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+Git 2.30 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Updates since v2.29
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+ * Userdiff for PHP update.
+
+ * Userdiff for Rust update.
+
+ * Userdiff for CSS update.
+
+ * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git
+ stash show" takes the options "git diff" takes.
+
+ * "git worktree list" now shows if each worktree is locked. This
+ possibly may open us to show other kinds of states in the future.
+
+ * "git maintenance", an extended big brother of "git gc", continues
+ to evolve.
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease[=<ref>]" can easily be misused to lose
+ commits unless the user takes good care of their own "git fetch".
+ A new option "--force-if-includes" attempts to ensure that what is
+ being force-pushed was created after examining the commit at the
+ tip of the remote ref that is about to be force-replaced.
+
+ * "git clone" learned clone.defaultremotename configuration variable
+ to customize what nickname to use to call the remote the repository
+ was cloned from.
+
+ * "git checkout" learned to use checkout.guess configuration variable
+ and enable/disable its "--[no-]guess" option accordingly.
+
+ * "git resurrect" script (in contrib/) learned that the object names
+ may be longer than 40-hex depending on the hash function in use.
+
+ * "git diff A...B" learned "git diff --merge-base A B", which is a
+ longer short-hand to say the same thing.
+
+ * A sample 'push-to-checkout' hook, that performs the same as
+ what the built-in default action does, has been added.
+
+ * "git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to
+ ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern.
+
+ * The userdiff pattern learned to identify the function definition in
+ POSIX shells and bash.
+
+ * "git checkout-index" did not consistently signal an error with its
+ exit status, but now it does.
+
+ * A commit and tag object may have CR at the end of each and
+ every line (you can create such an object with hash-object or
+ using --cleanup=verbatim to decline the default clean-up
+ action), but it would make it impossible to have a blank line
+ to separate the title from the body of the message. We are now
+ more lenient and accept a line with lone CR on it as a blank line,
+ too.
+
+ * Exit codes from "git remote add" etc. were not usable by scripted
+ callers, but now they are.
+
+ * "git archive" now allows compression level higher than "-9"
+ when generating tar.gz output.
+
+ * Zsh autocompletion (in contrib/) update.
+
+ * The maximum length of output filenames "git format-patch" creates
+ has become configurable (used to be capped at 64).
+
+ * "git rev-parse" learned the "--end-of-options" to help scripts to
+ safely take a parameter that is supposed to be a revision, e.g.
+ "git rev-parse --verify -q --end-of-options $rev".
+
+ * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to expand
+ commands that are alias of alias.
+
+ * "git update-ref --stdin" learns to take multiple transactions in a
+ single session.
+
+ * Various subcommands of "git config" that take value_regex
+ learned the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option
+ as a literal string.
+
+ * The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session
+ ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions.
+
+ * "git imap-send" used to ignore configuration variables like
+ core.askpass; this has been corrected.
+
+ * "git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by
+ default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand
+ and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one
+ possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the
+ users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent
+ to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to
+ 'never'.
+
+ * "@" sometimes worked (e.g. "git push origin @:there") as a part of
+ a refspec element, but "git push origin @" did not work, which has
+ been corrected.
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+ * Use "git archive" more to produce the release tarball.
+
+ * GitHub Actions automated test improvement to skip tests on a tree
+ identical to what has already been tested.
+
+ * Test-coverage for running commit-graph task "git maintenance" has
+ been extended.
+
+ * Our test scripts can be told to run only individual pieces while
+ skipping others with the "--run=..." option; they were taught to
+ take a substring of test title, in addition to numbers, to name the
+ test pieces to run.
+
+ * Adjust tests so that they won't scream when the default initial
+ branch name is different from 'master'.
+
+ * Rewriting "git bisect" in C continues.
+
+ * More preliminary tests have been added to document desired outcomes
+ of various "directory rename" situations.
+
+ * Micro clean-up of a couple of test scripts.
+
+ * "git diff" and other commands that share the same machinery to
+ compare with working tree files have been taught to take advantage
+ of the fsmonitor data when available.
+
+ * The code to detect premature EOF in the sideband demultiplexer has
+ been cleaned up.
+
+ * "git fetch --depth=<n>" over the stateless RPC / smart HTTP
+ transport handled EOF from the client poorly at the server end.
+
+ * A specialization of hashmap that uses a string as key has been
+ introduced. Hopefully it will see wider use over time.
+
+ * "git bisect start/next" in a large span of history spends a lot of
+ time trying to come up with exactly the half-way point; this can be
+ optimized by stopping when we see a commit that is close enough to
+ the half-way point.
+
+ * A lazily defined test prerequisite can now be defined in terms of
+ another lazily defined test prerequisite.
+
+ * Expectation for the original contributor after responding to a
+ review comment to use the explanation in a patch update has been
+ described.
+
+ * Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same
+ file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking
+ with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure.
+
+ * "git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness.
+
+ * Like die() and error(), a call to warning() will also trigger a
+ trace2 event.
+
+ * Use of non-reentrant localtime() has been removed.
