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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt | 221 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt | 107 |
3 files changed, 450 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..432762f270 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ +Git 2.22.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.22 +----------------- + + * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>" + ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in, + but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been + corrected. + + * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to + the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected. + + * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote + backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting + closed, which has been fixed. + + * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its + output, which has been corrected. + + * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect + value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in + use, which has been corrected. + + * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as + if it were a tree, which has been corrected. + + * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in + the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are + in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. + + * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the + index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded + by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work + when both options are given. + + * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to + the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which + has been corrected. + + * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. + + * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside + "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a + broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. + + * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull + from in the local repository and in the published repository are + different. + + * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is + recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a + hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected + to honor the "--origin <name>" option. + + * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are + necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been + corrected. + + * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a + lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API + correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element + of the array in use. This has been corrected. + + * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to + indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only + matches directories") has been revamped. + + * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end + of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. + + * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been + updated. + + * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely, + the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when + it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without + having to consult the other end, which has been corrected. + + * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now + it gives a warning. + + * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read + past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed. + + * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message + "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was + confusing. This has been corrected. + + * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its + description in the short form; they have been replaced with long + forms to make them more recognisable. + + * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be + effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not + affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not + the case. This has been corrected. + + * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed + to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the + "--recursive" option was in use. + + * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor + support to clear cruft in the progress output. + + * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output + without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been + fixed. + + * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has + been made more robust and also easier to follow. + + * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line + completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires + a repository outside one), which has been corrected. + + * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding + "git rebase -r", which has been corrected. + + * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting + rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected. + + * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment + character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been + corrected. + + * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer overlaps during binary search. + + * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse, + which did not work well. + + * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime + may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be + closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to + an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a + new instance to replace it. + + * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via + "import" based transports. + + * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the + coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had + a blanket ban against them. + + * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while + looking for --funcion-context line in a corner case, which has been + corrected. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt index a6cd592734..e3c4e78265 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Backward compatibility note prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable". + * The "git log" command by default behaves as if the --mailmap option + was given. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -46,6 +49,54 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words boundary for Rust has been added. + * "git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the + "--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable + status.aheadBehind. + + * "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in + non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation. + The commands learned "--no-show-forced-updates" option to disable + this safety feature. + + * Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to + split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and + "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on + advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout" + command. + + * "git branch --list" learned to always output the detached HEAD as + the first item (when the HEAD is detached, of course), regardless + of the locale. + + * The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on + the branch the HEAD currently is on. + + * "git rev-list --objects" learned the "--no-object-names" option to + squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for + pack-objects. + + * A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into + "git tag -s". + + * "git multi-pack-index" learned expire and repack subcommands. + + * "git blame" learned to "ignore" commits in the history, whose + effects (as well as their presence) get ignored. + + * "git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action. + + * The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as + starting point for reachability computation now. + + * Extra blank lines in "git status" output have been reduced. + + * The commits in a repository can be described by multiple + commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be + updated incrementally. + + * "git range-diff" output has been tweaked for easier identification + of which part of what file the patch shown is about. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -53,7 +104,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. no longer be used. * Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to - ensure that the remainer of the tests still succeeds when tests + ensure that the remainder of the tests still succeeds when tests with prerequisites are skipped. * "git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the @@ -68,9 +119,52 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works on a range (A..B). - * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core + * A new tutorial targeting specifically aspiring git-core developers has been added. + * Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked + libraries from at runtime. + + * "git mergetool" and its tests now spawn fewer subprocesses. + + * Dev support update to help tracing out tests. + + * Support to build with MSVC has been updated. + + * "git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the + auto-gc only once at the very end. + + * A handful of Windows build patches have been upstreamed. + + * The code to read state files used by the sequencer machinery for + "git status" has been made more robust against a corrupt or stale + state files. + + * "git for-each-ref" with multiple patterns have been optimized. + + * The tree-walk API learned to pass an in-core repository + instance throughout more codepaths. + + * When one step in multi step cherry-pick or revert is reset or + committed, the command line prompt script failed to notice the + current status, which has been improved. + + * Many GIT_TEST_* environment variables control various aspects of + how our tests are run, but a few followed "non-empty is true, empty + or unset is false" while others followed the usual "there are a few + ways to spell true, like yes, on, etc., and also ways to spell + false, like no, off, etc." convention. + + * Adjust the dir-iterator API and apply it to the local clone + optimization codepath. + + * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the + coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had + a blanket ban against them. + + * A test helper has been introduced to optimize preparation of test + repositories with many simple commits, and a handful of test + scripts have been updated to use it. Fixes since v2.22 @@ -80,16 +174,13 @@ Fixes since v2.22 ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in, but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been corrected. - (merge e1df7fe43f nd/init-relative-template-fix later to maint). * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected. - (merge 105df73e71 nd/corrupt-worktrees later to maint). * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote - backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting + backend was mixed up, leading to an unrelated file descriptor getting closed, which has been fixed. - (merge 3203566a71 mh/import-transport-fd-fix later to maint). * A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is @@ -98,86 +189,160 @@ Fixes since v2.22 corrected. * Code cleanup and futureproof. - (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint). * More parameter validation. - (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint). * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its output, which has been corrected. - (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint). * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in use, which has been corrected. - (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint). * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as if it were a tree, which has been corrected. - (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint). * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are in a repository upfront, which has been corrected. - (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint). * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work when both options are given. - (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint). * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which has been corrected. - (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint). * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table. - (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint). * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a broken command on Windows, which has been corrected. - (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint). * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull from in the local repository and in the published repository are different. - (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint). * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected to honor the "--origin <name>" option. - (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint). * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been corrected. - (merge 810e19322d jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base later to maint). * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element of the array in use. This has been corrected. - (merge 7140600e2e md/list-objects-filter-memfix later to maint). * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only matches directories") has been revamped. - (merge 1a58bad014 an/ignore-doc-update later to maint). * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence. - (merge d37dc239a4 md/url-parse-harden later to maint). * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been updated. - (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint). + + * "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out + in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with + '+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown + with '*' in front. + (merge 6e9381469e nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head later to maint). + + * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via + "import" based transports. + + * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime + may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be + closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to + an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a + new instance to replace it. + + * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse, + which did not work well. + + * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search. + + * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment + character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been + corrected. + + * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting + rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected. + + * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding + "git rebase -r", which has been corrected. + + * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line + completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires + a repository outside one), which has been corrected. + + * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has + been made more robust and also easier to follow. + + * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output + without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been + fixed. + + * Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated, + but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been + corrected. The output of protocol capabilities for debugging has + been tweaked a bit. + + * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor + support to clear cruft in the progress output. + + * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed + to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the + "--recursive" option was in use. + + * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be + effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not + affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not + the case. This has been corrected. + + * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its + description in the short form; they have been replaced with long + forms to make them more recognisable. + + * Generation of pack bitmaps are now disabled when .keep files exist, + as these are mutually exclusive features. + (merge 7328482253 ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default later to maint). + + * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message + "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was + confusing. This has been corrected. + + * "git stash --keep-index" did not work correctly on paths that have + been removed, which has been fixed. + (merge b932f6a5e8 tg/stash-keep-index-with-removed-paths later to maint). + + * Window 7 update ;-) + + * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read + past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed. + + * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now + it gives a warning. + + * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely, + the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when + it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without + having to consult the other end, which has been corrected. + + * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while + looking for --function-context line in a corner case, which has been + corrected. + (merge b777f3fd61 jk/xdiff-clamp-funcname-context-index later to maint). * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint). - (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint). - (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint). - (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint). - (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint). + (merge fbec05c210 cc/test-oidmap later to maint). + (merge 7a06fb038c jk/no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint). + (merge 81ed2b405c cb/xdiff-no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint). + (merge d61e6ce1dd sg/fsck-config-in-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e123d2daa6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +Git 2.24 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.23 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility note + + * (no entry yet so far) + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the + standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options + first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user + input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but + that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter + between revs and pathspec. + + * A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of + configuration variables is introduced. + + * "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first + clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true + upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it. + + * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns. + (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint). + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to write commit-graph over given commit object names has + been made a bit more robust. + + * The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries + the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs. + + * Further clean-up of the initialization code. + + +Fixes since v2.23 +----------------- + + * "git grep --recurse-submodules" that looks at the working tree + files looked at the contents in the index in submodules, instead of + files in the working tree. + (merge 6a289d45c0 mt/grep-submodules-working-tree later to maint). + + * Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer + overflows and hardened. + (merge 5aa02f9868 jk/tree-walk-overflow later to maint). + + * "git pack-refs" can lose refs that are created while running, which + is getting corrected. + (merge a613d4f817 sc/pack-refs-deletion-racefix later to maint). + + * "git checkout" and "git restore" to re-populate the index from a + tree-ish (typically HEAD) did not work correctly for a path that + was removed and then added again with the intent-to-add bit, when + the corresponding working tree file was empty. This has been + corrected. + + * Compilation fix. + (merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint). + + * "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting. + (merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint). + + * We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split + diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but + some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has + been corrected. + (merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint). + + * Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe. + (merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint). + + * "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in + some corner cases, which has been corrected. + (merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint). + + * On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch + commits from submodule projects, while still working in the + superproject, which has been corrected. + (merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint). + + * Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe. + (merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint). + + * "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves + against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to + show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected. + (merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint). + + * The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of + updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying + subsequent steps. + (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint). + (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint). + (merge 415b770b88 ds/midx-expire-repack later to maint). + (merge 19800bdc3f nd/diff-parseopt later to maint). + (merge 58166c2e9d tg/t0021-racefix later to maint). |