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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc6fe1711f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +Git v2.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.2 +------------------ + + * The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly + talked about "--contents --children". + + * "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which + obviously would not work well when there are too many of them. + + * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive + filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem + cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a + randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its + ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the + cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free. + This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of + borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat. + + * When the "git am" command was reimplemented in C, "git am -3" had a + small regression where it is aborted in its error handling codepath + when underlying merge-recursive failed in some ways. + + * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read + list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they + only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. + + * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string + to note where options should come on their command line, but we + spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days. + + * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate + work trees created via "git worktree add". + + * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is + lost. It now is saved to a file in $GIT_DIR and is shown next time + the "gc --auto" is run. + + * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents + in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM. + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" that tries to sanity check the edited + insn sheet before it uses it has become too picky on Windows where + CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR on the line + read via the "read" built-in command. + + * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the + end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the + packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that + cannot remove a file that is still open. + + * Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create + a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported. + + * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it + logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser + of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API. + + * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo + backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository + format version "1", with an extension mechanism. + + * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling + (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you + cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune"). + + * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end + of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that, + but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash. + + * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in + grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no + grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is + quiescent. + + * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit + object header, which is fixed. + + * "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line + argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0. + + * Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the + mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but + it didn't and silently favoured the removal. + + * "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library. + + * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl. + + * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git + worktree add" as a local source of "git clone". + + * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL, + Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the + same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line + at a time to work around the problem. + + * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the + list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to + correctly initialize the list. + + * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string + "HEAD", which has been corrected. + + * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it + needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. + +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 239fe9f6b7..ca2c24bea2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git clone --dissociate" learned that it can be used even when "--reference" was not used at the same time. + * "git blame" learnt to take "--first-parent" and "--reverse" at the + same time when it makes sense. + + * "git checkout" did not follow the usual "--[no-]progress" + convention and implemented only "--quiet" that is essentially + a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the + usual "--[no-]progress". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -107,6 +115,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The implementation of "git mailinfo" was refactored so that a mailinfo() function can be directly called from inside a process. + * With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in + our test scripts has become a lot easier. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -304,6 +315,32 @@ notes for details). argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0. (merge 29abb33 jc/add-u-A-default-to-top later to maint). + * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it + needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. + (merge b1b49ff rs/daemon-plug-child-leak later to maint). + + * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string + "HEAD", which has been corrected. + (merge c72b49d rs/wt-status-detached-branch-fix later to maint). + + * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the + list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to + correctly initialize the list. + (merge 9a6e4f0 jk/initialization-fix-to-add-submodule-odb later to maint). + + * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory + for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be + copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already + special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try + computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may + not even exist or may be a directory. + (merge cfe2d4b da/difftool later to maint). + + * A Range: request can be responded with a full response and when + asked properly libcurl knows how to strip the result down to the + requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request + and it did not kick in. + * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc. (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint). (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint). @@ -321,3 +358,4 @@ notes for details). (merge b2af482 xf/user-manual-ff later to maint). (merge e510ab8 rs/pop-commit later to maint). (merge fdcdb77 js/misc-fixes later to maint). + (merge c949b00 rs/show-branch-argv-array later to maint). |