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-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt62
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt73
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.1.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt17
8 files changed, 179 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt
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@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v2.4.11 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+Fixes since v2.4.10
+-------------------
+
+ * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
+ corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
+ pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of
+ these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
+ when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v2.5.5 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.5.4
+------------------
+
+ * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
+ corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
+ pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of
+ these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
+ when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v2.6.6 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.6.5
+------------------
+
+ * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
+ corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
+ pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of
+ these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
+ when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6adf038915
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Git v2.7.3 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.7.2
+------------------
+
+ * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
+ contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
+ filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
+ subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
+ harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed
+ to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
+
+ * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
+ the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
+ setting a configuration variable failed.
+
+ * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
+ process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
+ tests.
+
+ * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a
+ rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard
+ characters in a tree object.
+
+ * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature
+ misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
+
+ * The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
+ broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
+
+ * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
+ its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
+ what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
+ been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
+ the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
+ system.
+
+ * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
+ tricky, has been documented a bit better.
+
+ * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
+ now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
+ not set.
+
+ * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
+ arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the
+ tests to sidestep the problem.
+
+ * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
+ modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
+ (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
+
+ * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
+ configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
+ but didn't say the reason correctly.
+
+ * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
+ idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
+ data in the idx.
+
+Also includes documentation and test updates.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..883ae896fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+Git v2.7.4 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.7.3
+------------------
+
+ * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap
+ corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of
+ pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of
+ these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer
+ when formulating pathnames while tree traversal.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
index 290774e61a..25079710fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
nobody noticed nor complained about it.
- * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
+ * "push" learned that its "--delete" option can be shortened to
+ "-d", just like "branch --delete" and "branch -d" are the same
+ thing.
* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
too much time before emitting the first line of the result.
@@ -32,7 +34,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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
+ behavior 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
@@ -53,7 +55,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* 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
+ their behavior (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).
@@ -131,8 +133,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to
get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting
- push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn, given that
- the transition is over long time ago.
+ push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn because the
+ transition was completed a long time ago.
* README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked
slightly to make it easier on the eyes.
@@ -143,8 +145,8 @@ 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.
+ * A slight update to the Makefile to mark ".PHONY" 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.
@@ -185,16 +187,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
- analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
+ analyzers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
- calls to strcpy(3) in test-path-utils that are already safe has
- been rewritten to avoid false wanings.
-
- * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
- analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
- number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
- calls to strcpy(3) in "git rerere" that are already safe has been
- rewritten to avoid false wanings.
+ calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of protrams that are already safe
+ has been rewritten to avoid false warnings.
* The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct
the full path out of a series of path components while walking a
@@ -233,6 +229,30 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
options in the Makefile.
+ * The way the test scripts configure the Apache web server has been
+ updated to work also for Apache 2.4 running on RedHat derived
+ distros.
+
+ * Out of maintenance gcc on OSX 10.6 fails to compile the code in
+ 'master'; work it around by using clang by default on the platform.
+
+ * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct
+ the full path out of a series of path components while walking a
+ tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path
+ needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that
+ is already flat, in many cases. The API has been removed and its
+ users have been rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity.
+ This incidentally also closes some heap-corruption holes.
+
+ * Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a
+ file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we
+ expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our
+ scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data,
+ even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from
+ end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when
+ using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option.
+
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -261,7 +281,7 @@ notes for details).
* "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
+ * A few non-portable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler
and have been fixed.
* The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
@@ -322,17 +342,17 @@ notes for details).
* 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
+ has 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.
* "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
- repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
- "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
- obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
- when triggered.
+ repository needs to maintain back-pointers to its worktrees,
+ but "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact
+ will obviously not adjust them), which actually made things
+ worse when triggered.
* The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
@@ -365,10 +385,6 @@ notes for details).
misbehaved when run from a subdirectory.
(merge 17f1365 nd/git-common-dir-fix later to maint).
- * Another try to add support to the ignore mechanism that lets you
- say "this is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that
- is a subset of the previous part) is not excluded".
-
* "git worktree add -B <branchname>" did not work.
* The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was
@@ -410,6 +426,11 @@ notes for details).
but didn't say the reason correctly.
(merge 638fa62 js/config-set-in-non-repository later to maint).
+ * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
+ idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
+ data in the idx.
+ (merge 7465feb jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge f459823 ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep later to maint).
(merge 63ca1c0 ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command later to maint).
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef6d80b008
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+Git v2.8.1 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.8
+----------------
+
+ * "make rpmbuild" target was broken as its input, git.spec.in, was
+ not updated to match a file it describes that has been renamed
+ recently. This has been fixed.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt
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index 0000000000..3e1f0bb31b
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+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Git v2.8.2 Release Notes
+========================
+
+Fixes since v2.8.1
+------------------
+
+ * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build
+ the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate
+ array of strings.
+
+ * Bunch of tests on "git clone" has been renumbered for better
+ organization.
+
+ * The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide
+ configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment.
+
+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.