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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt | 55 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt | 115 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cd869b02bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Git 2.25.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.25 +----------------- + + * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is + nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints + configuration variable, which has been corrected. + + * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the + system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with + read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an + empty tree from promisor remotes. + + * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a + single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough + against corrupt index file. + + * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over + "git checkout" that was done only half-way. + + * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the + stateless RPC mechanism. + + * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree + structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which + has been corrected. + + * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the + same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count + the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been + corrected. + + * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in + libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions + of gcc and clang. + + * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation. + + * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for + performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory + enumeration API has been corrected. + + * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of + the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or + the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these + settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode. + + * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. + + * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been + squelched. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt index 8ef5ba3f70..52534dd566 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt @@ -16,6 +16,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete subcommands and arguments to "git worktree". + * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been + tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not + count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule. + + * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the + environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd" + option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been + placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often + get confused. + + * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it + nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API. + + * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to + avoid races. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -36,6 +52,40 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will use SHA-256 continues. + * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code + to tentatively use in-core objects. + + * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack + to generate its result has been improved. + + * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one. + + * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects + (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object + layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted. + + * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the + tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected. + + * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to + name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages + without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable. + + * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when + fetching into it. + + * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around + the cone mode, have been cleaned up. + + * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the + diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before; + this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to + the end user. + + * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to + work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its + callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat). + Fixes since v2.25 ----------------- @@ -116,6 +166,62 @@ Fixes since v2.25 corrected. (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint). + * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation + detail. + (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint). + + * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when + .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected. + (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint). + + * C pedantry ;-) fix. + (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint). + + * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of + the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or + the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these + settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode. + (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint). + + * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. + (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint). + + * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched. + (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it + goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity + in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were + not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been + corrected. + (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint). + + * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when + "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure. + (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint). + + * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet + populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a + part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has + been corrected. + (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint). + + * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had + an off-by-one bug, which has been killed. + (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint). + + * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that + records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the + code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an + input, but it is an input error. + (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint). + + * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more + robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same + thing. + (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint). (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint). @@ -129,3 +235,12 @@ Fixes since v2.25 (merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint). (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint). (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint). + (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint). + (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint). + (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint). + (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint). + (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint). + (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint). |