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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt | 218 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d18c40389e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Git v1.8.5.4 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.3 +-------------------- + + * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. + Diagnose it as an error. + + * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks + to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. + + * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket + layer in "git send-email". + + * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before + editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned + control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the + first modified path was a submodule. + + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + + * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for + keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could + cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a + rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt + to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to + fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. + + * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag + nicely. + + * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree + used to emit an error. + + * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of + parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but + there was. + + * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote + the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. + + * The documentation to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option + because it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9191ce948f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Git v1.8.5.5 Release Notes +========================== + +Fixes since v1.8.5.4 +-------------------- + + * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match + some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. + + * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when + the command was reimplemented in C. + + * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path + (e.g. Fedora rawhide). + + * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation + and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, + e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. + + * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref + directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different + validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the + client side's validation to allow such a ref. + + * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits + reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent + bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series. + + * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal + result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself. + + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt index 7bcf371c5f..752d79127a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.0.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Git v1.9 Release Notes -====================== +Git v1.9.0 Release Notes +======================== Backward compatibility notes ---------------------------- @@ -7,19 +7,19 @@ Backward compatibility notes "git submodule foreach $cmd $args" used to treat "$cmd $args" the same way "ssh" did, concatenating them into a single string and letting the shell unquote. Careless users who forget to sufficiently quote $args -gets their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got +get their argument split at $IFS whitespaces by the shell, and got unexpected results due to this. Starting from this release, the command line is passed directly to the shell, if it has an argument. Read-only support for experimental loose-object format, in which users -could optionally choose to write in their loose objects for a short -while between v1.4.3 to v1.5.3 era, has been dropped. +could optionally choose to write their loose objects for a short +while between v1.4.3 and v1.5.3 era, has been dropped. -The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the -command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same +The meanings of the "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the +command fetches tags _in addition to_ what is fetched by the same command line without the option. -The way "git push $there $what" interprets $what part given on the +The way "git push $there $what" interprets the $what part given on the command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced. @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote). -Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0) ------------------------------------------- +Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0.0) +-------------------------------------------- When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent @@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. * The build procedure is aware of MirBSD now. + * Various "git p4", "git svn" and "gitk" updates. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -94,7 +96,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features primarily because the codepaths involved were not carefully vetted and we did not bother supporting such usage. This release attempts to allow object transfer out of a shallowly-cloned repository in a - more controlled way (i.e. the receiver become a shallow repository + more controlled way (i.e. the receiver becomes a shallow repository with a truncated history). * Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS @@ -105,12 +107,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions. - * Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while 'frotz/nitfol' + * Fetching a 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while a 'frotz/nitfol' remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch was still there, would error out, primarily because the command was not told that it is allowed to lose any information on our side. "git fetch --prune" - now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and - store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch. + now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room for fetching and + storing the 'frotz' remote-tracking branch. * "diff.orderfile=<file>" configuration variable can be used to pretend as if the "-O<file>" option were given from the command @@ -215,6 +217,43 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * The pathspec matching code, while comparing two trees (e.g. "git + diff A B -- path1 path2") was too aggressive and failed to match + some paths when multiple pathspecs were involved. + + * "git repack --max-pack-size=8g" stopped being parsed correctly when + the command was reimplemented in C. + + * An earlier update in v1.8.4.x to "git rev-list --objects" with + negative ref had a performance regression. + (merge 200abe7 jk/mark-edges-uninteresting later to maint). + + * A recent update to "git send-email" broke platforms where + /etc/ssl/certs/ directory exists but cannot be used as SSL_ca_path + (e.g. Fedora rawhide). + + * A handful of bugs around interpreting $branch@{upstream} notation + and its lookalike, when $branch part has interesting characters, + e.g. "@", and ":", have been fixed. + + * "git clone" would fail to clone from a repository that has a ref + directly under "refs/", e.g. "refs/stash", because different + validation paths do different things on such a refname. Loosen the + client side's validation to allow such a ref. + + * "git log --left-right A...B" lost the "leftness" of commits + reachable from A when A is a tag as a side effect of a recent + bugfix. This is a regression in 1.8.4.x series. + + * documentations to "git pull" hinted there is an "-m" option because + it incorrectly shared the documentation with "git merge". + + * "git diff A B submod" and "git diff A B submod/" ought to have done + the same for a submodule "submod", but didn't. + + * "git clone $origin foo\bar\baz" on Windows failed to create the + leading directories (i.e. a moral-equivalent of "mkdir -p"). + * "submodule.