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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt index 7f53db7de9..175a644f82 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt @@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Backward incompatible and other important changes * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to update from v1.4 that we have been using. + * The support for deprecated PCRE1 library has been dropped. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -48,6 +50,42 @@ UI, Workflows & Features standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point at the same object. + * "git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option. + + * "git ls-files" can and does show multiple entries when the index is + unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in + use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced. + + * `git worktree list` now annotates worktrees as prunable, shows + locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained + a --verbose option. + + * "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by + HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol + did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an + empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so. + + * There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a + "commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git + range-diff" did not understand them. + + * The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option + to show only one side of the compared range. + + * "git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of + a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally + prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved. + + * The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a + working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read + by accident, which has been corrected. + + * "git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task. + + * The error message given when a configuration variable that is + expected to have a boolean value has been improved. + + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A 3-year old test that was not testing anything useful has been @@ -75,45 +113,92 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option. + * The peel_ref() API has been replaced with peel_iterated_oid(). + + * The .use_shell flag in struct child_process that is passed to + run_command() API has been clarified with a bit more documentation. + + * Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree + extension in the index. + + * The ls-refs protocol operation has been optimized to narrow the + sub-hierarchy of refs/ it walks to produce response. + + * When removing many branches and tags, the code used to do so one + ref at a time. There is another API it can use to delete multiple + refs, and it makes quite a lot of performance difference when the + refs are packed. + + * The "pack-objects" command needs to iterate over all the tags when + automatic tag following is enabled, but it actually iterated over + all refs and then discarded everything outside "refs/tags/" + hierarchy, which was quite wasteful. + + * A perf script was made more portable. + + * Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up + once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow + other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can + find more failures in a single run. + + * We've carried compatibility codepaths for compilers without + variadic macros for quite some time, but the world may be ready for + them to be removed. Force compilation failure on exotic platforms + where variadic macros are not available to find out who screams in + such a way that we can easily revert if it turns out that the world + is not yet ready. + + * Code clean-up to ensure our use of hashtables using object names as + keys use the "struct object_id" objects, not the raw hash values. + + * Lose the debugging aid that may have been useful in the past, but + no longer is, in the "grep" codepaths. + + * Some pretty-format specifiers do not need the data in commit object + (e.g. "%H"), but we were over-eager to load and parse it, which has + been made even lazier. + + * Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may + not be controversial. + + * Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which + traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core. + + * The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of + the generation number to help topological revision traversal. + + * Piecemeal of rewrite of "git bisect" in C continues. + Fixes since v2.30 ----------------- * Diagnose command line error of "git rebase" early. - (merge ca5120c339 rs/rebase-commit-validation later to maint). * Clean up option descriptions in "git cmd --help". - (merge e73fe3dd02 zh/arg-help-format later to maint). * "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working tree. - (merge ba359fd507 en/stash-apply-sparse-checkout later to maint). * Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test failures. - (merge ea8bbf2a4e mt/t4129-with-setgid-dir later to maint). * "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined even once. - (merge 6c62f01552 ds/for-each-repo-noopfix later to maint). * Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list all the available tools. - (merge 80f5a16798 pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix later to maint). * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac. - (merge 3831132ace jc/macos-install-dependencies-fix later to maint). * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up. - (merge 4045f659bd ab/branch-sort later to maint). * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are now forbidden. - (merge 6aed56736b jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url later to maint). * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is @@ -125,24 +210,62 @@ Fixes since v2.30 side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it does. - (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint). + + * Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become + incorrect. + + * Doc fix for packfile URI feature. + + * When "git rebase -i" processes "fixup" insn, there is no reason to + clean up the commit log message, but we did the usual stripspace + processing. This has been corrected. + (merge f7d42ceec5 js/rebase-i-commit-cleanup-fix later to maint). + + * Fix in passing custom args from "git clone" to "upload-pack" on the + other side. + (merge ad6b5fefbd jv/upload-pack-filter-spec-quotefix later to maint). + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) completed "git branch -d" + with branch names, but "git branch -D" offered tagnames in addition, + which has been corrected. "git branch -M" had the same problem. + (merge 27dc071b9a jk/complete-branch-force-delete later to maint). + + * When commands are started from a subdirectory, they may have to + compare the path to the subdirectory (called prefix and found out + from $(pwd)) with the tracked paths. On macOS, $(pwd) and + readdir() yield decomposed path, while the tracked paths are + usually normalized to the precomposed form, causing mismatch. This + has been fixed by taking the same approach used to normalize the + command line arguments. + (merge 5c327502db tb/precompose-prefix-too later to maint). + + * Even though invocations of "die()" were logged to the trace2 + system, "BUG()"s were not, which has been corrected. + (merge 0a9dde4a04 jt/trace2-BUG later to maint). + + * "git grep --untracked" is meant to be "let's ALSO find in these + files on the filesystem" when looking for matches in the working + tree files, and does not make any sense if the primary search is + done against the index, or the tree objects. The "--cached" and + "--untracked" options have been marked as mutually incompatible. + (merge 0c5d83b248 mt/grep-cached-untracked later to maint). + + * Fix "git fsck --name-objects" which apparently has not been used by + anybody who is motivated enough to report breakage. + (merge e89f89361c js/fsck-name-objects-fix later to maint). + + * Avoid individual tests in t5411 from getting affected by each other + by forcing them to use separate output files during the test. + (merge 822ee894f6 jx/t5411-unique-filenames later to maint). + + * Test to make sure "git rev-parse one-thing one-thing" gives + the same thing twice (when one-thing is --since=X). + (merge a5cdca4520 ew/rev-parse-since-test later to maint). + + * When certain features (e.g. grafts) used in the repository are + incompatible with the use of the commit-graph, we used to silently + turned commit-graph off; we now tell the user what we are doing. + (merge c85eec7fc3 js/commit-graph-warning later to maint). * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint). - (merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint). - (merge 7efc378205 ta/doc-typofix later to maint). - (merge 1f4e9319c7 pb/doc-modules-git-work-tree-typofix later to maint). - (merge 04f6b0a192 ma/t1300-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 7b77f5a13e ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes later to maint). - (merge cc2d43be2b nk/perf-fsmonitor-cleanup later to maint). - (merge c8302c6c00 ar/t6016-modernise later to maint). - (merge 0454986e78 jc/sign-off later to maint). - (merge 155067ab4f vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access later to maint). - (merge acaabcf391 jk/t5516-deflake later to maint). - (merge a1e03535db ad/t4129-setfacl-target-fix later to maint). - (merge b356d23638 ug/doc-lose-dircache later to maint). - (merge 9371c0e9dd ab/gettext-charset-comment-fix later to maint). - (merge 52fc4f195c dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion later to maint). - (merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint). - (merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint). - (merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint). + (merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint). |