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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt | 239 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt index e7e79d999b..e743a2a8e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.7.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.11.6 references" nor "Reload" did not update what is shown as the contents of it, when the user overwrote the tag with "git tag -f". - * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + * "git for-each-ref" did not correctly support more than one --sort option. * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..09fc01406c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Git v2.13.7 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.6 +------------------- + + * Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we + blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our on-disk repo + paths. This means you can do bad things by putting "../" into the + name. We now enforce some rules for submodule names which will cause + Git to ignore these malicious names (CVE-2018-11235). + + Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of concept from + which the test script was adapted goes to Etienne Stalmans. + + * It was possible to trick the code that sanity-checks paths on NTFS + into reading random piece of memory (CVE-2018-11233). + +Credit for fixing for these bugs goes to Jeff King, Johannes +Schindelin and others. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..97755a89d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v2.14.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to forward-port the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version +of Git. See its release notes for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt index 9f7e28f8a2..b480e56b68 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.2.txt @@ -43,5 +43,8 @@ Fixes since v2.15.1 * Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as it was clear what it computed but not why/what for. + * This release also contains the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of + Git. See its release notes for details. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6be538ba30 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +Git v2.16.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to forward-port the fixes made in the v2.13.7 version +of Git. See its release notes for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index d6db0e19cf..c2cf891f71 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16 validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable - from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK. + from objects in a pack that came from a promisor remote is OK. * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e01384fe8e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v2.17.1 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.17 +----------------- + + * This release contains the same fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of + Git, covering CVE-2018-11233 and 11235, and forward-ported to + v2.14.4, v2.15.2 and v2.16.4 releases. See release notes to + v2.13.7 for details. + + * In addition to the above fixes, this release has support on the + server side to reject pushes to repositories that attempt to create + such problematic .gitmodules file etc. as tracked contents, to help + hosting sites protect their customers by preventing malicious + contents from spreading. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt index 5f16516734..3ea280cf68 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ Updates since v2.17 UI, Workflows & Features - * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has + * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this - work. + work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the + working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what + our side originally had. * "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to @@ -21,6 +23,130 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify "tlsv1.3" as its value. + * "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and + "~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files. + (merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint). + + * "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the + CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the + same key binding. It now does. + (merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint). + + * "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like + 8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query + the current theme. + (merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint). + + * "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when using + backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges"). + + * "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets + users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased + and a normal branch is being rebased. + + * "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy. + + * The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and + have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user + there are replacements. + + * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the + contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working + tree (and the other way around when checking in). + + * The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int", + "--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to + be interpreted as. A new "--type=<typename>" option has been + introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types. + + * "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the + calling script. Building on top of the above changes, the + "git config" learns "--type=color" type. Taken together, you can + do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get + the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable, + or "blue" if the variable does not exist. + + * "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based + on the refnames being shown. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git + stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred + spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible + completion candidate when "git stash push" can be. + + * "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then + silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense" + failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected. + + * Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility. + + * "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental + "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used. + This has been removed. + + * The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by + the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal + code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up + in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism. + + * "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch. + + * "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter + option. Now it does as "-P". + (merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint). + + * "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole + topology of commit graph elsewhere. + + * "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff + configuration variables such as diff.renames. + + * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load + custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a + custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using + newer version of bash-completion. + + * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this + email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action + 'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice. + + * With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge + strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed + paths and merge them accordingly. + + * "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to + skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to + do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the + "git diff" command. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames + for various commands better. + + * "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the + originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one, + and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of + the commit. + + * Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone. + + * When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there + are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their + names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message. + These object names are now sorted according to their types for + easier eyeballing. + + * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take + advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended + so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured + refspec. + + * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding + from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise + and negotiate the best one. + + * "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4. + (merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -76,6 +202,107 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single binary. + * API clean-up around ref-filter code. + + * Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been + optimized somewhat. + + * The index file is updated to record the fsmonitor section after a + full scan was made, to avoid wasting the effort that has already + spent. + + * Performance measuring framework in t/perf learned to help bisecting + performance regressions. + + * Some multi-word source filenames are being renamed to separate + words with dashes instead of underscores. + + * An reusable "memory pool" implementation has been extracted from + fast-import.c, which in turn has become the first user of the + mem-pool API. + + * A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer + to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same + way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for + Linux, BSDs and Darwin. + + * Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal + in a separate file to optimize graph walking. + + * The effort to pass the repository in-core structure throughout the + API continues. This round deals with the code that implements the + refs/replace/ mechanism. + + * The build procedure "make DEVELOPER=YesPlease" learned to enable a + bit more warning options depending on the compiler used to help + developers more. There also is "make DEVOPTS=tokens" knob + available now, for those who want to help fixing warnings we + usually ignore, for example. + + * A new version of the transport protocol is being worked on. + + * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make + it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later. + + * The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored + in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit + to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense + to do so. + + * "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers + to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has + been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is + marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in + other packs and loose ones are repacked. + + * The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further. + + * The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the + repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store + the objects are to be located). + + * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry" + while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance + quite a bit. + + * The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use + the sequencer machinery more. + + * Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to + mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly. + + * Developer support. Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at + TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive, + informational messages from the codepath are now given using the + same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity + configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages + when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side + records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side. + + * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier. + (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint). + + * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once + we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against + exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded + constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated + to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the + actual object names. + + * The list of commands with their various attributes were spread + across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a + bit more consolidated to allow more automation. + + * Quite a many tests assumed that newly created refs are made as + loose refs using the files backend, which have been updated to use + proper plumbing like rev-parse and update-ref, to avoid breakage + once we start using different ref backends. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -97,7 +324,7 @@ Fixes since v2.17 after giving an error message. (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint). - * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to undertand "git log + * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log --graph" output better. (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint). @@ -115,8 +342,242 @@ Fixes since v2.17 fixed. (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint). + * "git rebase --keep-empty" still removed an empty commit if the + other side contained an empty commit (due to the "does an + equivalent patch exist already?" check), which has been corrected. + (merge 3d946165e1 pw/rebase-keep-empty-fixes later to maint). + + * Some codepaths, including the refs API, get and keep relative + paths, that go out of sync when the process does chdir(2). The + chdir-notify API is introduced to let these codepaths adjust these + cached paths to the new current directory. + (merge fb9c2d2703 jk/relative-directory-fix later to maint). + + * "cd sub/dir && git commit ../path" ought to record the changes to + the file "sub/path", but this regressed long time ago. + (merge 86238e07ef bw/commit-partial-from-subdirectory-fix later to maint). + + * Recent introduction of "--log-destination" option to "git daemon" + did not work well when the daemon was run under "--inetd" mode. + (merge e67d906d73 lw/daemon-log-destination later to maint). + + * Small fix to the autoconf build procedure. + (merge 249482daf0 es/fread-reads-dir-autoconf-fix later to maint). + + * Fix an unexploitable (because the oversized contents are not under + attacker's control) buffer overflow. + (merge d8579accfa bp/fsmonitor-bufsize-fix later to maint). + + * Recent simplification of build procedure forgot a bit of tweak to + the build procedure of contrib/mw-to-git/ + (merge d8698987f3 ab/simplify-perl-makefile later to maint). + + * Moving a submodule that itself has submodule in it with "git mv" + forgot to make necessary adjustment to the nested sub-submodules; + now the codepath learned to recurse into the submodules. + + * "git config --unset a.b", when "a.b" is the last variable in an + otherwise empty section "a", left an empty section "a" behind, and + worse yet, a subsequent "git config a.c value" did not reuse that + empty shell and instead created a new one. These have been + (partially) corrected. + (merge c71d8bb38a js/empty-config-section-fix later to maint). + + * "git worktree remove" learned that "-f" is a shorthand for + "--force" option, just like for "git worktree add". + (merge d228eea514 sb/worktree-remove-opt-force later to maint). + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of + command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient + way. + (merge 94408dc71c sg/completion-clear-cached later to maint). + + * "git svn" had a minor thinko/typo which has been fixed. + (merge 51db271587 ab/git-svn-get-record-typofix later to maint). + + * During a "rebase -i" session, the code could give older timestamp + to commits created by later "pick" than an earlier "reword", which + has been corrected. + (merge 12f7babd6b js/ident-date-fix later to maint). + + * "git submodule status" did not check the symbolic revision name it + computed for the submodule HEAD is not the NULL, and threw it at + printf routines, which has been corrected. + (merge 0b5e2ea7cf nd/submodule-status-fix later to maint). + + * When fed input that already has In-Reply-To: and/or References: + headers and told to add the same information, "git send-email" + added these headers separately, instead of appending to an existing + one, which is a violation of the RFC. This has been corrected. + (merge 256be1d3f0 sa/send-email-dedup-some-headers later to maint). + + * "git fast-export" had a regression in v2.15.0 era where it skipped + some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected. + (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint). + + * The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via + COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused + trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row" + tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width. + (merge b5d5a567fb nd/term-columns later to maint). + + * We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions + are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are + better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers. + (merge 7818b619e2 ab/perl-python-attrs later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a + combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption + inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which + has been fixed. + (merge 15ef69314d js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue later to maint). + + * A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been + updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a + path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice + versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS. + (merge 742ae10e35 tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart + message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the + cover letter as plain text file. + (merge 50cd54ef4e bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach later to maint). + + * The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in + certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed. + (merge 7db118303a en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix later to maint). + + * Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not + render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with + HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs. + (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that + allows lockfile instances kept on the stack. + (merge 0fa5a2ed8d ma/lockfile-cleanup later to maint). + + * the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but + repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has + been corrected. + (merge 74373b5f10 nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to avoid non-standard-conformant pointer arithmetic. + (merge c112084af9 rs/no-null-ptr-arith-in-fast-export later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a + semi-corrupt repository. + (merge 8702b30fd7 jk/unavailable-can-be-missing later to maint). + + * "git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet + exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly + for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD. + + * "git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the + "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local + repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent + invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught + to take the "--progress" option. + (merge a0ef29341a cf/submodule-progress-dissociate later to maint). + + * Update credential-netrc helper (in contrib/) to allow customizing + the GPG used to decrypt the encrypted .netrc file. + (merge 786ef50a23 lm/credential-netrc later to maint). + + * "git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch" + against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the + submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind + (i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one + (i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective. + This has been corrected. + (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint). + + * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was + inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has + been corrected to error out early. + (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint). + + * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths, + which have been corrected. + (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint). + + * The import-tars script (in contrib/) has been taught to handle + tarballs with overly long paths that use PAX extended headers. + (merge 12ecea46e3 pa/import-tars-long-names later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse Y..." etc. misbehaved when given endpoints were + not committishes. + (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint). + + * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule + repository's history did not have anything common between ours and + the upstream's, failed to execute. We need to fetch from them to + continue even in such a case. + (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint). + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented. + (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint). + + * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the + final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed + packfile available to itself. + (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint). + + * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib + that clobber unused portion of outbuf. + (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint). + + * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era. + (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint). + + * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading + past the end of the file, which has been corrected. + (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint). + + * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV + (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific + tweaks), which has been corrected. + (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint). + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint). (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint). (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint). + (merge 05e293c1ac jk/flockfile-stdio later to maint). + (merge e9184b0789 jk/t5561-missing-curl later to maint). + (merge b1801b85a3 nd/worktree-move later to maint). + (merge bbd374dd20 ak/bisect-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 4855f06fb3 mn/send-email-credential-doc later to maint). + (merge 8523b1e355 en/doc-typoes later to maint). + (merge 43b44ccfe7 js/t5404-path-fix later to maint). + (merge decf711fc1 ps/test-chmtime-get later to maint). + (merge 22d11a6e8e es/worktree-docs later to maint). + (merge 92a5dbbc22 tg/use-git-contacts later to maint). + (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint). + (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint). + (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint). + (merge cd1e606bad bc/mailmap-self later to maint). + (merge f7997e3682 ao/config-api-doc later to maint). + (merge ee930754d8 jk/apply-p-doc later to maint). + (merge 011b648646 nd/pack-format-doc later to maint). + (merge 87a6bb701a sg/t5310-jgit-bitmap-test later to maint). + (merge f6b82970aa sg/t5516-fixes later to maint). + (merge 4362da078e sg/t7005-spaces-in-filenames-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7d0ee47c11 js/test-unset-prereq later to maint). + (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint). + (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint). + (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint). + (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint). + (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint). + (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint). + (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint). + (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint). + (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint). + (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint). + (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint). + (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint). + (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint). + (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint). + (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint). + (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7a5c5b82d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,239 @@ +Git 2.19 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.18 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths + added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents + of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new + files. They are now shown as new by default. + + "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an + otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new + paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. + + * "git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the + line number but the column number of the hit. + + * The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for + "--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect + it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l" + is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the + future repurposing of the it when it is used. + + * The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated. + + * The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends + out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an + overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to + automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line + in the payload has been introduced and is made the default. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. + + * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field, + which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the + code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a + more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. + + * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. + (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the + codebase to report the list of configuration variables + subcommands care about to help complete them. + + * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to + slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. + + * Make refspec parsing codepath more robust. + + * Some flaky tests have been fixed. + + * Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various + pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase + has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to + negate them. + + * Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/) + has been updated. + + * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" + throughout the object access API continues. + + * Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah + bitmap subsystem. + + * Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3. + + * Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules + file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration + files, to read random configuration items from it. + + * "git fast-import" has been updated to avoid attempting to create + delta against a zero-byte-long string, which is pointless. + + * The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic + option. + (merge 2b647a05d7 bb/pedantic later to maint). + + * The character display width table has been updated to match the + latest Unicode standard. + (merge 570951eea2 bb/unicode-11-width later to maint). + + * test-lint now looks for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test + scripts. + + +Fixes since v2.18 +----------------- + + * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a + nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/) + has been taught about it. + (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint). + + * "git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off + point that is newer than the existing history used to end up + grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out. + (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint). + + * Fix for 2.17-era regression around `core.safecrlf`. + (merge 6cb09125be as/safecrlf-quiet-fix later to maint). + + * The recent addition of "partial clone" experimental feature kicked + in when it shouldn't, namely, when there is no partial-clone filter + defined even if extensions.partialclone is set. + (merge cac1137dc4 jh/partial-clone later to maint). + + * "git send-pack --signed" (hence "git push --signed" over the http + transport) did not read user ident from the config mechanism to + determine whom to sign the push certificate as, which has been + corrected. + (merge d067d98887 ms/send-pack-honor-config later to maint). + + * "git fetch-pack --all" used to unnecessarily fail upon seeing an + annotated tag that points at an object other than a commit. + (merge c12c9df527 jk/fetch-all-peeled-fix later to maint). + + * When user edits the patch in "git add -p" and the user's editor is + set to strip trailing whitespaces indiscriminately, an empty line + that is unchanged in the patch would become completely empty + (instead of a line with a sole SP on it). The code introduced in + Git 2.17 timeframe failed to parse such a patch, but now it learned + to notice the situation and cope with it. + (merge f4d35a6b49 pw/add-p-recount later to maint). + + * The code to try seeing if a fetch is necessary in a submodule + during a fetch with --recurse-submodules got confused when the path + to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the + superproject, sometimes showing "(null)". This has been corrected. + + * "git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that + indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated + working tree across various state transitions, which has been + corrected. + (merge 984cd77ddb sb/submodule-core-worktree later to maint). + + * Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression. + (merge a9279c6785 pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict later to maint). + + * Recently added "--base" option to "git format-patch" command did + not correctly generate prereq patch ids. + (merge 15b76c1fb3 xy/format-patch-prereq-patch-id-fix later to maint). + + * POSIX portability fix in Makefile to fix a glitch introduced a few + releases ago. + (merge 6600054e9b dj/runtime-prefix later to maint). + + * "git filter-branch" when used with the "--state-branch" option + still attempted to rewrite the commits whose filtered result is + known from the previous attempt (which is recorded on the state + branch); the command has been corrected not to waste cycles doing + so. + (merge 709cfe848a mb/filter-branch-optim later to maint). + + * Clarify that setting core.ignoreCase to deviate from reality would + not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one. + (merge 48294b512a ms/core-icase-doc later to maint). + + * "fsck.skipList" did not prevent a blob object listed there from + being inspected for is contents (e.g. we recently started to + inspect the contents of ".gitmodules" for certain malicious + patterns), which has been corrected. + (merge fb16287719 rj/submodule-fsck-skip later to maint). + + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules another-branch" did not report + in which submodule it failed to update the working tree, which + resulted in an unhelpful error message. + (merge ba95d4e4bd sb/submodule-move-head-error-msg later to maint). + + * "git rebase" behaved slightly differently depending on which one of + the three backends gets used; this has been documented and an + effort to make them more uniform has begun. + (merge b00bf1c9a8 en/rebase-consistency later to maint). + + * The "--ignore-case" option of "git for-each-ref" (and its friends) + did not work correctly, which has been fixed. + (merge e674eb2528 jk/for-each-ref-icase later to maint). + + * "git fetch" failed to correctly validate the set of objects it + received when making a shallow history deeper, which has been + corrected. + (merge cf1e7c0770 jt/connectivity-check-after-unshallow later to maint). + + * Partial clone support of "git clone" has been updated to correctly + validate the objects it receives from the other side. The server + side has been corrected to send objects that are directly + requested, even if they may match the filtering criteria (e.g. when + doing a "lazy blob" partial clone). + (merge a7e67c11b8 jt/partial-clone-fsck-connectivity later to maint). + + * Handling of an empty range by "git cherry-pick" was inconsistent + depending on how the range ended up to be empty, which has been + corrected. + (merge c5e358d073 jk/empty-pick-fix later to maint). + + * "git reset --merge" (hence "git merge ---abort") and "git reset --hard" + had trouble working correctly in a sparsely checked out working + tree after a conflict, which has been corrected. + (merge b33fdfc34c mk/merge-in-sparse-checkout later to maint). + + * Correct a broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in a test. + (merge 650161a277 jc/t3404-one-shot-export-fix later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse ':/substring'" did not consider the history leading + only to HEAD when looking for a commit with the given substring, + when the HEAD is detached. This has been fixed. + (merge 6b3351e799 wc/find-commit-with-pattern-on-detached-head later to maint). + + * Build doc update for Windows. + (merge ede8d89bb1 nd/command-list later to maint). + + * core.commentchar is now honored when preparing the list of commits + to replay in "rebase -i". + + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint). + (merge 5b26c3c941 en/merge-recursive-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 0dcbc0392e bw/config-refer-to-gitsubmodules-doc later to maint). + (merge bb4d000e87 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint). + (merge 928f0ab4ba vs/typofixes later to maint). + (merge d7f590be84 en/rebase-i-microfixes later to maint). + (merge 81d395cc85 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint). + (merge 51d1863168 tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes later to maint). + (merge a9aa3c0927 ds/commit-graph later to maint). + (merge 5cf8e06474 js/enhanced-version-info later to maint). + (merge 6aaded5509 tb/config-default later to maint). + (merge 022d2ac1f3 sb/blame-color later to maint). |