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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-10-15 10:31:31 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2025-10-15 10:31:31 -0700 |
| commit | 143f58ef7535f8f8a80d810768a18bdf3807de26 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a2091523563fd2d90ca9766d1c154321dd4bd09 /Documentation | |
| parent | b660e2dcb98ed4eafe2781b7ba31b70d2fcbad80 (diff) | |
| parent | 81f86aacc4eb74cdb9c2c8082d36d2070c666045 (diff) | |
| download | git-143f58ef7535f8f8a80d810768a18bdf3807de26.tar.gz | |
Sync with Git 2.51.1
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc | 67 |
1 files changed, 60 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc index 6a6049810d..b8bd49c876 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.1.adoc @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Git 2.51.1 Release Notes There shouldn't be anything exciting to see here. This is primarily to flush the "do you still use it?" improvements that has landed on -the master front, together with a handful of low-hanging low-impact +the master front, together with a handful of low-hanging, low-impact fixes that should be safe. @@ -22,15 +22,15 @@ Fixes since Git 2.51.0 * Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's name. - * Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution + * Update the instructions for using GGG in the MyFirstContribution document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git` instead of `gitgitgadget/git`. - * Clang-format update to let our control macros formatted the way we + * Clang-format update to let our control macros be formatted the way we had them traditionally, e.g., "for_each_string_list_item()" without space before the parentheses. - * A few places where an size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without + * A few places where a size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without checking has been updated to use the existing helper function. * The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API @@ -38,9 +38,62 @@ Fixes since Git 2.51.0 larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected. * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work - very well; serialize their execution to work it around. + very well; serialize their execution to work around this problem. - * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectivel enables tracing + * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectively enable tracing options, so that our tests can continue to work. -Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups. + * During interactive rebase, using 'drop' on a merge commit led to + an error, which has been corrected. + + * "git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs + backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed. + + * "git push" had a code path that led to BUG() but it should have + been a die(), as it is a response to a usual but invalid end-user + action to attempt pushing an object that does not exist. + + * Various bugs about rename handling in "ort" merge strategy have + been fixed. + + * "git diff --no-index" run inside a subdirectory under control of a + Git repository operated at the top of the working tree and stripped + the prefix from the output, and oddballs like "-" (stdin) did not + work correctly because of it. Correct the set-up by undoing what + the set-up sequence did to cwd and prefix. + + * Various options to "git diff" that make comparison ignore certain + aspects of the differences (like "space changes are ignored", + "differences in lines that match these regular expressions are + ignored") did not work well with "--name-only" and friends. + + * Under a race against another process that is repacking the + repository, especially a partially cloned one, "git fetch" may + mistakenly think some objects we do have are missing, which has + been corrected. + + * "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which + has been corrected. + cf. <CABPp-BHFxxGrqKc0m==TjQNjDGdO=H5Rf6EFsf2nfE1=TuraOQ@mail.gmail.com> + + * Fixes multiple crashes around midx write-out codepaths. + + * A broken or malicious "git fetch" can say that it has the same + object for many many times, and the upload-pack serving it can + exhaust memory storing them redundantly, which has been corrected. + + * A corner case bug in "git log -L..." has been corrected. + + * Some among "git add -p" and friends ignored color.diff and/or + color.ui configuration variables, which is an old regression, which + has been corrected. + + * "git rebase -i" failed to clean-up the commit log message when the + command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which + has been corrected. + + * Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files + backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are + involved in the conflict while allowing others. + +Also contains various documentation updates, code cleanups and minor fixups. |