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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt index 9fc6dc3a13..6baf781380 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt @@ -6,9 +6,8 @@ Updates since v2.27 Backward compatibility notes - * "feature.experimental" configuration variable is to let volunteers - easily opt into a set of newer features, which use of the v2 - transport protocol is now a part of. + * "fetch.writeCommitGraph" is deemed to be still a bit too risky and + is no longer part of the "feature.experimental" set. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -19,6 +18,33 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The check in "git fsck" to ensure that the tree objects are sorted still had corner cases it missed unsorted entries. + * The interface to redact sensitive information in the trace output + has been simplified. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete + options that the "git switch" command takes. + + * "git diff" used to take arguments in random and nonsense range + notation, e.g. "git diff A..B C", "git diff A..B C...D", etc., + which has been cleaned up. + + * "git diff-files" has been taught to say paths that are marked as + intent-to-add are new files, not modified from an empty blob. + + * "git status" learned to report the status of sparse checkout. + + * "git difftool" has trouble dealing with paths added to the index + with the intent-to-add bit. + + * "git fast-export --anonymize" learned to take customized mapping to + allow its users to tweak its output more usable for debugging. + + * The command line completion support (in contrib/) used to be + prepared to work with "set -u" but recent changes got a bit more + sloppy. This has been corrected. + + * "git gui" now allows opening work trees from the start-up dialog. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -50,6 +76,49 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Workaround breakage in MSVC build, where "curl-config --cflags" gives settings appropriate for GCC build. + * Code clean-up of "git clean" resulted in a fix of recent + performance regression. + + * Code clean-up in the codepath that serves "git fetch" continues. + + * "git merge-base --is-ancestor" is taught to take advantage of the + commit graph. + + * Rewrite of parts of the scripted "git submodule" Porcelain command + continues; this time it is "git submodule set-branch" subcommand's + turn. + + * The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to + instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition + to the packed object data coming over the wire. + + * A misdesigned strbuf_write_fd() function has been retired. + + * SHA-256 migration work continues, including CVS/SVN interface. + + * A few fields in "struct commit" that do not have to always be + present have been moved to commit slabs. + + * API cleanup for get_worktrees() + + * By renumbering object flag bits, "struct object" managed to lose + bloated inter-field padding. + + * The name of the primary branch in existing repositories, and the + default name used for the first branch in newly created + repositories, is made configurable, so that we can eventually wean + ourselves off of the hardcoded 'master'. + + * The effort to avoid using test_must_fail on non-git command continues. + + * In 2.28-rc0, we corrected a bug that some repository extensions are + honored by mistake even in a version 0 repositories (these + configuration variables in extensions.* namespace were supposed to + have special meaning in repositories whose version numbers are 1 or + higher), but this was a bit too big a change. The behaviour in + recent versions of Git where certain extensions.* were honored by + mistake even in version 0 repositories has been restored. + Fixes since v2.27 ----------------- @@ -99,9 +168,69 @@ Fixes since v2.27 * Use of negative pathspec, while collecting paths including untracked ones in the working tree, was broken. + * The same worktree directory must be registered only once, but + "git worktree move" allowed this invariant to be violated, which + has been corrected. + (merge 810382ed37 es/worktree-duplicate-paths later to maint). + + * The effect of sparse checkout settings on submodules is documented. + (merge e7d7c73249 en/sparse-with-submodule-doc later to maint). + + * Code clean-up around "git branch" with a minor bugfix. + (merge dc44639904 dl/branch-cleanup later to maint). + + * A branch name used in a test has been clarified to match what is + going on. + (merge 08dc26061f pb/t4014-unslave later to maint). + + * An in-code comment in "git diff" has been updated. + (merge c592fd4c83 dl/diff-usage-comment-update later to maint). + + * The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent + renaming of "pu" branch to "seen". + (merge 6dca5dbf93 js/pu-to-seen later to maint). + + * The code to push changes over "dumb" HTTP had a bad interaction + with the commit reachability code due to incorrect allocation of + object flag bits, which has been corrected. + (merge 64472d15e9 bc/http-push-flagsfix later to maint). + + * "git send-email --in-reply-to=<msg>" did not use the In-Reply-To: + header with the value given from the command line, and let it be + overridden by the value on In-Reply-To: header in the messages + being sent out (if exists). + (merge f9f60d7066 ra/send-email-in-reply-to-from-command-line-wins later to maint). + + * "git log -Lx,y:path --before=date" lost track of where the range + should be because it didn't take the changes made by the youngest + commits that are omitted from the output into account. + + * When "fetch.writeCommitGraph" configuration is set in a shallow + repository and a fetch moves the shallow boundary, we wrote out + broken commit-graph files that do not match the reality, which has + been corrected. + + * "git checkout" failed to catch an error from fstat() after updating + a path in the working tree. + (merge 35e6e212fd mt/entry-fstat-fallback-fix later to maint). + + * When an aliased command, whose output is piped to a pager by git, + gets killed by a signal, the pager got into a funny state, which + has been corrected (again). + (merge c0d73a59c9 ta/wait-on-aliased-commands-upon-signal later to maint). + + * The code to produce progress output from "git commit-graph --write" + had a few breakages, which have been fixed. + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint). (merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint). (merge 788db145c7 dl/t-readme-spell-git-correctly later to maint). (merge 45a87a83bb dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version later to maint). (merge b75a219904 es/advertise-contribution-doc later to maint). + (merge 0c9a4f638a rs/pull-leakfix later to maint). + (merge d546fe2874 rs/commit-reach-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 087bf5409c mk/pb-pretty-email-without-domain-part-fix later to maint). + (merge 5f4ee57ad9 es/worktree-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 0172f7834a cc/cat-file-usage-update later to maint). + (merge 81de0c01cf ma/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint). |