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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt | 99 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt | 336 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt | 166 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a498fd6fdc --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.10.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.10.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ad4da8eb09 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.11.4 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.11.3 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8fa73cfce7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.12.5 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.12.4 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..afcae9c808 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Git v2.13.6 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.13.5 +------------------- + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. + diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt index 5517afcf59..bec9186ade 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.2.txt @@ -32,4 +32,74 @@ Fixes since v2.14.1 daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF. + * Some versions of GnuPG fail to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned + and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it + around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. + + * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which + has been fixed---it now shows nothing. + + * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who + actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an + editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable + pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, + and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. + + * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not + propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. + + * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option + from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been + fixed. + + * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet + option down to submodules. + + * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer + block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding + an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. + + * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz + offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the + current time, which has been corrected. + + * Memory leaks in a few error codepaths have been plugged. + + * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command + substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched. + + * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit + codes; this has been corrected. + + * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process + asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program + the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected. + + * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a + taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line + endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git() + that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index + entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply" + is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all. + This has been fixed. + + * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left + the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, + which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was + a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. + + * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the + export-ignore attribute. + + * "git cvsserver" no longer is invoked by "git daemon" by default, + as it is old and largely unmaintained. + + * Various Perl scripts did not use safe_pipe_capture() instead of + backticks, leaving them susceptible to end-user input. They have + been corrected. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + +Credits go to joernchen <joernchen@phenoelit.de> for finding the +unsafe constructs in "git cvsserver", and to Jeff King at GitHub for +finding and fixing instances of the same issue in other scripts. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..977c9e857c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +Git v2.14.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.14.2 +------------------- + + * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf + mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions, + which has been fixed. + + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft" + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer + section. + + * Fix regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + + * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 + series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one + and did not work at all. This has been fixed. + + * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which + has been corrected. + + * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did + not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has + been fixed. + + * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced + garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not + hexadecimal. This has been fixed. + + * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly + written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case. + + * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from + request-pull script. + + * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind. + + * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll emulation from + the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. + + * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and + its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)" + (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat + them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not + there. + + * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken + by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to + them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored + (heh) and made unusable. This has been fixed. + + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree + was in use. This has been fixed. + + * "git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a + path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect. + + * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to + refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the + last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can + happen without any new object getting created. + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + + * "git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src> + side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but + the documentation was left stale. + + * A regression in 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string has been + fixed. + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt index cb630724c7..cdd761bcc2 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt @@ -8,16 +8,19 @@ Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of - this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming - release. + this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16, + the next major release after this one. * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that - happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). + happens to work right now may be broken by a call to BUG(). We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are greatly appreciated. + * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has + finally been retired. + Updates since v2.14 ------------------- @@ -58,7 +61,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing trailer lines from a commit log message. - * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the + * The "--format=%(trailers)" option "git log" and its friends take + learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its + output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)". + + * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blobs in the history overview page. * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable @@ -71,19 +78,44 @@ UI, Workflows & Features which can make it succeed if the lock holder was holding it during a read-only operation. + * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has + finally been retired. + + * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean + operation learned to show the progress meter. + + * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be + used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and + friends. + + * "git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with + the "--all" option. + + * "git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an + existing one. + + * Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic + update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later + operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks" + option can be passed to Git to disable them. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element, + %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log + message. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. * Start using selected c99 constructs in small, stable and - essentialpart of the system to catch people who care about + essential part of the system to catch people who care about older compilers that do not grok them. * The filter-process interface learned to allow a process with long latency give a "delayed" response. - * Many uses of comparision callback function the hashmap API uses + * Many uses of comparison callback function the hashmap API uses cast the callback function type when registering it to hashmap_init(), which defeats the compile time type checking when the callback interface changes (e.g. gaining more parameters). @@ -101,7 +133,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions, which has been fixed. - (merge 642956cf45 rs/strbuf-getwholeline-fix later to maint). * The "ref-store" code reorganization continues. @@ -127,6 +158,87 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been optimized. + * Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection + library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of + our source tree. + + * Code around "notes" have been cleaned up. + (merge 3964281524 mh/notes-cleanup later to maint). + + * The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it + is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and + tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming + errors. + + * Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when + adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add + an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around. + + * Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic + storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply + exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid + reporting false positives. Plug many existing leaks and introduce + a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory + pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools. + + * As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the + commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that + cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't. + + * The codepath for "git merge-recursive" has been cleaned up. + + * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed. + + * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also + can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update + the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then + make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually + deprecate and remove the former. + + * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing + out coding style issues. + + * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules + has been added. + (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint). + + * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work + at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that + expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been + fixed. + + * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough + warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene). + + * Add a helper for DLL loading in anticipation for its need in a + future topic RSN. + + * "git status --ignored", when noticing that a directory without any + tracked path is ignored, still enumerated all the ignored paths in + the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been + optimized to avoid this overhead. + + * The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from + the shell script to C has been merged. + + * Operations that do not touch (majority of) packed refs have been + optimized by making accesses to packed-refs file lazy; we no longer + pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the + packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either. + + * Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with + clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress. + + * Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live + throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK + marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks.. + + * Plans for weaning us off of SHA-1 has been documented. + + * A new "oidmap" API has been introduced and oidset API has been + rewritten to use it. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -155,7 +267,6 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test. - (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint). * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache @@ -164,49 +275,36 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which has been fixed---it now shows nothing. - (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint). * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this, and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default. - (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint). * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not propagated down to the submodules, but now it is. - (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint). * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been fixed. - (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint). * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet option down to submodules. - (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint). * Test portability fix for OBSD. - (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint). - (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint). * Portability fix for OBSD. - (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint). * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case. - (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint). * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the current time, which has been corrected. - (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint). * Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged. - (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint). - (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint). - (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint). * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the @@ -215,16 +313,13 @@ Fixes since v2.14 * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched. - (merge 5fc92f8828 kd/stash-with-bash-4.4 later to maint). * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit codes; this has been corrected. - (merge e1f68c66d5 as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix later to maint). * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected. - (merge d3ba566342 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint). * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line @@ -233,34 +328,181 @@ Fixes since v2.14 entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply" is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all. This has been fixed. - (merge c24f3abace tb/apply-with-crlf later to maint). * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD, which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed. - (merge 9d89b35526 mg/killed-merge later to maint). + + * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the + export-ignore attribute. + + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft" + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer + section. + + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree + was in use. This has been fixed. + (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint). + + * "git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a + single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs + of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making + objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to + garbage collection. + + * A regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update has been fixed. + + * "git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the + "--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line. + This has been corrected. + + * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not + pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an + incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated + to match the behaviour of the former. + + * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks + go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function, + which have been corrected. + (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint). + + * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is". + (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint). + + * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty + directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so. + This has been fixed. + + * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC. + + * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been + slightly tweaked. + (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint). + + * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by + reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to + use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been + corrected. + + * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an + optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is + tagged has been implemented. + (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint). + + * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e". + + * Code cmp.std.c nitpick. + + * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of + alternate object stores overrun the end of the string. + (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint). + + * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13 + series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one + and did not work at all. This has been fixed. + + * "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without + the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be + created. This has been corrected. + (merge b2c1ca6b4b ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger later to maint). + + * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which + has been corrected. + + * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did + not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has + been fixed. + + * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced + garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not + hexadecimal. This has been fixed. + + * The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the + sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by + storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is + fixed. + + * The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at + offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the + generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not + overflow. This has been corrected. + + * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly + written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case. + + * "git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a + path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect. + (merge b3e8ca89cf jt/fast-export-copy-modify-fix later to maint). + + * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wsign-compare + warnings. + (merge 071bcaab64 rj/no-sign-compare later to maint). + + * Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged. + (merge 4d01a7fa65 ma/leakplugs later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the + option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!) + correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint). + + * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to + refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the + last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can + happen without any new object getting created. + (merge 30e215a65c er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint later to maint). + + * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from + request-pull script. + + * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind. + + * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation + from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop. + + * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken + by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to + them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored + (heh) and made unusable. This has been fixed by reverting the + offending change. + + * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and + its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)" + (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat + them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not + there. + + * An ancient bug that made Git misbehave with creation/renaming of + refs has been fixed. + + * "git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src> + side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but + the documentation was left stale. + (merge 83558a412a jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update later to maint). + + * Update the documentation for "git filter-branch" so that the filter + options are listed in the same order as they are applied, as + described in an earlier part of the doc. + (merge 07c4984508 dg/filter-branch-filter-order-doc later to maint). + + * A possible oom error is now caught as a fatal error, instead of + continuing and dereferencing NULL. + (merge 55d7d15847 ao/path-use-xmalloc later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint). (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint). - (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint). - (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint). - (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint). - (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint). - (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint). - (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint). - (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint). - (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint). - (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint). - (merge 7f0a02be2f ah/doc-empty-string-is-false later to maint). - (merge 70ec6bd63b rs/t1002-do-not-use-sum later to maint). - (merge 2456990dfd sb/sha1-file-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 2aac933c62 hv/t5526-andand-chain-fix later to maint). - (merge c8d0c4fe9b sb/submodule-parallel-update later to maint). - (merge 794b7e1674 mg/format-ref-doc-fix later to maint). - (merge 24da8a26a9 rs/commit-h-single-parent-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 4e36907fa3 jk/doc-the-this later to maint). - (merge 15d1d0951e bc/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint). - (merge b8f43b120b jn/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 4a4becfb23 jt/doc-pack-objects-fix later to maint). + (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint). + (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint). + (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint). + (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint). + (merge f777623514 ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args later to maint). + (merge 33f3c683ec ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak later to maint). + (merge 7cbbf9d6a2 ls/filter-process-delayed later to maint). + (merge 488aa65c8f wk/merge-options-gpg-sign-doc later to maint). + (merge e61cb19a27 jc/branch-force-doc-readability-fix later to maint). + (merge 32fceba3fd np/config-path-doc later to maint). + (merge e38c681fb7 sb/rev-parse-show-superproject-root later to maint). + (merge 4f851dc883 sg/rev-list-doc-reorder-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e46197f478 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ +Git 2.16 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. + + * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for + 'everything matches' is now an error. + + +Updates since v2.15 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * An empty string as a pathspec element that means "everything" + i.e. 'git add ""', is now illegal. We started this by first + deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in + 2.11 (Nov 2016). + + * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git + notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is + squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration. + + * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and + pass it down to "git merge". + + * The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a + list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable. + + * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x" + operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'" + pragma, which now we do. + + * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * An earlier update made it possible to use an on-stack in-core + lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an + on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage + of this new facility. + + * Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is + a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example. + + * We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that + does not support "local" like bash/dash does. + + * An early part of piece-by-piece rewrite of "git bisect" in C. + + * GSoC to piece-by-piece rewrite "git submodule" in C. + + * Optimize the code to find shortest unique prefix of object names. + + * Pathspec-limited revision traversal was taught not to keep finding + unneeded differences once it knows two trees are different inside + given pathspec. + + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. + + * Code cleanup. + (merge 62a24c8923 rs/hex-to-bytes-cleanup later to maint). + + * A single-word "unsigned flags" in the diff options is being split + into a structure with many bitfields. + (merge 0d1e0e7801 bw/diff-opt-impl-to-bitfields later to maint). + + * TravisCI build updates. + (merge c2154953b8 sg/travis-fixes later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.15 +----------------- + + * "auto" as a value for the columnar output configuration ought to + judge "is the output consumed by humans?" with the same criteria as + "auto" for coloured output configuration, i.e. either the standard + output stream is going to tty, or a pager is in use. We forgot the + latter, which has been fixed. + (merge 965ff23a43 kd/auto-col-with-pager-fix later to maint). + + * The experimental "color moved lines differently in diff output" + feature was buggy around "ignore whitespace changes" edges, whihch + has been corrected. + (merge b66b507292 jk/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint). + + * Instead of using custom line comparison and hashing functions to + implement "moved lines" coloring in the diff output, use the pair + of these functions from lower-layer xdiff/ code. + (merge 01be97c2b2 sb/diff-color-moved-use-xdl-recmatch later to maint). + + * Some codepaths did not check for errors when asking what branch the + HEAD points at, which have been fixed. + (merge dbd2b55cb7 jk/misc-resolve-ref-unsafe-fixes later to maint). + + * "git commit", after making a commit, did not check for errors when + asking on what branch it made the commit, which has been correted. + (merge c26de08370 ao/check-resolve-ref-unsafe-result later to maint). + + * "git status --ignored -u" did not stop at a working tree of a + separate project that is embedded in an ignored directory and + listed files in that other project, instead of just showing the + directory itself as ignored. + (merge fadb4820c4 js/submodule-in-excluded later to maint). + + * A broken access to object databases in recent update to "git grep + --recurse-submodules" has been fixed. + (merge 9560e6245a bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" that broke execution of git + commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed. + (merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint). + + * A (possibly flakey) test fix. + (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint). + + * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run + outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation + and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in + such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names. + (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint). + + * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be + moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated, + and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly. + (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint). + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint). + + * Description of blame.{showroot,blankboundary,showemail,date} + configuration variables have been added to "git config --help". + (merge de0bc11d13 sb/blame-config-doc later to maint). + + * After an error from lstat(), diff_populate_filespec() function + sometimes still went ahead and used invalid data in struct stat, + which has been fixed. + (merge 10e0ca843d ao/diff-populate-filespec-lstat-errorpath-fix later to maint). + + * UNC paths are also relevant in Cygwin builds and they are now + tested just like Mingw builds. + (merge f21d60b429 ad/5580-unc-tests-on-cygwin later to maint). + + * Correct start-up sequence so that a repository could be placed + immediately under the root directory again (which was broken at + around Git 2.13). + (merge fa4d8c783d js/early-config later to maint). + + * The credential helper for libsecret (in contrib/) has been improved + to allow possibly prompting the end user to unlock secrets that are + currently locked (otherwise the secrets may not be loaded). + (merge 9c109e9bbc dk/libsecret-unlock-to-load-fix later to maint). + + * MinGW updates. + (merge 39bb86b4e5 js/mingw-full-version-in-resources later to maint). + (merge 601e1e7897 js/wincred-empty-cred later to maint). + (merge b2f55717c7 js/mingw-redirect-std-handles later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint). + (merge 8684dde10d jm/relnotes-2.15-typofix later to maint). + (merge cd3f8e2fc2 ks/mailmap later to maint). |