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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8b17c26033 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,398 @@ +Git 2.17 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.16 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "diff" family of commands learned "--find-object=<object-id>" option + to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object. + + * "git format-patch" learned to give 72-cols to diffstat, which is + consistent with other line length limits the subcommand uses for + its output meant for e-mails. + + * The log from "git daemon" can be redirected with a new option; one + relevant use case is to send the log to standard error (instead of + syslog) when running it from inetd. + + * "git rebase" learned to take "--allow-empty-message" option. + + * "git am" has learned the "--quit" option, in addition to the + existing "--abort" option; having the pair mirrors a few other + commands like "rebase" and "cherry-pick". + + * "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like + "git clone" runs it upon the initial checkout. + + * "git tag" learned an explicit "--edit" option that allows the + message given via "-m" and "-F" to be further edited. + + * "git fetch --prune-tags" may be used as a handy short-hand for + getting rid of stale tags that are locally held. + + * The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way + to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am") + stops with a conflict. + + * "git add -p" used to offer "/" (look for a matching hunk) as a + choice, even there was only one hunk, which has been corrected. + Also the single-key help is now given only for keys that are + enabled (e.g. help for '/' won't be shown when there is only one + hunk). + + * Since Git 1.7.9, "git merge" defaulted to --no-ff (i.e. even when + the side branch being merged is a descendant of the current commit, + create a merge commit instead of fast-forwarding) when merging a + tag object. This was appropriate default for integrators who pull + signed tags from their downstream contributors, but caused an + unnecessary merges when used by downstream contributors who + habitually "catch up" their topic branches with tagged releases + from the upstream. Update "git merge" to default to --no-ff only + when merging a tag object that does *not* sit at its usual place in + refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to + mitigate the problem. + + * "git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation + between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be + disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option. + + * "git diff" and friends learned funcname patterns for Go language + source files. + + * "git send-email" learned "--reply-to=<address>" option. + + * Funcname pattern used for C# now recognizes "async" keyword. + + * In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager + setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the + pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the + purpose of the operation is not to "show"). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * More perf tests for threaded grep + + * "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server. + + * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by + weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. + + * Perl 5.8 or greater has been required since Git 1.7.4 released in + 2010, but we continued to assume some core modules may not exist and + used a conditional "eval { require <<module>> }"; we no longer do + this. Some platforms (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, for example) ship Perl + without all core modules by default (e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Temp, + File::Spec, Net::Domain, Net::SMTP). Users on such platforms may + need to install these additional modules. + + * As a convenience, we install copies of Perl modules we require which + are not part of the core Perl distribution (e.g. Error and + Mail::Address). Users and packagers whose operating system provides + these modules can set NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS to avoid installing the + bundled modules. + + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery + for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been + taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a + packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that + promises to make them available on-demand and lazily. + + * The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and + unpacking objects, has been told how to omit certain objects using + the filtering mechanism introduced by another topic. It now knows + to mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing + objects, laying foundation for "narrow" clones. + + * The first step to getting rid of mru API and using the + doubly-linked list API directly instead. + + * Retire mru API as it does not give enough abstraction over + underlying list API to be worth it. + + * Rewrite two more "git submodule" subcommands in C. + + * The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment + variables as well. + + * Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str) + + * Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type. + + * The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick", + "git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it + needs to create a commit. It has been taught to do so internally, + when able, by reusing the codepath "git commit" itself uses, which + gives performance boost for a few tens of percents in some sample + scenarios. + + * Push the submodule version of collision-detecting SHA-1 hash + implementation a bit harder on builders. + + * Avoid mmapping small files while using packed refs (especially ones + with zero size, which would cause later munmap() to