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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b71738e654 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,138 @@ +Git 2.33.1 Release Notes +======================== + +This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated during the +development towards Git 2.34, the next feature release. + + +Fixes since v2.33 +----------------- + + * The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has + been updated. + + * Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been + corrected. + + * Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git + push" codepath. + + * "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out + around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop + but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a + descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up. + + * "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of + binary hunks. + + * "git range-diff" code clean-up. + + * "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was + broken in v2.32. + + * Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the + new version has a blocker bug for that architecture. + + * Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted + step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be + skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in + $GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been + corrected. + + * Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed. + + * mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc() + failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the + caller to be handled. + + * "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result + when there are unmerged paths. + + * The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty + even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given. + + * "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch + ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected. + + * Build update for Apple clang. + + * The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been + corrected. + + * "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch" + forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling + want-ref requests. + + * The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing + a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected. + + * Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test + area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES + to limit the damage from such a stray test. + + * Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded + discussion support, a threading related header in one message is + carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted + threading, which has been corrected. + + * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature + is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly. + + * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected. + + * "git maintenance" scheduler fix for macOS. + + * A pathname in an advice message has been made cut-and-paste ready. + + * The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level + merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved + without the content level merge. + + * The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has + been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing + the file out. + + * "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been + corrected. + + * The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual) + packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in + correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a + running Git. + + * The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not + create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref + subsystem has been cleaned up. + + * "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed, + which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock. + + * When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited + with exit status of 0, which has been corrected. + + * Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t. + + * "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a + directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been + corrected. + + * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare + repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which + is corrected. + + * "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code, + which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate + question if anybody is seriously using it, though). + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links. + + * Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but + we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests. + + * "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/ + directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header + dependencies. + + * Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt index a7793987f2..75d4fdfde7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt @@ -4,13 +4,19 @@ Git 2.34 Release Notes Updates since Git 2.33 ---------------------- +Backward compatibility notes + + * The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed. + + UI, Workflows & Features * Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)". - * Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy. + * The `ort` strategy is used instead of `recursive` as the default + merge strategy. * The userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated. @@ -59,6 +65,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has been updated. + * The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be + shown, which has been tightened up. + + * "git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid + updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless + the user specifies a "--sparse" option. + + * "git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability + bitmaps. + + * "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and + actual types of an object better. + + * In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and + push-cert signing. Note that this feature cannot be used with + ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken. Avoid + using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8. + + * "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just + like "git grep string" does. + + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -133,178 +161,278 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * An oddball OPTION_ARGUMENT feature has been removed from the parse-options API. + * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been + optimized. + + * Remove external declaration of functions that no longer exist. + + * "git multi-pack-index write --bitmap" learns to propagate the + hashcache from original bitmap to resulting bitmap. + + * CI learns to run the leak sanitizer builds. + + * "git grep --recurse-submodules" takes trees and blobs from the + submodule repository, but the textconv settings when processing a + blob from the submodule is not taken from the submodule repository. + A test is added to demonstrate the issue, without fixing it. + + * Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of + configuration variables. + + * When "git cmd -h" shows more than one line of usage text (e.g. + the cmd subcommand may take sub-sub-command), parse-options API + learned to align these lines, even across i18n/l10n. + + * Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that + haven't been modified. + + * The code path to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files + has learned to release the mmaped memory holding the current + version of .midx before removing them from the disk, as some + platforms do not allow removal of a file that still has mapping. + + * A new feature has been added to abort early in the test framework. + Fixes since v2.33 ----------------- * Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been corrected. - (merge 561fa03529 ab/pack-stdin-packs-fix later to maint). * Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git push" code path. - (merge 82823118b9 jt/push-negotiation-fixes later to maint). * "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up. - (merge 6f843a3355 en/pull-conflicting-options later to maint). * "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of binary hunks. - (merge 46d723ce57 jk/apply-binary-hunk-parsing-fix later to maint). * "git range-diff" code clean-up. - (merge c4d5907324 jk/range-diff-fixes later to maint). * "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was broken in v2.32. - (merge 8ef6aad664 jk/commit-edit-fixup-fix later to maint). * Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the new version has a blocker bug for that architecture. - (merge 3cf9bb36bf cb/ci-use-upload-artifacts-v1 later to maint). * Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in $GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been corrected. - (merge e5ee33e855 pw/rebase-skip-final-fix later to maint). * Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed. - (merge f2563c9ef3 pw/rebase-r-fixes later to maint). * mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc() failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the caller to be handled. - (merge 95b4ff3931 rs/git-mmap-uses-malloc later to maint). * "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result when there are unmerged paths. - (merge 8174627b3d dd/diff-files-unmerged-fix later to maint). * The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given. - (merge 7a132c628e mt/quiet-with-delayed-checkout later to maint). * "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected. - (merge 597a977489 rs/branch-allow-deleting-dangling later to maint). * Build update for Apple clang. - (merge f32c5d3716 cb/makefile-apple-clang later to maint). * The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been corrected. - (merge c93ca46cf5 sg/column-nl later to maint). * "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch" forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling want-ref requests. - (merge 53a66ec37c ka/want-ref-in-namespace later to maint). * The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected. - (merge d9e9b44d7a jh/sparse-index-resize-fix later to maint). * Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES to limit the damage from such a stray test. - (merge 614c3d8f2e sg/set-ceiling-during-tests later to maint). * Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded discussion support, a threading related header in one message is carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted threading, which has been corrected. - (merge e082113484 mh/send-email-reset-in-reply-to later to maint). * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly. - (merge 2f040a9671 tk/fast-export-anonymized-tag-fix later to maint). - - * Doc update plus improved error reporting. - (merge 1e93770888 jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding later to maint). * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected. - (merge 5acffd3473 so/diff-index-regression-fix later to maint). - - * Regression fix. - (merge b996f84989 ab/send-email-config-fix later to maint). * The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved without the content level merge. This fixes a regression caused by recent "-3way first and fall back to direct application" change. - (merge 57f183b698 jc/trivial-threeway-binary-merge later to maint). * The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing the file out. - (merge 8fe8bae9d2 ab/reverse-midx-optim later to maint). * "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been corrected. - (merge 709b3f32d3 rs/range-diff-avoid-segfault-with-I later to maint). * The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual) packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a running Git. - (merge 4bc1fd6e39 tb/pack-finalize-ordering later to maint). * The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref subsystem has been cleaned up. - (merge 35cf94eaf6 rs/no-mode-to-open-when-appending later to maint). * "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed, which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock. - (merge 7c1200745b ps/update-ref-batch-flush later to maint). * When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited with exit status of 0, which has been corrected. - (merge c5ead19ea2 en/am-abort-fix later to maint). * Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t. - (merge 8d133a4653 jk/strvec-typefix later to maint). + + * "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a + directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been + corrected. + + * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare + repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which + is corrected. + + * "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code, + which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate + question if anybody is seriously using it, though). + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links. + + * Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but + we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests. + + * "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/ + directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header + dependencies. + + * Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line. + + * A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented. + (merge d2a534c515 ja/doc-status-types-and-copies later to maint). + + * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been + optimized. + (merge c90cfc225b rs/mergesort later to maint). + + * An editor session launched during a Git operation (e.g. during 'git + commit') can leave the terminal in a funny state. The code path + has updated to save the terminal state before, and restore it + after, it spawns an editor. + (merge 3d411afabc cm/save-restore-terminal later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --batch" with the "--batch-all-objects" option is + supposed to iterate over all the objects found in a repository, but + it used to translate these object names using the replace mechanism, + which defeats the point of enumerating all objects in the repository. + This has been corrected. + (merge bf972896d7 jk/cat-file-batch-all-wo-replace later to maint). + + * Recent sparse-index work broke safety against attempts to add paths + with trailing slashes to the index, which has been corrected. + (merge c8ad9d04c6 rs/make-verify-path-really-verify-again later to maint). + + * The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame" + have been missing, which are now documented. + (merge 8c32856133 bs/doc-blame-color-lines later to maint). + + * The PATH used in CI job may be too wide and let incompatible dlls + to be grabbed, which can cause the build&test to fail. Tighten it. + (merge 7491ef6198 js/windows-ci-path-fix later to maint). + + * Avoid performance measurements from getting ruined by gc and other + housekeeping pauses interfering in the middle. + (merge be79131a53 rs/disable-gc-during-perf-tests later to maint). + + * Stop "git add --dry-run" from creating new blob and tree objects. + (merge e578d0311d rs/add-dry-run-without-objects later to maint). + + * "git commit" gave duplicated error message when the object store + was unwritable, which has been corrected. + (merge 4ef91a2d79 ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store later to maint). + + * Recent sparse-index addition, namely any use of index_name_pos(), + can expand sparse index entries and breaks any code that walks + cache-tree or existing index entries. One such instance of such a + breakage has been corrected. + + * The xxdiff difftool backend can exit with status 128, which the + difftool-helper that launches the backend takes as a significant + failure, when it is not significant at all. Work it around. + (merge 571f4348dd da/mergetools-special-case-xxdiff-exit-128 later to maint). + + * Improve test framework around unwritable directories. + (merge 5d22e18965 ab/test-cleanly-recreate-trash-directory later to maint). + + * "git push" client talking to an HTTP server did not diagnose the + lack of the final status report from the other side correctly, + which has been corrected. + (merge c5c3486f38 jk/http-push-status-fix later to maint). + + * Update "git archive" documentation and give explicit mention on the + compression level for both zip and tar.gz format. + (merge c4b208c309 bs/archive-doc-compression-level later to maint). + + * Drop "git sparse-checkout" from the list of common commands. + (merge 6a9a50a8af sg/sparse-index-not-that-common-a-command later to maint). + + * "git branch -c/-m new old" was not described to copy config, which + has been corrected. + (merge 8252ec300e jc/branch-copy-doc later to maint). + + * Squelch over-eager warning message added during this cycle. + + * Fix long-standing shell syntax error in the completion script. + (merge 46b0585286 re/completion-fix-test-equality later to maint). + + * Teach "git commit-graph" command not to allow using replace objects + at all, as we do not use the commit-graph