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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt | 48 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt | 37 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt (renamed from Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt) | 71 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d18c40389e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.3 +-------------------- + + * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. + Diagnose it as an error. + + * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks + to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. + + * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket + layer in "git send-email". + + * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before + editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned + control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the + first modified path was a submodule. + + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + + * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for + keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could + cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a + rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt + to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to + fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. + + * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag + nicely. + + * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree + used to emit an error. + + * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of + parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but + there was. + + * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote + the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. + + * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option + because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9191ce948f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Git v1.8.5.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.4 +-------------------- + + * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match + some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. + + * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when + the command was reimplemented in C. + + * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path + (e.g. Fedora rawhide). + + * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation + and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, + e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. + + * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref + directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different + validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the + client side's validation to allow such a ref. + + * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits + reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent + bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series. + + * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal + result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself. + + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt index 43c7b682a6..752d79127a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Git v1.9 Release Notes -====================== +Git v1.9.0 Release Notes +======================== Backward compatibility notes ---------------------------- @@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ Backward compatibility notes "git submodule foreach $cmd $args" used to treat "$cmd $args" the same way "ssh" did, concatenating them into a single string and letting the shell unquote. Careless users who forget to sufficiently quote $args -gets their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got +get their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got unexpected results due to this. Starting from this release, the command line is passed directly to the shell, if it has an argument. Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users -could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short -while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped. +could optionally choose to write their loose objects for a short +while between v1.4.3 and v1.5.3 era, has been dropped. -The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the -command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same +The meanings of the "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the +command fetches tags _in addition to_ what is fetched by the same command line without the option. -The way "git push $there $what" interprets $what part given on the +The way "git push $there $what" interprets the $what part given on the command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced. @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote). -Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) ------------------------------------------- +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0.0) +-------------------------------------------- When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted and we did not bother supporting such usage. This release attempts to allow object transfer out of a shallowly-cloned repository in a - more controlled way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository + more controlled way (i.e. the receiver becomes a shallow repository with a truncated history). * Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS @@ -107,12 +107,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions. - * Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while 'frotz/nitfol' + * Fetching a 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while a 'frotz/nitfol' remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch was still there, would error out, primarily because the command was not told that it is allowed to lose any information on our side. "git fetch --prune" - now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and - store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch. + now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room for fetching and + storing the 'frotz' remote-tracking branch. * "diff.orderfile=<file>" configuration variable can be used to pretend as if the "-O<file>" option were given from the command @@ -218,42 +218,35 @@ track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git - diff A B -- path1 path2") was too agrresive and failed to match + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. - (merge e4ddb05 as/tree-walk-fix-aggressive-short-cut later to maint). * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when the command was reimplemented in C. - (merge b861e23 sb/repack-in-c later to maint). * An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with - negative ref had performance regression. + negative ref had a performance regression. (merge 200abe7 jk/mark-edges-uninteresting later to maint). * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where - /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists, but it cannot used as SSL_ca_path + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path (e.g. Fedora rawhide). - (merge 01645b7 rk/send-email-ssl-cert later to maint). * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. - (merge 9892d5d jk/interpret-branch-name-fix later to maint). * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the client side's validation to allow such a ref. - (merge 4c22408 jk/allow-fetch-onelevel-refname later to maint). * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series. - (merge a743528 jc/revision-range-unpeel later to maint). * documentations to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". - (merge 08f19cf jc/maint-pull-docfix later to maint). * "git diff A B submod" and "git diff A B submod/" ought to have done the same for a submodule "submod", but didn't. @@ -268,17 +261,14 @@ for details). * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. - (merge 2a07e43 ow/stash-with-ifs later to maint). * The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option names. - (merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint). - * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of - parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but + * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit for the number of + parents of an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but there was. - (merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint). * The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the t/ directory. @@ -286,30 +276,24 @@ for details). * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself. - (merge 8f29299 bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup later to maint). * A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't. - (merge ed7eda8 km/gc-eperm later to maint). * An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak. - (merge e1c1a32 jk/credential-plug-leak later to maint). * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree used to emit an error. - (merge 64ed07c nd/add-empty-fix later to maint). * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag nicely. - (merge 5e1361c bc/log-decoration later to maint). * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a - rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt - to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to + rough estimate of how many are available and we do not even attempt + to use up all available file descriptors ourselves, it is nicer to fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. - (merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint). * read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no @@ -320,16 +304,13 @@ for details). * "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not behave very well. - (merge 6554dfa jk/cat-file-regression-fix later to maint). * "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in the same way. - (merge 62f162f jk/rev-parse-double-dashes later to maint). * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error out, but it didn't. - (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint). * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that @@ -337,36 +318,28 @@ for details). * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket layer in "git send-email". - (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint). * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the first modified path was a submodule. - (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint). * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. Diagnose it as an error. - (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint). - * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + * Remote repository URLs expressed in scp-style host:path notation are parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. - (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint). * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the command line parser. - (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint). * "git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of the named object. - (merge 4ef8d1d sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence later to maint). * "git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write a tree with an 0{40} object in it. - (merge 77b43ca jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix later to maint). * Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started with the same byte value, due to a race condition. - (merge b2476a6 jh/loose-object-dirs-creation-race later to maint). |