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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt153
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.1.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt22
4 files changed, 284 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
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index 0000000000..759e6ca957
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+Git v2.19.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.19.1
+-------------------
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy
+ code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message,
+ which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log
+ message alone and never get such an input.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" did not clear the state files correctly when a run
+ of "squash/fixup" is aborted and then the user manually amended the
+ commit instead, which has been corrected.
+
+ * When fsmonitor is in use, after operation on submodules updates
+ .gitmodules, we lost track of the fact that we did so and relied on
+ stale fsmonitor data.
+
+ * Fix for a long-standing bug that leaves the index file corrupt when
+ it shrinks during a partial commit.
+
+ * Further fix for O_APPEND emulation on Windows
+
+ * A corner case bugfix in "git rerere" code.
+
+ * "git add ':(attr:foo)'" is not supported and is supposed to be
+ rejected while the command line arguments are parsed, but we fail
+ to reject such a command line upfront.
+
+ * "git rebase" etc. in Git 2.19 fails to abort when given an empty
+ commit log message as result of editing, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The code to backfill objects in lazily cloned repository did not
+ work correctly, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Update error messages given by "git remote" and make them consistent.
+
+ * "git update-ref" learned to make both "--no-deref" and "--stdin"
+ work at the same time.
+
+ * Recently added "range-diff" had a corner-case bug to cause it
+ segfault, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
+ with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
+ nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
+ based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
+ incompatible features are in use in the repository.
+
+ * The mailmap file update.
+
+ * The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
+ was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
+ used for the first run, which has been corrected.
+
+ * A corner-case bugfix.
+
+ * A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects
+ will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating
+ repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been
+ optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob
+ objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that
+ no blobs are needed.
+
+ * The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
+ remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
+
+ * "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
+ number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
+ parent commits, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
+ bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
+ directory.
+
+ * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
+ and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
+
+ * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
+ Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
+ were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
+ when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
+ as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
+ has been corrected.
+
+ * "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
+ shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
+ does not pass fsck.
+
+ * Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
+ small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
+ machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
+ and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
+ didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
+
+ * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
+ file is getting prepared for the transition.
+
+ * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
+ '--verbose-log' option.
+
+ * A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
+ loop while processing truncated loose objects.
+
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
index 519c89407c..e71fe3dee1 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-Git Release Notes
-=================
+Git 2.20 Release Notes
+======================
Backward Compatibility Notes
----------------------------
@@ -137,11 +137,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
- * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option.
-
- * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
- settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
-
* "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
"git difftool" does.
@@ -173,9 +168,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
each other.
(merge e5bbe09e88 nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk later to maint).
+ * The "--no-patch" option, which can be used to get a high-level
+ overview without the actual line-by-line patch difference shown, of
+ the "range-diff" command was earlier broken, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * The recently merged "rebase in C" has an escape hatch to use the
+ scripted version when necessary, but it hasn't been documented,
+ which has been corrected.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+ * Developer builds now use -Wunused-function compilation option.
+
+ * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
+ settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
+
* When there are too many packfiles in a repository (which is not
recommended), looking up an object in these would require
consulting many pack .idx files; a new mechanism to have a single
@@ -249,8 +258,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
used during tests are getting renamed for consistency.
(merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint).
- * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows
- the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
+ * A pair of new extensions to the index file have been introduced.
+ They allow the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
* The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is
on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of
@@ -296,7 +305,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into
million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece
- included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
+ to be included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
* Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git
fetch" with hashmaps.
@@ -332,6 +341,60 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line
completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.
+ * The revision walker machinery learned to take advantage of the
+ commit generation numbers stored in the commit-graph file.
+
+ * The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS".
+
+ * The way -lcurl library gets linked has been simplified by taking
+ advantage of the fact that we can just ask curl-config command how.
+
+ * Various functions have been audited for "-Wunused-parameter" warnings
+ and bugs in them got fixed.
+
+ * A sanity check for start-up sequence has been added in the config
+ API codepath.
+
+ * The build procedure to link for fuzzing test has been made
+ customizable with a new Makefile variable.
+
+ * The way "git rebase" parses and forwards the command line options
+ meant for underlying "git am" has been revamped, which fixed for
+ options with parameters that were not passed correctly.
+
+ * Our testing framework uses a special i18n "poisoned localization"
+ feature to find messages that ought to stay constant but are
+ incorrectly marked to be translated. This feature has been made
+ into a runtime option (it used to be a compile-time option).
+
+ * "git push" used to check ambiguities between object-names and
+ refnames while processing the list of refs' old and new values,
+ which was unnecessary (as it knew that it is feeding raw object
+ names). This has been optimized out.
+
+ * The xcurl_off_t() helper function is used to cast size_t to
+ curl_off_t, but some compilers gave warnings against the code to
+ ensure the casting is done without wraparound, when size_t is
+ narrower than curl_off_t. This warning has been squelched.
