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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.1.txt | 27 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt | 267 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f9b06b8e1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +Git 2.31.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.31 +----------------- + + * The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure + there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31 + timeframe. + + * The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly + duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc. + + * "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not + take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression + has been corrected. + + * Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements. + + * CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc(). + + * Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target. + + * Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems, + which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt index 6de5c3dac8..f6feab46b6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt @@ -7,8 +7,15 @@ Backward compatibility notes * ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are symbolic links are ignored. + * "git apply --3way" used to first attempt a straight application, + and only fell back to the 3-way merge algorithm when the stright + application failed. Starting with this version, the command will + first try the 3-way merge algorithm and only when it fails (either + resulting with conflict or the base versions of blobs are missing), + falls back to the usual patch application. -Updates since v2.32 + +Updates since v2.31 ------------------- UI, Workflows & Features @@ -25,11 +32,157 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder. + * "git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything + under the sun into a single pack (or split by size). A cleverer + strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been + introduced. + + * The http codepath learned to let the credential layer to cache the + password used to unlock a certificate that has successfully been + used. + + * "git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes made + to the contents while keeping the original log message intact, + learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be used to + tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message, + respectively. + + * When accessing a server with a URL like https://user:pass@site/, we + did not to fall back to the basic authentication with the + credential material embedded in the URL after the "Negotiate" + authentication failed. Now we do. + + * "git send-email" learned to honor the core.hooksPath configuration. + + * "git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is + not an integer. + + * "git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together + with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to + support custom trailers. + + * "git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we + notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository. + + * A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain + refs to be given a reachability bitmap. + + * "gitweb" learned "e-mail privacy" feature to redact strings that + look like e-mail addresses on various pages. + + * "git apply --3way" has always been "to fall back to 3-way merge + only when straight application fails". Swap the order of falling + back so that 3-way is always attempted first (only when the option + is given, of course) and then straight patch application is used as + a fallback when it fails. + + * "git apply" now takes "--3way" and "--cached" at the same time, and + work and record results only in the index. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has learned that + CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is a possible pseudo-ref. + + * Userdiff patterns for "Scheme" has been added. + + * "git log" learned "--diff-merges=<style>" option, with an + associated configuration variable log.diffMerges. + + * "git log --format=..." placeholders learned %ah/%ch placeholders to + request the --date=human output. + + * Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the + system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets + users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration + (setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as + setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the + per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig. + + * "git add" and "git rm" learned not to touch those paths that are + outside of sparse checkout. + + * "git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option, + which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the + packfile generated by pack-objects. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) for "git stash" has been + updated. + + * "git subtree" updates. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Rename detection rework continues. + * GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is a mechanism to skip test pieces with + prerequisites to catch broken tests that depend on the side effects + of optional pieces, but did not work at all when negative + prerequisites were involved. + (merge 27d578d904 jk/fail-prereq-testfix later to maint). + + * "git diff-index" codepath has been taught to trust fsmonitor status + to reduce number of lstat() calls. + (merge 7e5aa13d2c nk/diff-index-fsmonitor later to maint). + + * Reorganize Makefile to allow building git.o and other essential + objects without extra stuff needed only for testing. + + * Preparatory API changes for parallel checkout. + + * A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like + fsmonitor on top. + + * Fsck API clean-up. + + * SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users + has been introduced. Also a procedure to follow when preparing + embargoed releases has been spelled out. + (merge 09420b7648 js/security-md later to maint). + + * Optimize "rev-list --use-bitmap-index --objects" corner case that + uses negative tags as the stopping points. + + * CMake update for vsbuild. + + * An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object + back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced. + + * Generate [ec]tags under $(QUIET_GEN). + + * Clean-up codepaths that implements "git send-email --validate" + option and improves the message from it. + + * The last remnant of gettext-poison has been removed. + + * The test framework has been taught to optionally turn the default + merge strategy to "ort" throughout the system where we use + three-way merges internally, like cherry-pick, rebase etc., + primarily to enhance its test coverage (the strategy has been + available as an explicit "-s ort" choice). + + * A bit of code clean-up and a lot of test clean-up around userdiff + area. + + * Handling of "promisor packs" that allows certain objects to be + missing and lazily retrievable has been optimized (a bit). + + * When packet_write() fails, we gave an extra error message + unnecessarily, which