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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt | 238 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt | 155 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt | 2 |
6 files changed, 393 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt index ae0577836a..ad36c0f0b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.0.3.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.0.2 if the working tree is currently dirty. * "git for-each-ref --format=%(subject)" fixed for commits with no - no newline in the message body. + newline in the message body. * "git remote" fixed to protect printf from user input. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 255e185af6..2e7529928b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ details). (merge 2fbd4f9 mh/maint-lockfile-overflow later to maint). * Invocations of "git checkout" used internally by "git rebase" were - counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -" to the + counted as "checkout", and affected later "git checkout -", which took the user to an unexpected place. (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt index 06ba2f803f..1f41302ebb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -184,8 +184,8 @@ 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.. - * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands - have been turned into into built-in. + * An unused binary has been discarded, and a bunch of commands + have been turned into built-in. * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt index 5c329d5a1b..87d56fa1aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.32.0.txt @@ -7,6 +7,13 @@ Backward compatibility notes * ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are symbolic links are ignored. + * "git apply --3way" used to first attempt a straight application, + and only fell back to the 3-way merge algorithm when the stright + application failed. Starting with this version, the command will + first try the 3-way merge algorithm and only when it fails (either + resulting with conflict or the base versions of blobs are missing), + falls back to the usual patch application. + Updates since v2.31 ------------------- @@ -40,11 +47,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message, respectively. - * When accessing a server with a URL like https://user:pass@site/, we - did not to fall back to the basic authentication with the - credential material embedded in the URL after the "Negotiate" - authentication failed. Now we do. - * "git send-email" learned to honor the core.hooksPath configuration. * "git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is @@ -57,6 +59,74 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository. + * A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain + refs to be given a reachability bitmap. + + * "gitweb" learned "e-mail privacy" feature to redact strings that + look like e-mail addresses on various pages. + + * "git apply --3way" has always been "to fall back to 3-way merge + only when straight application fails". Swap the order of falling + back so that 3-way is always attempted first (only when the option + is given, of course) and then straight patch application is used as + a fallback when it fails. + + * "git apply" now takes "--3way" and "--cached" at the same time, and + work and record results only in the index. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has learned that + CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is a possible pseudo-ref. + + * Userdiff patterns for "Scheme" has been added. + + * "git log" learned "--diff-merges=<style>" option, with an + associated configuration variable log.diffMerges. + + * "git log --format=..." placeholders learned %ah/%ch placeholders to + request the --date=human output. + + * Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the + system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets + users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration + (setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as + setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the + per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig. + + * "git add" and "git rm" learned not to touch those paths that are + outside of sparse checkout. + + * "git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option, + which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the + packfile generated by pack-objects. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) for "git stash" has been + updated. + + * "git subtree" updates. + + * It is now documented that "format-patch" skips merges. + + * Options to "git pack-objects" that take numeric values like + --window and --depth should not accept negative values; the input + validation has been tightened. + + * The way the command line specified by the trailer.<token>.command + configuration variable receives the end-user supplied value was + both error prone and misleading. An alternative to achieve the + same goal in a safer and more intuitive way has been added, as + the trailer.