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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 06025e8824..a640fbc02f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -19,6 +19,42 @@ UI, Workflows & Features configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering specification used for partial cloning. + * Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which + could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables. + + * The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim + have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added. + + * "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first + breakage along the first-parent chain. + + * "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent + commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has + been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the + previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits. + + * The commit labels used to explain each side of conflicted hunks + placed by the sequencer machinery have been made more readable by + humans. + + * The "--batch-size" option of "git multi-pack-index repack" command + is now used to specify that very small packfiles are collected into + one until the total size roughly exceeds it. + + * The recent addition of SHA-256 support is marked as experimental in + the documentation. + + * "git fetch" learned --no-write-fetch-head option to avoid writing + the FETCH_HEAD file. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) usually omits redundant, + deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to + optionally include all of them. + + * The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated + object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not + affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -52,10 +88,46 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. to a certain degree. It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the barrier to adoption. - * The final leg of SHA-256 transition. + * The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that + there is no inter-operability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 + repositories yet. * CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile. + * A new helper function has_object() has been introduced to make it + easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to + trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it. + + * A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro + does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static + inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the + former with the latter in <git-compat-util.h> header. + + * Test framework update. + (merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + + * Updates to "git merge" tests, in preparation for a new merge + strategy backend. + + * midx and commit-graph files now use the byte defined in their file + format specification for identifying the hash function used for + object names. + + * The FETCH_HEAD is now always read from the filesystem regardless of + the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the + normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file.. + + * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to + execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" + form, which have been corrected. + + * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands + have been turned into into built-in. + + * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to + execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" + form, which have been corrected. + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- @@ -102,6 +174,118 @@ Fixes since v2.28 * Doc cleanup around "worktree". (merge dc9c144be5 es/worktree-doc-cleanups later to maint). + * The "git blame --first-parent" option was not documented, but now + it is. + (merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint). + + * The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to + cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed + to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory + buffer space. This has been corrected. + (merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index + and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file" + patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files" + and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the + command failed to do so for such a path. + (merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint). + + * "git diff [<tree-ish>] $path" for a $path that is marked with i-t-a + bit was not showing the mode bits from the working tree. + (merge cb0dd22b82 rp/ita-diff-modefix later to maint). + + * Ring buffer with size 4 used for bin-hex translation resulted in a + wrong object name in the sequencer's todo output, which has been + corrected. + (merge 5da69c0dac ak/sequencer-fix-find-uniq-abbrev later to maint). + + * When given more than one target line ranges, "git blame -La,b + -Lc,d" was over-eager to coalesce groups of original lines and + showed incorrect results, which has been corrected. + (merge c2ebaa27d6 jk/blame-coalesce-fix later to maint). + + * The regexp to identify the function boundary for FORTRAN programs + has been updated. + (merge 75c3b6b2e8 pb/userdiff-fortran-update later to maint). + + * A few end-user facing messages have been updated to be + hash-algorithm agnostic. + (merge 4279000d3e jc/object-names-are-not-sha-1 later to maint). + + * "unlink" emulation on MinGW has been optimized. + (merge 680e0b4524 jh/mingw-unlink later to maint). + + * The purpose of "git init --separate-git-dir" is to initialize a + new project with the repository separate from the working tree, + or, in the case of an existing project, to move the repository + (the .git/ directory) out of the working tree. It does not make + sense to use --separate-git-dir with a bare repository for which + there is no working tree, so disallow its use with bare + repositories. + (merge ccf236a23a es/init-no-separate-git-dir-in-bare later to maint). + + * "ls-files -o" mishandled the top-level directory of another git + working tree that hangs in the current git working tree. + (merge ab282aa548 en/dir-nonbare-embedded later to maint). + + * Fix some incorrect UNLEAK() annotations. + (merge 3e19816dc0 jk/unleak-fixes later to maint). + + * Use more buffered I/O where we used to call many small write(2)s. + (merge a698d67b08 rs/more-buffered-io later to maint). + + * The patch-id computation did not ignore the "incomplete last line" + marker like whitespaces. + (merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work + well with transfer.fsckobjects set. + + * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when + parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and + "trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the + index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards. + (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint). + + * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec + mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been + corrected. + (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help" + has been updated. + (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint). + + * Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and + running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start + digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like + "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does. + (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint). + + * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were + inconsistent, which have been corrected. + (merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint). + + * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes + were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such + paths from the stat output. + (merge 1cf3d5db9b mr/diff-hide-stat-wo-textual-change later to maint). + + * It was possible for xrealloc() to send a non-NULL pointer that has + been freed, which has been fixed. + (merge 6479ea4a8a jk/xrealloc-avoid-use-after-free later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint). (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint). @@ -115,3 +299,15 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (merge 7d23ff818f rs/bisect-oid-to-hex-fix later to maint). (merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint). (merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint). + (merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint). + (merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint). + (merge e767963ab6 rs/upload-pack-sigchain-fix later to maint). + (merge a831908599 rs/preserve-merges-unused-code-removal later to maint). + (merge 6dfefe70a9 jb/commit-graph-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 847b37271e pb/set-url-docfix later to maint). + (merge 748f733d54 mt/checkout-entry-dead-code-removal later to maint). + (merge ce820cbd58 dl/subtree-docs later to maint). + (merge 55fe225dde jk/leakfix later to maint). + (merge ee22a29215 so/pretty-abbrev-doc later to maint). + (merge 3100fd5588 jc/post-checkout-doc later to maint). + (merge 17bae89476 pb/doc-external-diff-env later to maint). |