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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 67d9801da3..06ba2f803f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -67,6 +67,61 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach" option to create a new worktree without being on a branch. + * "format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught + not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version. + + * "add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent. + + * The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the + underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help + reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging. + + * "git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only + one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take + combination of both kind of filtering. + + * "git maintenance", a "git gc"'s big brother, has been introduced to + take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the + object database cleaning. + + * "git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to + outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook. + + * "git push" that wants to be atomic and wants to send push + certificate learned not to prepare and sign the push certificate + when it fails the local check (hence due to atomicity it is known + that no certificate is needed). + + * "git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom + filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters + option. + + * The transport protocol v2 has become the default again. + + * The installation procedure learned to optionally omit "git-foo" + executable files for each 'foo' built-in subcommand, which are only + required by old timers that still rely on the age old promise that + prepending "git --exec-path" output to PATH early in their script + will keep the "git-foo" calls they wrote working. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git restore + -s <TAB>" is often followed by a refname. + + * "git shortlog" has been taught to group commits by the contents of + the trailer lines, like "Reviewed-by:", "Coauthored-by:", etc. + + * "git archive" learns the "--add-file" option to include untracked + files into a snapshot from a tree-ish. + + * "git fetch" and "git push" support negative refspecs. + + * "git format-patch" learns to take "whenAble" as a possible value + for the format.useAutoBase configuration variable to become no-op + when the automatically computed base does not make sense. + + * Credential helpers are now allowed to terminate lines with CRLF + line ending, as well as LF line ending. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -101,7 +156,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. barrier to adoption. * The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that - there is no inter-operability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 + there is no interoperability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 repositories yet. * CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile. @@ -129,10 +184,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file.. - * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to - execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" - form, which have been corrected. - * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands have been turned into into built-in. @@ -155,10 +206,31 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making distribution tarballs. + * "git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater + parallelism. + + * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon + seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken. + + * The logic to skip testing on the tagged commit and the tag itself + was not quite consistent which led to failure of Windows test + tasks. It has been revamped to consistently skip revisions that + have already been tested, based on the tree object of the revision. + Fixes since v2.28 ----------------- + * The "mediawiki" remote backend which lives in contrib/mw-to-git/ + and is not built with git by default, had an RCE bug allowing a + malicious MediaWiki server operator to inject arbitrary commands + for execution by a cloning client. This has been fixed. + + The bug was discovered and reported by Joern Schneeweisz of GitLab + to the git-security mailing list. Its practical impact due to the + obscurity of git-remote-mediawiki was deemed small enough to forgo + a dedicated security release. + * "git clone --separate-git-dir=$elsewhere" used to stomp on the contents of the existing directory $elsewhere, which has been taught to fail when $elsewhere is not an empty directory. @@ -294,16 +366,13 @@ Fixes since v2.28 "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does. (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint). - * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. + * Various callers of run_command API have been modernized. (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). * List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were inconsistent, which have been corrected. (merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint). - * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized. - (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). - * "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such paths from the stat output. @@ -320,7 +389,7 @@ Fixes since v2.28 information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even if the record were available, the relationship between branches may - have changed), at least hide the error to allow "status" show its + have changed), at least hide the error and allow "status" to show its output. * "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but @@ -336,6 +405,79 @@ Fixes since v2.28 early and cleanly when started outside a git repository. (merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint). + * There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the + repository, which is meant to run once per process invocation, but + it ran every time the estimated value was requested. + (merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint). + + * "git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints + the operation went through, which was misleading. + (merge 5a07c6c3c2 cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded later to maint). + + * "git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options + to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes, + which has been corrected. + (merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all later to maint). + + * The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" incorrectly used commit^N + where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation + ancestor, which has been corrected. + (merge 0acbf5997f ld/p4-unshelve-fix later to maint). + + * "git clone" that clones from SHA-1 repository, while + GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to use SHA-256 already, resulted in an + unusable repository that half-claims to be SHA-256 repository + with SHA-1 objects and refs. This has been corrected. + + * Adjust sample hooks for hash algorithm other than SHA-1. + (merge d8d3d632f4 dl/zero-oid-in-hooks later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" showed incorrect diffstat, which has been + corrected. + + * Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the + histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast- + forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the + pull.ff configuration variable. + (merge 54200cef86 ah/pull later to maint). + + * Compilation fix around type punning. + (merge 176380fd11 jk/drop-unaligned-loads later to maint). + + * "git blame --ignore-rev/--ignore-revs-file" failed to validate + their input are valid revision, and failed to take into account + that the user may want to give an annotated tag instead of a + commit, which has been corrected. + (merge 610e2b9240 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint). + + * "git bisect start X Y", when X and Y are not valid committish + object names, should take X and Y as pathspec, but didn't. + (merge 73c6de06af cc/bisect-start-fix later to maint). + + * The explanation of the "scissors line" has been clarified. + (merge 287416dba6 eg/mailinfo-doc-scissors later to maint). + + * A race that leads to an access to a free'd data was corrected in + the codepath that reads pack files. + (merge bda959c476 mt/delta-base-cache-races later to maint). + + * in_merge_bases_many(), a way to see if a commit is reachable from + any commit in a set of commits, was totally broken when the + commit-graph feature was in use, which has been corrected. + (merge 8791bf1841 ds/in-merge-bases-many-optim-bug later to maint). + + * "git submodule update --quiet" did not squelch underlying "rebase" + and "pull" commands. + (merge 3ad0401e9e td/submodule-update-quiet later to maint). + + * The lazy fetching done internally to make missing objects available + in a partial clone incorrectly made permanent damage to the partial + clone filter in the repository, which has been corrected. + + * "log -c --find-object=X" did not work well to find a merge that + involves a change to an object X from only one parent. + (merge 957876f17d jk/diff-cc-oidfind-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint). (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint). @@ -366,3 +508,7 @@ Fixes since v2.28 (merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint). (merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint). (merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint). + (merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint). + (merge 0512eabd91 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint). + (merge d01141de5a so/combine-diff-simplify later to maint). + (merge 3be01e5ab1 sn/fast-import-doc later to maint). |