<token>.cmd configuration variable, to replace it. + + * "git add -i --dry-run" does not dry-run, which was surprising. The + combination of options has taught to error out. + + * "git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving + end over protocol v2. This will hopefully make "git push" as + efficient as "git fetch" in avoiding objects from getting + transferred unnecessarily. + + * "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") learned the "--quoted-cr" option to + control how lines ending with CRLF wrapped in base64 or qp are + handled. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -98,6 +168,43 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Generate [ec]tags under $(QUIET_GEN). + * Clean-up codepaths that implements "git send-email --validate" + option and improves the message from it. + + * The last remnant of gettext-poison has been removed. + + * The test framework has been taught to optionally turn the default + merge strategy to "ort" throughout the system where we use + three-way merges internally, like cherry-pick, rebase etc., + primarily to enhance its test coverage (the strategy has been + available as an explicit "-s ort" choice). + + * A bit of code clean-up and a lot of test clean-up around userdiff + area. + + * Handling of "promisor packs" that allows certain objects to be + missing and lazily retrievable has been optimized (a bit). + + * When packet_write() fails, we gave an extra error message + unnecessarily, which has been corrected. + + * The checkout machinery has been taught to perform the actual + write-out of the files in parallel when able. + + * Show errno in the trace output in the error codepath that calls + read_raw_ref method. + + * Effort to make the command line completion (in contrib/) safe with + "set -u" continues. + + * Tweak a few tests for "log --format=..." that show timestamps in + various formats. + + * The reflog expiry machinery has been taught to emit trace events. + + * Over-the-wire protocol learns a new request type to ask for object + sizes given a list of object names. + Fixes since v2.31 ----------------- @@ -174,6 +281,115 @@ Fixes since v2.31 as directory separator. (merge 9a7f1ce8b7 rs/daemon-sanitize-dir-sep later to maint). + * A NULL-dereference bug has been corrected in an error codepath in + "git for-each-ref", "git branch --list" etc. + (merge c685450880 jk/ref-filter-segfault-fix later to maint). + + * Streamline the codepath to fix the UTF-8 encoding issues in the + argv[] and the prefix on macOS. + (merge c7d0e61016 tb/precompose-prefix-simplify later to maint). + + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) had a couple of + references that would have given a warning under the "-u" (nounset) + option. + (merge c5c0548d79 vs/completion-with-set-u later to maint). + + * When "git pack-objects" makes a literal copy of a part of existing + packfile using the reachability bitmaps, its update to the progress + meter was broken. + (merge 8e118e8490 jk/pack-objects-bitmap-progress-fix later to maint). + + * The dependencies for config-list.h and command-list.h were broken + when the former was split out of the latter, which has been + corrected. + (merge 56550ea718 sg/bugreport-fixes later to maint). + + * "git push --quiet --set-upstream" was not quiet when setting the + upstream branch configuration, which has been corrected. + (merge f3cce896a8 ow/push-quiet-set-upstream later to maint). + + * The prefetch task in "git maintenance" assumed that "git fetch" + from any remote would fetch all its local branches, which would + fetch too much if the user is interested in only a subset of + branches there. + (merge 32f67888d8 ds/maintenance-prefetch-fix later to maint). + + * Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but + not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8. + (merge 9364bf465d ab/pathname-encoding-doc later to maint). + + * "git --config-env var=val cmd" weren't accepted (only + --config-env=var=val was). + (merge c331551ccf ps/config-env-option-with-separate-value later to maint). + + * When the reachability bitmap is in effect, the "do not lose + recently created objects and those that are reachable from them" + safety to protect us from races were disabled by mistake, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2ba582ba4c jk/prune-with-bitmap-fix later to maint). + + * Cygwin pathname handling fix. + (merge bccc37fdc7 ad/cygwin-no-backslashes-in-paths later to maint). + + * "git rebase --[no-]reschedule-failed-exec" did not work well with + its configuration variable, which has been corrected. + (merge e5b32bffd1 ab/rebase-no-reschedule-failed-exec later to maint). + + * Portability fix for command line completion script (in contrib/). + (merge f2acf763e2 si/zsh-complete-comment-fix later to maint). + + * "git repack -A -d" in a partial clone unnecessarily loosened + objects in promisor pack. + + * "git bisect skip" when custom words are used for new/old did not + work, which has been corrected. + + * A few variants of informational message "Already up-to-date" has + been rephrased. + (merge ad9322da03 js/merge-already-up-to-date-message-reword later to maint). + + * "git submodule