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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2fd49978d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,220 @@ +Git 2.15 Release 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 + more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing + users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be + turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of + this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming + release. + + * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup + sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there + might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are + greatly appreciated. + + +Updates since v2.14 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An example that is now obsolete has been removed from a sample hook, + and an old example in it that added a sign-off manually has been + improved to use the interpret-trailers command. + + * The advice message given when "git rebase" stops for conflicting + changes has been improved. + + * The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite" + option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions. + (merge ad53bf79aa rg/rerere-train-overwrite later to maint). + + * "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the + "Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on + S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank) + the original bug reporter. + (merge 09ac673788 eb/contacts-reported-by later to maint). + + * "git rebase", especially when it is run by mistake and ends up + trying to replay many changes, spent long time in silence. The + command has been taught to show progress report when it spends + long time preparing these many changes to replay (which would give + the user a chance to abort with ^C). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and + essentialpart of the system to catch people who care about + older compilers that do not grok them. + + * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long + latency give a "delayed" response. + + * Many uses of comparision callback function the hashmap API uses + cast the callback function type when registering it to + hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when + the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters). + The callback implementations have been updated to take "void *" + pointers and cast them to the type they expect instead. + + * Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the + build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a + hand-rolled substitute. + (merge 90dbf226ba js/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows later to maint). + + * "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more + consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing + without having to fork a separate process). + + * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf + mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions, + which has been fixed. + (merge 642956cf45 rs/strbuf-getwholeline-fix later to maint). + + * The "ref-store" code reorganization continues. + + * "git commit" used to discard the index and re-read from the filesystem + just in case the pre-commit hook has updated it in the middle; this + has been optimized out when we know we do not run the pre-commit hook. + (merge 680ee550d7 kw/commit-keep-index-when-pre-commit-is-not-run later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.14 +----------------- + + * "%C(color name)" in the pretty print format always produced ANSI + color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now + honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness + of the output medium. + (merge 11b087adfd jk/ref-filter-colors later to maint). + + * The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be + interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but + weren't, which has been fixed. + (merge 8d1549643e jc/http-sslkey-and-ssl-cert-are-paths later to maint). + + * Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have + been fixed. + (merge de239446b6 jk/reflog-walk later to maint). + + * "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not + edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been + corrected. + (merge bc17f35f8c ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix later to maint). + + * When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the + project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory. + (merge 46a13857fc hb/gitweb-project-list later to maint). + + * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned + and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it + around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. + (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint). + + * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed + that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache + daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to + ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF. + (merge 1f180e5eb9 dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache later to maint). + + * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which + has been fixed---it now shows nothing. + (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint). + + * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who + actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an + editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable + pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, + and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. + (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint). + + * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not + propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. + (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint). + + * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option + from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been + fixed. + (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint). + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet + option down to submodules. + (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint). + + * Test portability fix for OBSD. + (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint). + (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint). + + * Portability fix for OBSD. + (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint). + + * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer + block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding + an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. + (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint). + + * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz + offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the + current time, which has been corrected. + (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint). + + * Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged. + (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint). + + * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the + ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the + file has local changes. The command has been taught to instead use + the locally modified contents. + + * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command + substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched. + (merge 5fc92f8828 kd/stash-with-bash-4.4 later to maint). + + * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit + codes; this has been corrected. + (merge e1f68c66d5 as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge 5b114f3bb0 rs/bswap-ubsan-fix later to maint). + (merge 168e63554c rs/move-array later to maint). + (merge 268ba20110 rs/stat-data-unaligned-reads-fix later to maint). + (merge 78e7b98f45 jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge c7b0780545 rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup later to maint). + (merge c1e860f1dc js/run-process-parallel-api-fix later to maint). + (merge 7a40a95eb4 cc/ref-is-hidden-microcleanup later to maint). + (merge c0bb6d9cef ah/doc-wserrorhighlight later to maint). + (merge edd64ef4f7 dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup later to maint). + (merge fa64a2fdbe jt/subprocess-handshake later to maint). + (merge 0ba9c9a0fb jb/t8008-cleanup later to maint). + (merge a7c28a2161 jt/t1450-fsck-corrupt-packfile later to maint). + (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint). + (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). + (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint). + (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint). + (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint). + (merge f1068efefe jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint). + (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint). + (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint). + (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint). + (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint). + (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint). + (merge 7f0a02be2f ah/doc-empty-string-is-false later to maint). + (merge 70ec6bd63b rs/t1002-do-not-use-sum later to maint). + (merge 2456990dfd sb/sha1-file-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2aac933c62 hv/t5526-andand-chain-fix later to maint). + (merge c8d0c4fe9b sb/submodule-parallel-update later to maint). + (merge 794b7e1674 mg/format-ref-doc-fix later to maint). |