fail). + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * More tests for wildmatch functions. + + * The code to binary search starting from a fan-out table (which is + how the packfile is indexed with object names) has been refactored + into a reusable helper. + + * We now avoid using identifiers that clash with C++ keywords. Even + though it is not a goal to compile Git with C++ compilers, changes + like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our + codebase. + + * The executable is now built in 'script' phase in Travis CI integration, + to follow the established practice, rather than during 'before_script' + phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures better ('failed' + is project's fault, 'errored' is build environment's). + (merge 3c93b82920 sg/travis-build-during-script-phase later to maint). + + * Writing out the index file when the only thing that changed in it + is the untracked cache information is often wasteful, and this has + been optimized out. + + * Various pieces of Perl code we have have been cleaned up. + + * Internal API clean-up to allow write_locked_index() optionally skip + writing the in-core index when it is not modified. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.16 +----------------- + + * An old regression in "git describe --all $annotated_tag^0" has been + fixed. + + * "git status" after moving a path in the working tree (hence making + it appear "removed") and then adding with the -N option (hence + making that appear "added") detected it as a rename, but did not + report the old and new pathnames correctly. + + * "git svn dcommit" did not take into account the fact that a + svn+ssh:// URL with a username@ (typically used for pushing) refers + to the same SVN repository without the username@ and failed when + svn.pushmergeinfo option is set. + + * API clean-up around revision traversal. + + * "git merge -Xours/-Xtheirs" learned to use our/their version when + resolving a conflicting updates to a symbolic link. + + * "git clone $there $here" is allowed even when here directory exists + as long as it is an empty directory, but the command incorrectly + removed it upon a failure of the operation. + + * "git commit --fixup" did not allow "-m<message>" option to be used + at the same time; allow it to annotate resulting commit with more + text. + + * When resetting the working tree files recursively, the working tree + of submodules are now also reset to match. + + * "git stash -- <pathspec>" incorrectly blew away untracked files in + the directory that matched the pathspec, which has been corrected. + + * Instead of maintaining home-grown email address parsing code, ship + a copy of reasonably recent Mail::Address to be used as a fallback + in 'git send-email' when the platform lacks it. + (merge d60be8acab mm/send-email-fallback-to-local-mail-address later to maint). + + * "git add -p" was taught to ignore local changes to submodules as + they do not interfere with the partial addition of regular changes + anyway. + + * Avoid showing a warning message in the middle of a line of "git + diff" output. + (merge 4e056c989f nd/diff-flush-before-warning later to maint). + + * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, + learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output + so that it can be more safely shareable. + (merge 8ba18e6fa4 jt/http-redact-cookies later to maint). + + * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock + what it did not acquire lock on. + (merge 81fcb698e0 mr/packed-ref-store-fix later to maint). + + * The split-index mode had a few corner case bugs fixed. + (merge ae59a4e44f tg/split-index-fixes later to maint). + + * Assorted fixes to "git daemon". + (merge ed15e58efe jk/daemon-fixes later to maint). + + * Completion of "git merge -s<strategy>" (in contrib/) did not work + well in non-C locale. + (merge 7cc763aaa3 nd/list-merge-strategy later to maint). + + * Workaround for segfault with more recent versions of SVN. + (merge 7f6f75e97a ew/svn-branch-segfault-fix later to maint). + + * Plug recently introduced leaks in fsck. + (merge ba3a08ca0e jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase" did not pass verbosity setting down when + recursing into a submodule. + (merge a56771a668 sb/pull-rebase-submodule later to maint). + + * The way "git reset --hard" reports the commit the updated HEAD + points at is made consistent with the way how the commit title is + generated by the other parts of the system. This matters when the + title is spread across physically multiple lines. + (merge 1cf823fb68 tg/reset-hard-show-head-with-pretty later to maint). + + * Test fixes. + (merge 63b1a175ee sg/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + + * Some bugs around "untracked cache" feature have been fixed. This + will notice corrupt data in the untracked cache left by old and + buggy code and issue a warning---the index can be fixed by clearing + the untracked cache from it. + (merge 0cacebf099 nd/fix-untracked-cache-invalidation later to maint). + (merge 7bf0be7501 ab/untracked-cache-invalidation-docs later to maint). + + * "git blame HEAD COPYING" in a bare repository failed to run, while + "git blame HEAD -- COPYING" run just fine. This has been corrected. + + * "git add" files in the same directory, but spelling the directory + path in different cases on case insensitive filesystem, corrupted + the name hash data structure and led to unexpected results. This + has been corrected. + (merge c95525e90d bp/name-hash-dirname-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -p" mangled log messages of a merge commit, which is + now fixed. + (merge ed5144d7eb js/fix-merge-arg-quoting-in-rebase-p later to maint). + + * Some low level protocol codepath could crash when they get an + unexpected flush packet, which is now fixed. + (merge bb1356dc64 js/packet-read-line-check-null later to maint). + + * "git check-ignore" with multiple paths got confused when one is a + file and the other is a