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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt index 7655cccfaa..6eff128c80 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.7.txt @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Updates since v1.7.6 logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which - git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about + git itself never did--normal users should not have to worry about this) is now deprecated. * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt index fc3ea185a5..986637b755 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.3.1 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.3 ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt index 3aa25a2743..96090ef599 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.1 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4 ------------------ diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt index 9adccb1efb..bf6fb1a023 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.2.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.2 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.1 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt index 03f3d17751..267a1b34b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.3.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.3 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.2 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt index 7bc4c5dcc0..a7c1ce15c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.4.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Git v1.8.4.4 Release Notes -======================== +========================== Fixes since v1.8.4.3 -------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt index 752d79127a..4e4b88aa5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed - result is represented---packing the same set of objects using + result is represented--packing the same set of objects using different settings (or delta order) would produce a pack with different name. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fc6fe1711f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +Git v2.6.3 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.2 +------------------ + + * The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly + talked about "--contents --children". + + * "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which + obviously would not work well when there are too many of them. + + * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive + filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem + cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a + randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its + ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the + cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free. + This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of + borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat. + + * When the "git am" command was reimplemented in C, "git am -3" had a + small regression where it is aborted in its error handling codepath + when underlying merge-recursive failed in some ways. + + * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read + list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they + only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. + + * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string + to note where options should come on their command line, but we + spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days. + + * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate + work trees created via "git worktree add". + + * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is + lost. It now is saved to a file in $GIT_DIR and is shown next time + the "gc --auto" is run. + + * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents + in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM. + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" that tries to sanity check the edited + insn sheet before it uses it has become too picky on Windows where + CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR on the line + read via the "read" built-in command. + + * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the + end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the + packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that + cannot remove a file that is still open. + + * Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create + a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported. + + * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it + logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser + of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API. + + * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo + backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository + format version "1", with an extension mechanism. + + * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling + (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you + cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune"). + + * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end + of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that, + but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash. + + * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in + grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no + grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is + quiescent. + + * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit + object header, which is fixed. + + * "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line + argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0. + + * Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the + mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but + it didn't and silently favoured the removal. + + * "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library. + + * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl. + + * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git + worktree add" as a local source of "git clone". + + * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL, + Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the + same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line + at a time to work around the problem. + + * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the + list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to + correctly initialize the list. + + * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string + "HEAD", which has been corrected. + + * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it + needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0256a2dc9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +Git v2.6.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.3 +------------------ + + * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which + upset some linkers. + + * Add support for talking http/https over socks proxy. + + * Portability fix for Windows, which may rewrite $SHELL variable using + non-POSIX paths. + + * We now consistently allow all hooks to ignore their standard input, + rather than having git complain of SIGPIPE. + + * Fix shell quoting in contrib script. + + * Test portability fix for a topic in v2.6.1. + + * Allow tilde-expansion in some http config variables. + + * Give a useful special case "diff/show --word-diff-regex=." as an + example in the documentation. + + * Fix for a corner case in filter-branch. + + * Make git-p4 work on a detached head. + + * Documentation clarification for "check-ignore" without "--verbose". + + * Just like the working tree is cleaned up when the user cancelled + submission in P4Submit.applyCommit(), clean up the mess if "p4 + submit" fails. + + * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in + the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. + + * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory + for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be + copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already + special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try + computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may + not even exist or may be a directory. + + * There was no way to defeat a configured rebase.autostash variable + from the command line, as "git rebase --no-autostash" was missing. + + * Allow "git interpret-trailers" to run outside of a Git repository. + + * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we + are on an orphan or an unborn branch. + + * Some corner cases have been fixed in string-matching done in "git + status". + + * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take + more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround + for it. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f0924b62e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Git v2.6.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.4 +------------------ + + * Because "test_when_finished" in our test framework queues the + clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be + used inside a subshell. Add a mechanism to allow 'bash' to catch + such uses, and fix the ones that were found. + + * Update "git subtree" (in contrib/) so that it can take whitespaces + in the pathnames, not only in the in-tree pathname but the name of + the directory that the repository is in. + + * Cosmetic improvement to lock-file error messages. + + * mark_tree_uninteresting() has code to handle the case where it gets + passed a NULL pointer in its 'tree' parameter, but the function had + 'object = &tree->object' assignment before checking if tree is + NULL. This gives a compiler an excuse to declare that tree will + never be NULL and apply a wrong optimization. Avoid it. + + * The helper used to iterate over loose object directories to prune + stale objects did not closedir() immediately when it is done with a + directory--a callback such as the one used for "git prune" may want + to do rmdir(), but it would fail on open directory on platforms + such as WinXP. + + * "git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside + the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore + them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a + backward compatibility knob. + + * The exit code of git-fsck did not reflect some types of errors + found in packed objects, which has been corrected. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column" + (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices + + * Improve error reporting when SMTP TLS fails. + + * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not + in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the + codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed + and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts + questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is + obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function + in non-strict mode. + + * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status. + + * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an + annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an + old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt index 85c35202d1..563dadc57e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Updates since v2.6 UI, Workflows & Features + * The appearance of "gitk", particularly on high DPI monitors, have + been improved. "gitk" also comes with an undated translation for + Swedish and Japanese. + * "git remote" learned "get-url" subcommand to show the URL for a given remote name used for fetching and pushing. @@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Users who are too busy to type three extra keystrokes to ask for "git stash show -p" can now set stash.showPatch configuration - varible to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list + variable to true to always see the actual patch, not just the list of paths affected with feel for the extent of damage via diffstat. * "quiltimport" allows to specify the series file by honoring the @@ -48,6 +52,43 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Teach "git p4" to send large blobs outside the repository by talking to Git LFS. + * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo + backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository + format version "1", with an extension mechanism. + + * "git worktree" learned a "list" subcommand. + + * "git clone --dissociate" learned that it can be used even when + "--reference" was not used at the same time. + + * "git blame" learnt to take "--first-parent" and "--reverse" at the + same time when it makes sense. + + * "git checkout" did not follow the usual "--[no-]progress" + convention and implemented only "--quiet" that is essentially + a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the + usual "--[no-]progress". + + * The semantics of transfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been + extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets + you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical + repository and virtually serve them as separate ones. + + * send-email config variables whose values are pathnames now go + through the ~username/ expansion. + + * bash completion learnt to TAB-complete recipient addresses given + to send-email. + + * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work + around issue when running Git from inside emacs. + + * "git push" learned new configuration for doing "--recurse-submodules" + on each push. + + * "format-patch" has learned a new option to zero-out the commit + object name on the mbox "From " line. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -58,17 +99,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Some features from "git tag -l" and "git branch -l" have been made available to "git for-each-ref" so that eventually the unified - implementation can be shared across all three. + implementation can be shared across all three. The version merged + to the 'master' branch earlier had a performance regression in "tag + --contains", which has since been corrected. * Because "test_when_finished" in our test framework queues the clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be used inside a subshell. Add a mechanism to allow 'bash' to catch such uses, and fix the ones that were found. - (merge 0968f12 jk/test-lint-forbid-when-finished-in-subshell later to maint). * The debugging infrastructure for pkt-line based communication has been improved to mark the side-band communication specifically. - (merge fd89433 jk/async-pkt-line later to maint). * Update "git branch" that list existing branches, using the ref-filter API that is shared with "git tag" and "git @@ -83,6 +124,56 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. followed by strcpy/sprintf have been replaced with a less error prone constructs such as xstrfmt. + * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it + logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser + of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API. + + * "git am" used to spawn "git mailinfo" via run_command() API once + per each patch, but learned to make a direct call to mailinfo() + instead. + + * The implementation of "git mailinfo" was refactored so that a + mailinfo() function can be directly called from inside a process. + + * With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in + our test scripts has become a lot easier. + + * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which + upset some linkers. + + * Cross completed task off of subtree project's todo list. + + * Test cleanups for the subtree project. + + * Clean up style in an ancient test t9300. + + * Work around some test flakiness with p4d. + + * Fsck did not correctly detect a NUL-truncated header in a tag. + + * Use a safer behavior when we hit errors verifying remote certificates. + + * Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting + commits, not tree data. + + * The parse-options API has been updated to make "-h" command line + option work more consistently in all commands. + + * "git svn rebase/mkdirs" got optimized by keeping track of empty + directories better. + + * Fix some racy client/server tests by treating SIGPIPE the same as a + normal non-zero exit. + + * The necessary infrastructure to build topics using the free Travis + CI has been added. Developers forking from this topic (and enabling + Travis) can do their own builds, and we can turn on auto-builds for + git/git (including build-status for pull requests that people + open). + + * The write(2) emulation for Windows learned to set errno to EPIPE + when necessary. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -98,139 +189,226 @@ notes for details). (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. - (merge 2b594bf mm/keyid-docs later to maint). * "git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain. - (merge 95a4fb0 jk/blame-first-parent later to maint). * "git subtree" (in contrib/) now can take whitespaces in the pathnames, not only in the in-tree pathname but the name of the - directory that the repository is in. (merge 5b6ab38 - as/subtree-with-spaces later to maint). + directory that the repository is in. * 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. - (merge a48b409 jk/connect-clear-env later to maint). * Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported. - (merge b43702a ld/p4-import-labels later to maint). * 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. - (merge ac179b4 jw/make-arflags-customizable later to maint). * Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s" in our Makefile was broken when they were used together. - (merge ef49e05 jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix later to maint). * 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. - (merge 507d780 ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler later to maint). * The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are DWIMmed was not clearly documented. - (merge e14c92e jk/notes-dwim-doc later to maint). * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune"). - (merge 14886b4 js/gc-with-stale-symref later to maint). * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that cannot remove a file that is still open. - (merge 786b150 js/clone-dissociate later to maint). * Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log" documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation. - (merge fd8d07e dt/log-follow-config later to maint). * "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. - (merge 1db168e gr/rebase-i-drop-warn later to maint). + sheet not a comment. Further, the code was still too picky on + Windows where CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR + on the line read via the "read" built-in command of bash. Both of + these issues are now fixed. * After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact commit. - (merge 0eb8548 mm/detach-at-HEAD-reflog later to maint). * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL, Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line at a time to work around the problem. - (merge f60c483 sa/send-email-smtp-batch-data-limit later to maint). * When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed. - (merge 434c64d pt/am-builtin later to maint). * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git worktree add" as a local source of "git clone". - (merge d78db84 nd/clone-linked-checkout later to maint). * 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. - (merge 63ec5e1 js/icase-wt-detection later to maint). * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git. - (merge 31cd128 sb/perf-without-installed-git later to maint). * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug, which