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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..52534dd566 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,246 @@ +Git 2.26 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.25 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work + out of the box. + + * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to + tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum + trust level. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete + subcommands and arguments to "git worktree". + + * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been + tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not + count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule. + + * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the + environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd" + option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been + placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often + get confused. + + * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it + nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API. + + * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to + avoid races. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented + with tabs. + + * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function" + construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been + corrected. + + * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in + sample templates. + + * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues. + + * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add". + + * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will + use SHA-256 continues. + + * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code + to tentatively use in-core objects. + + * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack + to generate its result has been improved. + + * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one. + + * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects + (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object + layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted. + + * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the + tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected. + + * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to + name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages + without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable. + + * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when + fetching into it. + + * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around + the cone mode, have been cleaned up. + + * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the + diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before; + this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to + the end user. + + * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to + work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its + callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat). + + +Fixes since v2.25 +----------------- + + * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is + nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints + configuration variable, which has been corrected. + (merge 5c4f55f1f6 hw/commit-advise-while-rejecting later to maint). + + * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the + system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with + read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an + empty tree from promisor remotes. + (merge 9c8a294a1a jt/sha1-file-remove-oi-skip-cached later to maint). + + * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over + "git checkout" that was done only half-way. + (merge 1a7e454dd6 hw/tutorial-favor-switch-over-checkout later to maint). + + * C pedantry ;-) fix. + (merge 63ab08fb99 bc/run-command-nullness-after-free-fix later to maint). + + * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a + single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough + against corrupt index file. + (merge 573117dfa5 es/unpack-trees-oob-fix later to maint). + + * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the + stateless RPC mechanism. + (merge 4d8cab95cc jk/no-flush-upon-disconnecting-slrpc-transport later to maint). + + * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree + structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which + has been corrected. + (merge e701bab3e9 nd/switch-and-restore later to maint). + + * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the + same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count + the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been + corrected. + (merge 7210ca4ee5 ds/sparse-cone later to maint). + + * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge + commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a + recent update, which has been corrected. + (merge c958d3bd0a ds/graph-horizontal-edges later to maint). + + * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in + libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions + of gcc and clang. + (merge f65d07fffa jk/asan-build-fix later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge b40a50264a ds/refmap-doc later to maint). + + * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local + branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches + (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding + local branch), which has been corrected. + (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint). + + * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for + performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory + enumeration API has been corrected. + (merge 0cbb60574e en/fill-directory-fixes-more later to maint). + + * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules + inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot + error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate + submodules that had errors at the end of the operation. + (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint). + + * 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 + the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these + settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode. + (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint). + + * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. + (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint). + + * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched. + (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous 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. + (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint). + + * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet + populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a + part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has + been corrected. + (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint). + + * 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). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint). + (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted 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 e4837b4406 jk/test-fixes later to maint). + (merge a4ffbbbb99 rt/submodule-i18n later to maint). + (merge 856249c62a bc/actualmente later to maint). + (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint). + (merge 69e104d70e bc/author-committer-doc later to maint). + (merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint). + (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint). + (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint). + (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint). + (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint). + (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint). + (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint). + (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint). |