+
+ * Non-reentrant time-related library functions and ctime/asctime with
+ awkward calling interfaces are banned from the codebase.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.29
+-----------------
+
+ * In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and
+ "am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 5f35edd9d7 jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout -p A...B [-- <path>]" did not work, even though the
+ same command without "-p" correctly used the merge-base between
+ commits A and B.
+ (merge 35166b1fb5 dl/checkout-p-merge-base later to maint).
+
+ * The side-band status report can be sent at the same time as the
+ primary payload multiplexed, but the demultiplexer on the receiving
+ end incorrectly split a single status report into two, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 712b0377db js/avoid-split-sideband-message later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import" wasted a lot of memory when many marks were in use.
+ (merge 3f018ec716 jk/fast-import-marks-alloc-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A test helper "test_cmp A B" was taught to diagnose missing files A
+ or B as a bug in test, but some tests legitimately wanted to notice
+ a failure to even create file B as an error, in addition to leaving
+ the expected result in it, and were misdiagnosed as a bug. This
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 262d5ad5a5 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint).
+
+ * When "git commit-graph" detects the same commit recorded more than
+ once while it is merging the layers, it used to die. The code now
+ ignores all but one of them and continues.
+ (merge 85102ac71b ds/commit-graph-merging-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The meaning of a Signed-off-by trailer can vary from project to
+ project; this and also what it means to this project has been
+ clarified in the documentation.
+ (merge 3abd4a67d9 bk/sob-dco later to maint).
+
+ * "git credential' didn't honor the core.askPass configuration
+ variable (among other things), which has been corrected.
+ (merge 567ad2c0f9 tk/credential-config later to maint).
+
+ * Dev support to catch a tentative definition of a variable in our C
+ code as an error.
+ (merge 5539183622 jk/no-common later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --rebase-merges" did not correctly pass --gpg-sign
+ command line option to underlying "git merge" when replaying a merge
+ using non-default merge strategy or when replaying an octopus merge
+ (because replaying a two-head merge with the default strategy was
+ done in a separate codepath, the problem did not trigger for most
+ users), which has been corrected.
+ (merge 43ad4f2eca sc/sequencer-gpg-octopus later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply -R" did not handle patches that touch the same path
+ twice correctly, which has been corrected. This is most relevant
+ in a patch that changes a path from a regular file to a symbolic
+ link (and vice versa).
+ (merge b0f266de11 jt/apply-reverse-twice later to maint).
+
+ * A recent oid->hash conversion missed one spot, breaking "git svn".
+ (merge 03bb366de4 bc/svn-hash-oid-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the
+ output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been
+ clarified.
+ (merge cda34e0d0c jc/abbrev-doc later to maint).
+
+ * "git p4" now honors init.defaultBranch configuration.
+ (merge 1b09d1917f js/p4-default-branch later to maint).
+
+ * Recently the format of an internal state file "rebase -i" uses has
+ been tightened up for consistency, which would hurt those who start
+ "rebase -i" with old git and then continue with new git. Loosen
+ the reader side a bit (which we may want to tighten again in a year
+ or so).
+ (merge c779386182 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint).
+
+ * The code to see if "git stash drop" can safely remove refs/stash
+ has been made more careful.
+ (merge 4f44c5659b rs/empty-reflog-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git log -L<range>:<path>" is documented to take no pathspec, but
+ this was not enforced by the command line option parser, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 39664cb0ac jc/line-log-takes-no-pathspec later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch --output=there" did not work as expected and
+ instead crashed. The option is now supported.
+ (merge dc1672dd10 jk/format-patch-output later to maint).
+
+ * Define ARM64 compiled with MSVC to be little-endian.
+ (merge 0c038fc65a dg/bswap-msvc later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly.
+ (merge 8843302307 pw/rebase-i-orig-head later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for
+ which a userdiff driver is defined.
+
+ * "make DEVELOPER=1 sparse" used to run sparse and let it emit
+ warnings; now such warnings will cause an error.
+ (merge 521dc56270 jc/sparse-error-for-developer-build later to maint).
+
+ * "git blame --ignore-revs-file=<file>" learned to ignore a
+ non-existent object name in the input, instead of complaining.
+ (merge c714d05875 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Running "git diff" while allowing external diff in a state with
+ unmerged paths used to segfault, which has been corrected.
+ (merge d66851806f jk/diff-release-filespec-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Build configuration cleanup.
+ (merge b990f02fd8 ab/config-mak-uname-simplify later to maint).
+
+ * Fix regression introduced when nvimdiff support in mergetool was added.
+ (merge 12026f46e7 pd/mergetool-nvimdiff later to maint).
+
+ * The exchange between receive-pack and proc-receive hook did not
+ carefully check for errors.
+
+ * The code was not prepared to deal with pack .idx file that is
+ larger than 4GB.
+ (merge 81c4c5cf2e jk/4gb-idx later to maint).
+
+ * Since jgit does not yet work with SHA-256 repositories, mark the
+ tests that use it not to run unless we are testing with ShA-1
+ repositories.
