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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+Git 2.33.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated during the
+development towards Git 2.34, the next feature release.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.33
+-----------------
+
+ * The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has
+ been updated.
+
+ * Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
+ push" codepath.
+
+ * "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
+ around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
+ but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
+ descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
+
+ * "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
+ binary hunks.
+
+ * "git range-diff" code clean-up.
+
+ * "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
+ broken in v2.32.
+
+ * Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
+ new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
+
+ * Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
+ step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
+ skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
+ $GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
+
+ * mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
+ failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
+ caller to be handled.
+
+ * "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
+ when there are unmerged paths.
+
+ * The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
+ even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
+
+ * "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
+ ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Build update for Apple clang.
+
+ * The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
+ forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
+ want-ref requests.
+
+ * The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
+ a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
+ area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
+ to limit the damage from such a stray test.
+
+ * Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
+ discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
+ carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
+ threading, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
+ is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
+
+ * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
+
+ * "git maintenance" scheduler fix for macOS.
+
+ * A pathname in an advice message has been made cut-and-paste ready.
+
+ * The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
+ merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
+ without the content level merge.
+
+ * The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
+ been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
+ the file out.
+
+ * "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
+ packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
+ correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
+ running Git.
+
+ * The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
+ create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
+ subsystem has been cleaned up.
+
+ * "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
+ which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
+
+ * When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
+ with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t.
+
+ * "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
+ directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
+ repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
+ is corrected.
+
+ * "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
+ which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
+ question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
+
+ * "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links.
+
+ * Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
+ we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
+
+ * "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
+ directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
+ dependencies.
+
+ * Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
index a7793987f2..7aa14f8632 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Git 2.34 Release Notes
Updates since Git 2.33
----------------------
+Backward compatibility notes
+
+ * The "--preserve-merges" option of "git rebase" has been removed.
+
+
UI, Workflows & Features
* Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a
@@ -59,6 +64,25 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has
been updated.
+ * The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be
+ shown, which has been tightened up.
+
+ * "git add", "git mv", and "git rm" have been adjusted to avoid
+ updating paths outside of the sparse-checkout definition unless
+ the user specifies a "--sparse" option.
+
+ * "git repack" has been taught to generate multi-pack reachability
+ bitmaps.
+
+ * "git fsck" has been taught to report mismatch between expected and
+ actual types of an object better.
+
+ * Use ssh public crypto for object and push-cert signing.
+
+ * "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just
+ like "git grep string" does.
+
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -133,178 +157,271 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* An oddball OPTION_ARGUMENT feature has been removed from the
parse-options API.
+ * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
+ optimized.
+
+ * Remove external declaration of functions that no longer exist.
+
+ * "git multi-pack-index write --bitmap" learns to propagate the
+ hashcache from original bitmap to resulting bitmap.
+
+ * CI learns to run the leak sanitizer builds.
+
+ * "git grep --recurse-submodules" takes trees and blobs from the
+ submodule repository, but the textconv settings when processing a
+ blob from the submodule is not taken from the submodule repository.
+ A test is added to demonstrate the issue, without fixing it.
+
+ * Teach "git help -c" into helping the command line completion of
+ configuration variables.
+
+ * When "git cmd -h" shows more than one line of usage text (e.g.
+ the cmd subcommand may take sub-sub-command), parse-options API
+ learned to align these lines, even across i18n/l10n.
+
+ * Prevent "make sparse" from running for the source files that
+ haven't been modified.
+
+ * The codepath to write a new version of .midx multi-pack index files
+ has learned to release the mmaped memory holding the current
+ version of .midx before removing them from the disk, as some
+ platforms do not allow removal of a file that still has mapping.
+
+ * A new feature has been added to abort early in the test framework.
+
Fixes since v2.33
-----------------
* Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
corrected.
- (merge 561fa03529 ab/pack-stdin-packs-fix later to maint).
* Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
push" code path.
- (merge 82823118b9 jt/push-negotiation-fixes later to maint).
* "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
- (merge 6f843a3355 en/pull-conflicting-options later to maint).
* "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
binary hunks.
- (merge 46d723ce57 jk/apply-binary-hunk-parsing-fix later to maint).
* "git range-diff" code clean-up.
- (merge c4d5907324 jk/range-diff-fixes later to maint).
* "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
broken in v2.32.
- (merge 8ef6aad664 jk/commit-edit-fixup-fix later to maint).
* Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
- (merge 3cf9bb36bf cb/ci-use-upload-artifacts-v1 later to maint).
* Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
$GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
corrected.
- (merge e5ee33e855 pw/rebase-skip-final-fix later to maint).
* Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
- (merge f2563c9ef3 pw/rebase-r-fixes later to maint).
* mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
caller to be handled.
- (merge 95b4ff3931 rs/git-mmap-uses-malloc later to maint).
* "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
when there are unmerged paths.
- (merge 8174627b3d dd/diff-files-unmerged-fix later to maint).
* The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
- (merge 7a132c628e mt/quiet-with-delayed-checkout later to maint).
* "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
- (merge 597a977489 rs/branch-allow-deleting-dangling later to maint).
* Build update for Apple clang.
- (merge f32c5d3716 cb/makefile-apple-clang later to maint).
* The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been
corrected.
- (merge c93ca46cf5 sg/column-nl later to maint).
* "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
- (merge 53a66ec37c ka/want-ref-in-namespace later to maint).
* The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
- (merge d9e9b44d7a jh/sparse-index-resize-fix later to maint).
* Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
to limit the damage from such a stray test.
- (merge 614c3d8f2e sg/set-ceiling-during-tests later to maint).
* Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
threading, which has been corrected.
- (merge e082113484 mh/send-email-reset-in-reply-to later to maint).
* The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
- (merge 2f040a9671 tk/fast-export-anonymized-tag-fix later to maint).
* Doc update plus improved error reporting.
- (merge 1e93770888 jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding later to maint).
* Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
- (merge 5acffd3473 so/diff-index-regression-fix later to maint).
* Regression fix.
- (merge b996f84989 ab/send-email-config-fix later to maint).
* The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
without the content level merge. This fixes a regression caused by
recent "-3way first and fall back to direct application" change.
- (merge 57f183b698 jc/trivial-threeway-binary-merge later to maint).
* The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
the file out.
- (merge 8fe8bae9d2 ab/reverse-midx-optim later to maint).
* "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been
corrected.
- (merge 709b3f32d3 rs/range-diff-avoid-segfault-with-I later to maint).
* The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
running Git.
- (merge 4bc1fd6e39 tb/pack-finalize-ordering later to maint).
* The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
subsystem has been cleaned up.
- (merge 35cf94eaf6 rs/no-mode-to-open-when-appending later to maint).
* "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
- (merge 7c1200745b ps/update-ref-batch-flush later to maint).
* When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
- (merge c5ead19ea2 en/am-abort-fix later to maint).
* Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t.
- (merge 8d133a4653 jk/strvec-typefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
+ directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
+ repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
+ is corrected.
+
+ * "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
+ which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
+ question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
+
+ * "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links.
+
+ * Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
+ we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
+
+ * "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
+ directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
+ dependencies.
+
+ * Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
+
+ * A few kinds of changes "git status" can show were not documented.
+ (merge d2a534c515 ja/doc-status-types-and-copies later to maint).
+
+ * The mergesort implementation used to sort linked list has been
+ optimized.
+ (merge c90cfc225b rs/mergesort later to maint).
+
+ * An editor session launched during a Git operation (e.g. during 'git
+ commit') can leave the terminal in a funny state. The code path
+ has updated to save the terminal state before, and restore it
+ after, it spawns an editor.
+ (merge 3d411afabc cm/save-restore-terminal later to maint).
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch" with the "--batch-all-objects" option is
+ supposed to iterate over all the objects found in a repository, but
+ it used to translate these object names using the replace mechanism,
+ which defeats the point of enumerating all objects in the repository.
+ This has been corrected.
+ (merge bf972896d7 jk/cat-file-batch-all-wo-replace later to maint).
+
+ * Recent sparse-index work broke safety against attempts to add paths
+ with trailing slashes to the index, which has been corrected.
+ (merge c8ad9d04c6 rs/make-verify-path-really-verify-again later to maint).
+
+ * The "--color-lines" and "--color-by-age" options of "git blame"
+ have been missing, which are now documented.
+ (merge 8c32856133 bs/doc-blame-color-lines later to maint).
+
+ * The PATH used in CI job may be too wide and let incompatible dlls
+ to be grabbed, which can cause the build&test to fail. Tighten it.
+ (merge 7491ef6198 js/windows-ci-path-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid performance measurements from getting ruined by gc and other
+ housekeeping pauses interfering in the middle.
+ (merge be79131a53 rs/disable-gc-during-perf-tests later to maint).
+
+ * Stop "git add --dry-run" from creating new blob and tree objects.
+ (merge e578d0311d rs/add-dry-run-without-objects later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit" gave duplicated error message when the object store
+ was unwritable, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 4ef91a2d79 ab/fix-commit-error-message-upon-unwritable-object-store later to maint).
+
+ * Recent sparse-index addition, namely any use of index_name_pos(),
+ can expand sparse index entries and breaks any code that walks
+ cache-tree or existing index entries. One such instance of such a
+ breakage has been corrected.
+
+ * The xxdiff difftool backend can exit with status 128, which the
+ difftool-helper that launches the backend takes as a significant
+ failure, when it is not significant at all. Work it around.
+ (merge 571f4348dd da/mergetools-special-case-xxdiff-exit-128 later to maint).
+
+ * Improve test framework around unwritable directories.
+ (merge 5d22e18965 ab/test-cleanly-recreate-trash-directory later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" client talking to an HTTP server did not diagnose the
+ lack of the final status report from the other side correctly,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge c5c3486f38 jk/http-push-status-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Update "git archive" documentation and give explicit mention on the
+ compression level for both zip and tar.gz format.
