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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a5c5b82d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,239 @@ +Git 2.19 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.18 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths + added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents + of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new + files. They are now shown as new by default. + + "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an + otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new + paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. + + * "git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the + line number but the column number of the hit. + + * The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for + "--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect + it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l" + 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. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. + + * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field, + which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the + code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a + more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. + + * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. + (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the + codebase to report the list of configuration variables + subcommands care about to help complete them. + + * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to + slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. + + * Make refspec parsing codepath more robust. + + * Some flaky tests have been fixed. + + * Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase + has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to + negate them. + + * Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/) + has been updated. + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah + bitmap subsystem. + + * Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3. + + * Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules + 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. + + +Fixes since v2.18 +----------------- + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/) + has been taught about it. + (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint). + + * "git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off + point that is newer than the existing history used to end up + grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out. + (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint). + + * Fix for 2.17-era regression around `core.safecrlf`. + (merge 6cb09125be as/safecrlf-quiet-fix later to maint). + + * The recent addition of "partial clone" experimental feature kicked + in when it shouldn't, namely, when there is no partial-clone filter + defined even if extensions.partialclone is set. + (merge cac1137dc4 jh/partial-clone later to maint). + + * "git send-pack --signed" (hence "git push --signed" over the http + transport) did not read user ident from the config mechanism to + determine whom to sign the push certificate as, which has been + corrected. + (merge d067d98887 ms/send-pack-honor-config later to maint). + + * "git fetch-pack --all" used to unnecessarily fail upon seeing an + annotated tag that points at an object other than a commit. + (merge c12c9df527 jk/fetch-all-peeled-fix later to maint). + + * When user edits the patch in "git add -p" and the user's editor is + set to strip trailing whitespaces indiscriminately, an empty line + that is unchanged in the patch would become completely empty + (instead of a line with a sole SP on it). The code introduced in + Git 2.17 timeframe failed to parse such a patch, but now it learned + to notice the situation and cope with it. + (merge f4d35a6b49 pw/add-p-recount later to maint). + + * The code to try seeing if a fetch is necessary in a submodule + during a fetch with --recurse-submodules got confused when the path + to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the + superproject, sometimes showing "(null)". This has been corrected. + + * "git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that + indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated + working tree across various state transitions, which has been + corrected. + (merge 984cd77ddb sb/submodule-core-worktree later to maint). + + * Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression. + (merge a9279c6785 pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict later to maint). + + * Recently added "--base" option to "git format-patch" command did + not correctly generate prereq patch ids. + (merge 15b76c1fb3 xy/format-patch-prereq-patch-id-fix later to maint). + + * POSIX portability fix in Makefile to fix a glitch introduced a few + releases ago. + (merge 6600054e9b dj/runtime-prefix later to maint). + + * "git filter-branch" when used with the "--state-branch" option + still attempted to rewrite the commits whose filtered result is + known from the previous attempt (which is recorded on the state + branch); the command has been corrected not to waste cycles doing + so. + (merge 709cfe848a mb/filter-branch-optim later to maint). + + * Clarify that setting core.ignoreCase to deviate from reality would + 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". + + * 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). + (merge 5b26c3c941 en/merge-recursive-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 0dcbc0392e bw/config-refer-to-gitsubmodules-doc later to maint). + (merge bb4d000e87 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint). + (merge 928f0ab4ba vs/typofixes later to maint). + (merge d7f590be84 en/rebase-i-microfixes later to maint). + (merge 81d395cc85 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint). + (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). |