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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt index ada7f52e4f..a6cd592734 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt @@ -30,6 +30,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The code to show args with potential typo that cannot be interpreted as a commit-ish has been improved. + * "git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules + to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink + and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the + remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new + "--remote-submodules" option. + + * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words + boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more + or less equivalent. + + * "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some + people). + + * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words + boundary for Rust has been added. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -49,6 +65,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R" + * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works + on a range (A..B). + + * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core + developers has been added. + + Fixes since v2.22 ----------------- @@ -74,4 +97,87 @@ Fixes since v2.22 one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been corrected. + * Code cleanup and futureproof. + (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint). + + * More parameter validation. + (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint). + + * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its + output, which has been corrected. + (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint). + + * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect + value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in + use, which has been corrected. + (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint). + + * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as + if it were a tree, which has been corrected. + (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint). + + * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in + the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are + in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. + (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint). + + * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the + index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded + by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work + when both options are given. + (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint). + + * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to + the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which + has been corrected. + (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint). + + * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. + (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint). + + * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside + "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a + broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. + (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint). + + * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull + from in the local repository and in the published repository are + different. + (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint). + + * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is + recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a + hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected + to honor the "--origin <name>" option. + (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint). + + * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are + necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been + corrected. + (merge 810e19322d jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base later to maint). + + * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a + lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API + correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element + of the array in use. This has been corrected. + (merge 7140600e2e md/list-objects-filter-memfix later to maint). + + * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to + indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only + matches directories") has been revamped. + (merge 1a58bad014 an/ignore-doc-update later to maint). + + * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end + of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. + (merge d37dc239a4 md/url-parse-harden later to maint). + + * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been + updated. + (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint). + (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint). + (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint). + (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint). + (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint). |