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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a49deddf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,451 @@ +Git 2.21 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward Compatibility Notes +---------------------------- + + * Historically, the "-m" (mainline) option can only be used for "git + cherry-pick" and "git revert" when working with a merge commit. + This version of Git no longer warns or errors out when working with + a single-parent commit, as long as the argument to the "-m" option + is 1 (i.e. it has only one parent, and the request is to pick or + revert relative to that first parent). Scripts that relied on the + behaviour may get broken with this change. + + +Updates since v2.20 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The "http.version" configuration variable can be used with recent + enough versions of cURL library to force the version of HTTP used + to talk when fetching and pushing. + + * Small fixes and features for fast-export and fast-import, mostly on + the fast-export side has been made. + + * "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully + qualified refname and it is not clear what the end user meant. The + codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also + guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed + object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under + refs/tags/). + + * "git checkout [<tree-ish>] path..." learned to report the number of + paths that have been checked out of the index or the tree-ish, + which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which + the command checks out a branch. "git checkout -m <pathspec>" to + undo conflict resolution gives a similar message. + + * "git quiltimport" learned "--keep-non-patch" option. + + * "git worktree remove" and "git worktree move" refused to work when + there is a submodule involved. This has been loosened to ignore + uninitialized submodules. + + * "git cherry-pick -m1" was forbidden when picking a non-merge + commit, even though there _is_ parent number 1 for such a commit. + This was done to avoid mistakes back when "cherry-pick" was about + picking a single commit, but is no longer useful with "cherry-pick" + that can pick a range of commits. Now the "-m$num" option is + allowed when picking any commit, as long as $num names an existing + parent of the commit. + + * Update "git multimail" from the upstream. + + * "git p4" update. + + * The "--format=<placeholder>" option of for-each-ref, branch and tag + learned to show a few more traits of objects that can be learned by + the object_info API. + + * "git rebase -i" learned to re-execute a command given with 'exec' + to run after it failed the last time. + + * "git diff --color-moved-ws" updates. + + * Custom userformat "log --format" learned %S atom that stands for + the tip the traversal reached the commit from, i.e. --source. + + * "git instaweb" learned to drive http.server that comes with + "batteries included" Python installation (both Python2 & 3). + + * A new encoding UTF-16LE-BOM has been invented to force encoding to + UTF-16 with BOM in little endian byte order, which cannot be directly + generated by using iconv. + + * A new date format "--date=human" that morphs its output depending + on how far the time is from the current time has been introduced. + "--date=auto:human" can be used to use this new format (or any + existing format) when the output is going to the pager or to the + terminal, and otherwise the default format. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Code clean-up with optimization for the codepath that checks + (non-)existence of loose objects. + + * More codepaths have become aware of working with in-core repository + instances other than the default "the_repository". + + * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions. + + * Portability updates for the HPE NonStop platform. + + * Earlier we added "-Wformat-security" to developer builds, assuming + that "-Wall" (which includes "-Wformat" which in turn is required + to use "-Wformat-security") is always in effect. This is not true + when config.mak.autogen is in use, unfortunately. This has been + fixed by unconditionally adding "-Wall" to developer builds. + + * The loose object cache used to optimize existence look-up has been + updated. + + * Flaky tests can now be repeatedly run under load with the + "--stress" option. + + * Documentation/Makefile is getting prepared for manpage + localization. + + * "git fetch-pack" now can talk the version 2 protocol. + + * sha-256 hash has been added and plumbed through the code to allow + building Git with the "NewHash". + + * Debugging help for http transport. + + * "git fetch --deepen=<more>" has been corrected to work over v2 + protocol. + + * The code to walk tree objects has been taught that we may be + working with object names that are not computed with SHA-1. + + * The in-core repository instances are passed through more codepaths. + + * Update the protocol message specification to allow only the limited + use of scaled quantities. This is to ensure potential compatibility + issues will not get out of hand. + + * Micro-optimize the code that prepares commit objects to be walked + by "git rev-list" when the commit-graph is available. + + * "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchanges over + the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol. + + * The codepath to write out commit-graph has been optimized by + following the usual pattern of visiting objects in in-pack order. + + * The codepath to show progress meter while writing out commit-graph + file has been improved. + + * Cocci rules have been updated to encourage use of strbuf_addbuf(). + + * "git rebase --merge" has been reimplemented by reusing the internal + machinery used for "git rebase -i". + + * More code in "git bisect" has been rewritten in C. + + * Instead of going through "git-rebase--am" scriptlet to use the "am" + backend, the built-in version of "git rebase" learned to drive the + "am" backend directly. + + * The assumption to work on the single "in-core index" instance has + been reduced from the library-ish part of the codebase. + + * The test lint learned to catch non-portable "sed" options. + + * "git pack-objects" learned another algorithm to compute the set of + objects to send, that trades the resulting packfile off to save + traversal cost to favor small pushes. + + * The travis CI scripts have been corrected to build Git with the + compiler(s) of our choice. + + * "git submodule update" learned to abort early when core.worktree + for the submodule is not set correctly to prevent spreading damage. + + * Test suite has been adjusted to run on Azure Pipeline. + + * Running "Documentation/doc-diff x" from anywhere other than the + top-level of the working tree did not show the usage string + correctly, which has been fixed. + + * Use of the sparse tool got easier to customize from the command + line to help developers. + + * A new target "coverage-prove" to run the coverage test under + "prove" has been added. + + * A flakey "p4" test has been removed. + + * The code and tests assume that the system supplied iconv() would + always use BOM in its output when asked to encode to UTF-16 (or + UTF-32), but apparently some implementations output big-endian + without BOM. A compile-time knob has been added to help such + systems (e.g. NonStop) to add BOM to the output to increase + portability. + + +Fixes since v2.20 +----------------- + + * Updates for corner cases in merge-recursive. + (merge cc4cb0902c en/merge-path-collision later to maint). + + * "git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by + making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a + path at the same time. This safety has been updated to check also + a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming + to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch + 'frotz' from a remote. + (merge be4908f103 nd/checkout-dwim-fix later to maint). + + * Refspecs configured with "git -c var=val clone" did not propagate + to the resulting repository, which has been corrected. + (merge 7eae4a3ac4 sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration later to maint). + + * A properly configured username/email is required under + user.useConfigOnly in order to create commits; now "git stash" + (even though it creates commit objects to represent stash entries) + command is exempt from the requirement. + (merge 3bc2111fc2 sd/stash-wo-user-name later to maint). + + * The http-backend CGI process did not correctly clean up the child + processes it spawns to run upload-pack etc. when it dies itself, + which has been corrected. + (merge 02818a98d7 mk/http-backend-kill-children-before-exit later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --exclude-promisor-objects" had to take an object + that does not exist locally (and is lazily available) from the + command line without barfing, but the code dereferenced NULL. + (merge 4cf67869b2 md/list-lazy-objects-fix later to maint). + + * The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor + ":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for + enumerating paths on the filesystem. + (merge 5a0b97b34c nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk later to maint). + + * BSD port updates. + (merge 4e3ecbd439 cb/openbsd-allows-reading-directory later to maint). + (merge b6bdc2a0f5 cb/t5004-empty-tar-archive-fix later to maint). + (merge 82cbc8cde2 cb/test-lint-cp-a later to maint). + + * Lines that begin with a certain keyword that come over the wire, as + well as lines that consist only of one of these keywords, ought to + be painted in color for easier eyeballing, but the latter was + broken ever since the feature was introduced in 2.19, which has + been corrected. + (merge 1f67290450 hn/highlight-sideband-keywords later to maint). + + * "git log -G<regex>" looked for a hunk in the "git log -p" patch + output that contained a string that matches the given pattern. + Optimize this code to ignore binary files, which by default will + not show any hunk that would match any pattern (unless textconv or + the --text option is in effect, that is). + (merge e0e7cb8080 tb/log-G-binary later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" ought to use a single job unless asked, but + by mistake used multiple jobs, which has been fixed. + (merge e3a9d1aca9 sb/submodule-fetchjobs-default-to-one later to maint). + + * "git stripspace" should be usable outside a git repository, but + under the "-s" or "-c" mode, it didn't. + (merge 957da75802 jn/stripspace-wo-repository later to maint). + + * Some of the documentation pages formatted incorrectly with + Asciidoctor, which have been fixed. + (merge b62eb1d2f4 ma/asciidoctor later to maint). + + * The core.worktree setting in a submodule repository should not be + pointing at a directory when the submodule loses its working tree + (e.g. getting deinit'ed), but the code did not properly maintain + this invariant. + + * With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name" + when the completed path has a special character like SP in it, + without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename. This + has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like + Bash completion does. + + * The test suite tried to see if it is run under bash, but the check + itself failed under some other implementations of shell (notably + under NetBSD). This has been corrected. + (merge 54ea72f09c sg/test-bash-version-fix later to maint). + + * "git gc" and "git repack" did not close the open packfiles that + they found unneeded before removing them, which didn't work on a + platform incapable of removing an open file. This has been + corrected. + (merge 5bdece0d70 js/gc-repack-close-before-remove later to maint). + + * The code to drive GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF command relied on the string + returned from getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that + has been corrected. + (merge 6776a84dae kg/external-diff-save-env later to maint). + + * There were many places the code relied on the string returned from + getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that have been + corrected. + (merge 0da0e9268b jk/save-getenv-result later to maint). + + * The v2 upload-pack protocol implementation failed to honor + hidden-ref configuration, which has been corrected. + (merge e20b4192a3 jk/proto-v2-hidden-refs-fix later to maint). + + * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" may