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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt index 8a5e53b429..ea78e22a24 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt @@ -24,6 +24,33 @@ UI, Workflows & Features object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under refs/tags/). + * "git checkout [<tree-ish>] path..." learned to report the number of + paths that have been checked out of the index or the tree-ish, + which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which + the command checks out a branch. + + * "git quiltimport" learned "--keep-non-patch" option. + + * "git worktree remove" and "git worktree move" refused to work when + there is a submodule involved. This has been loosened to ignore + uninitialized submodules. + + * "git cherry-pick -m1" was forbidden when picking a non-merge + commit, even though there _is_ parent number 1 for such a commit. + This was done to avoid mistakes back when "cherry-pick" was about + picking a single commit, but is no longer useful with "cherry-pick" + that can pick a range of commits. Now the "-m$num" option is + allowed when picking any commit, as long as $num names an existing + parent of the commit. + + * Update "git multimail" from the upstream. + + * "git p4" update. + + * The "--format=<placeholder>" option of for-each-ref, branch and tag + learned to show a few more traits of objects that can be learned by + the object_info API. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -33,6 +60,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * More codepaths become aware of working with in-core repository instance other than the default "the_repository". + * The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions. + + * Portability updates for the HPE NonStop platform. + + * Earlier we added "-Wformat-security" to developer builds, assuming + that "-Wall" (which includes "-Wformat" which in turn is required + to use "-Wformat-security") is always in effect. This is not true + when config.mak.autogen is in use, unfortunately. This has been + fixed by unconditionally adding "-Wall" to developer builds. + + * The loose object cache used to optimize existence look-up has been + updated. + + * Flaky tests can now be repeatedly run under load with the + "--stress" option. + (merge fb7d1e3ac8 sg/stress-test later to maint). + Fixes since v2.20 ----------------- @@ -63,4 +107,82 @@ Fixes since v2.20 which has been corrected. (merge 02818a98d7 mk/http-backend-kill-children-before-exit later to maint). + * "git rev-list --exclude-promisor-objects" had to take an object + that does not exist locally (and is lazily available) from the + command line without barfing, but the code dereferenced NULL. + (merge 4cf67869b2 md/list-lazy-objects-fix later to maint). + + * The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor + ":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for + enumerating paths on the filesystem. + (merge 5a0b97b34c nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk later to maint). + + * BSD port updates. + (merge 4e3ecbd439 cb/openbsd-allows-reading-directory later to maint). + (merge b6bdc2a0f5 cb/t5004-empty-tar-archive-fix later to maint). + (merge 82cbc8cde2 cb/test-lint-cp-a later to maint). + + * Lines that begin with a certain keyword that come over the wire, as + well as lines that consist only of one of these keywords, ought to + be painted in color for easier eyeballing, but the latter was + broken ever since the feature was introduced in 2.19, which has + been corrected. + (merge 1f67290450 hn/highlight-sideband-keywords later to maint). + + * "git log -G<regex>" looked for a hunk in the "git log -p" patch + output that contained a string that matches the given pattern. + Optimize this code to ignore binary files, which by default will + not show any hunk that would match any pattern (unless textconv or + the --text option is in effect, that is). + (merge e0e7cb8080 tb/log-G-binary later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" ought to use a single job unless asked, but + by mistake used multiple jobs, which has been fixed. + (merge e3a9d1aca9 sb/submodule-fetchjobs-default-to-one later to maint). + + * "git stripspace" should be usable outside a git repository, but + under the "-s" or "-c" mode, it didn't. + (merge 957da75802 jn/stripspace-wo-repository later to maint). + + * Some of the documentation pages formatted incorrectly with + Asciidoctor, which have been fixed. + (merge b62eb1d2f4 ma/asciidoctor later to maint). + + * The core.worktree setting in a submodule repository should not be + pointing at a directory when the submodule loses its working tree + (e.g. getting deinit'ed), but the code did not properly maintain + this invariant. + + * With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name" + when the completed path has a special character like SP in it, + without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename. This + has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like + Bash completion does. + + * The test suite tried to see if it is run under bash, but the check + itself failed under some other implementations of shell (notably + under NetBSD). This has been corrected. + (merge 54ea72f09c sg/test-bash-version-fix later to maint). + + * "git gc" and "git repack" did not close the open packfiles that + they found unneeded before removing them, which didn't work on a + platform incapable of removing an open file. This has been + corrected. + (merge 5bdece0d70 js/gc-repack-close-before-remove later to maint). + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 89ba9a79ae hb/t0061-dot-in-path-fix later to maint). + (merge d173e799ea sb/diff-color-moved-config-option-fixup later to maint). + (merge a8f5a59067 en/directory-renames-nothanks-doc-update later to maint). + (merge ec36c42a63 nd/indentation-fix later to maint). + (merge f116ee21cd do/gitweb-strict-export-conf-doc later to maint). + (merge 112ea42663 fd/gitweb-snapshot-conf-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 1cadad6f65 tb/use-common-win32-pathfuncs-on-cygwin later to maint). + (merge 57e9dcaa65 km/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge b8b4cb27e6 ds/gc-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 3b3357626e nd/style-opening-brace later to maint). + (merge b4583d5595 es/doc-worktree-guessremote-config later to maint). + (merge cce99cd8c6 ds/commit-graph-assert-missing-parents later to maint). + (merge 0650614982 cy/completion-typofix later to maint). + (merge 6881925ef5 rs/sha1-file-close-mapped-file-on-error later to maint). + (merge bd8d6f0def en/show-ref-doc-fix later to maint). |