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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt index a69531c1ef..893c18bfdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.33.0.txt @@ -1,18 +1,6 @@ Git 2.33 Release Notes ====================== -Backward compatibility notes ----------------------------- - - * The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, - if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now - implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. - - You can disable the diff output with "git log -m --no-patch", but - then there probably isn't much point in passing "-m" in the first - place ;-). - - Updates since Git 2.32 ---------------------- @@ -24,15 +12,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features "smtp-server" that is meant to name the server to instead name the command to talk to the server. - * The "-m" option in "git log -m" that does not specify which format, - if any, of diff is desired did not have any visible effect; it now - implies some form of diff (by default "--patch") is produced. - * The userdiff pattern for C# learned the token "record". * "git rev-list" learns to omit the "commit <object-name>" header lines from the output with the `--no-commit-header` option. + * "git worktree add --lock" learned to record why the worktree is + locked with a custom message. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -45,7 +32,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. reduce code duplication. * Repeated rename detections in a sequence of mergy operations have - been optimize out. + been optimized out for the 'ort' merge strategy. * Preliminary clean-up of tests before the main reftable changes hits the codebase. @@ -62,6 +49,44 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * GitHub Actions / CI update. (merge 0dc787a9f2 js/ci-windows-update later to maint). + * Object accesses in repositories with many alternate object store + have been optimized. + + * "git log" has been optimized not to waste cycles to load ref + decoration data that may not be needed. + + * Many "printf"-like helper functions we have have been annotated + with __attribute__() to catch placeholder/parameter mismatches. + + * Tests that cover protocol bits have been updated and helpers + used there have been consolidated. + + * The CI gained a new job to run "make sparse" check. + + * "git status" codepath learned to work with sparsely populated index + without hydrating it fully. + + * A guideline for gender neutral documentation has been added. + + * Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been + updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised. + + * The completion support used to offer alternate spelling of options + that exist only for compatibility, which has been corrected. + + * "TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=there make test" failed to work, which has + been corrected. + + * "git bundle" gained more test coverage. + + * "git read-tree" had a codepath where blobs are fetched one-by-one + from the promisor remote, which has been corrected to fetch in bulk. + + * Rewrite of "git submodule" in C continues. + + * "git checkout" and "git commit" learn to work without unnecessarily + expanding sparse indexes. + Fixes since v2.32 ----------------- @@ -183,6 +208,32 @@ Fixes since v2.32 and adds to guidelines to do so. (merge 46a237f42f ds/gender-neutral-doc later to maint). + * "git commit --allow-empty-message" won't abort the operation upon + an empty message, but the hint shown in the editor said otherwise. + (merge 6f70f00b4f hj/commit-allow-empty-message later to maint). + + * The code that gives an error message in "git multi-pack-index" when + no subcommand is given tried to print a NULL pointer as a strong, + which has been corrected. + (merge 88617d11f9 tb/reverse-midx later to maint). + + * CI update. + (merge a066a90db6 js/ci-check-whitespace-updates later to maint). + + * Documentation fix for "git pull --rebase=no". + (merge d3236becec fc/pull-no-rebase-merges-theirs-into-ours later to maint). + + * A race between repacking and using pack bitmaps has been corrected. + (merge dc1daacdcc jk/check-pack-valid-before-opening-bitmap later to maint). + + * The local changes stashed by "git merge --autostash" were lost when + the merge failed in certain ways, which has been corrected. + + * Windows rmdir() equivalent behaves differently from POSIX ones in + that when used on a symbolic link that points at a directory, the + target directory gets removed, which has been corrected. + (merge 3e7d4888e5 tb/mingw-rmdir-symlink-to-directory later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge bfe35a6165 ah/doc-describe later to maint). (merge f302c1e4aa jc/clarify-revision-range later to maint). @@ -218,3 +269,11 @@ Fixes since v2.32 (merge 5632e838f8 rs/khash-alloc-cleanup later to maint). (merge b1d87fbaf1 jk/typofix later to maint). (merge e04170697a ab/gitignore-discovery-doc later to maint). + (merge 8232a0ff48 dl/packet-read-response-end-fix later to maint). + (merge eb448631fb dl/diff-merge-base later to maint). + (merge c510928a25 hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix later to maint). + (merge ddcb189d9d tb/bitmap-type-filter-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge 878b399734 pb/submodule-recurse-doc later to maint). + (merge 734283855f jk/config-env-doc later to maint). + (merge 482e1488a9 ab/getcwd-test later to maint). + (merge f0b922473e ar/doc-markup-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d21a63ed83 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.34.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +Git 2.34 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since Git 2.33 +---------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Pathname expansion (like "~username/") learned a way to specify a + 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 userdiff pattern for "java" language has been updated. + + * "git rebase" by default skips changes that are equivalent to + commits that are already in the history the branch is rebased onto; + give messages when this happens to let the users be aware of + skipped commits, and also teach them how to tell "rebase" to keep + duplicated changes. + + * The advice message that "git cherry-pick" gives when it asks + conflicted replay of a commit to be resolved by the end user has + been updated. + + * After "git clone --recurse-submodules", all submodules are cloned + but they are not by default recursed into by other commands. With + submodule.stickyRecursiveClone configuration set, submodule.recurse + configuration is set to true in a repository created by "clone" + with "--recurse-submodules" option. + + * The logic for auto-correction of misspelt subcommands learned to go + interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set + to 'prompt'. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git bisect" spawned "git show-branch" only to pretty-print the + title of the commit after checking out the next version to be + tested; this has been rewritten in C. + + * "git add" can work better with the sparse index. + + * Support for ancient versions of cURL library (pre 7.19.4) has been + dropped. + + * A handful of tests that assumed implementation details of files + backend for refs have been cleaned up. + + * trace2 logs learned to show parent process name to see in what + context Git was invoked. + + * Loading of ref tips to prepare for common ancestry negotiation in + "git fetch-pack" has been optimized by taking advantage of the + commit graph when available. + + * Remind developers that the userdiff patterns should be kept simple + and permissive, assuming that the contents they apply are always + syntactically correct. + + * The current implementation of GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is broken in + that checking for the lack of a prerequisite would not work. Avoid + the use of "if ! test_have_prereq X" in a test script. + + * The revision traversal API has been optimized by taking advantage + of the commit-graph, when available, to determine if a commit is + reachable from any of the existing refs. + + * "git fetch --quiet" optimization to avoid useless computation of + info that will never be displayed. + + * Callers from older advice_config[] based API has been updated to + use the newer advice_if_enabled() and advice_enabled() API. + + +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). + + * 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). |