*.update=checkout", when propagated from .gitmodules to .git/config, turned into a "submodule.*.update=none", which did not make much sense. @@ -222,17 +261,14 @@ for details). * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace. - (merge 2a07e43 ow/stash-with-ifs later to maint). * The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option names. - (merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint). - * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of - parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but + * There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit for the number of + parents of an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but there was. - (merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint). * The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the t/ directory. @@ -240,30 +276,24 @@ for details). * "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself. - (merge 8f29299 bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup later to maint). * A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't. - (merge ed7eda8 km/gc-eperm later to maint). * An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak. - (merge e1c1a32 jk/credential-plug-leak later to maint). * "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree used to emit an error. - (merge 64ed07c nd/add-empty-fix later to maint). * "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag nicely. - (merge 5e1361c bc/log-decoration later to maint). * When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a - rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt - to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to + rough estimate of how many are available and we do not even attempt + to use up all available file descriptors ourselves, it is nicer to fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying. - (merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint). * read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no @@ -274,16 +304,13 @@ for details). * "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not behave very well. - (merge 6554dfa jk/cat-file-regression-fix later to maint). * "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in the same way. - (merge 62f162f jk/rev-parse-double-dashes later to maint). * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error out, but it didn't. - (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint). * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that @@ -291,36 +318,28 @@ for details). * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket layer in "git send-email". - (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint). * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the first modified path was a submodule. - (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint). * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. Diagnose it as an error. - (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint). - * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + * Remote repository URLs expressed in scp-style host:path notation are parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. - (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint). * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the command line parser. - (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint). * "git cat-file --batch-check=ok" did not check the existence of the named object. - (merge 4ef8d1d sb/sha1-loose-object-info-check-existence later to maint). * "git am --abort" sometimes complained about not being able to write a tree with an 0{40} object in it. - (merge 77b43ca jk/two-way-merge-corner-case-fix later to maint). * Two processes creating loose objects at the same time could have failed unnecessarily when the name of their new objects started with the same byte value, due to a race condition. - (merge b2476a6 jh/loose-object-dirs-creation-race later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5b0602053c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Git v1.9.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v1.9.0 +------------------ + + * "git clean -d pathspec" did not use the given pathspec correctly + and ended up cleaning too much. + + * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the + working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file + ".git" tells us where it is. + + * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is + defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two + variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did + by mistake. + + * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been + tightened. + + * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory + in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is + the same as one of the versions being compared. + + * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working + tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an + otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working + tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored. + + * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree + did not work well when the working tree was specified via the + --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option. + + * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in + an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames + involved. This has been corrected. + + * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments + that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required + value for that option. + + * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that + can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a + boolean, but the code failed to check it. + + * "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return + correct status value. + + * Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart + HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done + extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of + shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to + it. + + * Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is + bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the + extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often + given by command line completion). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b0bf974af5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.0.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +Git v2.0 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes +---------------------------- + +When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the +traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent +to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name +over there). In Git 2.0, the default is now the "simple" semantics, +which pushes: + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, and only + when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote + branch, if you are pushing to the same remote as you fetch from; or + + - only the current branch to the branch with the same name, if you + are pushing to a remote that is not where you usually fetch from. + +You can use the configuration variable "push.default" to change +this. If you are an old-timer who wants to keep using the +"matching" semantics, you can set the variable to "matching", for +example. Read the documentation for other possibilities. + +When "git add -u" and "git add -A" are run inside a subdirectory +without specifying which paths to add on the command line, they +operate on the entire tree for consistency with "git commit -a" and +other commands (these commands used to operate only on the current +subdirectory). Say "git add -u ." or "git add -A ." if you want to +limit the operation to the current directory. + +"git add <path>" is the same as "git add -A <path>" now, so that +"git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory and +record the removal. In older versions of Git, "git add <path>" used +to ignore removals. You can say "git add --ignore-removal <path>" to +add only added or modified paths in <path>, if you really want to. + +The "-q" option to "git diff-files", which does *NOT* mean "quiet", +has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which you can do +with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d"). + + +Updates since v1.9 series +------------------------- + +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git grep" learned to behave in a way similar to native grep when + "-h" (no header) and "-c" (count) options are given. + + * transport-helper, fast-import and fast-export have been updated to + allow the ref mapping and ref deletion in a way similar to the + natively supported transports. + + * The "simple" mode is the default for "git push". + + * "git add -u" and "git add -A", when run without any pathspec, is a + tree-wide operation even when run inside a subdirectory of a + working tree. + + * "git add <path> is the same as "git add -A <path>" now. + + * "core.statinfo" configuration variable, which is a + never-advertised synonym to "core.checkstat", has been removed. + + * The "-q" option to "git diff-files", which does *NOT* mean + "quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which + you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d"). + + * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for + the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable + configuration option. + + * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have + been marked for i18n/l10n. + + * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that + is not a blob as an error. + + * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is + given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an + operation to update the configuration in the standard input of + course is rejected). + + * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted + for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly + speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely + to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy. + + * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase", + learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line. + + * "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit + by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the + command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it). + + * "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the + new "pull.ff" configuration. + + * "git reset" learned "-N" option, which does not reset the index + fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command + resets to does not (these paths are kept as intend-to-add entries). + + * Newly cloned submodule repositories by "git submodule update", + when the "checkout" update mode is used, will be on a local + branch instead of on a detached HEAD, just like submodules added + with "git submodule add". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases + ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3). + + * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix + well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC + over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the + "easy" interface. + + * The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should + significantly improve performance when serving objects form a + repository that uses it. + + * The way "git log --cc" shows a combined diff against multiple + parents have been optimized. + + * The prefixcmp() and suffixcmp() functions are gone. Use + starts_with() and ends_with(), and also consider if skip_prefix() + suits your needs better when using the former. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many +of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject +exercises. + + +Fixes since v1.9 series +----------------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.9 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git clean -d pathspec" did not use the given pathspec correctly + and ended up cleaning too much. + (merge 1f2e108 jk/clean-d-pathspec later to maint). + + * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the + working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file + ".git" tells us where it is. + (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint). + + * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is + defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two + variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did + by mistake. + (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint). + + * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been + tightened. + (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory + in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is + the same as one of the versions being compared. + (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint). + + * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working + tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an + otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working + tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored. + (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint). + + * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree + did not work well when the working tree was specified via the + --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option. + (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint). + + * "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in + an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames + involved. This has been corrected. + (merge 6e2068a bk/refresh-missing-ok-in-merge-recursive later to maint.) + + * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments + that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required + value for that option. + (merge a43219f ds/rev-parse-required-args later to maint.) + + * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that + can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a + boolean, but the code failed to check it. + (merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.) + + * Commands that take pathspecs on the command line misbehaved when + the pathspec is given as an absolute pathname (which is a + practice not particularly encouraged) that points at a symbolic + link in the working tree. + (merge later 655ee9e mw/symlinks to maint.) + + * "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return + correct status value. + (merge f34b205 nd/diff-quiet-stat-dirty later to maint.) + + * Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart + HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done + extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of + shallow boundary commits after the sending end stopped talking to + it. + (merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.) + + * Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is + bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the + extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often + given by command line completion). + (merge 2e70c01 nd/submodule-pathspec-ending-with-slash later to maint.) |