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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..432762f270 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +Git 2.22.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.22 +----------------- + + * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>" + ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in, + but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been + corrected. + + * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to + the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected. + + * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote + backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting + closed, which has been fixed. + + * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its + output, which has been corrected. + + * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect + value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in + use, which has been corrected. + + * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as + if it were a tree, which has been corrected. + + * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in + the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are + in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. + + * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the + index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded + by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work + when both options are given. + + * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to + the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which + has been corrected. + + * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. + + * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside + "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a + broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. + + * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull + from in the local repository and in the published repository are + different. + + * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is + recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a + hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected + to honor the "--origin <name>" option. + + * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are + necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been + corrected. + + * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a + lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API + correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element + of the array in use. This has been corrected. + + * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to + indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only + matches directories") has been revamped. + + * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end + of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. + + * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been + updated. + + * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely, + the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when + it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without + having to consult the other end, which has been corrected. + + * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now + it gives a warning. + + * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read + past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed. + + * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message + "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was + confusing. This has been corrected. + + * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its + description in the short form; they have been replaced with long + forms to make them more recognisable. + + * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be + effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not + affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not + the case. This has been corrected. + + * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed + to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the + "--recursive" option was in use. + + * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor + support to clear cruft in the progress output. + + * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output + without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been + fixed. + + * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has + been made more robust and also easier to follow. + + * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line + completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires + a repository outside one), which has been corrected. + + * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding + "git rebase -r", which has been corrected. + + * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting + rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected. + + * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment + character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been + corrected. + + * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer overlaps during binary search. + + * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse, + which did not work well. + + * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime + may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be + closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to + an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a + new instance to replace it. + + * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via + "import" based transports. + + * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the + coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had + a blanket ban against them. + + * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while + looking for --funcion-context line in a corner case, which has been + corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt index 8268355369..e3c4e78265 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Backward compatibility note prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable". + * The "git log" command by default behaves as if the --mailmap option + was given. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. - The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable + The commands learned "--no-show-forced-updates" option to disable this safety feature. * Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to @@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on the branch the HEAD currently is on. - * "git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to + * "git rev-list --objects" learned the "--no-object-names" option to squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for pack-objects. @@ -91,6 +94,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be updated incrementally. + * "git range-diff" output has been tweaked for easier identification + of which part of what file the patch shown is about. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -98,7 +104,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. no longer be used. * Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to - ensure that the remainer of the tests still succeeds when tests + ensure that the remainder of the tests still succeeds when tests with prerequisites are skipped. * "git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the @@ -113,7 +119,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works on a range (A..B). - * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core + * A new tutorial targeting specifically aspiring git-core developers has been added. * Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked @@ -143,6 +149,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. committed, the command line prompt script failed to notice the current status, which has been improved. + * Many GIT_TEST_* environment variables control various aspects of + how our tests are run, but a few followed "non-empty is true, empty + or unset is false" while others followed the usual "there are a few + ways to spell true, like yes, on, etc., and also ways to spell + false, like no, off, etc." convention. + + * Adjust the dir-iterator API and apply it to the local clone + optimization codepath. + + * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the + coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had + a blanket ban against them. + + * A test helper has been introduced to optimize preparation of test + repositories with many simple commits, and a handful of test + scripts have been updated to use it. + Fixes since v2.22 ----------------- @@ -151,16 +174,13 @@ Fixes since v2.22 ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in, but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been corrected. - (merge e1df7fe43f nd/init-relative-template-fix later to maint). * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected. - (merge 105df73e71 nd/corrupt-worktrees later to maint). * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote - backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting + backend was mixed up, leading to an unrelated file descriptor getting closed, which has been fixed. - (merge 3203566a71 mh/import-transport-fd-fix later to maint). * A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is @@ -169,82 +189,65 @@ Fixes since v2.22 corrected. * Code cleanup and futureproof. - (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint). * More parameter validation. - (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint). * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its output, which has been corrected. - (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint). * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in use, which has been corrected. - (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint). * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as if it were a tree, which has been corrected. - (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint). * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. - (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint). * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work when both options are given. - (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint). * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which has been corrected. - (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint). * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. - (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint). * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. - (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint). * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull from in the local repository and in the published repository are different. - (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint). * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected to honor the "--origin <name>" option. - (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint). * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been corrected. - (merge 810e19322d jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base later to maint). * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element of the array in use. This has been corrected. - (merge 7140600e2e md/list-objects-filter-memfix later to maint). * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only matches directories") has been revamped. - (merge 1a58bad014 