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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.3.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.5.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.2.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.1.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-update-ref.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt | 18 |
9 files changed, 76 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..130645fb29 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v2.14.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is to address the recently reported CVE-2018-17456. + +Fixes since v2.14.4 +------------------- + + * Submodules' "URL"s come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but + we blindly gave it to "git clone" to clone submodules when "git + clone --recurse-submodules" was used to clone a project that has + such a submodule. The code has been hardened to reject such + malformed URLs (e.g. one that begins with a dash). + +Credit for finding and fixing this vulnerability goes to joernchen +and Jeff King, respectively. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fd2e6f8df7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.15.3 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.5 to address +the recently reported CVE-2018-17456; see the release notes for that +version for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..cb8ee02a9a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.16.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.16.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.5 to address +the recently reported CVE-2018-17456; see the release notes for that +version for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ef021be870 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.17.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.5 to address +the recently reported CVE-2018-17456; see the release notes for that +version for details. + +In addition, this release also teaches "fsck" and the server side +logic to reject pushes to repositories that attempt to create such a +problematic ".gitmodules" file as tracked contents, to help hosting +sites protect their customers by preventing malicious contents from +spreading. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2098cdd776 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.18.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.5 and in +v2.17.2 to address the recently reported CVE-2018-17456; see the +release notes for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..da7672674e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.19.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.5 and in +v2.17.2 to address the recently reported CVE-2018-17456; see the +release notes for those versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt index b8fafb1e8b..a5e8b36f62 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-interpret-trailers.txt @@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ least one Git-generated or user-configured trailer and consists of at least 25% trailers. The group must be preceded by one or more empty (or whitespace-only) lines. The group must either be at the end of the message or be the last -non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---'. Such three -minus signs start the patch part of the message. +non-whitespace lines before a line that starts with '---' (followed by a +space or the end of the line). Such three minus signs start the patch +part of the message. See also `--no-divider` below. When reading trailers, there can be whitespaces after the token, the separator and the value. There can also be whitespaces @@ -125,6 +126,11 @@ OPTIONS A convenience alias for `--only-trailers --only-input --unfold`. +--no-divider:: + Do not treat `---` as the end of the commit message. Use this + when you know your input contains just the commit message itself + (and not an email or the output of `git format-patch`). + CONFIGURATION VARIABLES ----------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt index bc8fdfd469..fda8516677 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-update-ref.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-update-ref - Update the object name stored in a ref safely SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--no-deref] [--create-reflog] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] | --stdin [-z]) +'git update-ref' [-m <reason>] [--no-deref] (-d <ref> [<oldvalue>] | [--create-reflog] <ref> <newvalue> [<oldvalue>] | --stdin [-z]) DESCRIPTION ----------- diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt index c664acbd76..001395e950 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph.txt @@ -112,12 +112,24 @@ Design Details - The file format includes parameters for the object ID hash function, so a future change of hash algorithm does not require a change in format. +- Commit grafts and replace objects can change the shape of the commit + history. The latter can also be enabled/disabled on the fly using + `--no-replace-objects`. This leads to difficultly storing both possible + interpretations of a commit id, especially when computing generation + numbers. The commit-graph will not be read or written when + replace-objects or grafts are present. + +- Shallow clones create grafts of commits by dropping their parents. This + leads the commit-graph to think those commits have generation number 1. + If and when those commits are made unshallow, those generation numbers + become invalid. Since shallow clones are intended to restrict the commit + history to a very small set of commits, the commit-graph feature is less + helpful for these clones, anyway. The commit-graph will not be read or + written when shallow commits are present. + Future Work ----------- -- The commit graph feature currently does not honor commit grafts. This can - be remedied by duplicating or refactoring the current graft logic. - - After computing and storing generation numbers, we must make graph walks aware of generation numbers to gain the performance benefits they enable. This will mostly be accomplished by swapping a commit-date-ordered |