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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index 4b3fd229e9..9b5c417b0e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has finally been retired. + * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean + operation learned to show the progress meter. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -133,6 +136,38 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been optimized. + * Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection + library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of + our source tree. + + * Code around "notes" have been cleaned up. + (merge 3964281524 mh/notes-cleanup later to maint). + + * The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it + is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and + tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming + errors. + + * Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when + adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add + an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around. + + * Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic + storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply + exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid + reporting false positives. Plug many existing leaks and introduce + a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory + pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools. + + * As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the + commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that + cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't. + + * The codepath for "git merge-recursive" has been cleaned up. + + * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -161,7 +196,6 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * 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 @@ -170,49 +204,36 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * "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 @@ -221,16 +242,13 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * 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). * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected. - (merge d3ba566342 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint). * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line @@ -239,38 +257,55 @@ Fixes since v2.14 entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply" is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all. This has been fixed. - (merge c24f3abace tb/apply-with-crlf later to maint). * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. - (merge 9d89b35526 mg/killed-merge later to maint). * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the export-ignore attribute. - (merge 5ff247ac0c rs/archive-excluded-directory later to maint). + + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft" + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer + section. + (merge cc90750677 mm/send-email-cc-cruft later to maint). + + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree + was in use. This has been fixed. + (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint). + + * "git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a + single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs + of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making + objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to + garbage collection. + + * A regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update has been fixed. + (merge 1d0538e486 mh/packed-ref-store-prep later to maint). + + * "git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the + "--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line. + This has been corrected. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + (merge c818e74332 rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (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 39b00fa4d4 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). - (merge 24da8a26a9 rs/commit-h-single-parent-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 4e36907fa3 jk/doc-the-this later to maint). - (merge 15d1d0951e bc/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint). - (merge b8f43b120b jn/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 4a4becfb23 jt/doc-pack-objects-fix later to maint). + (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint). + (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint). + (merge 74f1bd912b dw/diff-highlight-makefile-fix later to maint). + (merge f991761eb8 jk/config-lockfile-leak-fix later to maint). + (merge 150efef1e7 ma/pkt-line-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 5554451de6 mg/timestamp-t-fix later to maint). + (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). + (merge 3bc4b8f7c7 bb/doc-eol-dirty later to maint). + (merge c1bb33c99c jk/system-path-cleanup later to maint). |