an/ignore-doc-update later to maint). * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. - (merge d37dc239a4 md/url-parse-harden later to maint). * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been updated. - (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint). * "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with @@ -254,48 +257,38 @@ Fixes since v2.22 * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via "import" based transports. - (merge f80d922355 fc/fetch-with-import-fix later to maint). * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a new instance to replace it. - (merge 2d511cfc0b ds/close-object-store later to maint). * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse, which did not work well. - (merge 2bd69b9024 pw/add-p-recount later to maint). * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search. - (merge 568a05c5ec rs/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation later to maint). * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been corrected. - (merge 29c83fc23f jk/trailers-use-config later to maint). * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected. - (merge 63b50c8ffe tg/stash-ref-by-index-fix later to maint). * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding "git rebase -r", which has been corrected. - (merge d559f502c5 pw/rebase-abort-clean-rewritten later to maint). * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires a repository outside one), which has been corrected. - (merge 69702523af nd/completion-no-cache-failure later to maint). * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has been made more robust and also easier to follow. - (merge 39c575c969 rs/config-unit-parsing later to maint). * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been fixed. - (merge bdbdf42f8a jk/delta-islands-progress-fix later to maint). * Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated, but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been @@ -304,46 +297,52 @@ Fixes since v2.22 * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor support to clear cruft in the progress output. - (merge 5b12e3123b sg/rebase-progress later to maint). * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the "--recursive" option was in use. - (merge 30db18b148 ms/submodule-foreach-fix later to maint). * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not - affect anything when running an non-interactive one, which was not + affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not the case. This has been corrected. - (merge 906b63942a js/rebase-reschedule-applies-only-to-interactive later to maint). * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its description in the short form; they have been replaced with long forms to make them more recognisable. - (merge bfc8c84ed5 qn/clone-doc-use-long-form later to maint). * Generation of pack bitmaps are now disabled when .keep files exist, as these are mutually exclusive features. (merge 7328482253 ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default later to maint). + * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message + "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was + confusing. This has been corrected. + + * "git stash --keep-index" did not work correctly on paths that have + been removed, which has been fixed. + (merge b932f6a5e8 tg/stash-keep-index-with-removed-paths later to maint). + + * Window 7 update ;-) + + * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read + past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed. + + * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now + it gives a warning. + + * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely, + the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when + it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without + having to consult the other end, which has been corrected. + + * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while + looking for --function-context line in a corner case, which has been + corrected. + (merge b777f3fd61 jk/xdiff-clamp-funcname-context-index later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint). - (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint). - (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint). - (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint). - (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint). - (merge 1fde99cfc7 po/doc-branch later to maint). - (merge 459842e1c2 dl/config-alias-doc later to maint). - (merge 5d137fc2c7 cb/fsmonitor-intfix later to maint). - (merge 921d49be86 rs/copy-array later to maint). - (merge cc8d872e69 js/t3404-typofix later to maint). - (merge 729a9b558b cb/mkstemps-uint-type-fix later to maint). - (merge 9dae4fe79f js/gcc-8-and-9 later to maint). - (merge ed33bd8f30 js/t0001-case-insensitive later to maint). - (merge dfa880e336 jw/gitweb-sample-update later to maint). - (merge e532a90a9f sg/t5551-fetch-smart-error-is-translated later to maint). - (merge 8d45ad8c29 jt/t5551-test-chunked later to maint). - (merge 1a64e07d23 sg/git-C-empty-doc later to maint). - (merge 37a2e35395 sg/ci-brew-gcc-workaround later to maint). - (merge 24df0d49c4 js/trace2-signo-typofix later to maint). (merge fbec05c210 cc/test-oidmap later to maint). + (merge 7a06fb038c jk/no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint). + (merge 81ed2b405c cb/xdiff-no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint). + (merge d61e6ce1dd sg/fsck-config-in-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ff48d8582c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,143 @@ +Git 2.24 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.23 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility note + + * (no entry yet so far) + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of + the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering. + + * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the + standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options + first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user + input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but + that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter + between revs and pathspec. + + * A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of + configuration variables is introduced. + + * "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first + clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true + upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it. + + * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns. + (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint). + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge + strategies and pass strategy specific options to them. + + * A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced. + + * Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been + added. + + * The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more + than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading + missing objects on demand. + + * The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone) + learned to take a combined filter specification. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to write commit-graph over given commit object names has + been made a bit more robust. + + * The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries + the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs. + + * Further clean-up of the initialization code. + + * xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address + space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation + failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex + and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource + users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms. + It has been simplified away. + + * Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been + optimized away. + + * The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports + learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been + corrected. + + +Fixes since v2.23 +----------------- + + * "git grep --recurse-submodules" that looks at the working tree + files looked at the contents in the index in submodules, instead of + files in the working tree. + (merge 6a289d45c0 mt/grep-submodules-working-tree later to maint). + + * Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer + overflows and hardened. + (merge 5aa02f9868 jk/tree-walk-overflow later to maint). + + * "git pack-refs" can lose refs that are created while running, which + is getting corrected. + (merge a613d4f817 sc/pack-refs-deletion-racefix later to maint). + + * "git checkout" and "git restore" to re-populate the index from a + tree-ish (typically HEAD) did not work correctly for a path that + was removed and then added again with the intent-to-add bit, when + the corresponding working tree file was empty. This has been + corrected. + + * Compilation fix. + (merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint). + + * "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting. + (merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint). + + * We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split + diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but + some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has + been corrected. + (merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint). + + * Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe. + (merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint). + + * "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in + some corner cases, which has been corrected. + (merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint). + + * On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch + commits from submodule projects, while still working in the + superproject, which has been corrected. + (merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint). + + * Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe. + (merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint). + + * "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves + against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to + show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected. + (merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint). + + * The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of + updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying + subsequent steps. + (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint). + + * Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the + xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency. + (merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint). + (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint). + (merge 415b770b88 ds/midx-expire-repack later to maint). + (merge 19800bdc3f nd/diff-parseopt later to maint). + (merge 58166c2e9d tg/t0021-racefix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt index 6553d69e33..6323feaf64 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v2.7 setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of - fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed array. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 25079710fa..5fbe1b86ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ notes for details). setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of - fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed array. |