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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt index 806a965a1b..be68524cff 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.1.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10 not exclude them and tried to apply funny patches only to fail. * "git blame" started missing quite a few changes from the origin - since we stopped using the diff minimalization by default in v1.7.2 + since we stopped using the diff minimization by default in v1.7.2 era. * When PATH contains an unreadable directory, alias expansion code diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt index cf3f455ced..7796df3fe4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.4.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5.3 -------------------- * The single-key mode of "git add -p" was easily fooled into thinking - that it was told to add everthing ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by + that it was told to add everything ('a') when up-arrow was pressed by mistake. * Setting a git command that uses custom configuration via "-c var=val" diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt index e74f4ef1ef..b9c66aa1b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.2.txt @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ Fixes since v1.7.8.1 * The configuration file parser used for sizes (e.g. bigFileThreshold) did not correctly interpret 'g' suffix. - * The replacement implemention for snprintf used on platforms with + * The replacement implementation for snprintf used on platforms with native snprintf that is broken did not use va_copy correctly. * LF-to-CRLF streaming filter replaced all LF with CRLF, which might - be techinically correct but not friendly to people who are trying + be technically correct but not friendly to people who are trying to recover from earlier mistakes of using CRLF in the repository data in the first place. It now refrains from doing so for LF that follows a CR. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt index b4d90bba0f..249311361e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.8.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Updates to bash completion scripts. * The build procedure has been taught to take advantage of computed - dependency automatically when the complier supports it. + dependency automatically when the compiler supports it. * The date parser now accepts timezone designators that lack minutes part and also has a colon between "hh:mm". @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.7 * Variants of "git cherry-pick" and "git revert" that take multiple commits learned to "--continue" and "--abort". - * "git daemon" gives more human readble error messages to clients + * "git daemon" gives more human readable error messages to clients using ERR packets when appropriate. * Errors at the network layer is logged by "git daemon". diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt index 1354ad03f5..769a6fc06c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2 common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped. * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not - acccumulate the prefix paths. + accumulate the prefix paths. * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt index dab4831ca0..708df1ae19 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt @@ -58,4 +58,4 @@ Fixes since v1.8.2.1 conflicts have been applied. * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without - any message as its one of the prerequistes. + any message as its one of the prerequisites. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt index 04289e793c..9ba4f4da0f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.3.txt @@ -4,6 +4,27 @@ Git v1.8.3.3 Release Notes Fixes since v1.8.3.2 -------------------- + * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by programs + other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in v1.7.11. + + * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but + we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. + + * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the + index. + + * Many "git submodule" operations did not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in its error codepath. + + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like + "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part + needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes + around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and + unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047 + quoting. + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one when used as a persistent CGI. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..56f106e262 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v1.8.3.4 Release Notes +========================== + +This update is mostly to propagate documentation fixes and test +updates from the master front back to the maintenance track. + +Fixes since v1.8.3.3 +-------------------- + + * The bisect log listed incorrect commits when bisection ends with + only skipped ones. + + * The test coverage framework was left broken for some time. + + * The test suite for HTTP transport did not run with Apache 2.4. + + * "git diff" used to fail when core.safecrlf is set and the working + tree contents had mixed CRLF/LF line endings. Committing such a + content must be prohibited, but "git diff" should help the user to + locate and fix such problems without failing. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index b85f16b378..02f681b710 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -1,11 +1,57 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes ======================== +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple" +semantics that pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to +change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching" +semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you +can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and +does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it +will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no +mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .". +Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." +before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. + +In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so +that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory +and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this +release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this +behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>" +now before 2.0 is released. + + Updates since v1.8.3 -------------------- Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + * Cygwin port has been updated for more recent Cygwin 1.7. + + * "git rebase -i" now honors --strategy and -X options. + * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version. * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the @@ -32,9 +78,82 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate, when https:// connection failed. + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) adds a command to allow previewing the + contents locally before pushing it out, when working with a + MediaWiki remote. + UI, Workflows & Features + * Sample "post-receive-email" hook script got an enhanced replacement + "multimail" (in contrib/). + + * Also in contrib/ is a new "contacts" script that runs "git blame" + to find out the people who may be interested in a set of changes. + + * "git clean" command learned an interactive mode. + + * The "--head" option to "git show-ref" was only to add "HEAD" to the + list of candidate refs to be filtered by the usual rules + (e.g. "--heads" that only show refs under refs/heads). The meaning + of the option has been changed to always show "HEAD" regardless of + what filtering will be applied to any other ref. + + This is a backward incompatible change and might cause breakages to + people's existing scripts. + + * "git show -s" was less discoverable than it