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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt index 78e037b865..6b2c6bfcc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.36.0.txt @@ -9,10 +9,20 @@ Backward compatibility warts * "git name-rev --stdin" has been deprecated and issues a warning when used; use "git name-rev --annotate-stdin" instead. + * "git clone --filter=... --recurse-submodules" only makes the + top-level a partial clone, while submodules are fully cloned. This + behaviour is changed to pass the same filter down to the submodules. + Note to those who build from the source - * + * Since Git 2.31, our source assumed that the compiler you use to + build Git supports variadic macros, with an easy-to-use escape + hatch to allow compilation without variadic macros with an request + to report that you had to use the escape hatch to the list. + Because we haven't heard from anybody who actually needed to use + the escape hatch, it has been removed, making support of variadic + macros a hard requirement. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -36,6 +46,30 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git branch" learned the "--recurse-submodules" option. + * A not-so-common mistake is to write a script to feed "git bisect + run" without making it executable, in which case all tests will + exit with 126 or 127 error codes, even on revisions that are marked + as good. Try to recognize this situation and stop iteration early. + + * When "index-pack" dies due to incoming data exceeding the maximum + allowed input size, include the value of the limit in the error + message. + + * The error message given by "git switch HEAD~4" has been clarified + to suggest the "--detach" option that is required. + + * In sparse-checkouts, files mis-marked as missing from the working tree + could lead to later problems. Such files were hard to discover, and + harder to correct. Automatically detecting and correcting the marking + of such files has been added to avoid these problems. + + * "git cat-file" learns "--batch-command" mode, which is a more + flexible interface than the existing "--batch" or "--batch-check" + modes, to allow different kinds of inquiries made. + + * The level of verbose output from the ort backend during inner merge + has been aligned to that of the recursive backend. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -65,6 +99,29 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. spawning "git checkout" in "rebase", and update code paths that are involved in the change. + * Messages "ort" merge backend prepares while dealing with conflicted + paths were unnecessarily confusing since it did not differentiate + inner merges and outer merges. + + * Small modernization of the rerere-train script (in contrib/). + + * Use designated initializers we started using in mid 2017 in more + parts of the codebase that are relatively quiescent. + + * Improve failure case behaviour of xdiff library when memory + allocation fails. + + * General clean-up in reftable implementation, including + clarification of the API documentation, tightening the code to + honor documented length limit, etc. + + * Remove the escape hatch we added when we introduced the weather + balloon to use variadic macros unconditionally, to make it official + that we now have a hard dependency on the feature. + + * Makefile refactoring with a bit of suffixes rule stripping to + optimize the runtime overhead. + Fixes since v2.35 ----------------- @@ -205,6 +262,43 @@ Fixes since v2.35 command line. A "--no-graph" option has been added and resource leakage has been plugged. + * Error output given in response to an ambiguous object name has been + improved. + (merge 3a73c1dfaf ab/ambiguous-object-name later to maint). + + * "git sparse-checkout" wants to work with per-worktree configuration, + but did not work well in a worktree attached to a bare repository. + (merge 3ce1138272 ds/sparse-checkout-requires-per-worktree-config later to maint). + + * Setting core.untrackedCache to true failed to add the untracked + cache extension to the index. + + * Workaround we have for versions of PCRE2 before their version 10.36 + were in effect only for their versions newer than 10.36 by mistake, + which has been corrected. + (merge 97169fc361 rs/pcre-invalid-utf8-fix-fix later to maint). + + * Document Taylor as a new member of Git PLC at SFC. Welcome. + (merge e8d56ca863 tb/coc-plc-update later to maint). + + * "git checkout -b branch/with/multi/level/name && git stash" only + recorded the last level component of the branch name, which has + been corrected. + + * "git fetch" can make two separate fetches, but ref updates coming + from them were in two separate ref transactions under "--atomic", + which has been corrected. + + * Check the return value from parse_tree_indirect() to turn segfaults + into calls to die(). + (merge 8d2eaf649a gc/parse-tree-indirect-errors later to maint). + + * Newer version of GPGSM changed its output in a backward + incompatible way to break our code that parses its output. It also + added more processes our tests need to kill when cleaning up. + Adjustments have been made to accommodate these changes. + (merge b0b70d54c4 fs/gpgsm-update later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge cfc5cf428b jc/find-header later to maint). (merge 40e7cfdd46 jh/p4-fix-use-of-process-error-exception later to maint). @@ -227,3 +321,6 @@ Fixes since v2.35 (merge d17294a05e ab/hash-object-leakfix later to maint). (merge b8403129d3 jd/t0015-modernize later to maint). (merge 332acc248d ds/mailmap later to maint). + (merge 04bf052eef ab/grep-patterntype later to maint). + (merge 6ee36364eb ab/diff-free-more later to maint). + (merge 63a36017fe nj/read-tree-doc-reffix later to maint). |