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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt index 8d5e887c16..63e2e8add9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address. - (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint). * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very @@ -90,6 +89,41 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath. + * The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few + configuration variables to make it easier to use. + + * From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse" + lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another + project, and where the root level of the working tree of that + project (i.e. your superproject) is. + + * The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that + match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached + via the gitattributes mechanism. + + * Our source code has used the SHA1_HEADER cpp macro after "#include" + in the C code to switch among the SHA-1 implementations. Instead, + list the exact header file names and switch among implementations + using "#ifdef BLK_SHA1/#include "block-sha1/sha1.h"/.../#endif"; + this helps some IDE tools. + + * The start-up sequence of "git" needs to figure out some configured + settings before it finds and set itself up in the location of the + repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature. + The code has been restructured. + + * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style + that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a + detached HEAD with "git describe --tags". + + * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path" + that includes the contents of the given path only when the + condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related + bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory". + + * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not + a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -118,11 +152,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been corrected not to do so. - (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint). * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene. - (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint). * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from real_path() to a strbuf has been added. @@ -134,11 +166,34 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. against a server that does not authenticate without a username (i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth pointless). - (merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint). * Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1 routines, so let them. - (merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint). + + * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so + old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not + so ancient. + (merge 28e1fb5466 jt/perf-updates later to maint). + + * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with + Travis CI. + + * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options + to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose) + output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before + the breakage reaches to any released version. + + * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the + older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become + possible. + (merge bd4d9d993c jk/interop-test later to maint). + + * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues. + + * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track + of the state of object reachability without clearing them after + use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab + facility. Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -170,7 +225,6 @@ notes for details). * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them without checking for overflow. - (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint). * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when @@ -179,17 +233,14 @@ notes for details). be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value. close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least predictable. - (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint). * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset. - (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint). * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old. - (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint). * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have @@ -204,52 +255,94 @@ notes for details). report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid. This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop before making such a request), but is the right thing to do. - (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint). * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases has been plugged. - (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint). * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server, and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message. - (merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint). * The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p" directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and "add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been fixed. - (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint). * Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault. - (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint). * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the standard error stream, but we somehow did. - (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint). * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer has been fixed. - (merge aaae0bf787 ax/line-log-range-merge-fix later to maint). * The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems. - (merge 07f546cda5 vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix later to maint). * "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF conversion). - (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint). + + * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where + they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account). + (merge c6507484a2 ab/cond-skip-tests later to maint). + + * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the + code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in + disambiguating. + (merge fd4692ff70 jk/interpret-branch-name later to maint). + + * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other + side does not allow such an request, failed without much + explanation. + (merge d56583ded6 mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object later to maint). + + * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that + becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty. + (merge 32da7467eb dp/filter-branch-prune-empty later to maint). + + * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http + transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to + enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to + give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates. + (merge 5cae73d5d2 ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning later to maint). + + * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock + when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed. + (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint). + + * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates + response, which has been fixed. + + * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a + list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git + ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see + which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec + language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are + equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This + helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on + some platforms. + (merge 7288e12cce jk/add-i-use-pathspecs later to maint). + + * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a + few strings were left as translatable by mistake. + + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing + misconfiguration. + (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint). * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint). - (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint). - (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint). - (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint). - (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint). + (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint). + (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint). + (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint). |