was fixed. - (merge 362d8b6 sb/http-flaky-test-fix later to maint). * 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. - (merge 122f76f jc/fsck-dropped-errors later to maint). * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM. - (merge 1f5f390 ls/p4-translation-failure later to maint). * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is lost. Save it to a file in $GIT_DIR and show it next time the "gc --auto" is run. - (merge 329e6e8 nd/gc-auto-background-fix later to maint). * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate work trees created via "git worktree add". - (merge 11f9dd7 mk/submodule-gitdir-path later to maint). * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is quiescent. - (merge fae1a90 jc/doc-gc-prune-now later to maint). * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit object header, which is fixed. - (merge a5a4b3f jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line later to maint). * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that, but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash. - (merge b2a7123 rd/test-path-utils later to maint). - - * Code clean-up and minor fixes. - (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint). - (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint). - (merge 29bc480 nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option later to maint). - (merge be510e0 jk/asciidoctor-section-heading-markup-fix later to maint). - (merge 83e6bda tk/typofix-connect-unknown-proto-error later to maint). - (merge a43eb67 tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo later to maint). - (merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint). - (merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint). + + * A test for interaction between untracked cache and sparse checkout + added in Git 2.5 days were flaky. + + * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string + to note where options should come on their command line, but we + spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days. + + * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read + list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they + only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading. + + * "git am -3" had a small regression where it is aborted in its error + handling codepath when underlying merge-recursive failed in certain + ways, as it assumed that the internal call to merge-recursive will + never die, which is not the case (yet). + + * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl. + + * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive + filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem + cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a + randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its + ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the + cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free. + This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of + borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat. + + * "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which + obviously would not work well when there are too many of them. + + * The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly + talked about "--contents --children". + + * "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library. + + * Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the + mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but + it didn't and silently favoured the removal. + + * "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line + argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0. + + * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it + needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do. + + * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string + "HEAD", which has been corrected. + + * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the + list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to + correctly initialize the list. + + * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory + for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be + copied (or symlinked) to the temporary area, as the code already + special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try + computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may + not even exist or may be a directory. + + * A Range: request can be responded with a full response and when + asked properly libcurl knows how to strip the result down to the + requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request + and it did not kick in. + + * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in + the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them. + + * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take + more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround + for it. + + * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we + are on an orphan or an unborn branch. + + * A build without NO_IPv6 used to use gethostbyname() when guessing + user's hostname, instead of getaddrinfo() that is used in other + codepaths in such a build. + + * The exit code of git-fsck did not reflect some types of errors + found in packed objects, which has been corrected. + + * The helper used to iterate over loose object directories to prune + stale objects did not closedir() immediately when it is done with a + directory--a callback such as the one used for "git prune" may want + to do rmdir(), but it would fail on open directory on platforms + such as WinXP. + + * "git p4" used to import Perforce CLs that touch only paths outside + the client spec as empty commits. It has been corrected to ignore + them instead, with a new configuration git-p4.keepEmptyCommits as a + backward compatibility knob. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) used to list "git column" + (which is not an end-user facing command) as one of the choices + (merge 160fcdb sg/completion-no-column later to maint). + + * The error reporting from "git send-email", when SMTP TLS fails, has + been improved. + (merge 9d60524 jk/send-email-ssl-errors later to maint). + + * When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not + in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the + codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed + and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts + questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is + obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function + in non-strict mode. + (merge 92bcbb9 jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid later to maint). + + * "git symbolic-ref" forgot to report a failure with its exit status. + (merge f91b273 jk/symbolic-ref-maint later to maint). + + * History traversal with "git log --source" that starts with an + annotated tag failed to report the tag as "source", due to an + old regression in the command line parser back in v2.2 days. + (merge 728350b jk/pending-keep-tag-name later to maint). + + * "git p4" when interacting with multiple depots at the same time + used to incorrectly drop changes. + + * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6553d69e33 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +Git v2.7.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.7 +---------------- + + * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by + exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, + interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without + setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. + + * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed + array. + + * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias + files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. + + * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler + and have been fixed. + + * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between + the '--signoff' option and DCO. + + * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be + at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. + + * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file + listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change + that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. + + * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR + (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is + done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to + be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous + user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling + unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. + + * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server + log. + + * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not + ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". + + * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles + mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not + friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They + now close the packs before doing so. + + * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a + regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been + corrected. + + * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has + been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. + + * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch + named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary + disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. + + * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion + 1.9.0 and later. + + * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly + skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. + + * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was + run from a subdirectory. + + * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. + + * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands + have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted + CPU cycles. + + * Drop a few old "todo" items by deciding that the change one of them + suggests is not such a good idea, and doing the change the other + one suggested to do. + + * Documentation for "git fetch --depth" has been updated for clarity. + + * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options + and command specific syntax. + +Also includes a handful of documentation and test updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..166e06ccd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,235 @@ +Git 2.8 Release Notes +===================== + +Updates since v2.7 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. + + * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes + too much time before emitting the first line of the result. + + * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) + how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. + + * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should + be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes + tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must + be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only + when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must + have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref). + + * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index" + behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the + user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a + new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this + cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be + disabled. + + * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking + "rebase -i". + + * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed. + + * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory + configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be + omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in + your workflow. + + * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in + place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output. + + * Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text + that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control + their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated + to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they + used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR, + which is usually not what the users expect). + + * "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree + to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting + when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote + repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g. + refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch). + + * "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose + end-of-line problems. + + * "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote + repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at. + + * New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to + specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around + proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when + CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication + has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication + material in user's keyrings. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use + it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. + + * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets + as such correctly. + + * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets + you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. + + * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like + $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias + handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to + affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which + resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init". + Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment + and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias. + + * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has + been updated to share more code with the code that deals with + normal references. + + * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier + to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should + allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to + help users on DOSsy systems. + + * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information + regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It + has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected + (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing + only the number of changes). + + * "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same + underlying machinery) has been optimized. + + * Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by + persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing + tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total + wallclock time. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.7 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by + exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, + interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without + setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. + (merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint). + + * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of + fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot + to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed + array. + (merge 2653a8c nd/dir-exclude-cleanup later to maint). + + * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not + quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they + already are in a harmful way. + (merge 4d55200 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias + files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. + (merge 2c510f2 ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix later to maint). + + * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler + and have been fixed. + (merge a0df2e5 jk/clang-pedantic later to maint). + + * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between + the '--signoff' option and DCO. + (merge b2c150d dw/signoff-doc later to maint). + + * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be + at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. + (merge aecad37 dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit later to maint). + + * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file + listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change + that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. + (merge 8c72236 nd/exclusion-regression-fix later to maint). + + * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR + (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is + done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to + be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous + user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling + unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. + (merge ea56518 js/fopen-harder later to maint). + + * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server + log. + + Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps? + IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log, + so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good. + (merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint). + + * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not + ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". + (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint). + + * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles + mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not + friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They + now close the packs before doing so. + (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). + + * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a + regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been + corrected. + (merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint). + + * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has + been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. + (merge 719c3da jk/sanity later to maint). + + * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch + named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary + disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. + (merge 0571979 jk/list-tag-2.7-regression later to maint). + + * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion + 1.9.0 and later. + (merge 0b66415 ew/svn-1.9.0-auth later to maint). + + * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly + skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. + (merge 933cfeb dw/subtree-split-do-not-drop-merge later to maint). + + * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was + run from a subdirectory. + (merge a97262c nd/diff-with-path-params later to maint). + + * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options + and command specific syntax. + (merge fa4b5e3 jk/completion-rebase later to maint). + (merge f7c2e1a pw/completion-show-branch later to maint). + (merge d7d4ca8 pw/completion-stash later to maint). + (merge e6414b4 tb/complete-word-diff-regex later to maint). + + * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. + (merge e7d5ce8 js/dirname-basename later to maint). + + * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands + have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted + CPU cycles. + (merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). + (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). + (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint). + (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint). + (merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint). |