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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt | 45 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt | 87 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt | 235 |
4 files changed, 384 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt index 3e6331d9dc..f0924b62e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt @@ -35,5 +35,24 @@ Fixes since v2.6.4 * The exit code of git-fsck did not reflect some types of errors found in packed objects, which has been corrected. + * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column" + (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices + + * Improve error reporting when SMTP TLS fails. + + * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not + in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the + codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed + and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts + questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is + obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function + in non-strict mode. + + * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status. + + * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an + annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an + old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days. + Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt index a84caba087..563dadc57e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Updates since v2.6 UI, Workflows & Features + * The appearance of "gitk", particularly on high DPI monitors, have + been improved. "gitk" also comes with an undated translation for + Swedish and Japanese. + * "git remote" learned "get-url" subcommand to show the URL for a given remote name used for fetching and pushing. @@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Users who are too busy to type three extra keystrokes to ask for "git stash show -p" can now set stash.showPatch configuration - varible to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list + variable to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list of paths affected with feel for the extent of damage via diffstat. * "quiltimport" allows to specify the series file by honoring the @@ -65,7 +69,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the usual "--[no-]progress". - * The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been + * The semantics of transfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical repository and virtually serve them as separate ones. @@ -79,6 +83,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work around issue when running Git from inside emacs. + * "git push" learned new configuration for doing "--recurse-submodules" + on each push. + + * "format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit + object name on the mbox "From " line. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -161,6 +171,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. git/git (including build-status for pull requests that people open). + * The write(2) emulation for Windows learned to set errno to EPIPE + when necessary. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -370,4 +383,32 @@ notes for details). them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a backward compatibility knob. + * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column" + (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices + (merge 160fcdb sg/completion-no-column later to maint). + + * The error reporting from "git send-email", when SMTP TLS fails, has + been improved. + (merge 9d60524 jk/send-email-ssl-errors later to maint). + + * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not + in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the + codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed + and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts + questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is + obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function + in non-strict mode. + (merge 92bcbb9 jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid later to maint). + + * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status. + (merge f91b273 jk/symbolic-ref-maint later to maint). + + * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an + annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an + old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days. + (merge 728350b jk/pending-keep-tag-name later to maint). + + * "git p4" when interacting with multiple depots at the same time + used to incorrectly drop changes. + * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6553d69e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Git v2.7.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.7 +---------------- + + * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by + exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, + interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without + setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. + + * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed + array. + + * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias + files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. + + * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler + and have been fixed. + + * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between + the '--signoff' option and DCO. + + * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be + at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. + + * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file + listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change + that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. + + * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR + (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is + done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to + be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous + user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling + unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. + + * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server + log. + + * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not + ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". + + * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles + mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not + friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They + now close the packs before doing so. + + * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a + regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been + corrected. + + * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has + been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. + + * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch + named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary + disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. + + * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion + 1.9.0 and later. + + * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly + skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. + + * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was + run from a subdirectory. + + * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. + + * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands + have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted + CPU cycles. + + * Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them + suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other + one suggested to do. + + * Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity. + + * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options + and command specific syntax. + +Also includes a handful of documentation and test updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..166e06ccd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +Git 2.8 Release Notes +===================== + +Updates since v2.7 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. + + * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes + too much time before emitting the first line of the result. + + * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) + how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. + + * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should + be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes + tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must + be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only + when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must + have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref). + + * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index" + behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the + user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a + new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this + cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be + disabled. + + * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking + "rebase -i". + + * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed. + + * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory + configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be + omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in + your workflow. + + * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in + place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output. + + * Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text + that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control + their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated + to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they + used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR, + which is usually not what the users expect). + + * "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree + to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting + when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote + repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g. + refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch). + + * "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose + end-of-line problems. + + * "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote + repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at. + + * New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to + specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around + proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when + CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication + has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication + material in user's keyrings. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use + it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. + + * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets + as such correctly. + + * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets + you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. + + * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like + $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias + handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to + affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which + resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init". + Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment + and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias. + + * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has + been updated to share more code with the code that deals with + normal references. + + * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier + to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should + allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to + help users on DOSsy systems. + + * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information + regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It + has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected + (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing + only the number of changes). + + * "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same + underlying machinery) has been optimized. + + * Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by + persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing + tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total + wallclock time. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.7 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by + exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, + interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without + setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. + (merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint). + + * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed + array. + (merge 2653a8c nd/dir-exclude-cleanup later to maint). + + * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not + quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they + already are in a harmful way. + (merge 4d55200 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias + files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. + (merge 2c510f2 ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix later to maint). + + * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler + and have been fixed. + (merge a0df2e5 jk/clang-pedantic later to maint). + + * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between + the '--signoff' option and DCO. + (merge b2c150d dw/signoff-doc later to maint). + + * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be + at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. + (merge aecad37 dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit later to maint). + + * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file + listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change + that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. + (merge 8c72236 nd/exclusion-regression-fix later to maint). + + * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR + (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is + done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to + be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous + user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling + unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. + (merge ea56518 js/fopen-harder later to maint). + + * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server + log. + + Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps? + IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log, + so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good. + (merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint). + + * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not + ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". + (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint). + + * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles + mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not + friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They + now close the packs before doing so. + (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). + + * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a + regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been + corrected. + (merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint). + + * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has + been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. + (merge 719c3da jk/sanity later to maint). + + * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch + named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary + disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. + (merge 0571979 jk/list-tag-2.7-regression later to maint). + + * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion + 1.9.0 and later. + (merge 0b66415 ew/svn-1.9.0-auth later to maint). + + * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly + skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. + (merge 933cfeb dw/subtree-split-do-not-drop-merge later to maint). + + * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was + run from a subdirectory. + (merge a97262c nd/diff-with-path-params later to maint). + + * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options + and command specific syntax. + (merge fa4b5e3 jk/completion-rebase later to maint). + (merge f7c2e1a pw/completion-show-branch later to maint). + (merge d7d4ca8 pw/completion-stash later to maint). + (merge e6414b4 tb/complete-word-diff-regex later to maint). + + * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. + (merge e7d5ce8 js/dirname-basename later to maint). + + * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands + have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted + CPU cycles. + (merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). + (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). + (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint). + (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint). + (merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint). |