should have been. It + now has a natural synonym "git show --no-patch". + + * "git check-mailmap" is a new command that lets you map usernames + and e-mail addresses through the mailmap mechanism, just like many + built-in commands do. + + * "git name-rev" learned to name an annotated tag object back to its + tagname; "git name-rev $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)" gives "tags/v1.0.0", + for example. + + * "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow + on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot + smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be + reported. + + * "git rebase [-i]" used to leave just "rebase" as its reflog messages + for some operations. They have been reworded to be more informative. + + * In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach", + "submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to + update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update" + configuration variable. + + * "git submodule update" can optionally clone the submodule + repositories shallowly. + + * "git format-patch" learned "--from[=whom]" option, which sets the + "From: " header to the specified person (or the person who runs the + command, if "=whom" part is missing) and move the original author + information to an in-body From: header as necessary. + + * The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to + choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create + a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not + create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but + the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of + "last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration" + correctly. + + * "gitweb" learned to optionally place extra links that point at the + levels higher than the Gitweb pages themselves in the breadcrumbs, + so that it can be used as part of a larger installation. + + * "git log --format=" now honors i18n.logoutputencoding configuration + variable. + + * The "push.default=simple" mode of "git push" has been updated to + behave like "current" without requiring a remote tracking + information, when you push to a remote that is different from where + you fetch from (i.e. a triangular workflow). + * Having multiple "fixup!" on a line in the rebase instruction sheet did not work very well with "git rebase -i --autosquash". @@ -63,15 +182,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). -### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration -### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override -### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). + * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration + variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override + with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just - like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same + like we warn when more than one refs/ hierarchies share the same name. * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local @@ -79,9 +198,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed. - * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, - e.g. "git log @". - * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. @@ -123,6 +239,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is + allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of + the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite + us in a few codepaths where the trick it uses to cheat does show + breakages. This emulation has been removed and we use the native + lstat(2) emulation supplied by Cygwin now. + + * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in + use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end + (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)). + + * The code to allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob + objects is in. This may help working in a bare repository and + submodule updates. + + * Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2) + algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected. + * The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/ used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5 @@ -133,7 +267,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which has been tightened up. - * We read loose and packed rerferences in two steps, but after + * We read loose and packed references in two steps, but after deciding to read a loose ref but before actually opening it to read it, another process racing with us can unlink it, which would cause us to barf. The codepath has been updated to retry when such a @@ -188,6 +322,53 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * Newer Net::SMTP::SSL module does not want the user programs to use + the default behaviour to let server certificate go without + verification, so by default enable the verification with a + mechanism to turn it off if needed. + (merge 35035bb rr/send-email-ssl-verify later to maint). + + * When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file + descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2, + and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way. + (merge a11c396 tr/protect-low-3-fds later to maint). + + * The mailmap mechanism unnecessarily downcased the e-mail addresses + in the output, and also ignored the human name when it is a single + character name. + (merge bd23794 jc/mailmap-case-insensitivity later to maint). + + * In two places we did not check return value (expected to be a file + descriptor) correctly. + (merge a77f106 tr/fd-gotcha-fixes later to maint). + + * Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message + did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters. + (merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint). + + * Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes + Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port. + This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given. + (merge 1a741bf bc/send-email-use-port-as-separate-param later to maint). + + * "git diff" refused to even show difference when core.safecrlf is + set to true (i.e. error out) and there are offending lines in the + working tree files. + (merge 5430bb2 jc/maint-diff-core-safecrlf later to maint). + + * A test that should have failed but didn't revealed a bug that needs + to be corrected. + (merge 94d75d1 jc/t1512-fix later to maint). + + * An overlong path to a .git directory may have overflown the + temporary path buffer used to create a name for lockfiles. + (merge 2fbd4f9 mh/maint-lockfile-overflow later to maint). + + * Invocations of "git checkout" used internally by "git rebase" were + counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -" to the + the user to an unexpected place. + (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint). + * The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented. (merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint). @@ -198,23 +379,18 @@ details). * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in - v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks. - (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint). + v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintenance tracks. * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. - (merge a94cf2c bc/http-keep-memory-given-to-curl later to maint). * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the index, and this avoids it. - (merge b4dc085 jk/pull-into-dirty-unborn later to maint). * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a path whose name is not in ASCII. - (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint). * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. - (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint). * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part @@ -222,7 +398,6 @@ details). around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047 quoting. - (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit, @@ -233,102 +408,79 @@ details). * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one