has been corrected. + + * The checkout machinery has been taught to perform the actual + write-out of the files in parallel when able. + + * Show errno in the trace output in the error codepath that calls + read_raw_ref method. + + * Effort to make the command line completion (in contrib/) safe with + "set -u" continues. + + * Tweak a few tests for "log --format=..." that show timestamps in + various formats. + + * The reflog expiry machinery has been taught to emit trace events. + Fixes since v2.31 ----------------- @@ -37,29 +190,22 @@ Fixes since v2.31 * The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31 timeframe. - (merge 097ea2c848 jh/fsmonitor-prework later to maint). * The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc. - (merge 4abc57848d js/fsmonitor-unpack-fix later to maint). * "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression has been corrected. - (merge 7730f85594 jk/bisect-peel-tag-fix later to maint). * Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements. - (merge 116affac3f rs/avoid-null-statement-after-macro-call later to maint). * CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc(). - (merge 1c57cc70ec rs/calloc-array later to maint). * Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target. - (merge 68b5c3aa48 ah/make-fuzz-all-doc-update later to maint). * Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems, which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe. - (merge 93c3d297b5 tb/git-mv-icase-fix later to maint). * We had a code to diagnose and die cleanly when a required clean/smudge filter is missing, but an assert before that @@ -86,14 +232,109 @@ Fixes since v2.31 which has been corrected. (merge 75555676ad bc/clone-bare-with-conflicting-config later to maint). + * When "git checkout" removes a path that does not exist in the + commit it is checking out, it wasn't careful enough not to follow + symbolic links, which has been corrected. + (merge fab78a0c3d mt/checkout-remove-nofollow later to maint). + + * A few option description strings started with capital letters, + which were corrected. + (merge 5ee90326dc cc/downcase-opt-help later to maint). + + * Plug or annotate remaining leaks that trigger while running the + very basic set of tests. + (merge 68ffe095a2 ah/plugleaks later to maint). + + * The hashwrite() API uses a buffering mechanism to avoid calling + write(2) too frequently. This logic has been refactored to be + easier to understand. + (merge ddaf1f62e3 ds/clarify-hashwrite later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick/revert" with or without "--[no-]edit" did not spawn + the editor as expected (e.g. "revert --no-edit" after a conflict + still asked to edit the message), which has been corrected. + (merge 39edfd5cbc en/sequencer-edit-upon-conflict-fix later to maint). + + * "git daemon" has been tightened against systems that take backslash + as directory separator. + (merge 9a7f1ce8b7 rs/daemon-sanitize-dir-sep later to maint). + + * A NULL-dereference bug has been corrected in an error codepath in + "git for-each-ref", "git branch --list" etc. + (merge c685450880 jk/ref-filter-segfault-fix later to maint). + + * Streamline the codepath to fix the UTF-8 encoding issues in the + argv[] and the prefix on macOS. + (merge c7d0e61016 tb/precompose-prefix-simplify later to maint). + + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) had a couple of + references that would have given a warning under the "-u" (nounset) + option. + (merge c5c0548d79 vs/completion-with-set-u later to maint). + + * When "git pack-objects" makes a literal copy of a part of existing + packfile using the reachability bitmaps, its update to the progress + meter was broken. + (merge 8e118e8490 jk/pack-objects-bitmap-progress-fix later to maint). + + * The dependencies for config-list.h and command-list.h were broken + when the former was split out of the latter, which has been + corrected. + (merge 56550ea718 sg/bugreport-fixes later to maint). + + * "git push --quiet --set-upstream" was not quiet when setting the + upstream branch configuration, which has been corrected. + (merge f3cce896a8 ow/push-quiet-set-upstream later to maint). + + * The prefetch task in "git maintenance" assumed that "git fetch" + from any remote would fetch all its local branches, which would + fetch too much if the user is interested in only a subset of + branches there. + (merge 32f67888d8 ds/maintenance-prefetch-fix later to maint). + + * Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but + not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8. + (merge 9364bf465d ab/pathname-encoding-doc later to maint). + + * "git --config-env var=val cmd" weren't accepted (only + --config-env=var=val was). + (merge c331551ccf ps/config-env-option-with-separate-value later to maint). + + * When the reachability bitmap is in effect, the "do not lose + recently created objects and those that are reachable from them" + safety to protect us from races were disabled by mistake, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2ba582ba4c jk/prune-with-bitmap-fix later to maint). + + * Cygwin pathname handling fix. + (merge bccc37fdc7 ad/cygwin-no-backslashes-in-paths later to maint). + + * "git rebase --[no-]reschedule-failed-exec" did not work well with + its configuration variable, which has been corrected. + (merge e5b32bffd1 ab/rebase-no-reschedule-failed-exec later to maint). + + * Portability fix for command line completion script (in contrib/). + (merge f2acf763e2 si/zsh-complete-comment-fix later to maint). + + * "git repack -A -d" in a partial clone unnecessarily loosened + objects in promisor pack. + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 486f4bd183 jc/calloc-fix later to maint). - (merge 5f70859c15 jt/clone-unborn-head later to maint). - (merge cfd409ed09 km/config-doc-typofix later to maint). - (merge 8588aa8657 jk/slimmed-down later to maint). - (merge 241b5d3ebe rs/xcalloc-takes-nelem-first later to maint). (merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint). (merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint). (merge ea7e63921c jr/doc-ignore-typofix later to maint). (merge 23c781f173 ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc later to maint). (merge 42efa1231a jk/filter-branch-sha256 later to maint). + (merge 4c8e3dca6e tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config later to maint). + (merge 6534d436a2 bs/asciidoctor-installation-hints later to maint). + (merge 47957485b3 ab/read-tree later to maint). + (merge 2be927f3d1 ab/diff-no-index-tests later to maint). + (merge 76593c09bb ab/detox-gettext-tests later to maint). + (merge 28e29ee38b jc/doc-format-patch-clarify later to maint). + (merge fc12b6fdde fm/user-manual-use-preface later to maint). + (merge dba94e3a85 cc/test-helper-bloom-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 61a7660516 hn/reftable-tables-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 81ed96a9b2 jt/fetch-pack-request-fix later to maint). + (merge 151b6c2dd7 jc/doc-do-not-capitalize-clarification later to maint). + (merge 9160068ac6 js/access-nul-emulation-on-windows later to maint). + (merge 7a14acdbe6 po/diff-patch-doc later to maint). |