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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt index 8a0361321f..8f8da9f9c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -50,6 +50,29 @@ UI, Workflows & Features ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction. (merge 42cc7485a2 jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping later to maint). + * A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added, + primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the + replace mechanism altogether. + + * Teach "git tag -s" etc. a few configuration variables (gpg.format + that can be set to "openpgp" or "x509", and gpg.<format>.program + that is used to specify what program to use to deal with the format) + to allow x.509 certs with CMS via "gpgsm" to be used instead of + openpgp via "gnupg". + + * Many more strings are prepared for l10n. + + * "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should + continue with submitting. + + * The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent + bad objects from entering repository can be customized via + receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a + counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with + fetch.fsck.* configuration variables. + + * "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a short-hand for + "interactive". Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -157,6 +180,46 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The singleton commit-graph in-core instance is made per in-core repository instance. + * "make DEVELOPER=1 DEVOPTS=pedantic" allows developers to compile + with -pedantic option, which may catch more problematic program + constructs and potential bugs. + + * Preparatory code to later add json output for telemetry data has + been added. + + * Update the way we use Coccinelle to find out-of-style code that + need to be modernised. + + * It is too easy to misuse system API functions such as strcat(); + these selected functions are now forbidden in this codebase and + will cause a compilation failure. + + * Add a script (in contrib/) to help users of VSCode work better with + our codebase. + + * The Travis CI scripts were taught to ship back the test data from + failed tests. + (merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint). + + * The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing + placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically + without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option + arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and + fixed. + (merge 5f0df44cd7 rs/parse-opt-lithelp later to maint). + + * Noiseword "extern" has been removed from function decls in the + header files. + + * A few atoms like %(objecttype) and %(objectsize) in the format + specifier of "for-each-ref --format=<format>" can be filled without + getting the full contents of the object, but just with the object + header. These cases have been optimized by calling + oid_object_info() API (instead of reading and inspecting the data). + + * The end result of documentation update has been made to be + inspected more easily to help developers. + Fixes since v2.18 ----------------- @@ -329,6 +392,73 @@ Fixes since v2.18 * The lazy clone support had a few places where missing but promised objects were not correctly tolerated, which have been fixed. + * One of the "diff --color-moved" mode "dimmed_zebra" that was named + in an unusual way has been deprecated and replaced by + "dimmed-zebra". + (merge e3f2f5f9cd es/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). + + * The wire-protocol v2 relies on the client to send "ref prefixes" to + limit the bandwidth spent on the initial ref advertisement. "git + clone" when learned to speak v2 forgot to do so, which has been + corrected. + (merge 402c47d939 bw/clone-ref-prefixes later to maint). + + * "git diff --histogram" had a bad memory usage pattern, which has + been rearranged to reduce the peak usage. + (merge 79cb2ebb92 sb/histogram-less-memory later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to use size_t/ssize_t when they are the right type. + (merge 7726d360b5 jk/size-t later to maint). + + * The wire-protocol v2 relies on the client to send "ref prefixes" to + limit the bandwidth spent on the initial ref advertisement. "git + fetch $remote branch:branch" that asks tags that point into the + history leading to the "branch" automatically followed sent to + narrow prefix and broke the tag following, which has been fixed. + (merge 2b554353a5 jt/tag-following-with-proto-v2-fix later to maint). + + * When the sparse checkout feature is in use, "git cherry-pick" and + other mergy operations lost the skip_worktree bit when a path that + is excluded from checkout requires content level merge, which is + resolved as the same as the HEAD version, without materializing the + merge result in the working tree, which made the path appear as + deleted. This has been corrected by preserving the skip_worktree + bit (and not materializing the file in the working tree). + (merge 2b75fb601c en/merge-recursive-skip-fix later to maint). + + * The "author-script" file "git rebase -i" creates got broken when + we started to move the command away from shell script, which is + getting fixed now. + (merge 5522bbac20 es/rebase-i-author-script-fix later to maint). + + * The automatic tree-matching in "git merge -s subtree" was broken 5 + years ago and nobody has noticed since then, which is now fixed. + (merge 2ec4150713 jk/merge-subtree-heuristics later to maint). + + * "git fetch $there refs/heads/s" ought to fetch the tip of the + branch 's', but when "refs/heads/refs/heads/s", i.e. a branch whose + name is "refs/heads/s" exists at the same time, fetched that one + instead by mistake. This has been corrected to honor the usual + disambiguation rules for abbreviated refnames. + (merge 60650a48c0 jt/refspec-dwim-precedence-fix later to maint). + + * Futureproofing a helper function that can easily be misused. + (merge 65bb21e77e es/want-color-fd-defensive later to maint). + + * The http-backend (used for smart-http transport) used to slurp the + whole input until EOF, without paying attention to CONTENT_LENGTH + that is supplied in the environment and instead expecting the Web + server to close the input stream. This has been fixed. + (merge eebfe40962 mk/http-backend-content-length later to maint). + + * "git merge --abort" etc. did not clean things up properly when + there were conflicted entries in the index in certain order that + are involved in D/F conflicts. This has been corrected. + (merge ad3762042a en/abort-df-conflict-fixes later to maint). + + * "git diff --indent-heuristic" had a bad corner case performance. + (merge 301ef85401 sb/indent-heuristic-optim later to maint). + * 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). @@ -344,3 +474,14 @@ Fixes since v2.18 (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). + (merge dd61cc1c2e jk/ui-color-always-to-auto later to maint). + (merge 1e83b9bfdd sb/trailers-docfix later to maint). + (merge ab29f1b329 sg/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint-fix later to maint). + (merge 6a8ad880f0 jn/subtree-test-fixes later to maint). + (merge ffbd51cc60 nd/pack-objects-threading-doc later to maint). + (merge e9dac7be60 es/mw-to-git-chain-fix later to maint). + (merge fe583c6c7a rs/remote-mv-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 69885ab015 en/t3031-title-fix later to maint). + (merge 8578037bed nd/config-blame-sort later to maint). + (merge 8ad169c4ba hn/config-in-code-comment later to maint). + (merge b7446fcfdf ar/t4150-am-scissors-test-fix later to maint). |