update --quiet" did not propagate the quiet option + down to underlying "git fetch", which has been corrected. + (merge 62af4bdd42 nc/submodule-update-quiet later to maint). + + * Document that our test can use "local" keyword. + (merge a84fd3bcc6 jc/test-allows-local later to maint). + + * The word-diff mode has been taught to work better with a word + regexp that can match an empty string. + (merge 0324e8fc6b pw/word-diff-zero-width-matches later to maint). + + * "git p4" learned to find branch points more efficiently. + (merge 6b79818bfb jk/p4-locate-branch-point-optim later to maint). + + * When "git update-ref -d" removes a ref that is packed, it left + empty directories under $GIT_DIR/refs/ for + (merge 5f03e5126d wc/packed-ref-removal-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git clean" and "git ls-files -i" had confusion around working on + or showing ignored paths inside an ignored directory, which has + been corrected. + (merge b548f0f156 en/dir-traversal later to maint). + + * The handling of "%(push)" formatting element of "for-each-ref" and + friends was broken when the same codepath started handling + "%(push:<what>)", which has been corrected. + (merge 1e1c4c5eac zh/ref-filter-push-remote-fix later to maint). + + * The bash prompt script (in contrib/) did not work under "set -u". + (merge 5c0cbdb107 en/prompt-under-set-u later to maint). + + * The "chainlint" feature in the test framework is a handy way to + catch common mistakes in writing new tests, but tends to get + expensive. An knob to selectively disable it has been introduced + to help running tests that the developer has not modified. + (merge 2d86a96220 jk/test-chainlint-softer later to maint). + + * The "rev-parse" command did not diagnose the lack of argument to + "--path-format" option, which was introduced in v2.31 era, which + has been corrected. + (merge 99fc555188 wm/rev-parse-path-format-wo-arg later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint). (merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint). @@ -186,3 +402,15 @@ Fixes since v2.31 (merge 2be927f3d1 ab/diff-no-index-tests later to maint). (merge 76593c09bb ab/detox-gettext-tests later to maint). (merge 28e29ee38b jc/doc-format-patch-clarify later to maint). + (merge fc12b6fdde fm/user-manual-use-preface later to maint). + (merge dba94e3a85 cc/test-helper-bloom-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 61a7660516 hn/reftable-tables-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 81ed96a9b2 jt/fetch-pack-request-fix later to maint). + (merge 151b6c2dd7 jc/doc-do-not-capitalize-clarification later to maint). + (merge 9160068ac6 js/access-nul-emulation-on-windows later to maint). + (merge 7a14acdbe6 po/diff-patch-doc later to maint). + (merge f91371b948 pw/patience-diff-clean-up later to maint). + (merge 3a7f0908b6 mt/clean-clean later to maint). + (merge d4e2d15a8b ab/streaming-simplify later to maint). + (merge 0e59f7ad67 ah/merge-ort-i18n later to maint). + (merge e6f68f62e0 ls/typofix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4749bee61e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,155 @@ +Git 2.33 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + + * The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, + if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now + implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. + + You can disable the diff output with "git log -m --no-patch", but + then there probably isn't much point in passing "-m" in the first + place ;-). + + +Updates since Git 2.32 +---------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git send-email" learned the "--sendmail-cmd" command line option + and the "sendemail.sendmailCmd" configuration variable, which is a + more sensible approach than the current way of repurposing the + "smtp-server" that is meant to name the server to instead name the + command to talk to the server. + + * The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, + if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now + implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. + + * The userdiff pattern for C# learned the token "record". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to handle the "--format" option in "for-each-ref" and + friends made too many string comparisons on %(atom)s used in the + format string, which has been corrected by converting them into + enum when the format string is parsed. + + * Use the hashfile API in the codepath that writes the index file to + reduce code duplication. + + * Repeated rename detections in a sequence of mergy operations have + been optimize out. + + +Fixes since v2.32 +----------------- + + * We historically rejected a very short string as an author name + while accepting a patch e-mail, which has been loosened. + (merge 72ee47ceeb ef/mailinfo-short-name later to maint). + + * The parallel checkout codepath did not initialize object ID field + used to talk to the worker processes in a futureproof way. + + * Rewrite code that triggers undefined behaviour warning. + (merge aafa5df0df jn/size-t-casted-to-off-t-fix later to maint). + + * The description of "fast-forward" in the glossary has been updated. + (merge e22f2daed0 ry/clarify-fast-forward-in-glossary later to maint). + + * Recent "git clone" left a temporary directory behind when the + transport layer returned an failure. + (merge 6aacb7d861 jk/clone-clean-upon-transport-error later to maint). + + * "git fetch" over protocol v2 left its side of the socket open after + it finished speaking, which unnecessarily wasted the resource on + the other side. + (merge ae1a7eefff jk/fetch-pack-v2-half-close-early later to maint). + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git diff" + takes the "--anchored" option. + (merge d1e7c2cac9 tb/complete-diff-anchored later to maint). + + * "git-svn" tests assumed that "locale -a", which is used to pick an + available UTF-8 locale, is available everywhere. A knob has been + introduced to allow testers to specify a suitable locale to use. + (merge 482c962de4 dd/svn-test-wo-locale-a later to maint). + + * Update "git subtree" to work better on Windows. + (merge 77f37de39f js/subtree-on-windows-fix later to maint). + + * Remove multimail from contrib/ + (merge f74d11471f js/no-more-multimail later to maint). + + * Make the codebase MSAN clean. + (merge 4dbc55e87d ah/uninitialized-reads-fix later to maint). + + * Work around inefficient glob substitution in older versions of bash + by rewriting parts of a test. + (merge eb87c6f559 jx/t6020-with-older-bash later to maint). + + * Avoid duplicated work while building reachability bitmaps. + (merge aa9ad6fee5 jk/bitmap-tree-optim later to maint). + + * We broke "GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t?000" to skip certain tests in recent + update, which got fixed. + + * The side-band demultiplexer that is used to display progress output + from the remote end did not clear the line properly when the end of + line hits at a packet boundary, which has been corrected. + + * Some test scripts assumed that readlink(1) was universally + installed and available, which is not the case. + (merge 7c0afdf23c jk/test-without-readlink-1 later to maint). + + * Recent update to completion script (in contrib/) broke those who + use the __git_complete helper to define completion to their custom + command. + (merge cea232194d fw/complete-cmd-idx-fix later to maint). + + * Output from some of our tests were affected by the width of the + terminal that they were run in, which has been corrected by + exporting a fixed value in the COLUMNS environment. + (merge c49a177bec ab/fix-columns-to-80-during-tests later to maint). + + * On Windows, mergetool has been taught to find kdiff3.exe just like + it finds winmerge.exe. + (merge 47eb4c6890 ms/mergetools-kdiff3-on-windows later to maint). + + * When we cannot figure out how wide the terminal is, we use a + fallback value of 80 ourselves (which cannot be avoided), but when + we run the pager, we export it in COLUMNS, which forces the pager + to use the hardcoded value, even when the pager is perfectly + capable to figure it out itself. Stop exporting COLUMNS when we + fall back on the hardcoded default value for our own use. + (merge 9b6e2c8b98 js/stop-exporting-bogus-columns later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge bfe35a6165 ah/doc-describe later to maint). + (merge f302c1e4aa jc/clarify-revision-range later to maint). + (merge 3127ff90ea tl/fix-packfile-uri-doc later to maint). + (merge a84216c684 jk/doc-color-pager later to maint). + (merge 4e0a64a713 ab/trace2-squelch-gcc-warning later to maint). + (merge 225f7fa847 ps/rev-list-object-type-filter later to maint). + (merge 5317dfeaed dd/honor-users-tar-in-tests later to maint). + (merge ace6d8e3d6 tk/partial-clone-repack-doc later to maint). + (merge 7ba68e0cf1 js/trace2-discard-event-docfix later to maint). + (merge 8603c419d3 fc/doc-default-to-upstream-config later to maint). + (merge 1d72b604ef jk/revision-squelch-gcc-warning later to maint). + (merge abcb66c614 ar/typofix later to maint). + (merge 9853830787 ah/graph-typofix later to maint). + (merge aac578492d ab/config-hooks-path-testfix later to maint). + (merge 98c7656a18 ar/more-typofix later to maint). + (merge 6fb9195f6c jk/doc-max-pack-size later to maint). + (merge 4184cbd635 ar/mailinfo-memcmp-to-skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge 91d2347033 ar/doc-libera-chat-in-my-first-contrib later to maint). + (merge 338abb0f04 ab/cmd-foo-should-return later to maint). + (merge 546096a5cb ab/xdiff-bug-cleanup later to maint). + (merge b7b793d1e7 ab/progress-cleanup later to maint). + (merge d94f9b8e90 ba/object-info later to maint). + (merge 52ff891c03 ar/test-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge a0538e5c8b dd/document-log-decorate-default later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 27320b6a9f..38453281b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ notes for details). on that order. * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a - rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard + rev, i.e. the object named by the pathname with wildcard characters in a tree object. (merge aac4fac nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint). |