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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index a5e0ffd4bf..e430392340 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -47,6 +47,57 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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. + + * "git worktree" gained a "repair" subcommand to help users recover + after moving the worktrees or repository manually without telling + Git. Also, "git init --separate-git-dir" no longer corrupts + administrative data related to linked worktrees. + + * The "--format=" option to the "for-each-ref" command and friends + learned a few more tricks, e.g. the ":short" suffix that applies to + "objectname" now also can be used for "parent", "tree", etc. + + * "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach" + option to create a new worktree without being on a branch. + + * "format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught + not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version. + + * "add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent. + + * The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the + underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help + reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging. + + * "git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only + one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take + combination of both kind of filtering. + + * "git maintenance", a "git gc"'s big brother, has been introduced to + take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the + object database cleaning. + + * "git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to + outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook. + + * "git push" that wants to be atomic and wants to send push + certificate learned not to prepare and sign the push certificate + when it fails the local check (hence due to atomicity it is known + that no certificate is needed). + + * "git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom + filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters + option. + + * The transport protocol v2 has become the default again. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -105,6 +156,42 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 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. + + * When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets + cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first + checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer + exists. + + * Internal API clean-up to handle two options "diff-index" and "log" + have, which happen to share the same short form, more sensibly. + + * The "add -i/-p" machinery has been written in C but it is not used + by default yet. It is made default to those who are participating + in feature.experimental experiment. + + * Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making + distribution tarballs. + + * "git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater + parallelism. + + * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon + seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken. + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- @@ -216,6 +303,112 @@ Fixes since v2.28 marker like whitespaces. (merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint). + * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work + well with transfer.fsckobjects set. + + * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when + parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and + "trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the + index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards. + (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint). + + * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec + mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been + corrected. + (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help" + has been updated. + (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint). + + * Feeding "$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). + + * "git status" has trouble showing where it came from by interpreting + reflog entries that record certain events, e.g. "checkout @{u}", and + gives a hard/fatal error. Even though it inherently is impossible + to give a correct answer because the reflog entries lose some + information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was + on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even + if the record were available, the relationship between branches may + have changed), at least hide the error to allow "status" show its + output. + + * "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but + not those that are untracked, ignored or unmerged. They are all + shown quoted consistently. + + * "git diff/show" on a change that involves a submodule used to read + the information on commits in the submodule from a wrong repository + and gave a wrong information when the commit-graph is involved. + (merge 85a1ec2c32 mf/submodule-summary-with-correct-repository later to maint). + + * Unlike "git config --local", "git config --worktree" did not fail + early and cleanly when started outside a git repository. + (merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint). + + * There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the + repository, which is mean to run once per process invocation, but + it ran every time the estimated value was requested. + (merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint). + + * "git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints + the operation went through, which was misleading. + (merge 5a07c6c3c2 cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded later to maint). + + * "git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options + to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes, + which has been corrected. + (merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all later to maint). + + * The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" used incorrectly used + commit^N where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation + ancestor, which has been corrected. + (merge 0acbf5997f ld/p4-unshelve-fix later to maint). + + * "git clone" that clones from SHA-1 repository, while + GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to use SHA-256 already, resulted in an + unusable repository that half-claims to be SHA-256 repository + with SHA-1 objects and refs. This has been corrected. + + * Adjust sample hooks for hash algorithm other than SHA-1. + (merge d8d3d632f4 dl/zero-oid-in-hooks later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" showed incorrect diffstat, which has been + corrected. + + * Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the + histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast- + forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the + pull.ff configuration variable. + (merge 54200cef86 ah/pull 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). @@ -237,3 +430,13 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (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). + (merge 27ed6ccc12 jk/worktree-check-clean-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1302badd16 ea/blame-use-oideq later to maint). + (merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint). + (merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint). + (merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint). |