not fetch the necessary commit + that is bound to the superproject, which is getting corrected. + (merge be76c21282 sb/submodule-recursive-fetch-gets-the-tip later to maint). + + * "git rebase" internally runs "checkout" to switch between branches, + and the command used to call the post-checkout hook, but the + reimplementation stopped doing so, which is getting fixed. + + * "git add -e" got confused when the change it wants to let the user + edit is smaller than the previous change that was left over in a + temporary file. + (merge fa6f225e01 js/add-e-clear-patch-before-stating later to maint). + + * "git p4" failed to update a shelved change when there were moved + files, which has been corrected. + (merge 7a10946ab9 ld/git-p4-shelve-update-fix later to maint). + + * The codepath to read from the commit-graph file attempted to read + past the end of it when the file's table-of-contents was corrupt. + + * The compat/obstack code had casts that -Wcast-function-type + compilation option found questionable. + (merge 764473d257 sg/obstack-cast-function-type-fix later to maint). + + * An obvious typo in an assertion error message has been fixed. + (merge 3c27e2e059 cc/test-ref-store-typofix later to maint). + + * In Git for Windows, "git clone \\server\share\path" etc. that uses + UNC paths from command line had bad interaction with its shell + emulation. + + * "git add --ignore-errors" did not work as advertised and instead + worked as an unintended synonym for "git add --renormalize", which + has been fixed. + (merge e2c2a37545 jk/add-ignore-errors-bit-assignment-fix later to maint). + + * On a case-insensitive filesystem, we failed to compare the part of + the path that is above the worktree directory in an absolute + pathname, which has been corrected. + + * Asking "git check-attr" about a macro (e.g. "binary") on a specific + path did not work correctly, even though "git check-attr -a" listed + such a macro correctly. This has been corrected. + (merge 7b95849be4 jk/attr-macro-fix later to maint). + + * "git pack-objects" incorrectly used uninitialized mutex, which has + been corrected. + (merge edb673cf10 ph/pack-objects-mutex-fix later to maint). + + * "git checkout -b <new> [HEAD]" to create a new branch from the + current commit and check it out ought to be a no-op in the index + and the working tree in normal cases, but there are corner cases + that do require updates to the index and the working tree. Running + it immediately after "git clone --no-checkout" is one of these + cases that an earlier optimization kicked in incorrectly, which has + been fixed. + (merge 8424bfd45b bp/checkout-new-branch-optim later to maint). + + * "git diff --color-moved --cc --stat -p" did not work well due to + funny interaction between a bug in color-moved and the rest, which + has been fixed. + (merge dac03b5518 jk/diff-cc-stat-fixes later to maint). + + * When GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR is set, the command was incorrectly + started when modes of "git rebase" that implicitly uses the + machinery for the interactive rebase are run, which has been + corrected. + (merge 891d4a0313 pw/no-editor-in-rebase-i-implicit later to maint). + + * The commit-graph facility did not work when in-core objects that + are promoted from unknown type to commit (e.g. a commit that is + accessed via a tag that refers to it) were involved, which has been + corrected. + (merge 4468d4435c sg/object-as-type-commit-graph-fix later to maint). + + * "git fetch" output cleanup. + (merge dc40b24df4 nd/fetch-compact-update later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --batch" reported a dangling symbolic link by + mistake, when it wanted to report that a given name is ambiguous. + + * Documentation around core.crlf has been updated. + (merge c9446f0504 jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc later to maint). + + * The documentation of "git commit-tree" said that the command + understands "--gpg-sign" in addition to "-S", but the command line + parser did not know about the longhand, which has been corrected. + + * "git rebase -x $cmd" did not reject multi-line command, even though + the command is incapable of handling such a command. It now is + rejected upfront. + (merge c762aada1a pw/rebase-x-sanity-check later to maint). + + * Output from "git help" was not correctly aligned, which has been + fixed. + (merge 6195a76da4 nd/help-align-command-desc later to maint). + + * The "git submodule summary" subcommand showed shortened commit + object names by mechanically truncating them at 7-hexdigit, which + has been improved to let "rev-parse --short" scale the length of + the abbreviation with the size of the repository. + (merge 0586a438f6 sh/submodule-summary-abbrev-fix later to maint). + + * The way the OSX build jobs updates its build environment used the + "--quiet" option to "brew update" command, but it wasn't all that + quiet to be useful. The use of the option has been replaced with + an explicit redirection to the /dev/null (which incidentally would + have worked around a breakage by recent updates to homebrew, which + has fixed itself already). + (merge a1ccaedd62 sg/travis-osx-brew-breakage-workaround later to maint). + + * "git --work-tree=$there --git-dir=$here describe --dirty" did not + work correctly as it did not pay attention to the location of the + worktree specified by the user by mistake, which has been + corrected. + (merge c801170b0c ss/describe-dirty-in-the-right-directory later to maint). + + * "git fetch" over protocol v2 that needs to make a second connection + to backfill tags did not clear a variable that holds shallow + repository information correctly, leading to an access of freed + piece of memory. + + * Some errors from the other side coming over smart HTTP transport + were not noticed, which has been corrected. + + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 89ba9a79ae hb/t0061-dot-in-path-fix later to maint). + (merge d173e799ea sb/diff-color-moved-config-option-fixup later to maint). + (merge a8f5a59067 en/directory-renames-nothanks-doc-update later to maint). + (merge ec36c42a63 nd/indentation-fix later to maint). + (merge f116ee21cd do/gitweb-strict-export-conf-doc later to maint). + (merge 112ea42663 fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 1cadad6f65 