+
+ * Code preparation to replace ulong vars with size_t vars where
+ appropriate continues.
+
+ * The "test installed Git" mode of our test suite has been updated to
+ work better.
+
+ * A coding convention around the Coccinelle semantic patches to have
+ two classes to ease code migration process has been proposed and
+ its support has been added to the Makefile.
+
+ * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
+ file is getting prepared for the transition.
+ (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
+
+ * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
+ '--verbose-log' option.
+ (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
+
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
@@ -489,14 +552,6 @@ Fixes since v2.19
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
(merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint).
- * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
- file is getting prepared for the transition.
- (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
-
- * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
- '--verbose-log' option.
- (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
-
* A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
loop while processing truncated loose objects.
(merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint).
@@ -523,7 +578,7 @@ Fixes since v2.19
* "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first
saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches"
- and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time")
+ and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time)
worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the
same way, which has been fixed.
(merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint).
@@ -544,6 +599,62 @@ Fixes since v2.19
pathspec elements were involved, which has been fixed.
(merge b7845cebc0 nd/tree-walk-path-exclusion later to maint).
+ * "git merge" and "git pull" that merges into an unborn branch used
+ to completely ignore "--verify-signatures", which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 01a31f3bca jk/verify-sig-merge-into-void later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --autostash" did not correctly re-attach the HEAD at times.
+
+ * "rev-parse --exclude=<pattern> --branches=<pattern>" etc. did not
+ quite work, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 9ab9b5df0e ra/rev-parse-exclude-glob later to maint).
+
+ * When editing a patch in a "git add -i" session, a hunk could be
+ made to no-op. The "git apply" program used to reject a patch with
+ such a no-op hunk to catch user mistakes, but it is now updated to
+ explicitly allow a no-op hunk in an edited patch.
+ (merge 22cb3835b9 js/apply-recount-allow-noop later to maint).
+
+ * The URL to an MSDN page in a comment has been updated.
+ (merge 2ef2ae2917 js/mingw-msdn-url later to maint).
+
+ * "git ls-remote --sort=<thing>" can feed an object that is not yet
+ available into the comparison machinery and segfault, which has
+ been corrected to check such a request upfront and reject it.
+
+ * When "git bundle" aborts due to an empty commit ranges
+ (i.e. resulting in an empty pack), it left a file descriptor to an
+ lockfile open, which resulted in leftover lockfile on Windows where
+ you cannot remove a file with an open file descriptor. This has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 2c8ee1f53c jk/close-duped-fd-before-unlock-for-bundle later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch --stat=<width>" can be used to specify the width
+ used by the diffstat (shown in the cover letter).
+ (merge 284aeb7e60 nd/format-patch-cover-letter-stat-width later to maint).
+
+ * The way .git/index and .git/sharedindex* files were initially
+ created gave these files different perm bits until they were
+ adjusted for shared repository settings. This was made consistent.
+ (merge c9d6c78870 cc/shared-index-permbits later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --stat" to transplant a piece of history onto a totally
+ unrelated history were not working before and silently showed wrong
+ result. With the recent reimplementation in C, it started to instead
+ die with an error message, as the original logic was not prepared
+ to cope with this case. This has now been fixed.
+
+ * The advice message to tell the user to migrate an existing graft
+ file to the replace system when a graft file was read was shown
+ even when "git replace --convert-graft-file" command, which is the
+ way the message suggests to use, was running, which made little
+ sense.
+ (merge 8821e90a09 ab/replace-graft-with-replace-advice later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --raw" lost ellipses to adjust the output columns for
+ some time now, but the documentation still showed them.
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
@@ -583,3 +694,7 @@ Fixes since v2.19
(merge 3063477445 tb/char-may-be-unsigned later to maint).
(merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
(merge 71571cd7d6 ma/sequencer-do-reset-saner-loop-termination later to maint).
+ (merge 9a4cb8781e cb/notes-freeing-always-null-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 3006f5ee16 ma/reset-doc-rendering-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 4c2eb06419 sg/daemon-test-signal-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d27525e519 ss/msvc-strcasecmp later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dcba888dba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+Git v2.20.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release is primarily to fix brown-paper-bag breakages in the
+2.20.0 release.
+
+Fixes since v2.20
+-----------------
+
+ * A few newly added tests were not portable and caused minority
+ platforms to report false breakages, which have been fixed.
+
+ * Portability fix for a recent update to parse-options API.
+
+ * "git help -a" did not work well when an overly long alias is
+ defined, which has been corrected.
+
+ * A recent update accidentally squelched an error message when the
+ run_command API failed to run a missing command, which has been
+ corrected.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ad681bd5d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.0.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Git 2.21 Release Notes
+======================
+
+Backward Compatibility Notes
+----------------------------
+
+
+Updates since v2.20
+-------------------
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+
+
+
+Fixes since v2.20
+-----------------
+
+ * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.