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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f052162eff --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,414 @@ +Git 2.4 Release Notes +===================== + +Backward compatibility warning(s) +--------------------------------- + +This release has a few changes in the user-visible output from +Porcelain commands, which the users may want to be aware of. + + * Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in + the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of + command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch + names, separated with a comma in between. E.g. + + $ git log --decorate -1 master + commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master) + ... + + This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip + of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is + shown as: + + $ git log --decorate -1 master + commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master) + ... + + * The phrasing "git branch" uses to describe a detached HEAD has been + updated to match that of "git status": + + - When the HEAD is at the same commit as it was originally + detached, they now both show "detached at <commit object name>". + + - When the HEAD has moved since it was originally detached, + they now both show "detached from <commit object name>". + + Earlier "git branch" always used "from" + + +Updates since v2.3 +------------------ + +Ports + + * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some + platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2) + failures. + + * We did not check the curl library version before using + CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist. + + * We now detect number of CPUs on older BSD-derived systems. + + * Portability fixes and workarounds for shell scripts have been added + to help BSD-derived systems. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in + documentation have been tweaked for consistency. + + * The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude + subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does. + + * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do + not have the string "WIP" in their messages. + + * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to + update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair. + + * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git + push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be + tweaked by push-to-checkout hook. + + * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side, + HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests. + + * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an + answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without + questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks + too short to be a valid encoding name. + + * When "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixed whitespace errors in the + common context lines, the command reports that it did so. + + * "git status" now allows the "-v" to be given twice to show the + differences that are left in the working tree not to be committed. + + * "git cherry-pick" used to clean-up the log message even when it is + merely replaying an existing commit. It now replays the message + verbatim unless you are editing the message of resulting commits. + + * "git archive" can now be told to set the 'text' attribute in the + resulting zip archive. + + * Output from "git log --decorate" mentions HEAD when it points at a + tip of an branch differently from a detached HEAD. + + This is a potentially backward-incompatible change. + + * "git branch" on a detached HEAD always said "(detached from xyz)", + even when "git status" would report "detached at xyz". The HEAD is + actually at xyz and haven't been moved since it was detached in + such a case, but the user cannot read what the current value of + HEAD is when "detached from" is used. + + * "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike + "cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op. + (merge 6a536e2 kn/git-cd-to-empty later to maint). + + * The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to + specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0. + + * A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags" + option on by default for the "git push" command. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us + detect mistakes. + + * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the + reflogs better with the recently updated ref API. + + * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as + verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based + helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them + the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better. + + * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after + running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it + is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as + a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good + heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to + check what they really require. + (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint). + + * Various issues around "reflog expire", e.g. using --updateref when + expiring a reflog for a symbolic reference, have been corrected + and/or made saner. + + * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in + the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers + can check only one place for all necessary information. + + * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in + the API manual. + + * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a + project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we + (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first + place. + + * Typofix in comments. + (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint). + + * Code clean-up. + (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint). + (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint). + + * Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be + pointing at this object" is specified. + + * Code in "git daemon" to parse out and hold hostnames used in + request interpolation has been simplified. + + * "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add + new configuration bits. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.3 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it + tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD". + (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint). + + * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did + not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree + files and failed to do so for whatever reason. + (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint). + + * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce + broken patches. + (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint). + + * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication + (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based + Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement. + (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint). + + * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option + easily misunderstood. + (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint). + + * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory + would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file. + (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint). + + * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed. + (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint). + + * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the + only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in + the --raw format. + (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint). + + * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the + dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other + side. + (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint). + + * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author + name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been + reworded to avoid misunderstanding. + (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint). + + * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant + to the "log" command. + (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint). + + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when + the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch. + (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint). + + * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it" + interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when + the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the + user could have made was to choose nothing. + (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint). + + * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor + core.abbrev settings. + (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint). + + * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list" + command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD. + (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint). + + * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when + the other side did not support the capability. + (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint). + + * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in + "uintmax_t" correctly. + (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint). + + * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone + CR, use to confuse the configuration parser. + (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint). + + * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC. + (merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint). + + * The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and + "remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed + via different transports, not two separate repositories. + (merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint). + + * Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring + material we prepare for the tests to use. + (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint). + + * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle + a user name with an at-sign in it. + (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint). + + * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to + the documentation. + (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint). + + * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings + from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required + version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower) + for other reasons. + (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint). + + * Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from + "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system. + (merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint). + + * In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that + borrows from an alternate object store. + (merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint). + + * "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to + "path/to/submodule". + (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint). + + * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory. + (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint). + + * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory. + (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint). + + * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and + conclude the resulting packfile cleanly. + (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint). + + * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be + refreshed for whatever reason. + (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint). + + * The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string + client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking. + Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name. + (merge b485373 jk/daemon-interpolate later to maint). + + * "git daemon" looked up the hostname even when "%CH" and "%IP" + interpolations are not requested, which was unnecessary. + (merge dc8edc8 rs/daemon-interpolate later to maint). + + * Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the + Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-" + prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help + people with older Getopt::Long package. + (merge f471494 km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds later to maint). + + * "git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing, + updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under + --index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a + replacement for GNU patch). + (merge e0d201b jc/apply-beyond-symlink later to maint). + + * A breakage to git-svn around v2.2 era that triggers premature + closing of FileHandle has been corrected. + (merge e426311 ew/svn-maint-fixes later to maint). + + * We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH + transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git + correctly. + (merge 3f55cca tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint). + + * The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to + discover in the documentation. + (merge afb5de7 mm/am-c-doc later to maint). + + * The interaction between "git submodule update" and the + submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented. + (merge 5c31acf ms/submodule-update-config-doc later to maint). + + * "git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on + lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the + dirstat that the user asked for. + (merge ab27389 mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix later to maint). + + * "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not + clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default + behaviour when neither is given to override it. + (merge aaba0ab mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not later to maint). + + * Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option + was phrased poorly. + (merge 77fdb8a nd/grep-exclude-standard-help-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" recently started to include the number of + commits in the insn sheet to be processed, but on a platform + that prepends leading whitespaces to "wc -l" output, the numbers + are shown with extra whitespaces that aren't necessary. + (merge 2185d3b es/rebase-i-count-todo later to maint). + + * The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention + to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255. + (merge 189c860 bw/kwset-use-unsigned later to maint). + + * A corrupt input to "git diff -M" used to cause it to segfault. + (merge 4d6be03 jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate later to maint). + + * Certain builds of GPG triggered false breakages in a test. + (merge 3f88c1b mg/verify-commit later to maint). + + * "git imap-send" learned to optionally talk with an IMAP server via + libcURL; because there is no other option when Git is built with + NO_OPENSSL option, use that codepath by default under such + configuration. + (merge dcd01ea km/imap-send-libcurl-options later to maint). + + * "git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the + branch names. + (merge 5ee8758 jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color later to maint). + + * The code that reads from the ctags file in the completion script + (in contrib/) did not spell ${param/pattern/string} substitution + correctly, which happened to work with bash but not with zsh. + (merge db8d750 js/completion-ctags-pattern-substitution-fix later to maint). + + * The transfer.hiderefs support did not quite work for smart-http + transport. + (merge 8ddf3ca jk/smart-http-hide-refs later to maint). + + * "git tag -h" used to show the "--column" and "--sort" options + that are about listing in a wrong section. + (merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint). + + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. + (merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint). + (merge 817d03e jc/diff-test-updates later to maint). + (merge eb32c66 ak/t5516-typofix later to maint). + (merge bcd57cb mr/doc-clean-f-f later to maint). + (merge 0d6accc mg/doc-status-color-slot later to maint). + (merge 53e53c7 sg/completion-remote later to maint). + (merge 8fa7975 ak/git-done-help-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 9a6f128 rs/deflate-init-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 6f75d45 rs/use-isxdigit later to maint). + (merge 376e4b3 jk/test-annoyances later to maint). |