tb/use-common-win32-pathfuncs-on-cygwin later to maint). + (merge 57e9dcaa65 km/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge b8b4cb27e6 ds/gc-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 3b3357626e nd/style-opening-brace later to maint). + (merge b4583d5595 es/doc-worktree-guessremote-config later to maint). + (merge cce99cd8c6 ds/commit-graph-assert-missing-parents later to maint). + (merge 0650614982 cy/completion-typofix later to maint). + (merge 6881925ef5 rs/sha1-file-close-mapped-file-on-error later to maint). + (merge bd8d6f0def en/show-ref-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 1747125e2c cc/partial-clone-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge e01378753d cc/fetch-error-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 54e8c11215 jk/remote-insteadof-cleanup later to maint). + (merge d609615f48 js/test-git-installed later to maint). + (merge ba170517be ja/doc-style-fix later to maint). + (merge 86fb1c4e77 km/init-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 5cfd4a9d10 nd/commit-doc later to maint). + (merge 9fce19a431 ab/diff-tree-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 2e285e7803 tz/gpg-test-fix later to maint). + (merge 5427de960b kl/pretty-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 3815f64b0d js/mingw-host-cpu later to maint). + (merge 5fe81438b5 rj/sequencer-sign-off-header-static later to maint). + (merge 18a4f6be6b nd/fileno-may-be-macro later to maint). + (merge 99e9ab54ab kd/t0028-octal-del-is-377-not-777 later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91e6ae9887 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,597 @@ +Git 2.22 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.21 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility note + + * The filter specification "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" used to + create a lazy/partial clone has been removed. Using a blob that is + part of the project as sparse specification is still supported with + the "--filter=sparse:oid=<blob>" option. + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of + checking out paths out of the tree-ish, that allows paths that + match the pathspec that are in the current index and working tree + and are not in the tree-ish. + + * The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..." now allows to + optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values, + etc. + + * Four new configuration variables {author,committer}.{name,email} + have been introduced to override user.{name,email} in more specific + cases. + + * Command-line completion (in contrib/) learned to tab-complete the + "git submodule absorbgitdirs" subcommand. + + * "git branch" learned a new subcommand "--show-current". + + * Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the + merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the + original trees to the output. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to + complete more subcommand parameters. + + * The final report from "git bisect" used to show the suspected + culprit using a raw "diff-tree", with which there is no output for + a merge commit. This has been updated to use a more modern and + human readable output that still is concise enough. + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old "--preserve-merges" + option; the latter is now marked as deprecated. + + * Error message given while cloning with --recurse-submodules has + been updated. + + * The completion helper code now pays attention to repository-local + configuration (when available), which allows --list-cmds to honour + a repository specific setting of completion.commands, for example. + + * "git mergetool" learned to offer Sublime Merge (smerge) as one of + its backends. + + * A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index + file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree + implementation. + + * "git difftool" can now run outside a repository. + + * "git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences + between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out + another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the + index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the + HEAD are different. + + * A progress indicator has been added to the "index-pack" step, which + often makes users wait for completion during "git clone". + + * "git submodule" learns "set-branch" subcommand that allows the + submodule.*.branch settings to be modified. + + * "git merge-recursive" backend recently learned a new heuristics to + infer file movement based on how other files in the same directory + moved. As this is inherently less robust heuristics than the one + based on the content similarity of the file itself (rather than + based on what its neighbours are doing), it sometimes gives an + outcome unexpected by the end users. This has been toned down to + leave the renamed paths in higher/conflicted stages in the index so + that the user can examine and confirm the result. + + * "git tag" learned to give an advice suggesting it might be a + mistake when creating an annotated or signed tag that points at + another tag. + + * The "git pack-objects" command learned to report the number of + objects it packed via the trace2 mechanism. + + * The list of conflicted paths shown in the editor while concluding a + conflicted merge was shown above the scissors line when the + clean-up mode is set to "scissors", even though it was commented + out just like the list of updated paths and other information to + help the user explain the merge better. + + * The trace2 tracing facility learned to auto-generate a filename + when told to log to a directory. + + * "git clone" learned a new --server-option option when talking over + the protocol version 2. + + * The connectivity bitmaps are created by default in bare + repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by + default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking. + + * "git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" have been + taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge + base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B" + detaches HEAD at that commit. + + * Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the combinations + of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as + fallback settings of each other in a sensible order. + + * The "--dir-diff" mode of "git difftool" is not useful in "--no-index" + mode; they are now explicitly marked as mutually incompatible. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which + long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex + handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the + parse-options API. + + * The implementation of pack-redundant has been updated for + performance in a repository with many packfiles. + + * A more structured way to obtain execution trace has been added. + + * "git prune" has been taught to take advantage of reachability + bitmap when able. + + * The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to + use the parse-options API. + + * Suggest GitGitGadget instead of submitGit as a way to submit + patches based on GitHub PR to us. + + * The test framework has been updated to help developers by making it + easier to run most of the tests under different versions of + over-the-wire protocols. + + * Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted + results from our documentation. + + * The scripted "git rebase" implementation has been retired. + + * "git multi-pack-index verify" did not scale well with the number of + packfiles, which is being improved. + + * "git stash" has been rewritten in C. + + * The "check-docs" Makefile target to support developers has been + updated. + + * The tests have been updated not to rely on the abbreviated option + names the parse-options API offers, to protect us from an + abbreviated form of an option that used to be unique within the + command getting non-unique when a new option that share the same + prefix is added. + + * The scripted version of "git rebase -i" wrote and rewrote the todo + list many times during a single step of its operation, and the + recent C-rewrite made a faithful conversion of the logic to C. The + implementation has been updated to carry necessary information + around in-core to avoid rewriting the same file over and over + unnecessarily. + + * Test framework update to more robustly clean up leftover files and + processes after tests are done. + + * Conversion from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * While running "git diff" in a lazy clone, we can upfront know which + missing blobs we will need, instead of waiting for the on-demand + machinery to discover them one by one. The code learned to aim to + achieve better performance by batching the request for these + promised blobs. + + * During an initial "git clone --depth=..." partial clone, it is + pointless to spend cycles for a large portion of the connectivity + check that enumerates and skips promisor objects (which by + definition is all objects fetched from the other side). This has + been optimized out. + + * Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function + declaration. + + * The script to aggregate perf result unconditionally depended on + libjson-perl even though it did not have to, which has been + corrected. + + * The internal implementation of "git rebase -i" has been updated to + avoid forking a separate "rebase--interactive" process. + + * Allow DEP and ASLR for Windows build to for security hardening. + + * Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version + of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to + measure, for a while, which has been corrected. + + * Optionally "make coccicheck" can feed multiple source files to + spatch, gaining performance while spending more memory. + + * Attempt to use an abbreviated option in "git clone --recurs" is + responded by a request to disambiguate between --recursive and + --recurse-submodules, which is bad because these two are synonyms. + The parse-options API has been extended to define such synonyms + more easily and not produce an unnecessary failure. + + * A pair of private functions in http.c that had names similar to + fread/fwrite did not return the number of elements, which was found + to be confusing. + + * Update collision-detecting SHA-1 code to build properly on HP-UX. + + +Fixes since v2.21 +----------------- + + * "git prune-packed" did not notice and complain against excess + arguments given from the command line, which now it does. + (merge 9b0bd87ed2 rj/prune-packed-excess-args later to maint). + + * Split-index fix. + (merge 6e37c8ed3c nd/split-index-null-base-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --no-index" may still want to access Git goodies like + --ext-diff and --textconv, but so far these have been ignored, + which has been corrected. + (merge 287ab28bfa jk/diff-no-index-initialize later to maint). + + * Unify RPC code for smart http in protocol v0/v1 and v2, which fixes + a bug in the latter (lack of authentication retry) and generally + improves the code base. + (merge a97d00799a jt/http-auth-proto-v2-fix later to maint). + + * The include file compat/bswap.h has been updated so that it is safe + to (accidentally) include it more than once. + (merge 33aa579a55 jk/guard-bswap-header later to maint). + + * The set of header files used by "make hdr-check" unconditionally + included sha256/gcrypt.h, even when it is not used, causing the + make target to fail. We now skip it when GCRYPT_SHA256 is not in + use. + (merge f23aa18e7f rj/hdr-check-gcrypt-fix later to maint). + + * The Makefile uses 'find' utility to enumerate all the *.h header + files, which is expensive on platforms with slow filesystems; it + now optionally uses "ls-files" if working within a repository, + which is a trick similar to how all sources are enumerated to run + ETAGS on. + (merge 92b88eba9f js/find-lib-h-with-ls-files-when-possible later to maint). + + * "git rebase" that was reimplemented in C did not set ORIG_HEAD + correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge cbd29ead92 js/rebase-orig-head-fix later to maint). + + * Dev support. + (merge f545737144 js/stress-test-ui-tweak later to maint). + + * CFLAGS now can be tweaked when invoking Make while using + DEVELOPER=YesPlease; this did not work well before. + (merge 6d5d4b4e93 ab/makefile-help-devs-more later to maint). + + * "git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift + the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into + unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling + objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be + overridden with the "--no-dangling" option). + (merge 8d8c2a5aef jk/fsck-doc later to maint). + + * On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX), + the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after + detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal, + which led to a flaky test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during + the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we + check the return status from our write(2)s). + (merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint). + + * A recent update broke "is this object available to us?" check for + well-known objects like an empty tree (which should yield "yes", + even when there is no on-disk object for an empty tree), which has + been corrected. + (merge f06ab027ef jk/virtual-objects-do-exist later to maint). + + * The setup code has been cleaned up to avoid leaks around the + repository_format structure. + (merge e8805af1c3 ma/clear-repository-format later to maint). + + * "git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config --get-color" + but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is + now fixed. + (merge cd8e7593b9 jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf later to maint). + + * When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the + working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no + point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is + sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now + allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output + from the clean filter process. + (merge 02156ab031 jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer later to maint). + + * "git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its + intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per + worktree, but it didn't quite work well. + (merge b9317d55a3 nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree later to maint). + + * "git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with "-s" did not suppress the patch + output as it should. This has been corrected. + (merge 05314efaea jk/line-log-with-patch later to maint). + + * "git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat + and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using + mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop. + (merge 7af01f2367 ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir later to maint). + + * Build update for SHA-1 with collision detection. + (merge 07a20f569b jk/sha1dc later to maint). + + * Build procedure has been fixed around use of asciidoctor instead of + asciidoc. + (merge 185f9a0ea0 ma/asciidoctor-fixes later to maint). + + * remote-http transport did not anonymize URLs reported in its error + messages at places. + (merge c1284b21f2 js/anonymize-remote-curl-diag later to maint). + + * Error messages given from the http transport have been updated so + that they can be localized. + (merge ed8b4132c8 js/remote-curl-i18n later to maint). + + * "git init" forgot to read platform-specific repository + configuration, which made Windows port to ignore settings of + core.hidedotfiles, for example. + + * A corner-case object name ambiguity while the sequencer machinery + is working (e.g. "rebase -i -x") has been fixed. + + * "git format-patch" did not diagnose an error while opening the + output file for the cover-letter, which has been corrected. + (merge 2fe95f494c jc/format-patch-error-check later to maint). + + * "git checkout -f <branch>" while the index has an unmerged path + incorrectly left some paths in an unmerged state, which has been + corrected. + + * A corner case bug in the refs API has been corrected. + (merge d3322eb28b jk/refs-double-abort later to maint). + + * Unicode update. + (merge 584b62c37b bb/unicode-12 later to maint). + + * dumb-http walker has been updated to share more error recovery + strategy with the normal codepath. + + * A buglet in configuration parser has been fixed. + (merge 19e7fdaa58 nd/include-if-wildmatch later to maint). + + * The documentation for "git read-tree --reset -u" has been updated. + (merge b5a0bd694c nd/read-tree-reset-doc later to maint). + + * Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be + update_server_info() function. + (merge b3223761c8 jk/server-info-rabbit-hole later to maint). + + * The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been + updated. + (merge 5a1dbd48bc nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick --options A..B", after giving control back to the + user to ask help resolving a conflicted step, did not honor the + options it originally received, which has been corrected. + + * Various glitches in "git gc" around reflog handling have been fixed. + + * The code to read from commit-graph file has been cleanup with more + careful error checking before using data read from it. + + * Performance fix around "git fetch" that grabs many refs. + (merge b764300912 jt/fetch-pack-wanted-refs-optim later to maint). + + * Protocol v2 support in "git fetch-pack" of shallow clones has been + corrected. + + * Performance fix around "git blame", especially in a linear history + (which is the norm we should optimize for). + (merge f892014943 dk/blame-keep-origin-blob later to maint). + + * Performance fix for "rev-list --parents -- pathspec". + (merge 8320b1dbe7 jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue later to maint). + + * Updating the display with progress message has been cleaned up to + deal better with overlong messages. + (merge 545dc345eb sg/overlong-progress-fix later to maint). + + * "git blame -- path" in a non-bare repository starts blaming from + the working tree, and the same command in a bare repository errors + out because there is no working tree by definition. The command + has been taught to instead start blaming from the commit at HEAD, + which is more useful. + (merge a544fb08f8 sg/blame-in-bare-start-at-head later to maint). + + * An underallocation in the code to read the untracked cache + extension has been corrected. + (merge 3a7b45a623 js/untracked-cache-allocfix later to maint). + + * The code is updated to check the result of memory allocation before + it