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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index e46197f478..0c81c5915f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -33,6 +33,121 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". + * The set of paths output from "git status --ignored" was tied + closely with its "--untracked=<mode>" option, but now it can be + controlled more flexibly. Most notably, a directory that is + ignored because it is listed to be ignored in the ignore/exclude + mechanism can be handled differently from a directory that ends up + to be ignored only because all files in it are ignored. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + truncate an overlong pagename so that ".mw" suffix can still be + added. + + * The remote-helper for talking to MediaWiki has been updated to + work with mediawiki namespaces. + + * The "--format=..." option "git for-each-ref" takes learned to show + the name of the 'remote' repository and the ref at the remote side + that is affected for 'upstream' and 'push' via "%(push:remotename)" + and friends. + + * Doc and message updates to teach users "bisect view" is a synonym + for "bisect visualize". + + * "git bisect run" that did not specify any command to run used to go + ahead and treated all commits to be tested as 'good'. This has + been corrected by making the command error out. + + * The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an + HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor. + + * We learned to optionally talk to a file system monitor via new + fsmonitor extension to speed up "git status" and other operations + that need to see which paths have been modified. Currently we only + support "watchman". See File System Monitor section of + git-update-index(1) for more detail. + + * The "diff" family of commands learned to ignore differences in + carriage return at the end of line. + + * Places that know about "sendemail.to", like documentation and shell + completion (in contrib/) have been taught about "sendemail.tocmd", + too. + + * "git add --renormalize ." is a new and safer way to record the fact + that you are correcting the end-of-line convention and other + "convert_to_git()" glitches in the in-repository data. + + * "git branch" and "git checkout -b" are now forbidden from creating + a branch whose name is "HEAD". + + * "git branch --list" learned to show its output through the pager by + default when the output is going to a terminal, which is controlled + by the pager.branch configuration variable. This is similar to a + recent change to "git tag --list". + + * "git grep -W", "git diff -W" and their friends learned a heuristic + to extend a pre-context beyond the line that matches the "function + pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if + exists, that immediately precedes it. + + * "git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from + the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int" + would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts. + + * The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take + the "--autostash" option. + + * The tagnames "git log --decorate" uses to annotate the commits can + now be limited to subset of available refs with the two additional + options, --decorate-refs[-exclude]=<pattern>. + + * "git grep" compiled with libpcre2 sometimes triggered a segfault, + which is being fixed. + + * "git send-email" tries to see if the sendmail program is available + in /usr/lib and /usr/sbin; extend the list of locations to be + checked to also include directories on $PATH. + + * "git diff" learned, "--anchored", a variant of the "--patience" + algorithm, to which the user can specify which 'unique' line to be + used as anchoring points. + + * The way "git worktree add" determines what branch to create from + where and checkout in the new worktree has been updated a bit. + + * Ancient part of codebase still shows dots after an abbreviated + object name just to show that it is not a full object name, but + these ellipses are confusing to people who newly discovered Git + who are used to seeing abbreviated object names and find them + confusing with the range syntax. + + * With a configuration variable rebase.abbreviateCommands set, + "git rebase -i" produces the todo list with a single-letter + command names. + + * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like + "git checkout" does, after the initial checkout. + + * "git svn" has been updated to strip CRs in the commit messages, as + recent versions of Subversion rejects them. + + * "git imap-send" did not correctly quote the folder name when + making a request to the server, which has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git rebase" have been somewhat cleaned up. + + * Git has been taught to support an https:// URL used for http.proxy + when using recent versions of libcurl. + + * "git merge" learned to pay attention to merge.verifySignatures + configuration variable and pretend as if '--verify-signatures' + option was given from the command line. + + * "git describe" was taught to dig trees deeper to find a + <commit-ish>:<path> that refers to a given blob object. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -60,15 +175,58 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. * Code cleanup. - (merge 62a24c8923 rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup later to maint). * A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split into a structure with many bitfields. - (merge 0d1e0e7801 bw/diff-opt-impl-to-bitfields later to maint). * TravisCI build updates. - (merge c2154953b8 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + * Parts of a test to drive the long-running content filter interface + has been split into its own module, hopefully to eventually become + reusable. + + * Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index + read from the filesystem at runtime. + + * The build procedure has been taught to avoid some unnecessary + instability in the build products. + + * A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed + and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git + without harming them. + + * An