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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4783e25ce1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,268 @@ +Git 2.10 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +Updates since v2.9 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user + that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing. + + * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone + some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships. + + * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for + "@{-1}", the previous branch. + + * Update the funcname definition to support css files. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git + status" options. + + * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the + receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way + that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the + users. + + * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic + experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split + as "git diff" output. + (merge 46e3d17 jk/add-i-diff-compact-heuristics later to maint). + + * "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when + responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook. + (merge 20b20a2 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint). + + * Teach format-patch and mailsplit (hence "am") how a line that + happens to begin with "From " in the e-mail message is quoted with + ">", so that these lines can be restored to their original shape. + (merge d9925d1 ew/mboxrd-format-am later to maint). + + * "git repack" learned the "--keep-unreachable" option, which sends + loose unreachable objects to a pack instead of leaving them loose. + This helps heuristics based on the number of loose objects + (e.g. "gc --auto"). + (merge e26a8c4 jk/repack-keep-unreachable later to maint). + + * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width + relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to + draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It + also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative + to the right border. + (merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint). + + * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing + 0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both + 0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing + embarrassment and a minor confusion. Detect such an input and + offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out. + (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could + eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the + submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt. + + * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and + strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc. + + * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a + command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it. + (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint). + + * A couple of "git svn" updates. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid + creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have, + using *.unpackLimit configuration. + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint). + + * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options + API. + + * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the + first step to move many state variables into a structure that can + be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more + than once. + + * HTTP transport gained an option to produce more detailed debugging + trace. + (merge 73e57aa ep/http-curl-trace later to maint). + + * Instead of taking advantage of a struct string_list that is + allocated with all NULs happens to be STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP kind, + initialize them explicitly as such, to document their behaviour + better. + (merge 2721ce2 jk/string-list-static-init later to maint). + + * HTTPd tests learned to show the server error log to help diagnosing + a failing tests. + (merge 44f243d nd/test-lib-httpd-show-error-log-in-verbose later to maint). + + * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to + be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. + (merge b7410f6 km/fetch-do-not-free-remote-name later to maint). + + * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when + bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the + data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. + (merge 43ec550 jk/bisect-show-tree later to maint). + + * Further preparatory clean-up for "worktree" feature continues. + (merge 0409e0b nd/worktree-cleanup-post-head-protection later to maint). + + * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use + GPG signature have been documented. + (merge cc6ee97 mg/signature-doc later to maint). + + * A new run-command API function pipe_command() is introduced to + sanely feed data to the standard input while capturing data from + the standard output and the standard error of an external process, + which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking. + + The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been + updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for + errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status). + (merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). + + * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent + version of Git even when testing an older installed version. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint). + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint). + + * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, + configuration variables and environment variables are consistently + typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. + + * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is + documented now. + + * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when + referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. + + * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch + creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the + reflog was truncated. + + * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those + who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. + + * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile. + + * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data + on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. + + * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape + hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to + use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. + + * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) + + * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working + tree". + + * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with + the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). + + * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git + cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + + * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" + that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also + be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream + of the submodules are not prepared for. + (merge 18a74a0 sb/clone-shallow-passthru later to maint). + + * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' + to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. + (merge 01247e0 lc/shell-default-value-noexpand later to maint). + + * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C + functions that do not take any parameters, which has been + corrected. + (merge 0767172 js/mingw-parameter-less-c-functions later to maint). + + * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not + prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a + bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking + +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead + of aborting. + (merge bab7483 jk/tzoffset-fix later to maint). + + * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has + been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the + command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). + (merge d2addc3 ak/t7800-wo-readlink later to maint). + + * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it + is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. + (merge e3efa94 js/perf-on-apple later to maint). + + * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to + report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has + been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for + paths that are _inside_. + (merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint). + + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + (merge f793582 jn/preformatted-doc-url later to maint). + + * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and + finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is + commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank + lines to match. + (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint). + + * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our + colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on + Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years. + (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint). + (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint). + (merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint). + (merge 5819c2e sb/t5614-modernize later to maint). + (merge fe0537a cb/t7810-test-label-fix later to maint). + (merge 412b9a1 jc/t2300-setup later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt index 8d484b170a..f4e2552836 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt @@ -52,4 +52,18 @@ Fixes since v2.8.3 result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead. + * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC + variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did + not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is + known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization. + + * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed. + + * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in + dir-diff mode. + + * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?" + detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows". + + Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index a60e92e0dd..b61d36712f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ Git 2.9 Release Notes ===================== -Backward compatibility note ---------------------------- +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and -"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use -"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this. +"git log" family by default enable the rename detection; you can still +use "diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this. Merging two branches that have no common ancestor with "git merge" is by default forbidden now to prevent creating such an unusual merge by @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/). - * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" - now enables the rename detection by default. + * The end-user facing commands like "git diff" and "git log" + now enable the rename detection by default. * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and there is no good way to override it from the command line. As @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features as the signal to clear the values specified in various files. * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to - customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session. + customize the diff shown in "git add -i" sessions. * "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author names. @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects that started their lives independently. - * "git pull" has been taught to pass --allow-unrelated-histories + * "git pull" has been taught to pass the "--allow-unrelated-histories" option to underlying "git merge". * "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author - originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in + originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default to help such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option, "--no-expand-tabs". @@ -97,13 +97,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was no way to record these separate resolutions. - (merge d9d501b068 jc/rerere-multi later to maint). * "git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from the history in Perforce. * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of - tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up + tag to name a given commit, because it tried to come up with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did @@ -113,16 +112,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the commit." - (merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint). - * "git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option. + * "git clone" learned the "--shallow-submodules" option. * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable. - * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be - more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the - contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit. + * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of + commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable + by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and + after it belong to logically separate units. It is still + experimental. * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing where the hook directory is. @@ -147,9 +147,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features (public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in its output. - * "git commit" learned to pay attention to "commit.verbose" - configuration variable and act as if "--verbose" option was - given from the command line. + * "git commit" learned to pay attention to the "commit.verbose" + configuration variable and act as if the "--verbose" option + was given from the command line. + + * Updated documentation gives hints to GMail users with two-factor + auth enabled that they need app-specific-password when using + "git send-email". + + * The manpage output of our documentation did not render well in + terminal; typeset literals in bold by default to make them stand + out more. + + * The mark-up in the top-level README.md file has been updated to + typeset CLI command names differently from the body text. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -171,7 +182,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in - parallel. + parallel. Other updates to "git submodule" that move pieces of + logic to C continues. * Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization. @@ -185,16 +197,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a Git repository. - * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable + * Code restructuring around the "refs" API to prepare for pluggable refs backends. - * Sources to many test helper binaries (and the generated helpers) + * Sources to many test helper binaries and the generated helpers have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the top level of the tree. * Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag" commands by making one directly call into the other. - (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint). * "merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree. @@ -206,9 +217,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm". - * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues. - - * Update of "git submodule" to move pieces of logic to C continues. + * Move from "unsigned char[20]" to "struct object_id" continues. * The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new error_errno() reporting helper is introduced. @@ -221,24 +230,40 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs being tested intact. - (merge d88785e jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere later to maint). * t0040 had too many unnecessary repetitions in its test data. Teach test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it expects in its output, so that these repetitions can be cleaned up. - * Add perf test for "rebase -i" + * Add perf test for "rebase -i". * Common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation are found by "make check-docs". * t9xxx series has been updated primarily for readability, while - fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelains have also been - updated to fix possible bugs around their use of "test -z" and - "test -n". + fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelain commands have + also been updated to fix possible bugs around their use of + "test -z" and "test -n". * CI test was taught to run git-svn tests. + * "git cat-file --batch-all" has been sped up, by taking advantage + of the fact that it does not have to read a list of objects, in two + ways. + + * test updates to make it more readable and maintainable. + (merge e6273f4 es/t1500-modernize later to maint). + + * "make DEVELOPER=1" worked as expected; setting DEVELOPER=1 in + config.mak didn't. + (merge 51dd3e8 mm/makefile-developer-can-be-in-config-mak later to maint). + + * The way how "submodule--helper list" signals unmatch error to its + callers has been updated. + + * A bash-ism "local" has been removed from "git submodule" scripted + Porcelain. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -326,11 +351,11 @@ notes for details). * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did not work well. - * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs - we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change. + * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation by updating a few API + elements we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change. * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware - that socks5h:// proxies behave differently. + that socks5h:// proxies behave differently from socks5:// proxies. * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed. @@ -351,12 +376,12 @@ notes for details). * When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to - update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later - operations. + update the index, which left an inconsistent state that would + break later operations. * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command - recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run - from the root level of the superproject. + recurses into, but these paths were incorrectly reported when + the command was not run from the root level of the superproject. * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However, @@ -388,7 +413,6 @@ notes for details). * "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent commit to the first commit on the branch. - (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint). * Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test. @@ -414,24 +438,19 @@ notes for details). the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of "git stash". - (merge 6694856 jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign later to maint). * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. - (merge e5a39ad bn/http-cookiefile-config later to maint). * Consolidate description of tilde-expansion that is done to configuration variables that take pathname to a single place. - (merge dca83ab jc/config-pathname-type later to maint). * Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. - (merge f6a5279 sb/submodule-deinit-all later to maint). * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken, which are all fixed with this. - (merge 1cca17d jc/linkgit-fix later to maint). * "git rerere" can get confused by conflict markers deliberately left by the inner merge step, because they are indistinguishable from @@ -441,48 +460,53 @@ notes for details). (merge 0f9fd5c jc/ll-merge-internal later to maint). * CI test was taught to build documentation pages. - (merge b98712b ls/travis-build-doc later to maint). * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as potential error and warn. - (merge 6d2d780 jc/fsck-nul-in-commit later to maint). * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher). - (merge 8e98b35 jk/rebase-interative-eval-fix later to maint). * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to customize this behaviour. - (merge ebf31e7 js/windows-dotgit later to maint). * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP. - (merge 05a5869 kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc later to maint). * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed. - (merge caa47ad tb/core-eol-fix later to maint). * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization. - (merge 90a78b8 ar/diff-args-osx-precompose later to maint). * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in dir-diff mode. - (merge 366f9ce da/difftool later to maint). + + * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?" + detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows". + + * We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we + added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe. + (merge 462cbb4 rj/log-decorate-auto later to maint). + + * "git fast-import --export-marks" would overwrite the existing marks + file even when it makes a dump from its custom die routine. + Prevent it from doing so when we have an import-marks file but + haven't finished reading it. + (merge f4beed6 fc/fast-import-broken-marks-file later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i", after it fails to auto-resolve the conflict, had + an unnecessary call to "git rerere" from its very early days, which + was spotted recently; the call has been removed. + (merge 7063693 js/rebase-i-dedup-call-to-rerere later to maint). * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates - (merge 832c0e5 lp/typofixes later to maint). - (merge f5ee54a sb/z-is-gnutar-ism later to maint). - (merge 2e3926b va/i18n-misc-updates later to maint). - (merge f212dcc bn/config-doc-tt-varnames later to maint). - (merge f54bea4 nd/remote-plural-ours-plus-theirs later to maint). - (merge 2bb0518 ak/t4151-ls-files-could-be-empty later to maint). - (merge 4df4313 jc/test-seq later to maint). - (merge a75a308 tb/t5601-sed-fix later to maint). - (merge 6c1fbe1 va/i18n-remote-comment-to-align later to maint). - (merge dee2303 va/mailinfo-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint). + (merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint). + (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint). + (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..338394097e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +Git v2.9.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + + * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, + configuration variables and environment variables are consistently + typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. + + * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is + documented now. + + * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when + referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. + + * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch + creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the + reflog was truncated. + + * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those + who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. + + * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data + on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. + + * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape + hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to + use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. + + * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) + + * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working + tree". + + * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with + the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). + + * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git + cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + + * "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic + experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split + as "git diff" output. + + * "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" specifies the width + relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to + draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It + also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative + to the right border. + + * The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to + be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up. + + * "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when + bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the + data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly. + + * Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use + GPG signature have been documented. + + * Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth" + that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also + be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream + of the submodules are not prepared for. + + * Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}' + to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes. + + * Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C + functions that do not take any parameters, which has been + corrected. + + * The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not + prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a + bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking + +0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead + of aborting. + + * One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has + been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the + command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802). + + * t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it + is updated to "gtime" on Darwin. + + * A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to + report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has + been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for + paths that are _inside_. + + * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the + documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository. + Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html + instead. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |