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54 files changed, 1065 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt index daf4bdb0d7..d6d42f3183 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.0.txt @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series the repository when that happens. -* Crufts removal +* Cruft removal - We used to say "old commits are retrievable using reflog and 'master@{yesterday}' syntax as long as you haven't run @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Updates in v1.5.0 since v1.4.4 series - The value of i18n.commitencoding in the originating repository is recorded in the commit object on the "encoding" header, if it is not UTF-8. git-log and friends notice this, - and reencodes the message to the log output encoding when + and re-encodes the message to the log output encoding when displaying, if they are different. The log output encoding is determined by "git log --encoding=<encoding>", i18n.logoutputencoding configuration, or i18n.commitencoding diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt index ad060f4f89..980adfb315 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition plan. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt index 418c685cf8..4bcff945e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition plan. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt index 7a904419f7..a2a34b43a7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition plan. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt index d3a2a3e712..344333de66 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.4.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Fixes since v1.6.5.3 * "git prune-packed" gave progress output even when its standard error is not connected to a terminal; this caused cron jobs that run it to - produce crufts. + produce cruft. * "git pack-objects --all-progress" is an option to ask progress output from write-object phase _if_ progress output were to be produced, and diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt index ee141c19ad..6c7f7da7eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the configuration variable is missing. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition plan. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt index c50b59c495..3ed1e01433 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ users will fare this time. Please refer to: http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare - http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007 + https://lore.kernel.org/git/7vbptlsuyv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org/ for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the transition process that already took place so far. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt index fcb46ca6a4..73ed2b5278 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.0.2.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.0.1 * "git status" in 1.7.0 lacked the optimization we used to have in 1.6.X series to speed up scanning of large working tree. - * "gitweb" did not diagnose parsing errors properly while reading tis configuration + * "gitweb" did not diagnose parsing errors properly while reading its configuration file. And other minor fixes and documentation updates. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt index 326670df6e..57597f2bf3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.10.4.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.10.3 * The message file for Swedish translation has been updated a bit. * A name taken from mailmap was copied into an internal buffer - incorrectly and could overun the buffer if it is too long. + incorrectly and could overrun the buffer if it is too long. * A malformed commit object that has a header line chomped in the middle could kill git with a NULL pointer dereference. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt index ecda427a35..4b822976b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.3.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.12.2 its Accept-Encoding header. * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give - progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + progress output while processing objects it received to the user when run over the smart-http protocol. * "git status" honored the ignore=dirty settings in .gitmodules but diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt index 9c03353af2..1d24edcf2f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.5.3.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Fixes since v1.7.5.2 * "git log --stdin path" with an input that has additional pathspec used to corrupt memory. - * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smalt-HTTP protocol could + * "git send-pack" (hence "git push") over smart-HTTP protocol could deadlock when the client side pack-object died early. * Compressed tarball gitweb generates used to be made with the timestamp diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index 43883c14f0..63d6e4afa4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ to them for details). together, misdetected branches. * "git receive-pack" (the counterpart to "git push") did not give - progress output while processing objects it received to the puser + progress output while processing objects it received to the user when run over the smart-http protocol. * When you misspell the command name you give to the "exec" action in diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt index 96090ef599..c257beb114 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.1.txt @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Fixes since v1.8.4 in 1.8.4-rc1). * "git rebase -i" and other scripted commands were feeding a - random, data dependant error message to 'echo' and expecting it + random, data dependent error message to 'echo' and expecting it to come out literally. * Setting the "submodule.<name>.path" variable to the empty diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 02f681b710..255e185af6 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. credential helper interface from Git.pm. * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that - this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it + this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 (cf. <51A606A0.5060101@web.de>) so let's try moving it ahead. * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.3.txt index acc9ebb886..0dfb17c4fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.3.txt @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Git v2.1.3 Release Notes they are new enough to support the `--output` option. * "git pack-objects" forgot to disable the codepath to generate - object recheability bitmap when it needs to split the resulting + object reachability bitmap when it needs to split the resulting pack. * "gitweb" used deprecated CGI::startfrom, which was removed from diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt index f4da28ab66..3792b7d03d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ notes for details). * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours", which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of - the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in + the system where outside stuff is usually called "theirs" in contrast to "ours". * "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted, diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt index c4d4397023..abbd331508 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.2.txt @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Fixes since v2.10.1 by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in another worktree. However, this also prevented checking out a branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare - reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare + repository, in a worktree that is connected to the bare repository. The check has been corrected to allow it. * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt index 9cd14c8197..7d35cf186d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.1.txt @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Fixes since v2.11 "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This has been fixed. - * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist + * "git p4" that tracks multiple p4 paths imported a single changelist that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed by many empty commits. This has been fixed. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt index ef8b97da9b..d2f6a83614 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ notes for details). "git difftool --dir-diff" from a subdirectory never worked. This has been fixed. - * "git p4" that tracks multile p4 paths imported a single changelist + * "git p4" that tracks multiple p4 paths imported a single changelist that touches files in these multiple paths as one commit, followed by many empty commits. This has been fixed. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index aa99d4b3ce..2a47b4cb0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features been changed to enable "--decorate". * The output from "git status --short" has been extended to show - various kinds of dirtyness in submodules differently; instead of to + various kinds of dirtiness in submodules differently; instead of to "M" for modified, 'm' and '?' can be shown to signal changes only to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is checked out. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt index 5d76ad5310..384e4de265 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.3.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Fixes since v2.13.2 * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was - unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the + unnecessarily complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the early-config mechanism that does not chdir around. * "git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Fixes since v2.13.2 * Fix a recent regression to "git rebase -i" and add tests that would have caught it and others. - * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected. + * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected. * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt index 4246c68ff5..2711a2529d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a - separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish + separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distinguish timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the timestamp_t. @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ notes for details). * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was - unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the + unnecessarily complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the early-config mechanism that does not chdir around. * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..72b7af6799 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +Git v2.14.6 Release Notes +========================= + +This release addresses the security issues CVE-2019-1348, +CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, +CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387. + +Fixes since v2.14.5 +------------------- + + * CVE-2019-1348: + The --export-marks option of git fast-import is exposed also via + the in-stream command feature export-marks=... and it allows + overwriting arbitrary paths. + + * CVE-2019-1349: + When submodules are cloned recursively, under certain circumstances + Git could be fooled into using the same Git directory twice. We now + require the directory to be empty. + + * CVE-2019-1350: + Incorrect quoting of command-line arguments allowed remote code + execution during a recursive clone in conjunction with SSH URLs. + + * CVE-2019-1351: + While the only permitted drive letters for physical drives on + Windows are letters of the US-English alphabet, this restriction + does not apply to virtual drives assigned via subst <letter>: + <path>. Git mistook such paths for relative paths, allowing writing + outside of the worktree while cloning. + + * CVE-2019-1352: + Git was unaware of NTFS Alternate Data Streams, allowing files + inside the .git/ directory to be overwritten during a clone. + + * CVE-2019-1353: + When running Git in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as + "WSL") while accessing a working directory on a regular Windows + drive, none of the NTFS protections were active. + + * CVE-2019-1354: + Filenames on Linux/Unix can contain backslashes. On Windows, + backslashes are directory separators. Git did not use to refuse to + write out tracked files with such filenames. + + * CVE-2019-1387: + Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is + caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very + targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones. + +Credit for finding these vulnerabilities goes to Microsoft Security +Response Center, in particular to Nicolas Joly. The `fast-import` +fixes were provided by Jeff King, the other fixes by Johannes +Schindelin with help from Garima Singh. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..dc241cba34 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.15.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6 to address +the security issues CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, +CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, and +CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes for that version for details. + +In conjunction with a vulnerability that was fixed in v2.20.2, +`.gitmodules` is no longer allowed to contain entries of the form +`submodule.<name>.update=!command`. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt index 0c81c5915f..b474781ed8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Fixes since v2.15 (merge eef3df5a93 bw/pathspec-match-submodule-boundary later to maint). * Amending commits in git-gui broke the author name that is non-ascii - due to incorrect enconding conversion. + due to incorrect encoding conversion. * Recent update to the submodule configuration code broke "diff-tree" by accidentally stopping to read from the index upfront. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt index 64a0bcb0d2..f0121a8f2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.3.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16.2 * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output - so that it can be more safely sharable. + so that it can be more safely shareable. * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock what it did not acquire lock on. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..438306e60b --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.16.6 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6 and in +v2.15.4 addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, +CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, +CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes for those +versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index c2cf891f71..8b17c26033 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ Fixes since v2.16 * The http tracing code, often used to debug connection issues, learned to redact potentially sensitive information from its output - so that it can be more safely sharable. + so that it can be more safely shareable. (merge 8ba18e6fa4 jt/http-redact-cookies later to maint). * Crash fix for a corner case where an error codepath tried to unlock diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5a46c94271 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.17.3 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6 and in +v2.15.4 addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, +CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, +CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes for those +versions for details. + +In addition, `git fsck` was taught to identify `.gitmodules` entries +of the form `submodule.