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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt | 65 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d425d814d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.3.10 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.3.9 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8621199bc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.10.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.4.10 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.4.9 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1436857cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.5.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.2 +------------------ + + * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with + a few levels of subdirectories are involved. + + * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression + in "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the + built-in version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in + the last scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track + and older. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a5e8477a4a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.5.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.4 +------------------ + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt index 7d65c163da..7288aaf716 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.0.txt @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ notes for details). * We rewrote one of the build scripts in Perl but this reimplements in Bourne shell. - (merge 82aec45 sg/help-group later to maint). + (merge 57cee8a sg/help-group later to maint). * The experimental untracked-cache feature were buggy when paths with a few levels of subdirectories are involved. @@ -333,6 +333,16 @@ notes for details). which was found to be a bit confusing to new users. (merge ce11360 jk/log-missing-default-HEAD later to maint). + * Recent versions of scripted "git am" has a performance regression in + "git am --skip" codepath, which no longer exists in the built-in + version on the 'master' front. Fix the regression in the last + scripted version that appear in 2.5.x maintenance track and older. + (merge b9d6689 js/maint-am-skip-performance-regression later to maint). + + * The branch descriptions that are set with "git branch --edit-description" + option were used in many places but they weren't clearly documented. + (merge 561d2b7 po/doc-branch-desc later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 1c601af es/doc-clean-outdated-tools later to maint). (merge 3581304 kn/tag-doc-fix later to maint). @@ -357,3 +367,4 @@ notes for details). (merge 1733ed3 ee/clean-test-fixes later to maint). (merge 5fcadc3 gb/apply-comment-typofix later to maint). (merge b894d3e mp/t7060-diff-index-test later to maint). + (merge d238710 as/config-doc-markup-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1e51363e3c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.6.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6 +---------------- + + * xdiff code we use to generate diffs is not prepared to handle + extremely large files. It uses "int" in many places, which can + overflow if we have a very large number of lines or even bytes in + our input files, for example. Cap the input size to soemwhere + around 1GB for now. + + * Some protocols (like git-remote-ext) can execute arbitrary code + found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from + arbitrary sources (e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote + repository), and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive + fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to well known and safe + ones. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b65e35245 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +Git v2.6.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.1 +------------------ + + * There were some classes of errors that "git fsck" diagnosed to its + standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status. + + * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug, + which was fixed. + + * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git. + + * On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable + using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem + thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree. + + * When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying + attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed. + + * After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly + useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact + commit. + + * "git rebase -i" had a minor regression recently, which stopped + considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn + sheet not a comment, which is now fixed. + + * Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log" + documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation. + + * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call + inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause + glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler + tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce + these unsafe calls. + + * The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are + DWIMmed was not clearly documented. + + * Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s" + in our Makefile was broken when they were used together. + + * The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded "crs" + options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which + people want to use programs with totally different set of command + line options. + + * The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network, + did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to + use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of + Git, which is not a good idea at all. Explicitly clear them just + like we do for the local transport. + + * "git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not + limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain. + + * Very small number of options take a parameter that is optional + (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end + of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and + every one of them. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. |