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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt index 114f147fd6..91e6ae9887 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt @@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ Git 2.22 Release Notes Updates since v2.21 ------------------- +Backward compatibility note + + * The filter specification "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" used to + create a lazy/partial clone has been removed. Using a blob that is + part of the project as sparse specification is still supported with + the "--filter=sparse:oid=<blob>" option. + UI, Workflows & Features * "git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of @@ -99,6 +106,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking. + * "git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been + taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge + base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B" + detaches HEAD at that commit. + + * Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations + of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as + fallback settings of each other in a sensible order. + + * The "--dir-diff" mode of "git difftool" is not useful in "--no-index" + mode; they are now explicitly marked as mutually incompatible. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -169,7 +188,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. been optimized out. * Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function - declarlation. + declaration. * The script to aggregate perf result unconditionally depended on libjson-perl even though it did not have to, which has been @@ -178,6 +197,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The internal implementation of "git rebase -i" has been updated to avoid forking a separate "rebase--interactive" process. + * Allow DEP and ASLR for Windows build to for security hardening. + + * Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version + of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to + measure, for a while, which has been corrected. + + * Optionally "make coccicheck" can feed multiple source files to + spatch, gaining performance while spending more memory. + + * Attempt to use an abbreviated option in "git clone --recurs" is + responded by a request to disambiguate between --recursive and + --recurse-submodules, which is bad because these two are synonyms. + The parse-options API has been extended to define such synonyms + more easily and not produce an unnecessary failure. + + * A pair of private functions in http.c that had names similar to + fread/fwrite did not return the number of elements, which was found + to be confusing. + + * Update collision-detecting SHA-1 code to build properly on HP-UX. + Fixes since v2.21 ----------------- @@ -237,7 +277,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21 * On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX), the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal, - which led to a flakey test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during + which led to a flaky test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we check the return status from our write(2)s). (merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint). @@ -325,7 +365,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21 (merge b5a0bd694c nd/read-tree-reset-doc later to maint). * Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be - update_server_info() funtion. + update_server_info() function. (merge b3223761c8 jk/server-info-rabbit-hole later to maint). * The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been @@ -417,7 +457,7 @@ Fixes since v2.21 * When given a tag that points at a commit-ish, "git replace --graft" failed to peel the tag before writing a replace ref, which did not make sense because the old graft mechanism the feature wants to - mimick only allowed to replace one commit object with another. + mimic only allowed to replace one commit object with another. This has been fixed. (merge ee521ec4cb cc/replace-graft-peel-tags later to maint). @@ -467,13 +507,48 @@ Fixes since v2.21 conflicts are resolved in working tree *.h files but before the resolved results are added to the index. This has been corrected. - * "git chery-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same runtime engine) + * "git cherry-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same runtime engine) that deals with multiple commits got confused when the final step gets stopped with a conflict and the user concluded the sequence with "git commit". Attempt to fix it by cleaning up the state files used by these commands in such a situation. (merge 4a72486de9 pw/clean-sequencer-state-upon-final-commit later to maint). + * On a filesystem like HFS+, the names of the refs stored as filesystem + entities may become different from what the end-user expects, just + like files in the working tree get "renamed". Work around the + mismatch by paying attention to the core.precomposeUnicode + configuration. + (merge 8e712ef6fc en/unicode-in-refnames later to maint). + + * The code to generate the multi-pack idx file was not prepared to + see too many packfiles and ran out of open file descriptor, which + has been corrected. + + * To run tests for Git SVN, our scripts for CI used to install the + git-svn package (in the hope that it would bring in the right + dependencies). This has been updated to install the more direct + dependency, namely, libsvn-perl. + (merge db864306cf sg/ci-libsvn-perl later to maint). + + * "git cvsexportcommit" running on msys did not expect cvsnt showed + "cvs status" output with CRLF line endings. + + * The fsmonitor interface got out of sync after the in-core index + file gets discarded, which has been corrected. + (merge 398a3b0899 js/fsmonitor-refresh-after-discarding-index later to maint). + + * "git status" did not know that the "label" instruction in the + todo-list "rebase -i -r" uses should not be shown as a hex object + name. + + * A prerequisite check in the test suite to see if a working jgit is + available was made more robust. + (merge abd0f28983 tz/test-lib-check-working-jgit later to maint). + + * The codepath to parse :<path> that obtains the object name for an + indexed object has been made more robust. + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint). (merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint). @@ -510,3 +585,13 @@ Fixes since v2.21 (merge d8083e4180 km/t3000-retitle later to maint). (merge 9e4cbccbd7 tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix later to maint). (merge da9ca955a7 jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 6804ba3a58 cw/diff-highlight later to maint). + (merge 1a8787144d nd/submodule-helper-incomplete-line-fix later to maint). + (merge d9ef573837 jk/apache-lsan later to maint). + (merge c871fbee2b js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw later to maint). + (merge ce4c7bfc90 bl/t4253-exit-code-from-format-patch later to maint). + (merge 397a46db78 js/t5580-unc-alternate-test later to maint). + (merge d4907720a2 cm/notes-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge 9dde06de13 cb/http-push-null-in-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 4c785c0edc js/rebase-config-bitfix later to maint). + (merge 8e9fe16c87 es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup later to maint). |