<name>.update=!command`, which have been +disallowed in v2.15.4. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt index 3ea280cf68..6c8a0e97c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. (merge 00a3da2a13 nd/remove-ignore-env-field later to maint). * Code to find the length to uniquely abbreviate object names based - on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addtion, has been + on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addition, has been optimized to use the same fan-out table. * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..98b168aade --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.18.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4 +and in v2.17.3, addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, +CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, +CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes +for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt index a06ccf6e2a..891c79b9cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository" throughout the object access API continues. - * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various + * Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the codebase to report the list of configuration variables subcommands care about to help complete them. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..92d7f89de6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.19.3 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4 +and in v2.17.3, addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, +CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, +CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes +for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt index e71fe3dee1..3dd7e6e1fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features alias expansion. * The documentation of "git gc" has been updated to mention that it - is no longer limited to "pruning away crufts" but also updates + is no longer limited to "pruning away cruft" but also updates ancillary files like commit-graph as a part of repository optimization. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8e680cb9fb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Git v2.20.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4 +and in v2.17.3, addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, +CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, +CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, and CVE-2019-1387; see the release notes +for those versions for details. + +The change to disallow `submodule.<name>.update=!command` entries in +`.gitmodules` which was introduced v2.15.4 (and for which v2.17.3 +added explicit fsck checks) fixes the vulnerability in v2.20.x where a +recursive clone followed by a submodule update could execute code +contained within the repository without the user explicitly having +asked for that (CVE-2019-19604). + +Credit for finding this vulnerability goes to Joern Schneeweisz, +credit for the fixes goes to Jonathan Nieder. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b7594151e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.21.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4, +v2.17.3 and in v2.20.2, addressing the security issues CVE-2019-1348, +CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, CVE-2019-1352, +CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, and CVE-2019-19604; +see the release notes for those versions for details. + +Additionally, this version also includes a couple of fixes for the +Windows-specific quoting of command-line arguments when Git executes +a Unix shell on Windows. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..940a23f0d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.22.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4, +v2.17.3, v2.20.2 and in v2.21.1, addressing the security issues +CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, +CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, and +CVE-2019-19604; see the release notes for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2083b492ce --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.23.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4, +v2.17.3, v2.20.2 and in v2.21.1, addressing the security issues +CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, +CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, and +CVE-2019-19604; see the release notes for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..18104850fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.24.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4, +v2.17.3, v2.20.2 and in v2.21.1, addressing the security issues +CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351, +CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, and +CVE-2019-19604; see the release notes for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..91ceb34927 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,370 @@ +Git 2.25 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.24 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility notes + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A tutorial on object enumeration has been added. + + * The branch description ("git branch --edit-description") has been + used to fill the body of the cover letters by the format-patch + command; this has been enhanced so that the subject can also be + filled. + + * "git rebase --preserve-merges" has been marked as deprecated; this + release stops advertising it in the "git rebase -h" output. + + * The code to generate multi-pack index learned to show (or not to + show) progress indicators. + + * "git apply --3way" learned to honor merge.conflictStyle + configuration variable, like merges would. + + * The custom format for "git log --format=<format>" learned the l/L + placeholder that is similar to e/E that fills in the e-mail + address, but only the local part on the left side of '@'. + + * Documentation pages for "git shortlog" now list commit limiting + options explicitly. + + * The patterns to detect function boundary for Elixir language has + been added. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned that the "--onto" + option of "git rebase" can take its argument as the value of the + option. + + * The userdiff machinery has been taught that "async def" is another + way to begin a "function" in Python. + + * "git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=<ref>" and the + "--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the + log message that gets compared. + + * "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" run outside of any working tree did + not error out, which has been corrected. + + * A few commands learned to take the pathspec from the standard input + or a named file, instead of taking it as the command line + arguments, with the "--pathspec-from-file" option. + + * "git submodule" learned a subcommand "set-url". + + * "git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name + of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log + messages. + + * The interaction between "git clone --recurse-submodules" and + alternate object store was ill-designed. The documentation and + code have been taught to make more clear recommendations when the + users see failures. + + * Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a + dedicated "sparse-checkout" command. + + * Miscellaneous small UX improvements on "git-p4". + + * "git sparse-checkout list" subcommand learned to give its output in + a more concise form when the "cone" mode is in effect. