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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt index f2e261abf3..8a0361321f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -24,6 +24,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the future repurposing of the it when it is used. + * The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated. + + * The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends + out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an + overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to + automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line + in the payload has been introduced and is made the default. + + * "git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor + checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a + remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that + have tracking branches that share the same names. + (merge 8d7b558bae ab/checkout-default-remote later to maint). + + * "git grep" learned the "--only-matching" option. + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" mode now handles octopus merges as + well. + + * Add a server-side knob to skip commits in exponential/fibbonacci + stride in an attempt to cover wider swath of history with a smaller + number of iterations, potentially accepting a larger packfile + transfer, instead of going back one commit a time during common + ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction. + (merge 42cc7485a2 jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping later to maint). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -72,6 +98,65 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration files, to read random configuration items from it. + * "git fast-import" has been updated to avoid attempting to create + delta against a zero-byte-long string, which is pointless. + + * The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic + option. + (merge 2b647a05d7 bb/pedantic later to maint). + + * The character display width table has been updated to match the + latest Unicode standard. + (merge 570951eea2 bb/unicode-11-width later to maint). + + * test-lint now looks for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test + scripts. + + * Conversion from uchar[40] to struct object_id continues. + + * Recent "security fix" to pay attention to contents of ".gitmodules" + while accepting "git push" was a bit overly strict than necessary, + which has been adjusted. + + * "git fsck" learns to make sure the optional commit-graph file is in + a sane state. + + * "git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked. + + * Code restructuring and a small fix to transport protocol v2 during + fetching. + + * Parsing of -L[<N>][,[<M>]] parameters "git blame" and "git log" + take has been tweaked. + + * lookup_commit_reference() and friends have been updated to find + in-core object for a specific in-core repository instance. + + * Various glitches in the heuristics of merge-recursive strategy have + been documented in new tests. + + * "git fetch" learned a new option "--negotiation-tip" to limit the + set of commits it tells the other end as "have", to reduce wasted + bandwidth and cycles, which would be helpful when the receiving + repository has a lot of refs that have little to do with the + history at the remote it is fetching from. + + * For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries + allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a + dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead. + + * Tests to cover various conflicting cases have been added for + merge-recursive. + + * Tests to cover conflict cases that involve submodules have been + added for merge-recursive. + + * Look for broken "&&" chains that are hidden in subshell, many of + which have been found and corrected. + + * The singleton commit-graph in-core instance is made per in-core + repository instance. + Fixes since v2.18 ----------------- @@ -145,6 +230,105 @@ Fixes since v2.18 not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one. (merge 48294b512a ms/core-icase-doc later to maint). + * "fsck.skipList" did not prevent a blob object listed there from + being inspected for is contents (e.g. we recently started to + inspect the contents of ".gitmodules" for certain malicious + patterns), which has been corrected. + (merge fb16287719 rj/submodule-fsck-skip later to maint). + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules another-branch" did not report + in which submodule it failed to update the working tree, which + resulted in an unhelpful error message. + (merge ba95d4e4bd sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg later to maint). + + * "git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of + the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an + effort to make them more uniform has begun. + (merge b00bf1c9a8 en/rebase-consistency later to maint). + + * The "--ignore-case" option of "git for-each-ref" (and its friends) + did not work correctly, which has been fixed. + (merge e674eb2528 jk/for-each-ref-icase later to maint). + + * "git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it + received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been + corrected. + (merge cf1e7c0770 jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow later to maint). + + * Partial clone support of "git clone" has been updated to correctly + validate the objects it receives from the other side. The server + side has been corrected to send objects that are directly + requested, even if they may match the filtering criteria (e.g. when + doing a "lazy blob" partial clone). + (merge a7e67c11b8 jt/partial-clone-fsck-connectivity later to maint). + + * Handling of an empty range by "git cherry-pick" was inconsistent + depending on how the range ended up to be empty, which has been + corrected. + (merge c5e358d073 jk/empty-pick-fix later to maint). + + * "git reset --merge" (hence "git merge ---abort") and "git reset --hard" + had trouble working correctly in a sparsely checked out working + tree after a conflict, which has been corrected. + (merge b33fdfc34c mk/merge-in-sparse-checkout later to maint). + + * Correct a broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in a test. + (merge 650161a277 jc/t3404-one-shot-export-fix later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse ':/substring'" did not consider the history leading + only to HEAD when looking for a commit with the given substring, + when the HEAD is detached. This has been fixed. + (merge 6b3351e799 wc/find-commit-with-pattern-on-detached-head later to maint). + + * Build doc update for Windows. + (merge ede8d89bb1 nd/command-list later to maint). + + * core.commentchar is now honored when preparing the list of commits + to replay in "rebase -i". + + * "git pull --rebase" on a corrupt HEAD caused a segfault. In + general we substitute an empty tree object when running the in-core + equivalent of the diff-index command, and the codepath has been + corrected to do so as well to fix this issue. + (merge 3506dc9445 jk/has-uncommitted-changes-fix later to maint). + + * httpd tests saw occasional breakage due to the way its access log + gets inspected by the tests, which has been updated to make them + less flaky. + (merge e8b3b2e275 sg/httpd-test-unflake later to maint). + + * Tests to cover more D/F conflict cases have been added for + merge-recursive. + + * "git gc --auto" opens file descriptors for the packfiles before + spawning "git repack/prune", which would upset Windows that does + not want a process to work on a file that is open by another + process. The issue has been worked around. + (merge 12e73a3ce4 kg/gc-auto-windows-workaround later to maint). + + * The recursive merge strategy did not properly ensure there was no + change between HEAD and the index before performing its operation, + which has been corrected. + (merge 55f39cf755 en/dirty-merge-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rebase" started exporting GIT_DIR environment variable and + exposing it to hook scripts when part of it got rewritten in C. + Instead of matching the old scripted Porcelains' behaviour, + compensate by also exporting GIT_WORK_TREE environment as well to + lessen the damage. This can harm existing hooks that want to + operate on different repository, but the current behaviour is + already broken for them anyway. + (merge ab5e67d751 bc/sequencer-export-work-tree-as-well later to maint). + + * "git send-email" when using in a batched mode that limits the + number of messages sent in a single SMTP session lost the contents + of the variable used to choose between tls/ssl, unable to send the + second and later batches, which has been fixed. + (merge 636f3d7ac5 jm/send-email-tls-auth-on-batch later to maint). + + * The lazy clone support had a few places where missing but promised + objects were not correctly tolerated, which have been fixed. + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint). @@ -157,3 +341,6 @@ Fixes since v2.18 (merge 51d1863168 tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes later to maint). (merge a9aa3c0927 ds/commit-graph later to maint). (merge 5cf8e06474 js/enhanced-version-info later to maint). + (merge 6aaded5509 tb/config-default later to maint). + (merge 022d2ac1f3 sb/blame-color later to maint). + (merge 5a06a20e0c bp/test-drop-caches-for-windows later to maint). |