when used as a persistent CGI. - (merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint). * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. - (merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint). * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that renamed the $path being followed. - (merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint). * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''". - (merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint). * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some cases. - (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint). * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the command was started. - (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint). * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the plain vanilla "rebase". - (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint). * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was broken in the update to v1.8.3. - (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint). * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not work due to slight differences in array variable notation between these two shells. - (merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint). * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link by mistake. - (merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint). * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented. - (merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint). * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for testing. - (merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint). * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an editor. - (merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint). * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22" incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead). - (merge 84cf246 jc/strbuf-branchname-fix later to maint). * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends. - (merge aac3857 mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix later to maint). * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B was the bottom of the range being specified. - (merge a765499 kb/ancestry-path-threedots later to maint). * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces. - (merge 6c642a8 fc/macos-x-clipped-write later to maint). * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL. - (merge be4c828 da/darwin later to maint). * "git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. This case is now detected and clones from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz". - (merge 6000334 nd/clone-local-with-colon later to maint). * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we used to complain and die. Loosen the check. - (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint). * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error checks to lose data at the remote side. - (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint). * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) did not work correctly. - (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. - (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3b43a61d85 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,130 @@ +Git v1.8.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) +------------------------------------------ + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple" +semantics that pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to +change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching" +semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the +traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you +can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0. + +When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and +does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it +will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency +with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no +mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .". +Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start +training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ." +before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are +run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the +current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different +from today's version in such a situation. + +In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so +that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory +and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this +release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this +behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>" +now before 2.0 is released. + + +Updates since v1.8.4 +-------------------- + +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + * remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg + repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there". + + * imap-send ported to OS X uses Apple's security framework instead of + OpenSSL one. + + * Subversion 1.8.0 that was recently released breaks older subversion + clients coming over http/https in various ways. + + * "git fast-import" treats an empty path given to "ls" as the root of + the tree. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input + (with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the + option on the output side. Make both honor -z on the input and + output side the same way. + + * "git whatchanged" may still be used by old timers, but mention of + it in documents meant for new users will only waste readers' time + wonderig what the difference is between it and "git log". Make it + less prominent in the general part of the documentation and explain + that it is merely a "git log" with different default behaviour in + its own document. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Many commands use --dashed-option as a operation mode selector + (e.g. "git tag --delete") that the user can use at most one + (e.g. "git tag --delete --verify" is a nonsense) and you cannot + negate (e.g. "git tag --no-delete" is a nonsense). parse-options + API learned a new OPT_CMDMODE macro to make it easier to implement + such a set of options. + + * OPT_BOOLEAN() in parse-options API was misdesigned to be "counting + up" but many subcommands expect it to behave as "on/off". Update + them to use OPT_BOOL() which is a proper boolean. + + * "git gc" exits early without doing a double-work when it detects + that another instance of itself is already running. + + * Under memory pressure and/or file descriptor pressure, we used to + close pack windows that are not used and also closed filehandle to + an open but unused packfiles. These are now controlled separately + to better cope with the load. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.4 +------------------ + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for +details). + + * Setting submodule.*.path configuration variable to true (without + giving "= value") caused Git to segfault. + (merge 4b05440 jl/some-submodule-config-are-not-boolean later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" (there could be others, as the root cause is pretty + generic) fed a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and + expects it to come out literally, corrupting its error message. + (merge 89b0230 mm/no-shell-escape-in-die-message later to maint). + + * Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot + grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and + completion code started to use recently. + (merge a44aa69 bc/completion-for-bash-3.0 later to maint). + + * Code to read configuration from a blob object did not compile on + platforms with fgetc() etc. implemented as macros. + (merge 49d6cfa hv/config-from-blob later to maint-1.8.3). + + * The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a + shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow tags. + (merge 6da8bdc nd/fetch-pack-shallow-fix later to maint-1.8.3). |