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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt index e8a78b7a19..3a7a734c26 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt @@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ Git 2.26 Release Notes Updates since v2.25 ------------------- +Backward compatibility notes + + * "git rebase" uses a different backend that is based on the 'merge' + machinery by default. There are a few known differences in the + behaviour from the traditional machinery based on patch+apply. + + If your workflow is negatively affected by this change, please + report it to git@vger.kernel.org so that we can take a look into + it. After doing so, you can set the 'rebase.backend' configuration + variable to 'apply', in order to use the old default behaviour in + the meantime. + + UI, Workflows & Features * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work @@ -35,6 +48,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git config" learned to show in which "scope", in addition to in which file, each config setting comes from. + * The basic 7 colors learned the brighter counterparts + (e.g. "brightred"). + + * "git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand. + + * A configuration element used for credential subsystem can now use + wildcard pattern to specify for which set of URLs the entry + applies. + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch" now uses the same + single-branch option when cloning the submodules. + + * "git rm" and "git stash" learns the new "--pathspec-from-file" + option. + + * "git am --show-current-patch" is a way to show the piece of e-mail + for the stopped step, which is not suitable to directly feed "git + apply" (it is designed to be a good "git am" input). It learned a + new option to show only the patch part. + + * Handling of conflicting renames in merge-recursive have further + been made consistent with how existing codepaths try to mimic what + is done to add/add conflicts. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -42,7 +79,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. with tabs. * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function" - construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been + construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_function", which has been corrected. * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in @@ -92,6 +129,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Memory footprint and performance of "git name-rev" has been improved. + * The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning + machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some + object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely + on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization + to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases + where they can work together, and they were taught about them. + + * "git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the + machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing + "--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral + equivalent of "format-patch piped to am"). The rebase.backend + configuration variable can be set to customize. + + * Underlying machinery of "git bisect--helper" is being refactored + into pieces that are more easily reused. + Fixes since v2.25 ----------------- @@ -135,7 +188,6 @@ Fixes since v2.25 of gcc and clang. * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C. - (merge 849e43cc18 js/builtin-add-i-cmds later to maint). * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation. @@ -158,17 +210,14 @@ Fixes since v2.25 * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been corrected. - (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint). * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation detail. * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected. - (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint). * C pedantry ;-) fix. - (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint). * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or @@ -180,12 +229,11 @@ Fixes since v2.25 * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched. * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with - their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambiguous as it goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been corrected. - (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint). * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure. @@ -199,21 +247,77 @@ Fixes since v2.25 * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had an off-by-one bug, which has been killed. - (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint). * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an input, but it is an input error. - (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint). + * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same thing. (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint). + * "git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables + (e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y. + branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated. + + * Update to doc-diff. + + * Doc markup fix. + + * "git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly + marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file. + + * The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for + a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary + merge failure, which has been fixed. + + * Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2 + the default. + + * In rare cases "git worktree add <path>" could think that <path> + was already a registered worktree even when it wasn't and refuse + to add the new worktree. This has been corrected. + (merge bb69b3b009 es/worktree-avoid-duplication-fix later to maint). + + * "git push" should stop from updating a branch that is checked out + when receive.denyCurrentBranch configuration is set, but it failed + to pay attention to checkouts in secondary worktrees. This has + been corrected. + (merge 4d864895a2 hv/receive-denycurrent-everywhere later to maint). + + * "git rebase BASE BRANCH" rebased/updated the tip of BRANCH and + checked it out, even when the BRANCH is checked out in a different + worktree. This has been corrected. + (merge b5cabb4a96 es/do-not-let-rebase-switch-to-protected-branch later to maint). + + * "git describe" in a repository with multiple root commits sometimes + gave up looking for the best tag to describe a given commit with + too early, which has been adjusted. + + * "git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say + "No signature", which was utterly wrong. This regression has been + reverted. + + * MinGW's poll() emulation has been improved. + + * "git show" and others gave an object name in raw format in its + error output, which has been corrected to give it in hex. + + * "git fetch" over HTTP walker protocol did not show any progress + output. We inherently do not know how much work remains, but still + we can show something not to bore users. + (merge 7655b4119d rs/show-progress-in-dumb-http-fetch later to maint). + + * Both "git ls-remote -h" and "git grep -h" give short usage help, + like any other Git subcommand, but it is not unreasonable to expect + that the former would behave the same as "git ls-remote --head" + (there is no other sensible behaviour for the latter). The + documentation has been updated in an attempt to clarify this. + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint). (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint). (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint). (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint). @@ -224,9 +328,14 @@ Fixes since v2.25 (merge 7a9f8ca805 rs/parse-options-concat-dup later to maint). (merge 517b60564e rs/strbuf-insertstr later to maint). (merge f696a2b1c8 jk/mailinfo-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 076ee3e8a2 js/test-write-junit-xml-fix later to maint). (merge de26f02db1 js/test-avoid-pipe later to maint). - (merge bfe2bbb47f js/test-unc-fetch later to maint). - (merge 08809c09aa js/mingw-open-in-gdb later to maint). - (merge cc4f2eb828 jk/doc-credential-helper later to maint). - (merge e0020b2f82 es/outside-repo-errmsg-hints later to maint). + (merge a2dc43414c es/doc-mentoring later to maint). + (merge 02bbbe9df9 es/worktree-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2ce6d075fa rs/micro-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 27f182b3fc rs/blame-typefix-for-fingerprint later to maint). + (merge 3c29e21eb0 ma/test-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 240fc04f81 ag/rebase-remove-redundant-code later to maint). + (merge d68ce906c7 rs/commit-graph-code-simplification later to maint). + (merge a51d9e8f07 rj/t1050-use-test-path-is-file later to maint). + (merge fd0bc17557 kk/complete-diff-color-moved later to maint). + (merge 65bf820d0e en/test-cleanup later to maint). |