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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt index 5f16516734..fccc2f34ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -21,6 +21,67 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify "tlsv1.3" as its value. + * "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and + "~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files. + (merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint). + + * "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the + CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the + same key binding. It now does. + (merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint). + + * "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like + 8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query + the current theme. + (merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint). + + * "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when using + backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges"). + + * "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets + users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased + and a normal branch is being rebased. + + * "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy. + + * The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and + have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user + there are replacements. + + * The new "checkout-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the + contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working + tree (and the other way around when checking in). + + * The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int", + "--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to + be interpreted as. A new "--type=<typename>" option has been + introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types. + + * "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the + calling script. Building on top of the above changes, the + "git config" learns "--type=color" type. Taken together, you can + do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get + the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable, + or "blue" if the variable does not exist. + + * "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based + on the refnames being shown. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git + stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred + spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible + completion candidate when "git stash push" can be. + + * "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then + silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense" + failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility. + + * "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental + "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used. + This has been removed. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -76,6 +137,49 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single binary. + * API clean-up around ref-filter code. + + * Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been + optimized somewhat. + + * The index file is updated to record the fsmonitor section after a + full scan was made, to avoid wasting the effort that has already + spent. + + * Performance measuring framework in t/perf learned to help bisecting + performance regressions. + + * Some multi-word source filenames are being renamed to separate + words with dashes instead of underscores. + + * An reusable "memory pool" implementation has been extracted from + fast-import.c, which in turn has become the first user of the + mem-pool API. + + * A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer + to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same + way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for + Linux, BSDs and Darwin. + + * Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal + in a separate file to optimize graph walking. + + * The effort to pass the repository in-core structure throughout the + API continues. This round deals with the code that implements the + refs/replace/ mechanism. + + * The build procedure "make DEVELOPER=YesPlease" learned to enable a + bit more warning options depending on the compiler used to help + developers more. There also is "make DEVOPTS=tokens" knob + available now, for those who want to help fixing warnings we + usually ignore, for example. + + * A new version of the transport protocol is being worked on. + + * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make + it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -115,8 +219,94 @@ Fixes since v2.17 fixed. (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint). + * "git rebase --keep-empty" still removed an empty commit if the + other side contained an empty commit (due to the "does an + equivalent patch exist already?" check), which has been corrected. + (merge 3d946165e1 pw/rebase-keep-empty-fixes later to maint). + + * Some codepaths, including the refs API, get and keep relative + paths, that go out of sync when the process does chdir(2). The + chdir-notify API is introduced to let these codepaths adjust these + cached paths to the new current directory. + (merge fb9c2d2703 jk/relative-directory-fix later to maint). + + * "cd sub/dir && git commit ../path" ought to record the changes to + the file "sub/path", but this regressed long time ago. + (merge 86238e07ef bw/commit-partial-from-subdirectory-fix later to maint). + + * Recent introduction of "--log-destination" option to "git daemon" + did not work well when the daemon was run under "--inetd" mode. + (merge e67d906d73 lw/daemon-log-destination later to maint). + + * Small fix to the autoconf build procedure. + (merge 249482daf0 es/fread-reads-dir-autoconf-fix later to maint). + + * Fix an unexploitable (because the oversized contents are not under + attacker's control) buffer overflow. + (merge d8579accfa bp/fsmonitor-bufsize-fix later to maint). + + * Recent simplification of build procedure forgot a bit of tweak to + the build procedure of contrib/mw-to-git/ + (merge d8698987f3 ab/simplify-perl-makefile later to maint). + + * Moving a submodule that itself has submodule in it with "git mv" + forgot to make necessary adjustment to the nested sub-submodules; + now the codepath learned to recurse into the submodules. + + * "git config --unset a.b", when "a.b" is the last variable in an + otherwise empty section "a", left an empty section "a" behind, and + worse yet, a subsequent "git config a.c value" did not reuse that + empty shell and instead created a new one. These have been + (partially) corrected. + (merge c71d8bb38a js/empty-config-section-fix later to maint). + + * "git worktree remove" learned that "-f" is a shorthand for + "--force" option, just like for "git worktree add". + (merge d228eea514 sb/worktree-remove-opt-force later to maint). + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of + command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient + way. + (merge 94408dc71c sg/completion-clear-cached later to maint). + + * "git svn" had a minor thinko/typo which has been fixed. + (merge 51db271587 ab/git-svn-get-record-typofix later to maint). + + * During a "rebase -i" session, the code could give older timestamp + to commits created by later "pick" than an earlier "reword", which + has been corrected. + (merge 12f7babd6b js/ident-date-fix later to maint). + + * "git submodule status" did not check the symbolic revision name it + computed for the submodule HEAD is not the NULL, and threw it at + printf routines, which has been corrected. + (merge 0b5e2ea7cf nd/submodule-status-fix later to maint). + + * When fed input that already has In-Reply-To: and/or References: + headers and told to add the same information, "git send-email" + added these headers separately, instead of appending to an existing + one, which is a violation of the RFC. This has been corrected. + (merge 256be1d3f0 sa/send-email-dedup-some-headers later to maint). + + * "git fast-export" had a regression in v2.15.0 era where it skipped + some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected. + (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint). (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint). (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint). + (merge 05e293c1ac jk/flockfile-stdio later to maint). + (merge e9184b0789 jk/t5561-missing-curl later to maint). + (merge b1801b85a3 nd/worktree-move later to maint). + (merge bbd374dd20 ak/bisect-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 4855f06fb3 mn/send-email-credential-doc later to maint). + (merge 8523b1e355 en/doc-typoes later to maint). + (merge 43b44ccfe7 js/t5404-path-fix later to maint). + (merge decf711fc1 ps/test-chmtime-get later to maint). + (merge 22d11a6e8e es/worktree-docs later to maint). + (merge 92a5dbbc22 tg/use-git-contacts later to maint). + (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint). + (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint). + (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint). |