is used in more places, by using xmalloc and/or xcalloc calls. + (merge 999b951b28 jk/xmalloc later to maint). + + * The GETTEXT_POISON test option has been quite broken ever since it + was made runtime-tunable, which has been fixed. + (merge f88b9cb603 jc/gettext-test-fix later to maint). + + * Test fix on APFS that is incapable of store paths in Latin-1. + (merge 3889149619 js/iso8895-test-on-apfs later to maint). + + * "git submodule foreach <command> --quiet" did not pass the option + down correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge a282f5a906 nd/submodule-foreach-quiet later to maint). + + * "git send-email" has been taught to use quoted-printable when the + payload contains carriage-return. The use of the mechanism is in + line with the design originally added the codepath that chooses QP + when the payload has overly long lines. + (merge 74d76a1701 bc/send-email-qp-cr later to maint). + + * The recently added feature to add addresses that are on + anything-by: trailers in 'git send-email' was found to be way too + eager and considered nonsense strings as if they can be legitimate + beginning of *-by: trailer. This has been tightened. + + * Builds with gettext broke on recent macOS w/ Homebrew, which + seems to have stopped including from /usr/local/include; this + has been corrected. + (merge 92a1377a2a js/macos-gettext-build later to maint). + + * Running "git add" on a repository created inside the current + repository is an explicit indication that the user wants to add it + as a submodule, but when the HEAD of the inner repository is on an + unborn branch, it cannot be added as a submodule. Worse, the files + in its working tree can be added as if they are a part of the outer + repository, which is not what the user wants. These problems are + being addressed. + (merge f937bc2f86 km/empty-repo-is-still-a-repo later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick" run with the "-x" or the "--signoff" option used + to (and more importantly, ought to) clean up the commit log message + with the --cleanup=space option by default, but this has been + broken since late 2017. This has been fixed. + + * When given a tag that points at a commit-ish, "git replace --graft" + failed to peel the tag before writing a replace ref, which did not + make sense because the old graft mechanism the feature wants to + mimic only allowed to replace one commit object with another. + This has been fixed. + (merge ee521ec4cb cc/replace-graft-peel-tags later to maint). + + * Code tightening against a "wrong" object appearing where an object + of a different type is expected, instead of blindly assuming that + the connection between objects are correctly made. + (merge 97dd512af7 tb/unexpected later to maint). + + * An earlier update for MinGW and Cygwin accidentally broke MSVC build, + which has been fixed. + (merge 22c3634c0f ss/msvc-path-utils-fix later to maint). + + * %(push:track) token used in the --format option to "git + for-each-ref" and friends was not showing the right branch, which + has been fixed. + (merge c646d0934e dr/ref-filter-push-track-fix later to maint). + + * "make check-docs", "git help -a", etc. did not account for cases + where a particular build may deliberately omit some subcommands, + which has been corrected. + + * The logic to tell if a Git repository has a working tree protects + "git branch -D" from removing the branch that is currently checked + out by mistake. The implementation of this logic was broken for + repositories with unusual name, which unfortunately is the norm for + submodules these days. This has been fixed. + (merge f3534c98e4 jt/submodule-repo-is-with-worktree later to maint). + + * AIX shared the same build issues with other BSDs around fileno(fp), + which has been corrected. + (merge ee662bf5c6 cc/aix-has-fileno-as-a-macro later to maint). + + * The autoconf generated configure script failed to use the right + gettext() implementations from -libintl by ignoring useless stub + implementations shipped in some C library, which has been + corrected. + (merge b71e56a683 vk/autoconf-gettext later to maint). + + * Fix index-pack perf test so that the repeated invocations always + run in an empty repository, which emulates the initial clone + situation better. + (merge 775c71e16d jk/p5302-avoid-collision-check-cost later to maint). + + * A "ls-files" that emulates "find" to enumerate files in the working + tree resulted in duplicated Makefile rules that caused the build to + issue an unnecessary warning during a trial build after merge + conflicts are resolved in working tree *.h files but before the + resolved results are added to the index. This has been corrected. + + * "git cherry-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same runtime engine) + that deals with multiple commits got confused when the final step + gets stopped with a conflict and the user concluded the sequence + with "git commit". Attempt to fix it by cleaning up the state + files used by these commands in such a situation. + (merge 4a72486de9 pw/clean-sequencer-state-upon-final-commit later to maint). + + * On a filesystem like HFS+, the names of the refs stored as filesystem + entities may become different from what the end-user expects, just + like files in the working tree get "renamed". Work around the + mismatch by paying attention to the core.precomposeUnicode + configuration. + (merge 8e712ef6fc en/unicode-in-refnames later to maint). + + * The code to generate the multi-pack idx file was not prepared to + see too many packfiles and ran out of open file descriptor, which + has been corrected. + + * To run tests for Git SVN, our scripts for CI used to install the + git-svn package (in the hope that it would bring in the right + dependencies). This has been updated to install the more direct + dependency, namely, libsvn-perl. + (merge db864306cf sg/ci-libsvn-perl later to maint). + + * "git cvsexportcommit" running on msys did not expect cvsnt showed + "cvs status" output with CRLF line endings. + + * The fsmonitor interface got out of sync after the in-core index + file gets discarded, which has been corrected. + (merge 398a3b0899 js/fsmonitor-refresh-after-discarding-index later to maint). + + * "git status" did not know that the "label" instruction in the + todo-list "rebase -i -r" uses