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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index 94db2458c7..de1e11e25a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Backward compatibility warts * "git name-rev --stdin" has been deprecated and issues a warning when used; use "git name-rev --annotate-stdin" instead. + * "git clone --filter=... --recurse-submodules" only makes the + top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This + behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules. + Note to those who build from the source @@ -19,6 +23,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Assorted updates to "git cat-file", especially "-h". + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learns to complete + arguments to give to "git sparse-checkout" command. + + * "git log --remerge-diff" shows the difference from mechanical merge + result and the result that is actually recorded in a merge commit. + + * "git log" and friends learned an option --exclude-first-parent-only + to propagate UNINTERESTING bit down only along the first-parent + chain, just like --first-parent option shows commits that lack the + UNINTERESTING bit only along the first-parent chain. + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete all Git subcommands, including the ones that are normally + hidden, when GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL_COMMANDS is used. + + * "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -41,6 +62,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. all. Start the process of renaming it to "--annotate-stdin". (merge a2585719b3 jc/name-rev-stdin later to maint). + * "git update-index", "git checkout-index", and "git clean" are + taught to work better with the sparse checkout feature. + + * Use an internal call to reset_head() helper function instead of + spawning "git checkout" in "rebase", and update code paths that are + involved in the change. + + * Messages "ort" merge backend prepares while dealing with conflicted + paths were unnecessarily confusing since it did not differentiate + inner merges and outer merges. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- @@ -103,6 +135,103 @@ Fixes since v2.35 * Update the logic to compute alignment requirement for our mem-pool. (merge e38bcc66d8 jc/mem-pool-alignment later to maint). + * Pick a better random number generator and use it when we prepare + temporary filenames. + (merge 47efda967c bc/csprng-mktemps later to maint). + + * Update the contributor-facing documents on proposed log messages. + (merge cdba0295b0 jc/doc-log-messages later to maint). + + * When "git fetch --prune" failed to prune the refs it wanted to + prune, the command issued error messages but exited with exit + status 0, which has been corrected. + (merge c9e04d905e tg/fetch-prune-exit-code-fix later to maint). + + * Problems identified by Coverity in the reftable code have been + corrected. + (merge 01033de49f hn/reftable-coverity-fixes later to maint). + + * A bug that made multi-pack bitmap and the object order out-of-sync, + making the .midx data corrupt, has been fixed. + (merge f8b60cf99b tb/midx-bitmap-corruption-fix later to maint). + + * The build procedure has been taught to notice older version of zlib + and enable our replacement uncompress2() automatically. + (merge 07564773c2 ab/auto-detect-zlib-compress2 later to maint). + + * Interaction between fetch.negotiationAlgorithm and + feature.experimental configuration variables has been corrected. + (merge 714edc620c en/fetch-negotiation-default-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --diff-filter=aR" is now parsed correctly. + (merge 75408ca949 js/diff-filter-negation-fix later to maint). + + * When "git subtree" wants to create a merge, it used "git merge" and + let it be affected by end-user's "merge.ff" configuration, which + has been corrected. + (merge 9158a3564a tk/subtree-merge-not-ff-only later to maint). + + * Unlike "git apply", "git patch-id" did not handle patches with + hunks that has only 1 line in either preimage or postimage, which + has been corrected. + (merge 757e75c81e jz/patch-id-hunk-header-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * "receive-pack" checks if it will do any ref updates (various + conditions could reject a push) before received objects are taken + out of the temporary directory used for quarantine purposes, so + that a push that is known-to-fail will not leave crufts that a + future "gc" needs to clean up. + (merge 5407764069 cb/clear-quarantine-early-on-all-ref-update-errors later to maint). + + * Because a deletion of ref would need to remove it from both the + loose ref store and the packed ref store, a delete-ref operation + that logically removes one ref may end up invoking ref-transaction + hook twice, which has been corrected. + (merge 2ed1b64ebd ps/avoid-unnecessary-hook-invocation-with-packed-refs later to maint). + + * When there is no object to write .bitmap file for, "git + multi-pack-index" triggered an error, instead of just skipping, + which has been corrected. + (merge eb57277ba3 tb/midx-no-bitmap-for-no-objects later to maint). + + * "git cmd -h" outside a repository should error out cleanly for many + commands, but instead it hit a BUG(), which has been corrected. + (merge 87ad07d735 js/short-help-outside-repo-fix later to maint). + + * "working tree" and "per-worktree ref" were in glossary, but + "worktree" itself wasn't, which has been corrected. + (merge 2df5387ed0 jc/glossary-worktree later to maint). + + * L10n support for a few error messages. + (merge 3d3c23b3a7 bs/forbid-i18n-of-protocol-token-in-fetch-pack later to maint). + + * Test modernization. + (merge d4fe066e4b sy/t0001-use-path-is-helper later to maint). + + * "git log --graph --graph" used to leak a graph structure, and there + was no way to countermand "--graph" that appear earlier on the + command line. A "--no-graph" option has been added and resource + leakage has been plugged. + + * Error output given in response to an ambiguous object name has been + improved. + (merge 3a73c1dfaf ab/ambiguous-object-name later to maint). + + * "git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration, + but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository. + (merge 3ce1138272 ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config later to maint). + + * Setting core.untrackedCache to true failed to add the untracked + cache extension to the index. + + * Workaround we have for versions of PCRE2 before their version 10.36 + were in effect only for their versions newer than 10.36 by mistake, + which has been corrected. + (merge 97169fc361 rs/pcre-invalid-utf8-fix-fix later to maint). + + * Document Taylor as a new member of Git PLC at SFC. Welcome. + (merge e8d56ca863 tb/coc-plc-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint). (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint). @@ -110,3 +239,20 @@ Fixes since v2.35 (merge 0a6adc26e2 rs/grep-expr-cleanup later to maint). (merge 4ed7dfa713 po/readme-mention-contributor-hints later to maint). (merge 6046f7a91c en/plug-leaks-in-merge later to maint). + (merge 8c591dbfce bc/clarify-eol-attr later to maint). + (merge 518e15db74 rs/parse-options-lithelp-help later to maint). + (merge cbac0076ef gh/doc-typos later to maint). + (merge ce14de03db ab/no-errno-from-resolve-ref-unsafe later to maint). + (merge 2826ffad8c rc/negotiate-only-typofix later to maint). + (merge 0f03f04c5c en/sparse-checkout-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 74f3390dde sy/diff-usage-typofix later to maint). + (merge 45d0212a71 ll/doc-mktree-typofix later to maint). + (merge e9b272e4c1 js/no-more-legacy-stash later to maint). + (merge 6798b08e84 ab/do-not-hide-failures-in-git-dot-pm later to maint). + (merge 9325285df4 po/doc-check-ignore-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge cd26cd6c7c sy/modernize-t-lib-read-tree-m-3way later to maint). + (merge d17294a05e ab/hash-object-leakfix later to maint). + (merge b8403129d3 jd/t0015-modernize later to maint). + (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint). + (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint). + (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint). |