at runtime when we see + object replacement. + (merge 095d112f8c ab/ignore-replace-while-working-on-commit-graph later to maint). + + * "git pull --no-verify" did not affect the underlying "git merge". + (merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint). + + * One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher + construct recently, which has been corrected. + + * "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make + it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but + instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to + fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing + to diagnose as an error. This has been corrected. + (merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint). + + * The way Cygwin emulates a unix-domain socket, on top of which the + simple-ipc mechanism is implemented, can race with the program on + the other side that wants to use the socket, and briefly make it + appear as a regular file before lstat(2) starts reporting it as a + socket. We now have a workaround on the side that connects to a + unix domain socket. * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 1d9c8daef8 ab/bundle-doc later to maint). - (merge 81483fe613 en/merge-strategy-docs later to maint). - (merge 626beebdf8 js/log-protocol-version later to maint). - (merge 00e302da76 cb/builtin-merge-format-string-fix later to maint). - (merge ad51ae4dc0 cb/ci-freebsd-update later to maint). - (merge be6444d1ca fc/completion-updates later to maint). - (merge ff7b83f562 ti/tcsh-completion-regression-fix later to maint). - (merge 325b06deda sg/make-fix-ar-invocation later to maint). - (merge bd72824c60 me/t5582-cleanup later to maint). - (merge f6a5af0f62 ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd later to maint). - (merge f58c7468cd ab/ls-remote-packet-trace later to maint). - (merge 0160f7e725 ab/rebase-fatal-fatal-fix later to maint). - (merge a16eb6b1ff js/maintenance-launchctl-fix later to maint). - (merge c21b2511c2 jk/t5323-no-pack-test-fix later to maint). - (merge 5146c2f148 mh/credential-leakfix later to maint). - (merge 1549577338 dd/t6300-wo-gpg-fix later to maint). - (merge 66e905b7dd rs/xopen-reports-open-failures later to maint). - (merge 469888e6a5 es/walken-tutorial-fix later to maint). - (merge 88682b016d ba/object-info later to maint). - (merge b45c172e51 ab/gc-log-rephrase later to maint). - (merge ccdd5d1eb1 ab/mailmap-leakfix later to maint). - (merge 6540b71614 cb/remote-ndebug-fix later to maint). - (merge e4f8d27585 rs/show-branch-simplify later to maint). - (merge e124ecf7f7 rs/archive-use-object-id later to maint). - (merge cebead1ebf cb/ci-build-pedantic later to maint). - (merge ca0cc98e03 bs/doc-bugreport-outdir later to maint). - (merge 72b113e562 ab/no-more-check-bindir later to maint). - (merge 92a5d1c9b4 jc/prefix-filename-allocates later to maint). - (merge d9a65b6c0a rs/setup-use-xopen-and-xdup later to maint). - (merge e8f55568de jk/t5562-racefix later to maint). - (merge 8f0f110156 rs/drop-core-compression-vars later to maint). - (merge b6d8887d3d ma/doc-git-version later to maint). - (merge 66c0c44df6 cb/plug-leaks-in-alloca-emu-users later to maint). - (merge afb32e8101 kz/revindex-comment-fix later to maint). - (merge ae578de926 po/git-config-doc-mentions-help-c later to maint). - (merge 187fc8b8b6 cb/unicode-14 later to maint). - (merge 3584cff71c en/typofixes later to maint). + (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint). + (merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 51b04c05b7 bs/difftool-msg-tweak later to maint). + (merge dd20e4a6db ab/make-compdb-fix later to maint). + (merge 6ffb990dc4 os/status-docfix later to maint). + (merge 100c2da2d3 rs/p3400-lose-tac later to maint). + (merge 76f3b69896 tb/aggregate-ignore-leading-whitespaces later to maint). + (merge 6e4fd8bfcd tz/doc-link-to-bundle-format-fix later to maint). + (merge f6c013dfa1 jc/doc-commit-header-continuation-line later to maint). + (merge ec9a37d69b ab/pkt-line-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 8650c6298c ab/fix-make-lint-docs later to maint). + (merge 1c720357ce ab/test-lib-diff-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 6b615dbece ks/submodule-add-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 203eb8381a jc/doc-format-patch-clarify-auto-base later to maint). + (merge 559664c792 ab/test-lib later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad404e9aa0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v2.34.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is primarily to fix a handful of regressions in Git 2.34. + +Fixes since v2.34 +----------------- + + * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was + completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2 + library in the latest release. + + * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us + should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't. + + * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused + GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with + a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted. + + * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted. + + * SubmittingPatches document gained a syntactically incorrect mark-up, + which has been corrected. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc72843e16 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,274 @@ +Git 2.35 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since Git 2.34 +---------------------- + +Backward compatibility warts + + * "_" is now treated as any other URL-valid characters in an URL when + matching the per-URL configuration variable names. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git status --porcelain=v2" now show the number of stash entries + with --show-stash like the normal output does. + + * "git stash" learned the "--staged" option to stash away what has + been added to the index (and nothing else). + + * "git var GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH" is a way to see what name is used for + the newly created branch if "git init" is run. + + * Various operating modes of "git reset" have been made to work + better with the sparse index. + + * "git submodule deinit" for a submodule whose .git metadata + directory is embedded in its working tree refused to work, until + the submodule gets converted to use the "absorbed" form where the + metadata directory is stored in superproject, and a gitfile at the + top-level of the working tree of the submodule points at it. The + command is taught to convert such submodules to the absorbed form + as needed. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learns that the "--date" + option of commands from the "git log" family takes "human" and + "auto" as valid values. + + * "Zealous diff3" style of merge conflict presentation has been added. + + * The "git log --format=%(describe)" placeholder has been extended to + allow passing selected command-line options to the underlying "git + describe" command. + + * "default" and "reset" have been added to our color palette. + + * The cryptographic signing using ssh keys can specify literal keys + for keytypes whose name do not begin with the "ssh-" prefix by + using the "key::" prefix mechanism (e.g. "key::ecdsa-sha2-nistp256"). + + * "git fetch" without the "--update-head-ok" option ought to protect + a checked out branch from getting updated, to prevent the working + tree that checks it out to go out of sync. The code was written + before the use of "git worktree" got widespread, and only checked + the branch that was checked out in the current worktree, which has + been updated. + + * "git name-rev" has been tweaked to give output that is shorter and + easier to understand. + + * "git apply" has been taught to ignore a message without a patch + with the "--allow-empty" option. It also learned to honor the + "--quiet" option given from the command line. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The use of errno as a means to carry the nature of error in the ref + API implementation has been reworked and reduced. + + * Teach and encourage first-time contributors to this project to + state the base commit when they submit their topic. + + * The command line complation for "git send-email" options have been + tweaked to make it easier to keep it in sync with the command itself. + + * Ensure that the sparseness of the in-core index matches the + index.sparse configuration specified by the repository immediately + after the on-disk index file is read. + + * Code clean-up to eventually allow information on remotes defined + for an arbitrary repository to be read. + + * Build optimization. + + * Tighten code for testing pack-bitmap. + + * Weather balloon to break people with compilers that do not support + C99. + + * The "reftable" backend for the refs API, without integrating into + the refs subsystem, has been added. + + * More tests are marked as leak-free. + + * The test framework learns to list unsatisfied test prerequisites, + and optionally error out when prerequisites that are expected to be + satisfied are not. + + * The default setting for trace2 event nesting was too low to cause + test failures, which is worked around by bumping it up in the test + framework. + + * Drop support for TravisCI and update test workflows at GitHub. + + * Many tests that used to need GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME + mechanism to force "git" to use 'master' as the default name for + the initial branch no longer need it; the use of the mechanism from + them have been removed. + + * Allow running our tests while disabling fsync. + + * Document the parameters given to the reflog entry iterator callback + functions. + (merge e6e94f34b2 jc/reflog-iterator-callback-doc later to maint). + + * The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or + nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we + want to test Git in. + + * "diff --histogram" optimization. + + * Weather balloon to find compilers that do not grok variable + declaration in the for() loop. + + * diff and blame commands have been taught to work better with sparse + index. + + * The chainlint test script linter in the test suite has been updated. + + * The DEVELOPER=yes build uses -std=gnu99 now. + + +Fixes since v2.34 +----------------- + + * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was + completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2 + library in the latest release. + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + + * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us + should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't. + + * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused + GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with + a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted. + + * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted. + + * Things like "git -c branch.sort=bogus branch new HEAD", i.e. the + operation modes of the "git branch" command that do not need the + sort key information, no longer errors out by seeing a bogus sort + key. + (merge 98e7ab6d42 jc/fix-ref-sorting-parse later to maint). + + * The compatibility implementation for unsetenv(3) were written to + mimic ancient, non-POSIX, variant seen in an old glibc; it has been + changed to return an integer to match the more modern era. + (merge a38989bd5b jc/unsetenv-returns-an-int later to maint). + + * The clean/smudge conversion code path has been prepared to better + work on platforms where ulong is narrower than size_t. + (merge 596b5e77c9 mc/clean-smudge-with-llp64 later to maint). + + * Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output. + (merge 0ba558ffb1 if/redact-packfile-uri later to maint). + + * CI has been taught to catch some Unicode directional formatting + sequence that can be used in certain mischief. + (merge 0e7696c64d js/ci-no-directional-formatting later to maint). + + * The "--date=format:<strftime>" gained a workaround for the lack of + system support for a non-local timezone to handle "%s" placeholder. + (merge 9b591b9403 jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch later to maint). + + * The "merge" subcommand of "git jump" (in contrib/) silently ignored + pathspec and other parameters. + (merge 67ba13e5a4 jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec later to maint). + + * The code to decode the length of packed object size has been + corrected. + (merge 34de5b8eac jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow later to maint). + + * The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a + choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the + default, which no longer is the case. This has been corrected. + (merge 71076d0edd ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge later to maint). + + * "git fetch", when received a bad packfile, can fail with SIGPIPE. + This wasn't wrong per-se, but we now detect the situation and fail + in a more predictable way. + (merge 2a4aed42ec jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack later to maint). + + * The function to cull a child process and determine the exit status + had two separate code paths for normal callers and callers in a + signal handler, and the latter did not yield correct value when the + child has caught a signal. The handling of the exit status has + been unified for these two code paths. An existing test with + flakiness has also been corrected. + (merge 5263e22cba jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix later to maint). + + * When a non-existent program is given as the pager, we tried to + reuse an uninitialized child_process structure and crashed, which + has been fixed. + (merge f917f57f40 em/missing-pager later to maint). + + * The single-key-input mode in "git add -p" had some code to handle + keys that generate a sequence of input via ReadKey(), which did not + handle end-of-file correctly, which has been fixed. + (merge fc8a8126df cb/add-p-single-key-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -x" added an unnecessary 'exec' instructions before + 'noop', which has been corrected. + (merge cc9dcdee61 en/rebase-x-fix later to maint). + + * When the "git push" command is killed while the receiving end is + trying to report what happened to the ref update proposals, the + latter used to die, due to SIGPIPE. The code now ignores SIGPIPE + to increase our chances to run the post-receive hook after it + happens. + (merge d34182b9e3 rj/receive-pack-avoid-sigpipe-during-status-reporting later to maint). + + * "git worktree add" showed "Preparing worktree" message to the + standard output stream, but when it failed, the message from die() + went to the standard error stream. Depending on the order the + stdio streams are flushed at the program end, this resulted in + confusing output. It has been corrected by sending all the chatty + messages to the standard error stream. + (merge b50252484f es/worktree-chatty-to-stderr later to maint). + + * Coding guideline document has been updated to clarify what goes to + standard error in our system. + (merge e258eb4800 es/doc-stdout-vs-stderr later to maint). + + * The sparse-index/sparse-checkout feature had a bug in its use of + the matching code to determine which path is in or outside the + sparse checkout patterns. + (merge 8c5de0d265 ds/sparse-deep-pattern-checkout-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -x" by mistake started exporting the GIT_DIR and + GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when the command was rewritten + in C, which has been corrected. + (merge 434e0636db en/rebase-x-wo-git-dir-env later to maint). + + * When "git log" implicitly enabled the "decoration" processing + without being explicitly asked with "--decorate" option, it failed + to read and honor the settings given by the "--decorate-refs" + option. + + * "git fetch --set-upstream" did not check if there is a current + branch, leading to a segfault when it is run on a detached HEAD, + which has been corrected. + (merge 17baeaf82d ab/fetch-set-upstream-while-detached later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 74db416c9c cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge f9b2b6684d ja/doc-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7d1b866778 jc/fix-first-object-walk later to maint). + (merge 538ac74604 js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors later to maint). + (merge 152923b132 jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake later to maint). + (merge 9081a421a6 ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 42c456ff81 rs/mergesort later to maint). + (merge ad506e6780 tl/midx-docfix later to maint). + (merge bf5b83fd8a hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix later to maint). + (merge 49f1eb3b34 jk/refs-g11-workaround later to maint). + (merge 7d3fc7df70 jt/midx-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 7b089120d9 hn/create-reflog-simplify later to maint). + (merge 9e12400da8 cb/mingw-gmtime-r later to maint). + (merge 0bf0de6cc7 tb/pack-revindex-on-disk-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2c68f577fc ew/cbtree-remove-unused-and-broken-cb-unlink later to maint). + (merge eafd6e7e55 ab/die-with-bug later to maint). + (merge 91028f7659 jc/grep-patterntype-default-doc later to maint). |