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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b71738e654 --- /dev/null +++ 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 50710e603c..080687f202 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt @@ -34,6 +34,34 @@ UI, Workflows & Features interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set to 'prompt'. + * "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a + possible backend. + + * "git diff --submodule=diff" showed failure from run_command() when + trying to run diff inside a submodule, when the user manually + removes the submodule directory. + + * "git bundle unbundle" learned to show progress display. + + * In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored + files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the + entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is + especially useful when the sparse patterns change. + + * Taking advantage of the CGI interface, http-backend has been + updated to enable protocol v2 automatically when the other side + asks for it. + + * The credential-cache helper has been adjusted to Windows. + + * The error in "git help no-such-git-command" is handled better. + + * 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. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -80,147 +108,178 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "make INSTALL_STRIP=-s install" allows the installation step to use "install -s" to strip the binaries as they get installed. + * Code that handles large number of refs in the "git fetch" code + path has been optimized. + + * The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single + pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that + span across multiple packfiles. + + * The code to make "git grep" recurse into submodules has been + updated to migrate away from the "add submodule's object store as + an alternate object store" mechanism (which is suboptimal). + + * The tracing of process ancestry information has been enhanced. + + * Reduce number of write(2) system calls while sending the + ref advertisement. + + * Update the build procedure to use the "-pedantic" build when + DEVELOPER makefile macro is in effect. + + * Large part of "git submodule add" gets rewritten in C. + + * The run-command API has been updated so that the callers can easily + ask the file descriptors open for packfiles to be closed immediately + before spawning commands that may trigger auto-gc. + + * 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. + 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. + + * 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. * 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 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). |