+ (merge c4b208c309 bs/archive-doc-compression-level later to maint).
+
+ * Drop "git sparse-index" from the list of common commands.
+ (merge 6a9a50a8af sg/sparse-index-not-that-common-a-command later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch -c/-m new old" was not described to copy config, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 8252ec300e jc/branch-copy-doc later to maint).
+
+ * Squelch over-eager warning message added during this cycle.
+ (merge 9e8fe7b1c7 jk/log-warn-on-bogus-encoding later to maint).
+
+ * Fix long-standing shell syntax error in the completion script.
+ (merge 46b0585286 re/completion-fix-test-equality later to maint).
+
+ * Teach "git commit-graph" command not to allow using replace objects
+ at all, as we do not use the commit-graph at runtime when we see
+ object replacement.
+ (merge 095d112f8c ab/ignore-replace-while-working-on-commit-graph later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --no-verify" did not affect the underlying "git merge".
+ (merge 47bfdfb3fd ar/fix-git-pull-no-verify later to maint).
+
+ * One CI task based on Fedora image noticed a not-quite-kosher
+ consturct recently, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 4b540cf913 vd/pthread-setspecific-g11-fix later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
- (merge 1d9c8daef8 ab/bundle-doc later to maint).
- (merge 81483fe613 en/merge-strategy-docs later to maint).
- (merge 626beebdf8 js/log-protocol-version later to maint).
- (merge 00e302da76 cb/builtin-merge-format-string-fix later to maint).
- (merge ad51ae4dc0 cb/ci-freebsd-update later to maint).
- (merge be6444d1ca fc/completion-updates later to maint).
- (merge ff7b83f562 ti/tcsh-completion-regression-fix later to maint).
- (merge 325b06deda sg/make-fix-ar-invocation later to maint).
- (merge bd72824c60 me/t5582-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge f6a5af0f62 ga/send-email-sendmail-cmd later to maint).
- (merge f58c7468cd ab/ls-remote-packet-trace later to maint).
- (merge 0160f7e725 ab/rebase-fatal-fatal-fix later to maint).
- (merge a16eb6b1ff js/maintenance-launchctl-fix later to maint).
- (merge c21b2511c2 jk/t5323-no-pack-test-fix later to maint).
- (merge 5146c2f148 mh/credential-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 1549577338 dd/t6300-wo-gpg-fix later to maint).
- (merge 66e905b7dd rs/xopen-reports-open-failures later to maint).
- (merge 469888e6a5 es/walken-tutorial-fix later to maint).
- (merge 88682b016d ba/object-info later to maint).
- (merge b45c172e51 ab/gc-log-rephrase later to maint).
- (merge ccdd5d1eb1 ab/mailmap-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 6540b71614 cb/remote-ndebug-fix later to maint).
- (merge e4f8d27585 rs/show-branch-simplify later to maint).
- (merge e124ecf7f7 rs/archive-use-object-id later to maint).
- (merge cebead1ebf cb/ci-build-pedantic later to maint).
- (merge ca0cc98e03 bs/doc-bugreport-outdir later to maint).
- (merge 72b113e562 ab/no-more-check-bindir later to maint).
- (merge 92a5d1c9b4 jc/prefix-filename-allocates later to maint).
- (merge d9a65b6c0a rs/setup-use-xopen-and-xdup later to maint).
- (merge e8f55568de jk/t5562-racefix later to maint).
- (merge 8f0f110156 rs/drop-core-compression-vars later to maint).
- (merge b6d8887d3d ma/doc-git-version later to maint).
- (merge 66c0c44df6 cb/plug-leaks-in-alloca-emu-users later to maint).
- (merge afb32e8101 kz/revindex-comment-fix later to maint).
- (merge ae578de926 po/git-config-doc-mentions-help-c later to maint).
- (merge 187fc8b8b6 cb/unicode-14 later to maint).
- (merge 3584cff71c en/typofixes later to maint).
+ (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint).
+ (merge 8c6b4332b4 rs/close-pack-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 51b04c05b7 bs/difftool-msg-tweak later to maint).
+ (merge dd20e4a6db ab/make-compdb-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 6ffb990dc4 os/status-docfix later to maint).
+ (merge 100c2da2d3 rs/p3400-lose-tac later to maint).
+ (merge 76f3b69896 tb/aggregate-ignore-leading-whitespaces later to maint).
+ (merge 6e4fd8bfcd tz/doc-link-to-bundle-format-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f6c013dfa1 jc/doc-commit-header-continuation-line later to maint).
+ (merge ec9a37d69b ab/pkt-line-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 8650c6298c ab/fix-make-lint-docs later to maint).
+ (merge 1c720357ce ab/test-lib-diff-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 6b615dbece ks/submodule-add-message-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 82a57cd13f ma/doc-git-version later to maint).
+ (merge 203eb8381a jc/doc-format-patch-clarify-auto-base later to maint).
+ (merge 559664c792 ab/test-lib later to maint).