directory, which has been fixed. + (merge d60771e930 rs/check-ignore-multi later to maint). + + * "git describe $garbage" stopped giving any errors when the garbage + happens to be a string with 40 hexadecimal letters. + (merge a8e7a2bf0f sb/describe-blob later to maint). + + * Code to unquote single-quoted string (used in the parser for + configuration files, etc.) did not diagnose bogus input correctly + and produced bogus results instead. + (merge ddbbf8eb25 jk/sq-dequote-on-bogus-input later to maint). + + * Many places in "git apply" knew that "/dev/null" that signals + "there is no such file on this side of the diff" can be followed by + whitespace and garbage when parsing a patch, except for one, which + made an otherwise valid patch (e.g. ones from subversion) rejected. + (merge e454ad4bec tk/apply-dev-null-verify-name-fix later to maint). + + * We no longer create any *.spec file, so "make clean" should not + remove it. + (merge 4321bdcabb tz/do-not-clean-spec-file later to maint). + + * "git push" over http transport did not unquote the push-options + correctly. + (merge 90dce21eb0 jk/push-options-via-transport-fix later to maint). + + * "git send-email" learned to complain when the batch-size option is + not defined when the relogin-delay option is, since these two are + mutually required. + (merge 9caa70697b xz/send-email-batch-size later to maint). + + * Y2k20 fix ;-) for our perl scripts. + (merge a40e06ee33 bw/perl-timegm-timelocal-fix later to maint). + + * Threaded "git grep" has been optimized to avoid allocation in code + section that is covered under a mutex. + (merge 38ef24dccf rv/grep-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) scripted around "git log", whose + output got affected by end-user configuration like log.showsignature + (merge 8841b5222c sg/subtree-signed-commits later to maint). + + * While finding unique object name abbreviation, the code may + accidentally have read beyond the end of the array of object names + in a pack. + (merge 21abed500c ds/find-unique-abbrev-optim later to maint). + + * Micro optimization in revision traversal code. + (merge ebbed3ba04 ds/mark-parents-uninteresting-optim later to maint). + + * "git commit" used to run "gc --auto" near the end, which was lost + when the command was reimplemented in C by mistake. + (merge 095c741edd ab/gc-auto-in-commit later to maint). + + * Allow running a couple of tests with "sh -x". + (merge c20bf94abc sg/cvs-tests-with-x later to maint). + + * The codepath to replace an existing entry in the index had a bug in + updating the name hash structure, which has been fixed. + (merge 0e267b7a24 bp/refresh-cache-ent-rehash-fix later to maint). + + * The transfer.fsckobjects configuration tells "git fetch" to + validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received + pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the + narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable + from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK. + + * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when + building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which + has been fixed. + (merge b8fd6008ec rj/http-code-cleanup later to maint). + + * Shell script portability fix. + (merge 206a6ae013 ml/filter-branch-portability-fix later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint). + (merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e1b3f3dd38 ks/submodule-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge fbac558a9b rs/describe-unique-abbrev later to maint). + (merge 8462ff43e4 tb/crlf-conv-flags later to maint). + (merge 7d68bb0766 rb/hashmap-h-compilation-fix later to maint). + (merge 3449847168 cc/sha1-file-name later to maint). + (merge ad622a256f ds/use-get-be64 later to maint). + (merge f919ffebed sg/cocci-move-array later to maint). + (merge 4e801463c7 jc/mailinfo-cleanup-fix later to maint). + (merge ef5b3a6c5e nd/shared-index-fix later to maint). + (merge 9f5258cbb8 tz/doc-show-defaults-to-head later to maint). + (merge b780e4407d jc/worktree-add-short-help later to maint). + (merge ae239fc8e5 rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr later to maint). + (merge 2e22a85e5c nd/ignore-glob-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 3738031581 jk/gettext-poison later to maint). + (merge 54360a1956 rj/sparse-updates later to maint). + (merge 12e31a6b12 sg/doc-test-must-fail-args later to maint). + (merge 760f1ad101 bc/doc-interpret-trailers-grammofix later to maint). + (merge 4ccf461f56 bp/fsmonitor later to maint). + (merge a6119f82b1 jk/test-hashmap-updates later to maint). + (merge 5aea9fe6cc rd/typofix later to maint). + (merge e4e5da2796 sb/status-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 7976e901c8 gs/test-unset-xdg-cache-home later to maint). + (merge d023df1ee6 tg/worktree-create-tracking later to maint). + (merge 4cbe92fd41 sm/mv-dry-run-update later to maint). + (merge 75e5e9c3f7 sb/color-h-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2708ef4af6 sg/t6300-modernize later to maint). + (merge d88e92d4e0 bw/doc-submodule-recurse-config-with-clone later to maint). + (merge f74bbc8dd2 jk/cached-commit-buffer later to maint). + (merge 1316416903 ms/non-ascii-ticks later to maint). + (merge 878056005e rs/strbuf-read-file-or-whine later to maint). + (merge 79f0ba1547 jk/strbuf-read-file-close-error later to maint). + (merge edfb8ba068 ot/ref-filter-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint). + (merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint). + (merge 2caa7b8d27 ab/man-sec-list later to maint). + (merge 40c17eb184 ks/t3200-typofix later to maint). + (merge bd9958c358 dp/merge-strategy-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 9ee0540a40 js/ming-strftime later to maint). + (merge 1775e990f7 tz/complete-tag-delete-tagname later to maint). + (merge 00a4b03501 rj/warning-uninitialized-fix later to maint). + (merge b635ed97a0 jk/attributes-path-doc later to maint). |