infrastructure to define what hash function is used in Git is + introduced, and an effort to plumb that throughout various + codepaths has been started. + + * The code to iterate over loose object files got optimized. + + * An internal function that was left for backward compatibility has + been removed, as there is no remaining callers. + + * Historically, the diff machinery for rename detection had a + hardcoded limit of 32k paths; this is being lifted to allow users + trade cycles with a (possibly) easier to read result. + + * The tracing infrastructure has been optimized for cases where no + tracing is requested. + + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the object + walking machinery has been taught a way to tell it to "filter" some + objects from enumeration. + + * A few structures and variables that are implementation details of + the decorate API have been renamed and then the API got documented + better. + + * Assorted updates for TravisCI integration. + (merge 4f26366679 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + + * Introduce a helper to simplify code to parse a common pattern that + expects either "--key" or "--key=<something>". + + * "git version --build-options" learned to report the host CPU and + the exact commit object name the binary was built from. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -81,86 +239,244 @@ Fixes since v2.15 "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the latter, which has been fixed. - (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" - feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, which has been corrected. - (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. - (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the HEAD points at, which have been fixed. - (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when - asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. - (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been corrected. * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the directory itself as ignored. - (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. - (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git - commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. - (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). + commands from subdirectories via "exec" instruction has been fixed. * A (possibly flakey) test fix. - (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint). * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. - (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint). * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated, and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly. - (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint). * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. - (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint). * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". - (merge de0bc11d13 sb/blame-config-doc later to maint). * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, which has been fixed. - (merge 10e0ca843d ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix later to maint). * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now tested just like Mingw builds. - (merge f21d60b429 ad/5580-unc-tests-on-cygwin later to maint). * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at around Git 2.13). - (merge fa4d8c783d js/early-config later to maint). * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). - (merge 9c109e9bbc dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix later to maint). * MinGW updates. - (merge 39bb86b4e5 js/mingw-full-version-in-resources later to maint). - (merge 601e1e7897 js/wincred-empty-cred later to maint). - (merge b2f55717c7 js/mingw-redirect-std-handles later to maint). + + * Error checking in "git imap-send" for empty response has been + improved. + + * Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started + rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been + optimized again for most trivial cases. + + * Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have + been fixed. + + * "git rebase -i" recently started misbehaving when a submodule that + is configured with 'submodule.<name>.ignore' is dirty; this has + been corrected. + + * Building with NO_LIBPCRE1_JIT did not disable it, which has been fixed. + + * We used to add an empty alternate object database to the system + that does not help anything; it has been corrected. + + * Doc update around use of "format-patch --subject-prefix" etc. + + * A fix for an ancient bug in "git apply --ignore-space-change" codepath. + + * Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as + it was clear what it computed but not why/what for. + + * A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected + their error output. These have been corrected. + + * "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream, + which was corrected. + + * The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused + when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been + fixed (or "papered over"). + + * The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git + rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped + due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed. + + * "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change" + triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the + "--copy" option of "git branch". + + * When "git rebase" prepared a mailbox of changes and fed it to "git + am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened + to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has + been corrected. + + * There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a + section of a configuration section, which has been corrected. + + * Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained + in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command; + they have been corrected. + + * Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not + ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been + corrected. + + * "git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of + the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule + repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but + still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case. + (merge 57f22bf997 sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head later to maint). + + * "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of) + removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days. + The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its + synopsis section, which has been corrected. + (merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint). + + * Internally we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the + codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check + while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know + there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating + it anew" by passing 0{40} for the 'old' side), and expect that a + codepath to locate an in-core object to return NULL as a sign that + the object does not exist. A look-up for an object that does not + exist however is quite costly with a repository with large number + of packfiles. This access pattern has been optimized. + (merge 87b5e236a1 jk/fewer-pack-rescan later to maint). + + * In addition to "git stash -m message", the command learned to + accept "git stash -mmessage" form. + (merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint). + + * @{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state, + but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed. + (merge 75ce149575 ks/doc-checkout-previous later to maint). + + * A regression in the progress eye-candy was fixed. + (merge 9c5951cacf jk/progress-delay-fix later to maint). + + * The code internal to the recursive merge strategy was not fully + prepared to see a path that is renamed to try overwriting another + path that is only different in case on case insensitive systems. + This does not matter in the current code, but will start to matter + once the rename detection logic starts taking hints from nearby + paths moving to some directory and moves a new path along with them. + (merge 4cba2b0108 en/merge-recursive-icase-removal later to maint). + + * An v2.12-era regression in pathspec match logic, which made it look + into submodule tree even when it is not desired, has been fixed. + (merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint). + + * Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii + due to incorrect enconding conversion. + + * Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree" + by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront. + (merge fd66bcc31f bw/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint). + + * Git shows a message to tell the user that it is waiting for the + user to finish editing when spawning an editor, in case the editor + opens to a hidden window or somewhere obscure and the user gets + lost. + (merge abfb04d0c7 ls/editor-waiting-message later to maint). + + * The "safe crlf" check incorrectly triggered for contents that does + not use CRLF as line endings, which has been corrected. + (merge 649f1f0948 tb/check-crlf-for-safe-crlf later to maint). + + * "git clone --shared" to borrow from a (secondary) worktree did not + work, even though "git clone --local" did. Both are now accepted. + (merge b3b05971c1 es/clone-shared-worktree later to maint). + + * The build procedure now allows not just the repositories but also + the refs to be used to take pre-formatted manpages and html + documents to install. + (merge 65289e9dcd rb/quick-install-doc later to maint). + + * Update the shell prompt script (in contrib/) to strip trailing CR + from strings read from various "state" files. + (merge 041fe8fc83 ra/prompt-eread-fix later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + + * Bytes with high-bit set were encoded incorrectly and made + credential helper fail. + (merge 4c267f2ae3 jd/fix-strbuf-add-urlencode-bytes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p -X<option>" did not propagate the option properly + down to underlying merge strategy backend. + (merge dd6fb0053c js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * "git merge -s recursive" did not correctly abort when the index is + dirty, if the merged tree happened to be the same as the current + HEAD, which has been fixed. + (merge f309e8e768 ew/empty-merge-with-dirty-index-maint later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint). - (merge 8684dde10d jm/relnotes-2.15-typofix later to maint). - (merge cd3f8e2fc2 ks/mailmap later to maint). + (merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint). + (merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint). + (merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint). + (merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint). + (merge 7db2cbf4f1 jc/receive-pack-hook-doc later to maint). + (merge 5a0526264b tg/t-readme-updates later to maint). + (merge 5e83cca0b8 jk/no-optional-locks later to maint). + (merge 826c778f7c js/hashmap-update-sample later to maint). + (merge 176b2d328c sg/setup-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 1b09073514 rs/am-builtin-leakfix later to maint). + (merge addcf6cfde rs/fmt-merge-msg-string-leak-fix later to maint). + (merge c3ff8f6c14 rs/strbuf-read-once-reset-length later to maint). + (merge 6b0eb884f9 db/doc-workflows-neuter-the-maintainer later to maint). + (merge 8c87bdfb21 jk/cvsimport-quoting later to maint). + (merge 176cb979fe rs/fmt-merge-msg-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 5a03360e73 tb/delimit-pretty-trailers-args-with-comma later to maint). + (merge d0e6326026 ot/pretty later to maint). + (merge 44103f4197 sb/test-helper-excludes later to maint). + (merge 170078693f jt/transport-no-more-rsync later to maint). + (merge c07b3adff1 bw/path-doc later to maint). + (merge bf9d7df950 tz/lib-git-svn-svnserve-tests later to maint). + (merge dec366c9a8 sr/http-sslverify-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 3f824e91c8 jk/test-suite-tracing later to maint). + (merge 1feb061701 db/doc-config-section-names-with-bs later to maint). + (merge 74dea0e13c jh/memihash-opt later to maint). + (merge 2e9fdc795c ma/bisect-leakfix later to maint). |