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Debugging support for lazy cloning has been a bit improved. + + * Move the definition of a set of bitmask constants from 0ctal + literal to (1U<<count) notation. + + * Test updates to prepare for SHA-2 transition continues. + + * Crufty code and logic accumulated over time around the object + parsing and low-level object access used in "git fsck" have been + cleaned up. + + * The implementation of "git log --graph" got refactored and then its + output got simplified. + + * Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header + files and update config.h + + * "git bundle" has been taught to use the parse options API. "git + bundle verify" learned "--quiet" and "git bundle create" learned + options to control the progress output. + + * Handling of commit objects that use non UTF-8 encoding during + "rebase -i" has been improved. + + * The beginning of rewriting "git add -i" in C. + + * A label used in the todo list that are generated by "git rebase + --rebase-merges" is used as a part of a refname; the logic to come + up with the label has been tightened to avoid names that cannot be + used as such. + + * The logic to avoid duplicate label names generated by "git rebase + --rebase-merges" forgot that the machinery itself uses "onto" as a + label name, which must be avoided by auto-generated labels, which + has been corrected. + + * We have had compatibility fallback macro definitions for "PRIuMAX", + "PRIu32", etc. but did not for "PRIdMAX", while the code used the + last one apparently without any hiccup reported recently. The + fallback macro definitions for these <inttypes.h> macros that must + appear in C99 systems have been removed. + + * Recently we have declared that GIT_TEST_* variables take the + usual boolean values (it used to be that some used "non-empty + means true" and taking GIT_TEST_VAR=YesPlease as true); make + sure we notice and fail when non-bool strings are given to + these variables. + + * Users of oneway_merge() (like "reset --hard") learned to take + advantage of fsmonitor to avoid unnecessary lstat(2) calls. + + * Performance tweak on "git push" into a repository with many refs + that point at objects we have never heard of. + + * PerfTest fix to avoid stale result mixed up with the latest round + of test results. + + * Hide lower-level verify_signed-buffer() API as a pure helper to + implement the public check_signature() function, in order to + encourage new callers to use the correct and more strict + validation. + + * Unnecessary reading of state variables back from the disk during + sequencer operation has been reduced. + + * The code has been made to avoid gmtime() and localtime() and prefer + their reentrant counterparts. + + * In a repository with many packfiles, the cost of the procedure that + avoids registering the same packfile twice was unnecessarily high + by using an inefficient search algorithm, which has been corrected. + + * Redo "git name-rev" to avoid recursive calls. + + * FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI has been added. + + +Fixes since v2.24 +----------------- + + * "rebase -i" ceased to run post-commit hook by mistake in an earlier + update, which has been corrected. + + * "git notes copy $original" ought to copy the notes attached to the + original object to HEAD, but a mistaken tightening to command line + parameter validation made earlier disabled that feature by mistake. + + * When all files from some subdirectory were renamed to the root + directory, the directory rename heuristics would fail to detect that + as a rename/merge of the subdirectory to the root directory, which has + been corrected. + + * Code clean-up and a bugfix in the logic used to tell worktree local + and repository global refs apart. + (merge f45f88b2e4 sg/dir-trie-fixes later to maint). + + * "git stash save" in a working tree that is sparsely checked out + mistakenly removed paths that are outside the area of interest. + (merge 4a58c3d7f7 js/update-index-ignore-removal-for-skip-worktree later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse --git-path HEAD.lock" did not give the right path + when run in a secondary worktree. + (merge 76a53d640f js/git-path-head-dot-lock-fix later to maint). + + * "git merge --no-commit" needs "--no-ff" if you do not want to move + HEAD, which has been corrected in the manual page for "git bisect". + (merge 8dd327b246 ma/bisect-doc-sample-update later to maint). + + * "git worktree add" internally calls "reset --hard" that should not + descend into submodules, even when submodule.recurse configuration + is set, but it was affected. This has been corrected. + (merge 4782cf2ab6 pb/no-recursive-reset-hard-in-worktree-add later to maint). + + * Messages from die() etc. can be mixed up from multiple processes + without even line buffering on Windows, which has been worked + around. + (merge 116d1fa6c6 js/vreportf-wo-buffering later to maint). + + * HTTP transport had possible allocator/deallocator mismatch, which + has been corrected. + + * The watchman integration for fsmonitor was racy, which has been + corrected to be more conservative. + (merge dd0b61f577 kw/fsmonitor-watchman-fix later to maint). + + * Fetching from multiple remotes into the same repository in parallel + had a bad interaction with the recent change to (optionally) update + the commit-graph after a fetch job finishes, as these parallel + fetches compete with each other. Which has been corrected. + + * Recent update to "git stash pop" made the command empty the index + when run with the "--quiet" option, which has been corrected. + + * "git fetch" codepath had a big "do not lazily fetch missing objects + when I ask if something exists" switch. This has been corrected by + marking the "does this thing exist?" calls with "if not please do not + lazily fetch it" flag. + + * Test update to avoid wasted cycles. + (merge e0316695ec sg/skip-skipped-prereq later to maint). + + * Error handling after "git push" finishes sending the packdata and + waits for the response to the remote side has been improved. + (merge ad7a403268 jk/send-pack-remote-failure later to maint). + + * Some codepaths in "gitweb" that forgot to escape URLs generated + based on end-user input have been corrected. + (merge a376e37b2c jk/gitweb-anti-xss later to maint). + + * CI jobs for macOS has been made less chatty when updating perforce + package used during testing. + (merge 0dbc4a0edf jc/azure-ci-osx-fix-fix later to maint). + + * "git unpack-objects" used to show progress based only on the number + of received and unpacked objects, which stalled when it has to + handle an unusually large object. It now shows the throughput as + well. + (merge bae60ba7e9 sg/unpack-progress-throughput later to maint). + + * The sequencer machinery compared the HEAD and the state it is + attempting to commit to decide if the result would be a no-op + commit, even when amending a commit, which was incorrect, and + has been corrected. + + * The code to parse GPG output used to assume incorrectly that the + finterprint for the primary key would always be present for a valid + signature, which has been corrected. + (merge 67a6ea6300 hi/gpg-optional-pkfp-fix later to maint). + + * "git submodule status" and "git submodule status --cached" show + different things, but the documentation did not cover them + correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge 8d483c8408 mg/doc-submodule-status-cached later to maint). + + * "git reset --patch $object" without any pathspec should allow a + tree object to be given, but incorrectly required a committish, + which has been corrected. + + * "git submodule status" that is run from a subdirectory of the + superproject did not work well, which has been corrected. + (merge 1f3aea22c7 mg/submodule-status-from-a-subdirectory later to maint). + + * The revision walking machinery uses resources like per-object flag + bits that need to be reset before a new iteration of walking + begins, but the resources related to topological walk were not + cleared correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge 0aa0c2b2ec mh/clear-topo-walk-upon-reset later to maint). + + * TravisCI update. + (merge 176441bfb5 sg/osx-force-gcc-9 later to maint). + + * While running "revert" or "cherry-pick --edit" for multiple + commits, a recent regression incorrectly detected "nothing to + commit, working tree clean", instead of replaying the commits, + which has been corrected. + (merge befd4f6a81 sg/assume-no-todo-update-in-cherry-pick later to maint). + + * Work around a issue where a FD that is left open when spawning a + child process and is kept open in the child can interfere with the + operation in the parent process on Windows. + + * One kind of progress messages were always given during commit-graph + generation, instead of following the "if it takes more than two + seconds, show progress" pattern, which has been corrected. + + * "git rebase" did not work well when format.useAutoBase + configuration variable is set, which has been corrected. + + * The "diff" machinery learned not to lose added/removed blank lines + in the context when --ignore-blank-lines and --function-context are + used at the same time. + (merge 0bb313a552 rs/xdiff-ignore-ws-w-func-context later to maint). + + * The test on "fast-import" used to get stuck when "fast-import" died + in the middle. + (merge 0d9b0d7885 sg/t9300-robustify later to maint). + + * "git format-patch" can take a set of configured format.notes values + to specify which notes refs to use in the log message part of the + output. The behaviour of this was not consistent with multiple + --notes command line options, which has been corrected. + (merge e0f9095aaa dl/format-patch-notes-config-fixup later to maint). + + * "git p4" used to ignore lfs.storage configuration variable, which + has been corrected. + (merge ea94b16fb8 rb/p4-lfs later to maint). + + * Assorted fixes to the directory traversal API. + (merge 6836d2fe06 en/fill-directory-fixes later to maint). + + * Forbid pathnames that the platform's filesystem cannot represent on + MinGW. + (merge 4dc42c6c18 js/mingw-reserved-filenames later to maint). + + * "git rebase --signoff" stopped working when the command was written + in C, which has been corrected. + (merge 4fe7e43c53 en/rebase-signoff-fix later to maint). + + * An earlier update to Git for Windows declared that a tree object is + invalid if it has a path component with backslash in it, which was + overly strict, which has been corrected. The only protection the + Windows users need is to prevent such path (or any path that their + filesystem cannot check out) from entering the index. + (merge 224c7d70fa js/mingw-loosen-overstrict-tree-entry-checks later to maint). + + * The code to write split commit-graph file(s) upon fetching computed + bogus value for the parameter used in splitting the resulting + files, which has been corrected. + (merge 63020f175f ds/commit-graph-set-size-mult later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 80736d7c5e jc/am-show-current-patch-docfix later to maint). + (merge 8b656572ca sg/commit-graph-usage-fix later to maint). + (merge 6c02042139 mr/clone-dir-exists-to-path-exists later to maint). + (merge 44ae131e38 sg/blame-indent-heuristics-is-now-the-default later to maint). + (merge 0115e5d929 dl/doc-diff-no-index-implies-exit-code later to maint). + (merge 270de6acbe en/t6024-style later to maint). + (merge 14c4776d75 ns/test-desc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 68d40f30c4 dj/typofix-merge-strat later to maint). + (merge f66e0401ab jk/optim-in-pack-idx-conversion later to maint). + (merge 169bed7421 rs/parse-options-dup-null-fix later to maint). + (merge 51bd6be32d rs/use-copy-array-in-mingw-shell-command-preparation later to maint). + (merge b018719927 ma/t7004 later to maint). + (merge 932757b0cc ar/install-doc-update-cmds-needing-the-shell later to maint). + (merge 46efd28be1 ep/guard-kset-tar-headers later to maint). + (merge 9e5afdf997 ec/fetch-mark-common-refs-trace2 later to maint). + (merge f0e58b3fe8 pb/submodule-update-fetches later to maint). + (merge 2a02262078 dl/t5520-cleanup later to maint). + (merge a4fb016ba1 js/pkt-line-h-typofix later to maint). + (merge 54a7a64613 rs/simplify-prepare-cmd later to maint). + (merge 3eae30e464 jk/lore-is-the-archive later to maint). + (merge 14b7664df8 dl/lore-is-the-archive later to maint). + (merge 0e40a73a4c po/bundle-doc-clonable later to maint). + (merge e714b898c6 as/t7812-missing-redirects-fix later to maint). + (merge 528d9e6d01 jk/perf-wo-git-dot-pm later to maint). + (merge fc42f20e24 sg/test-squelch-noise-in-commit-bulk later to maint). + (merge c64368e3a2 bc/t9001-zsh-in-posix-emulation-mode later to maint). + (merge 11de8dd7ef dr/branch-usage-casefix later to maint). + (merge e05e8cf074 rs/archive-zip-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 147ee35558 rs/commit-export-env-simplify later to maint). + (merge 4507ecc771 rs/patch-id-use-oid-to-hex later to maint). + (merge 51a0a4ed95 mr/bisect-use-after-free later to maint). + (merge cc2bd5c45d pb/submodule-doc-xref later to maint). + (merge df5be01669 ja/doc-markup-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7c5cea7242 mr/bisect-save-pointer-to-const-string later to maint). + (merge 20a67e8ce9 js/use-test-tool-on-path later to maint). + (merge 4e61b2214d ew/packfile-syscall-optim later to maint). + (merge ace0f86c7f pb/clarify-line-log-doc later to maint). + (merge 763a59e71c en/merge-recursive-oid-eq-simplify later to maint). + (merge 4e2c4c0d4f do/gitweb-typofix-in-comments later to maint). + (merge 421c0ffb02 jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix later to maint). + (merge f8740c586b pm/am-in-body-header-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 5814d44d9b tm/doc-submodule-absorb-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cd869b02bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Git 2.25.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.25 +----------------- + + * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is + nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints + configuration variable, which has been corrected. + + * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the + system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with + read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an + empty tree from promisor remotes. + + * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a + single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough + against corrupt index file. + + * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over + "git checkout" that was done only half-way. + + * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the + stateless RPC mechanism. + + * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree + structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which + has been corrected. + + * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the + same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count + the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been + corrected. + + * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in + libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions + of gcc and clang. + + * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation. + + * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for + performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory + enumeration API has been corrected. + + * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of + the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or + the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these + settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode. + + * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. + + * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been + squelched. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..303c53a17f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +Git 2.25.2 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.25.1 +------------------- + + * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C. + + * An earlier update to show the location of working tree in the error + message did not consider the possibility that a git command may be + run in a bare repository, which has been corrected. + + * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not + work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been + corrected. + + * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when + .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected. + + * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it + goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity + in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were + not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been + corrected. + + * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that + records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the + code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an + input, but it is an input error. + + * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had + an off-by-one bug, which has been killed. + + * "git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly + marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file. + + * The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for + a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary + merge failure, which has been fixed. + + * Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2 + the default. + + * "git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say + "No signature", which was utterly wrong. This regression has been + reverted. + + * MinGW's poll() emulation has been improved. + + * "git show" and others gave an object name in raw format in its + error output, which has been corrected to give it in hex. + + * Both "git ls-remote -h" and "git grep -h" give short usage help, + like any other Git subcommand, but it is not unreasonable to expect + that the former would behave the same as "git ls-remote --head" + (there is no other sensible behaviour for the latter). The + documentation has been updated in an attempt to clarify this. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a7a734c26 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,341 @@ +Git 2.26 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.25 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility notes + + * "git rebase" uses a different backend that is based on the 'merge' + machinery by default. There are a few known differences in the + behaviour from the traditional machinery based on patch+apply. + + If your workflow is negatively affected by this change, please + report it to git@vger.kernel.org so that we can take a look into + it. After doing so, you can set the 'rebase.backend' configuration + variable to 'apply', in order to use the old default behaviour in + the meantime. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work + out of the box. + + * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to + tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum + trust level. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete + subcommands and arguments to "git worktree". + + * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been + tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not + count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule. + + * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the + environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd" + option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been + placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often + get confused. + + * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it + nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API. + + * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to + avoid races. + + * "git config" learned to show in which "scope", in addition to in + which file, each config setting comes from. + + * The basic 7 colors learned the brighter counterparts + (e.g. "brightred"). + + * "git sparse-checkout" learned a new "add" subcommand. + + * A configuration element used for credential subsystem can now use + wildcard pattern to specify for which set of URLs the entry + applies. + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --single-branch" now uses the same + single-branch option when cloning the submodules. + + * "git rm" and "git stash" learns the new "--pathspec-from-file" + option. + + * "git am --show-current-patch" is a way to show the piece of e-mail + for the stopped step, which is not suitable to directly feed "git + apply" (it is designed to be a good "git am" input). It learned a + new option to show only the patch part. + + * Handling of conflicting renames in merge-recursive have further + been made consistent with how existing codepaths try to mimic what + is done to add/add conflicts. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented + with tabs. + + * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function" + construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_function", which has been + corrected. + + * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in + sample templates. + + * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues. + + * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add". + + * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will + use SHA-256 continues. + + * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code + to tentatively use in-core objects. + + * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack + to generate its result has been improved. + + * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one. + + * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects + (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object + layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted. + + * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the + tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected. + + * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to + name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages + without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable. + + * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when + fetching into it. + + * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around + the cone mode, have been cleaned up. + + * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the + diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before; + this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to + the end user. + + * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to + work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its + callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat). + + * Memory footprint and performance of "git name-rev" has been + improved. + + * The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning + machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some + object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely + on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization + to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases + where they can work together, and they were taught about them. + + * "git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the + machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing + "--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral + equivalent of "format-patch piped to am"). The rebase.backend + configuration variable can be set to customize. + + * Underlying machinery of "git bisect--helper" is being refactored + into pieces that are more easily reused. + + +Fixes since v2.25 +----------------- + + * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is + nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints + configuration variable, which has been corrected. + + * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the + system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with + read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an + empty tree from promisor remotes. + + * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over + "git checkout" that was done only half-way. + + * C pedantry ;-) fix. + + * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a + single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough + against corrupt index file. + + * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the + stateless RPC mechanism. + + * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree + structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which + has been corrected. + + * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the + same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count + the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been + corrected. + + * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge + commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a + recent update, which has been corrected. + + * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in + libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions + of gcc and clang. + + * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C. + + * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation. + + * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local + branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches + (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding + local branch), which has been corrected. + (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint). + + * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for + performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory + enumeration API has been corrected. + + * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules + inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot + error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate + submodules that had errors at the end of the operation. + (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint). + + * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not + work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been + corrected. + + * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation + detail. + + * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when + .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected. + + * C pedantry ;-) fix. + + * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of + the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or + the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these + settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode. + + * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented. + + * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched. + + * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambiguous as it + goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity + in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were + not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been + corrected. + + * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when + "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure. + (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint). + + * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet + populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a + part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has + been corrected. + (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint). + + * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had + an off-by-one bug, which has been killed. + + * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that + records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the + code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an + input, but it is an input error. + + + * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more + robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same + thing. + (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint). + + * "git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables + (e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y. + branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated. + + * Update to doc-diff. + + * Doc markup fix. + + * "git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly + marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file. + + * The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for + a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary + merge failure, which has been fixed. + + * Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2 + the default. + + * In rare cases "git worktree add <path>" could think that <path> + was already a registered worktree even when it wasn't and refuse + to add the new worktree. This has been corrected. + (merge bb69b3b009 es/worktree-avoid-duplication-fix later to maint). + + * "git push" should stop from updating a branch that is checked out + when receive.denyCurrentBranch configuration is set, but it failed + to pay attention to checkouts in secondary worktrees. This has + been corrected. + (merge 4d864895a2 hv/receive-denycurrent-everywhere later to maint). + + * "git rebase BASE BRANCH" rebased/updated the tip of BRANCH and + checked it out, even when the BRANCH is checked out in a different + worktree. This has been corrected. + (merge b5cabb4a96 es/do-not-let-rebase-switch-to-protected-branch later to maint). + + * "git describe" in a repository with multiple root commits sometimes + gave up looking for the best tag to describe a given commit with + too early, which has been adjusted. + + * "git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say + "No signature", which was utterly wrong. This regression has been + reverted. + + * MinGW's poll() emulation has been improved. + + * "git show" and others gave an object name in raw format in its + error output, which has been corrected to give it in hex. + + * "git fetch" over HTTP walker protocol did not show any progress + output. We inherently do not know how much work remains, but still + we can show something not to bore users. + (merge 7655b4119d rs/show-progress-in-dumb-http-fetch later to maint). + + * Both "git ls-remote -h" and "git grep -h" give short usage help, + like any other Git subcommand, but it is not unreasonable to expect + that the former would behave the same as "git ls-remote --head" + (there is no other sensible behaviour for the latter). The + documentation has been updated in an attempt to clarify this. + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint). + (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint). + (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint). + (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint). + (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint). + (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 7a9f8ca805 rs/parse-options-concat-dup later to maint). + (merge 517b60564e rs/strbuf-insertstr later to maint). + (merge f696a2b1c8 jk/mailinfo-cleanup later to maint). + (merge de26f02db1 js/test-avoid-pipe later to maint). + (merge a2dc43414c es/doc-mentoring later to maint). + (merge 02bbbe9df9 es/worktree-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2ce6d075fa rs/micro-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 27f182b3fc rs/blame-typefix-for-fingerprint later to maint). + (merge 3c29e21eb0 ma/test-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 240fc04f81 ag/rebase-remove-redundant-code later to maint). + (merge d68ce906c7 rs/commit-graph-code-simplification later to maint). + (merge a51d9e8f07 rj/t1050-use-test-path-is-file later to maint). + (merge fd0bc17557 kk/complete-diff-color-moved later to maint). + (merge 65bf820d0e en/test-cleanup later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..84eab736a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Git 2.27 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.26 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A handful of options to configure SSL when talking to proxies have + been added. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The advise API has been revamped to allow more systematic enumeration of + advice knobs in the future. + + +Fixes since v2.26 +----------------- + + * The real_path() convenience function can easily be misused; with a + bit of code refactoring in the callers' side, its use has been + eliminated. + (merge 49d3c4b481 am/real-path-fix later to maint). + + * Update "git p4" to work with Python 3. + (merge 6bb40ed20a yz/p4-py3 later to maint). + + * The mechanism to prevent "git commit" from making an empty commit + or amending during an interrupted cherry-pick was broken during the + rewrite of "git rebase" in C, which has been corrected. + (merge 430b75f720 pw/advise-rebase-skip later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint). + (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint). + (merge 9c688735f6 rs/doc-passthru-fetch-options later to maint). + (merge 757c2ba3e2 en/oidset-uninclude-hashmap later to maint). + (merge 8312aa7d74 jc/config-tar later to maint). + (merge d00a5bdd50 ss/submodule-foreach-cb later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.3.txt index 5ef12644c2..850dc68ede 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.3.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Fixes since v2.3.2 * Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option was phrased poorly. - * Documentaton for "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and + * Documentation for "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and it was not clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default behaviour when neither is given to override it. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt index fc95812cb3..5769184081 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.7.txt @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Git v2.3.7 Release Notes Fixes since v2.3.6 ------------------ - * An earlier update to the parser that disects a URL broke an + * An earlier update to the parser that dissects a URL broke an address, followed by a colon, followed by an empty string (instead of the port number), e.g. ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.3.txt index 914d2c1860..422e930aa2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.3.txt @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Fixes since v2.4.3 * Some time ago, "git blame" (incorrectly) lost the convert_to_git() call when synthesizing a fake "tip" commit that represents the state in the working tree, which broke folks who record the history - with LF line ending to make their project portabile across + with LF line ending to make their project portable across platforms while terminating lines in their working tree files with CRLF for their platform. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt index 87044504c5..84723f912a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. incorrect patch text to "git apply". Add tests to demonstrate this. - I have a slight suspicion that this may be $gmane/87202 coming back + I have a slight suspicion that this may be + cf. <7vtzf77wjp.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> coming back and biting us (I seem to have said "let's run with this and see what happens" back then). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt index 563dadc57e..e3cbf3a73c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git interpret-trailers" can now run outside of a Git repository. - * "git p4" learned to reencode the pathname it uses to communicate + * "git p4" learned to re-encode the pathname it uses to communicate with the p4 depot with a new option. * Give progress meter to "git filter-branch". diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt index 6adf038915..f618d71efd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.3.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Fixes since v2.7.2 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 + rev, i.e. the object named by the pathname with wildcard characters in a tree object. * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 5fbe1b86ee..27320b6a9f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static 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 a couple of protrams that are already safe + calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of programs that are already safe has been rewritten to avoid false warnings. * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt index fedd9968e5..a63825ed87 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Fixes since v2.8.2 This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while. - See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853 - and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275680. + See https://lore.kernel.org/git/20160419091055.GF2345@dinwoodie.org/ + and https://lore.kernel.org/git/20150811100527.GW14466@dinwoodie.org/. * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt index b61d36712f..991640119a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ notes for details). This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while. - See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853 + See https://lore.kernel.org/git/20160419091055.GF2345@dinwoodie.org/ * "merge-octopus" strategy did not ensure that the index is clean when merge begins. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.3.txt index 695b86f612..305e08062b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.3.txt @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Fixes since v2.9.2 * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours", which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of - the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in + the system where outside stuff is usually called "theirs" in contrast to "ours". * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to |