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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt | 41 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt | 28 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63499b7c0e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +Git 2.10 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +Updates since v2.9 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git pull --rebase --verify-signature" learned to warn the user + that "--verify-signature" is a no-op when rebasing. + + * An upstream project can make a recommendation to shallowly clone + some submodules in the .gitmodules file it ships. + + * "git worktree add" learned that '-' can be used as a short-hand for + "@{-1}", the previous branch. + + * Update the funcname definition to support css files. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete "git + status" options. + + * Messages that are generated by auto gc during "git push" on the + receiving end are now passed back to the sending end in such a way + that they are shown with "remote: " prefix to avoid confusing the + users. + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * "git fast-import" learned the same performance trick to avoid + creating too small a packfile as "git fetch" and "git push" have, + using *.unpackLimit configuration. + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + (merge a43b68a ew/daemon-socket-keepalive later to maint). + + * "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options + API. + + * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the + first step to move many state variables into a structure that can + be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more + than once. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + (merge b15a3e0 et/pretty-format-c-auto later to maint). + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + (merge fb85db8 jk/rev-list-count-with-bitmap later to maint). + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + (merge 6f8d9bc rs/xdiff-hunk-with-func-line later to maint). + + * The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands, + configuration variables and environment variables are consistently + typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages. + (merge ae9f631 tr/doc-tt later to maint). + + * "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is + documented now. + (merge 19a7f24 ap/git-svn-propset-doc later to maint). + + * The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when + referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used. + (merge bc91316 dn/gpg-doc later to maint). + + * "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch + creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the + reflog was truncated. + (merge 71abeb7 sg/reflog-past-root later to maint). + + * The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those + who uses "set -u", which has been fixed. + (merge 34d8f5a vs/prompt-avoid-unset-variable later to maint). + + * compat/regex code did not cleanly compile. + (merge bd8f005 rj/compat-regex-size-max-fix later to maint). + + * A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data + on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so. + (merge b8ba412 jk/avoid-unbounded-alloca later to maint). + + * "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape + hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to + use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead. + (merge 4e55ed3 et/add-chmod-x later to maint). + + * Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/) + (merge 3cddb00 nb/gnome-keyring-build later to maint). + + * "git status" used to say "working directory" when it meant "working + tree". + (merge 2a0e6cd lv/status-say-working-tree-not-directory later to maint). + + * Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with + the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK). + (merge 9b35cad em/newer-freebsd-shells-are-fine-with-returns later to maint). + + * "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git + cherry-pick A..B" didn't. + (merge 0f974e2 mg/cherry-pick-multi-on-unborn later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge 3a39f61 pc/occurred later to maint). + (merge 9e70233 jk/fetch-prune-doc later to maint). + (merge ed008d7 pb/strbuf-read-file-doc later to maint). + (merge 31da121 jc/deref-tag later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt index 8d484b170a..f4e2552836 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt @@ -52,4 +52,18 @@ Fixes since v2.8.3 result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead. + * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC + variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did + not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is + known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization. + + * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed. + + * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in + dir-diff mode. + + * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?" + detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows". + + Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index d9685cb5f6..b61d36712f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -112,16 +112,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the commit." - (merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint). * "git clone" learned the "--shallow-submodules" option. * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable. - * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be - more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the - contents before and after it belong to logically separate units. + * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of + commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable + by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and + after it belong to logically separate units. It is still + experimental. * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing where the hook directory is. @@ -229,7 +230,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs being tested intact. - (merge d88785e jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere later to maint). * t0040 had too many unnecessary repetitions in its test data. Teach test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it @@ -258,6 +258,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. config.mak didn't. (merge 51dd3e8 mm/makefile-developer-can-be-in-config-mak later to maint). + * The way how "submodule--helper list" signals unmatch error to its + callers has been updated. + + * A bash-ism "local" has been removed from "git submodule" scripted + Porcelain. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -435,20 +441,16 @@ notes for details). * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. - (merge e5a39ad bn/http-cookiefile-config later to maint). * Consolidate description of tilde-expansion that is done to configuration variables that take pathname to a single place. - (merge dca83ab jc/config-pathname-type later to maint). * Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. - (merge f6a5279 sb/submodule-deinit-all later to maint). * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken, which are all fixed with this. - (merge 1cca17d jc/linkgit-fix later to maint). * "git rerere" can get confused by conflict markers deliberately left by the inner merge step, because they are indistinguishable from @@ -458,43 +460,34 @@ notes for details). (merge 0f9fd5c jc/ll-merge-internal later to maint). * CI test was taught to build documentation pages. - (merge b98712b ls/travis-build-doc later to maint). * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as potential error and warn. - (merge 6d2d780 jc/fsck-nul-in-commit later to maint). * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher). - (merge 8e98b35 jk/rebase-interactive-eval-fix later to maint). * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to customize this behaviour. - (merge ebf31e7 js/windows-dotgit later to maint). * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP. - (merge 05a5869 kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc later to maint). * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed. - (merge caa47ad tb/core-eol-fix later to maint). * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization. - (merge 90a78b8 ar/diff-args-osx-precompose later to maint). * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in dir-diff mode. - (merge 366f9ce da/difftool later to maint). * The "are we talking with TTY, doing an interactive session?" detection has been updated to work better for "Git for Windows". - (merge f7f90e0 kb/msys2-tty later to maint). * We forgot to add "git log --decorate=auto" to documentation when we added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe. @@ -512,16 +505,8 @@ notes for details). (merge 7063693 js/rebase-i-dedup-call-to-rerere later to maint). * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates - (merge 832c0e5 lp/typofixes later to maint). - (merge f5ee54a sb/z-is-gnutar-ism later to maint). - (merge 2e3926b va/i18n-misc-updates later to maint). - (merge f212dcc bn/config-doc-tt-varnames later to maint). - (merge f54bea4 nd/remote-plural-ours-plus-theirs later to maint). - (merge 2bb0518 ak/t4151-ls-files-could-be-empty later to maint). - (merge 4df4313 jc/test-seq later to maint). - (merge a75a308 tb/t5601-sed-fix later to maint). - (merge 6c1fbe1 va/i18n-remote-comment-to-align later to maint). - (merge dee2303 va/mailinfo-doc-typofix later to maint). (merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint). (merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint). (merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint). + (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint). + (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ed2bca038b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Git v2.9.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.9 +---------------- + + * When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a + connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around + for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has + been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections. + + * The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format + string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring + --no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to + a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as + "auto". + + * "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n" + option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the + bitmap index. + + * "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited + by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire + file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file, + which has been fixed. + + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |