + * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the + branch in the submodules to an updated base. + + * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep" + already had such a synonym. + + * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with + --perl-regexp. This has been fixed. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -217,6 +231,31 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. object database?" query that is used to derive the length of prefix an object name is uniquely abbreviated to. + * The hashmap API has been updated so that data to customize the + behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a + hashmap is initialized. + + * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is + now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to + ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get + it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped + as part of the tree. + + * A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while + compiling but supported only one sanitize option. Allow more than + one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar". + + * Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly + to parse. + + * We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and friends, as + a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not + play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot" + that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot + file. This is a possible workaround for that problem. + + * It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that + returns failure when a directory is opened for reading. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -418,44 +457,61 @@ notes for details). * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests that would have caught it and others have been added. - * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected. + * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected. * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. - * The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting + * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting correctly. * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation set does. - * Update the sha1dc again to fix portability glitches. - * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading. - (merge 8bc172e5f2 rs/apply-avoid-over-reading later to maint). * A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in the certificate correctly. * Update the character width tables. - (merge 7560aacd7c bb/unicode-10.0 later to maint). * After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends incorrectly stopped at the reflog entry that records the renaming of the branch. - (merge e30d463d45 jk/reflog-walk-maint later to maint). * The rewrite of "git branch --list" using for-each-ref's internals that happened in v2.13 regressed its handling of color.branch.local; this has been fixed. - (merge 5b5c9c3e19 kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint). + + * The build procedure has been improved to allow building and testing + Git with address sanitizer more easily. + (merge 425ca6710b jk/build-with-asan later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository" + ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed + locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double + slashes at the beginning. + + * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had + 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead + show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more + useful number. + + * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch. + + * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before + daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background + auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the + early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the + early part also under the GC lock. + + * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter. * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge 3f9c637ec7 pw/unquote-path-in-git-pm later to maint). - (merge 669638fe7a ks/typofix-commit-c-comment later to maint). (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint). (merge 42c78a216e rs/use-div-round-up later to maint). (merge 5e8d2729ae rs/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 01826066b0 ks/fix-rebase-doc-picture later to maint). + (merge bc9b7e207f as/diff-options-grammofix later to maint). + (merge ac05222b31 ah/patch-id-doc later to maint). |