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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt | 35 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt | 23 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt | 65 |
3 files changed, 111 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt index 7aa14f8632..75d4fdfde7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt @@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features location relative to Git installation (e.g. its $sharedir which is $(prefix)/share), with "%(prefix)". - * Use `ort` instead of `recursive` as the default merge strategy. + * The `ort` strategy is used instead of `recursive` as the default + merge strategy. * The userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated. @@ -77,7 +78,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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. + * In addition to GnuPG, ssh public crypto can be used for object and + push-cert signing. Note that this feature cannot be used with + ssh-keygen from OpenSSH 8.7, whose support for it is broken. Avoid + using it unless you update to OpenSSH 8.8. * "git log --grep=string --author=name" learns to highlight hits just like "git grep string" does. @@ -182,7 +186,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * 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 + * The code path 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. @@ -260,12 +264,8 @@ Fixes since v2.33 * The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly. - * Doc update plus improved error reporting. - * Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected. - * Regression fix. - * 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 @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ Fixes since v2.33 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. + * Drop "git sparse-checkout" 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 @@ -391,7 +391,6 @@ Fixes since v2.33 (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). @@ -405,8 +404,21 @@ Fixes since v2.33 (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). + construct recently, which has been corrected. + + * "git pull --ff-only" and "git pull --rebase --ff-only" should make + it a no-op to attempt pulling from a remote that is behind us, but + instead the command errored out by saying it was impossible to + fast-forward, which may technically be true, but not a useful thing + to diagnose as an error. This has been corrected. + (merge 361cb52383 jc/fix-pull-ff-only-when-already-up-to-date later to maint). + + * The way Cygwin emulates a unix-domain socket, on top of which the + simple-ipc mechanism is implemented, can race with the program on + the other side that wants to use the socket, and briefly make it + appear as a regular file before lstat(2) starts reporting it as a + socket. We now have a workaround on the side that connects to a + unix domain socket. * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f188160be9 ab/bundle-remove-verbose-option later to maint). @@ -422,6 +434,5 @@ Fixes since v2.33 (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). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad404e9aa0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Git v2.34.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is primarily to fix a handful of regressions in Git 2.34. + +Fixes since v2.34 +----------------- + + * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was + completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2 + library in the latest release. + + * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us + should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't. + + * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused + GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with + a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted. + + * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted. + + * SubmittingPatches document gained a syntactically incorrect mark-up, + which has been corrected. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..120fac5b21 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Git 2.35 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since Git 2.34 +---------------------- + +Backward compatibility warts + + * "_" is now treated as any other URL-valid characters in an URL when + matching the per-URL configuration variable names. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git status --porcelain=v2" now show the number of stash entries + with --show-stash like the normal output does. + + * "git stash" learned the "--staged" option to stash away what has + been added to the index (and nothing else). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The use of errno as a means to carry the nature of error in the ref + API implementation has been reworked and reduced. + + * Teach and encourage first-time contributors to this project to + state the base commit when they submit their topic. + + * The command line complation for "git send-email" options have been + tweaked to make it easier to keep it in sync with the command itself. + + +Fixes since v2.34 +----------------- + + * "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was + completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2 + library in the latest release. + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + + * "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us + should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't. + + * An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused + GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with + a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted. + + * An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted. + + * Things like "git -c branch.sort=bogus branch new HEAD", i.e. the + operation modes of the "git branch" command that do not need the + sort key information, no longer errors out by seeing a bogus sort + key. + (merge 98e7ab6d42 jc/fix-ref-sorting-parse later to maint). + + * The compatibility implementation for unsetenv(3) were written to + mimic ancient, non-POSIX, variant seen in an old glibc; it has been + changed to return an integer to match the more modern era. + (merge a38989bd5b jc/unsetenv-returns-an-int later to maint). + + * The clean/smudge conversion code path has been prepared to better + work on platforms where ulong is narrower than size_t. + (merge 596b5e77c9 mc/clean-smudge-with-llp64 later to maint). |