should not be shown as a hex object + name. + + * A prerequisite check in the test suite to see if a working jgit is + available was made more robust. + (merge abd0f28983 tz/test-lib-check-working-jgit later to maint). + + * The codepath to parse :<path> that obtains the object name for an + indexed object has been made more robust. + + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint). + (merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint). + (merge 5c326d1252 jk/unused-params later to maint). + (merge 68cabbfda3 dl/doc-submodule-wo-subcommand later to maint). + (merge 9903623761 ab/receive-pack-use-after-free-fix later to maint). + (merge 1ede45e44b en/merge-options-doc later to maint). + (merge 3e14dd2c8e rd/doc-hook-used-in-sample later to maint). + (merge c271dc28fd nd/no-more-check-racy later to maint). + (merge e6e15194a8 yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix later to maint). + (merge bb101aaf0c rd/attr.c-comment-typofix later to maint). + (merge 716a5af812 rd/gc-prune-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 50b206371d js/untravis-windows later to maint). + (merge dbf47215e3 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint). + (merge 56cb2d30f8 dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev later to maint). + (merge 64eca306a2 ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge af91b0230c dl/ignore-docs later to maint). + (merge 59a06e947b ra/t3600-test-path-funcs later to maint). + (merge e041d0781b ar/t4150-remove-cruft later to maint). + (merge 8d75a1d183 ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more later to maint). + (merge 74cc547b0f mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge ed31851fa6 ab/doc-misc-typofixes later to maint). + (merge a7256debd4 nd/checkout-m-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 3a9e1ad78d jt/t5551-protocol-v2-does-not-have-half-auth later to maint). + (merge 0b918b75af sg/t5318-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 68ed71b53c cb/doco-mono later to maint). + (merge a34dca2451 nd/interpret-trailers-docfix later to maint). + (merge cf7b857a77 en/fast-import-parsing-fix later to maint). + (merge fe61ccbc35 po/rerere-doc-fmt later to maint). + (merge ffea0248bf po/describe-not-necessarily-7 later to maint). + (merge 7cb7283adb tg/ls-files-debug-format-fix later to maint). + (merge f64a21bd82 tz/doc-apostrophe-no-longer-needed later to maint). + (merge dbe7b41019 js/t3301-unbreak-notes-test later to maint). + (merge d8083e4180 km/t3000-retitle later to maint). + (merge 9e4cbccbd7 tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge da9ca955a7 jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 6804ba3a58 cw/diff-highlight later to maint). + (merge 1a8787144d nd/submodule-helper-incomplete-line-fix later to maint). + (merge d9ef573837 jk/apache-lsan later to maint). + (merge c871fbee2b js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw later to maint). + (merge ce4c7bfc90 bl/t4253-exit-code-from-format-patch later to maint). + (merge 397a46db78 js/t5580-unc-alternate-test later to maint). + (merge d4907720a2 cm/notes-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge 9dde06de13 cb/http-push-null-in-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 4c785c0edc js/rebase-config-bitfix later to maint). + (merge 8e9fe16c87 es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..819879d382 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +Git 2.22.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.22 +----------------- + + * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>" + ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in, + but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been + corrected. + + * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to + the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected. + + * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote + backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting + closed, which has been fixed. + + * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its + output, which has been corrected. + + * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect + value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in + use, which has been corrected. + + * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as + if it were a tree, which has been corrected. + + * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in + the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are + in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. + + * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the + index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded + by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work + when both options are given. + + * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to + the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which + has been corrected. + + * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. + + * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside + "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a + broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. + + * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull + from in the local repository and in the published repository are + different. + + * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is + recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a + hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected + to honor the "--origin <name>" option. + + * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are + necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been + corrected. + + * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a + lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API + correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element + of the array in use. This has been corrected. + + * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to + indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only + matches directories") has been revamped. + + * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end + of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. + + * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been + updated. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |