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Git v1.8.5 Release Notes
========================
Backward compatibility notes (for Git 2.0)
------------------------------------------
When "git push [$there]" does not say what to push, we have used the
traditional "matching" semantics so far (all your branches were sent
to the remote as long as there already are branches of the same name
over there). In Git 2.0, the default will change to the "simple"
semantics that 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.
Use the user preference configuration variable "push.default" to
change this. If you are an old-timer who is used to the "matching"
semantics, you can set the variable to "matching" to keep the
traditional behaviour. If you want to live in the future early, you
can set it to "simple" today without waiting for Git 2.0.
When "git add -u" (and "git add -A") is run inside a subdirectory and
does not specify which paths to add on the command line, it
will operate on the entire tree in Git 2.0 for consistency
with "git commit -a" and other commands. There will be no
mechanism to make plain "git add -u" behave like "git add -u .".
Current users of "git add -u" (without a pathspec) should start
training their fingers to explicitly say "git add -u ."
before Git 2.0 comes. A warning is issued when these commands are
run without a pathspec and when you have local changes outside the
current directory, because the behaviour in Git 2.0 will be different
from today's version in such a situation.
In Git 2.0, "git add <path>" will behave as "git add -A <path>", so
that "git add dir/" will notice paths you removed from the directory
and record the removal. Versions before Git 2.0, including this
release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
now before 2.0 is released.
Updates since v1.8.4
--------------------
Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
* "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection
dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses. Work
it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed.
* On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed
unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it.
Now we do.
* remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg
repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there".
* imap-send ported to OS X uses Apple's security framework instead of
OpenSSL one.
* Subversion 1.8.0 that was recently released breaks older subversion
clients coming over http/https in various ways.
* "git fast-import" treats an empty path given to "ls" as the root of
the tree.
UI, Workflows & Features
* A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
data over the wire.
* Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
broken tree objects. "filter-branch" can again be used to to do
so.
* "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger
than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed
integers on all platforms.
* "git pull --rebase" always chose to do the bog-standard flattening
rebase. You can tell it to run "rebase --preserve-merges" by
setting "pull.rebase" configuration to "preserve".
* "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer"
optimization.
* Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both
Makefile and makefile can be used in more places.
* The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the
configuration applies. For example,
[http]
sslVerify = true
[http "https://weak.example.com/"]
sslVerify = false
would flip http.sslVerify off only when talking to that specified
site.
* "git mv A B" when moving a submodule A has been taught to
relocate its working tree and to adjust the paths in the
.gitmodules file.
* "git blame" can now take more than one -L option to discover the
origin of multiple blocks of the lines.
* The http transport clients can optionally ask to save cookies
with http.savecookies configuration variable.
* "git push" learned a more fine grained control over a blunt
"--force" when requesting a non-fast-forward update with the
"--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expected object name>" option.
* "git diff --diff-filter=<classes of changes>" can now take
lowercase letters (e.g. "--diff-filter=d") to mean "show
everything but these classes". "git diff-files -q" is now a
deprecated synonym for "git diff-files --diff-filter=d".
* "git fetch" (hence "git pull" as well) learned to check
"fetch.prune" and "remote.*.prune" configuration variables and
to behave as if the "--prune" command line option was given.
* "git check-ignore -z" applied the NUL termination to both its input
(with --stdin) and its output, but "git check-attr -z" ignored the
option on the output side. Make both honor -z on the input and
output side the same way.
* "git whatchanged" may still be used by old timers, but mention of
it in documents meant for new users will only waste readers' time
wonderig what the difference is between it and "git log". Make it
less prominent in the general part of the documentation and explain
that it is merely a "git log" with different default behaviour in
its own document.
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat.
* Many commands use --dashed-option as a operation mode selector
(e.g. "git tag --delete") that the user can use at most one
(e.g. "git tag --delete --verify" is a nonsense) and you cannot
negate (e.g. "git tag --no-delete" is a nonsense). parse-options
API learned a new OPT_CMDMODE macro to make it easier to implement
such a set of options.
* OPT_BOOLEAN() in parse-options API was misdesigned to be "counting
up" but many subcommands expect it to behave as "on/off". Update
them to use OPT_BOOL() which is a proper boolean.
* "git gc" exits early without doing a double-work when it detects
that another instance of itself is already running.
* Under memory pressure and/or file descriptor pressure, we used to
close pack windows that are not used and also closed filehandle to
an open but unused packfiles. These are now controlled separately
to better cope with the load.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Fixes since v1.8.4
------------------
Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
* "git cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for
executable files.
(merge 1b48d56 jc/cvsserver-perm-bit-fix later to maint).
* When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon
failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error string
from a wrong place.
(merge 6cb0c88 bc/send-email-ssl-die-message-fix later to maint).
* The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around
ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git
for Windows where MSYS perl is used.
(merge df17e77 js/add-i-mingw later to maint).
* We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a
gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a
gitfile.
(merge 487a2b7 nd/git-dir-pointing-at-gitfile later to maint).
* When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then
loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to
prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to
has_sha1_file().
(merge 45e8a74 jk/has-sha1-file-retry-packed later to maint).
* "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical
"A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name
from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the
preferred author name.
(merge ea16794 ap/commit-author-mailmap later to maint).
* "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which
made it unnecessarily inefficient.
(merge 680be04 jc/ls-files-killed-optim later to maint).
* The commit object names in the insn sheet that was prepared at the
beginning of "rebase -i" session can become ambiguous as the
rebasing progresses and the repository gains more commits. Make
sure the internal record is kept with full 40-hex object names.
(merge 75c6976 es/rebase-i-no-abbrev later to maint).
* "git rebase --preserve-merges" internally used the merge machinery
and as a side effect, left merge summary message in the log, but
when rebasing, there should not be a need for merge summary.
(merge a9f739c rt/rebase-p-no-merge-summary later to maint).
* A call to xread() was used without a loop around to cope with short
read in the codepath to stream new contents to a pack.
(merge e92527c js/xread-in-full later to maint).
* "git rebase -i" forgot that the comment character can be
configurable while reading its insn sheet.
(merge 7bca7af es/rebase-i-respect-core-commentchar later to maint).
* The mailmap support code read past the allocated buffer when the
mailmap file ended with an incomplete line.
(merge f972a16 jk/mailmap-incomplete-line later to maint).
* We used to send a large request to read(2)/write(2) as a single
system call, which was bad from the latency point of view when
the operation needs to be killed, and also triggered an error on
broken 64-bit systems that refuse to take more than 2GB read or
write in one go.
(merge a487916 sp/clip-read-write-to-8mb later to maint).
* "git fetch" that auto-followed tags incorrectly reused the
connection with Git-aware transport helper (like the sample "ext::"
helper shipped with Git).
(merge 0f73f8b jc/transport-do-not-use-connect-twice-in-fetch later to maint).
* "git log --full-diff -- <pathspec>" showed a huge diff for paths
outside the given <pathspec> for each commit, instead of showing
the change relative to the parent of the commit. "git reflog -p"
had a similar problem.
(merge 838f9a1 tr/log-full-diff-keep-true-parents later to maint).
* Setting submodule.*.path configuration variable to true (without
giving "= value") caused Git to segfault.
(merge 4b05440 jl/some-submodule-config-are-not-boolean later to maint).
* "git rebase -i" (there could be others, as the root cause is pretty
generic) fed a random, data dependeant string to 'echo' and
expects it to come out literally, corrupting its error message.
(merge 89b0230 mm/no-shell-escape-in-die-message later to maint).
* Some people still use rather old versions of bash, which cannot
grok some constructs like 'printf -v varname' the prompt and
completion code started to use recently.
(merge a44aa69 bc/completion-for-bash-3.0 later to maint).
* Code to read configuration from a blob object did not compile on
platforms with fgetc() etc. implemented as macros.
(merge 49d6cfa hv/config-from-blob later to maint-1.8.3).
* The recent "short-cut clone connectivity check" topic broke a
shallow repository when a fetch operation tries to auto-follow tags.
(merge 6da8bdc nd/fetch-pack-shallow-fix later to maint-1.8.3).
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