+ (merge ea699b4adc sg/t5310-jgit-wants-sha1 later to maint).
+
+ * Config parser fix for "git notes".
+ (merge 45fef1599a na/notes-displayref-is-not-boolean later to maint).
+
+ * Move a definition of compatibility wrapper from cache.h to
+ git-compat-util.h
+ (merge a76b138daa hn/sleep-millisec-decl later to maint).
+
+ * Error message fix.
+ (merge eaf5341538 km/stash-error-message-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" checked for local changes
+ in a wrong range and failed to run correctly when it should.
+ (merge 5176f20ffe pb/pull-rebase-recurse-submodules later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" that is killed may leave a pack-objects process behind,
+ still computing to find a good compression, wasting cycles. This
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 8b59935114 jk/stop-pack-objects-when-push-is-killed later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" that is killed may leave a pack-objects process behind,
+ still computing to find a good compression, wasting cycles. This
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 309a4028e7 jk/stop-pack-objects-when-fetch-is-killed later to maint).
+
+ * "git add -i" failed to honor custom colors configured to show
+ patches, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 96386faa03 js/add-i-color-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Processes that access packdata while the .idx file gets removed
+ (e.g. while repacking) did not fail or fall back gracefully as they
+ could.
+ (merge 506ec2fbda tb/idx-midx-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply" adjusted the permission bits of working-tree files and
+ directories according to core.sharedRepository setting by mistake and
+ for a long time, which has been corrected.
+ (merge eb3c027e17 mt/do-not-use-scld-in-working-tree later to maint).
+
+ * "fetch-pack" could pass NULL pointer to unlink(2) when it sees an
+ invalid filename; the error checking has been tightened to make
+ this impossible.
+ (merge 6031af387e rs/fetch-pack-invalid-lockfile later to maint).
+
+ * "git maintenance run/start/stop" needed to be run in a repository
+ to hold the lockfile they use, but didn't make sure they are
+ actually in a repository, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The glossary described a branch as an "active" line of development,
+ which is misleading---a stale and non-moving branch is still a
+ branch.
+ (merge eef1ceabd8 so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active later to maint).
+
+ * Newer versions of xsltproc can assign IDs in HTML documents it
+ generates in a consistent manner. Use the feature to help format
+ HTML version of the user manual reproducibly.
+ (merge 3569e11d69 ae/doc-reproducible-html later to maint).
+
+ * Tighten error checking in the codepath that responds to "git fetch".
+ (merge d43a21bdbb jk/check-config-parsing-error-in-upload-pack later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-redundant" when there is only one packfile used to crash,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 0696232390 jx/pack-redundant-on-single-pack later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+ (merge 3e0a5dc9af cc/doc-filter-branch-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 32c83afc2c cw/ci-ghwf-check-ws-errors later to maint).
+ (merge 5eb2ed691b rs/tighten-callers-of-deref-tag later to maint).
+ (merge 6db29ab213 jk/fast-import-marks-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge e5cf6d3df4 nk/dir-c-comment-update later to maint).
+ (merge 5710dcce74 jk/report-fn-typedef later to maint).
+ (merge 9a82db1056 en/sequencer-rollback-lock-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 4e1bee9a99 js/t7006-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge f5bcde6c58 es/tutorial-mention-asciidoc-early later to maint).
+ (merge 714d491af0 so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format later to maint).
+ (merge 0795df4b9b rs/clear-commit-marks-in-repo later to maint).
+ (merge 9542d56379 sd/prompt-local-variable later to maint).
+ (merge 06d43fad18 rs/pack-write-hashwrite-simplify later to maint).
+ (merge b7e20b4373 mc/typofix later to maint).
+ (merge f6bcd9a8a4 js/test-whitespace-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge 53b67a801b js/test-file-size later to maint).
+ (merge 970909c2a7 rs/hashwrite-be64 later to maint).
+ (merge 5a923bb1f0 ma/list-object-filter-opt-msgfix later to maint).
+ (merge 1c3e412916 rs/archive-plug-leak-refname later to maint).
+ (merge d44e5267ea rs/plug-diff-cache-leak later to maint).
+ (merge 793c1464d3 ab/gc-keep-base-option later to maint).
+ (merge b86339b12b mt/worktree-error-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge e01ae2a4a7 js/pull-rebase-use-advise later to maint).
+ (merge e63d774242 sn/config-doc-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 08e9df2395 jk/multi-line-indent-style-fix later to maint).
+ (merge e66590348a da/vs-build-iconv-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 7fe07275be js/cmake-extra-built-ins-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 633eebe142 jb/midx-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge 5885367e8f jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn later to maint).
+ (merge 14639a4779 jc/compat-util-setitimer-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 56f56ac50b ab/unreachable-break later to maint).
+ (merge 731d578b4f rb/nonstop-config-mak-uname-update later to maint).
+ (merge f4698738f9 es/perf-export-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 773c694142 nk/refspecs-negative-fix later to maint).