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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc index 4f2a34b47d..8ff921809a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.51.0.adoc @@ -18,6 +18,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features pathspec at the end of the command line, just like normal "git diff". + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) learned to grok GPG signing its commits. + + * "git whatchanged" that is longer to type than "git log --raw" + which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness + more than 10 years ago. Plan to deprecate and remove it. + + * An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand + of "git stash" to import/export has been added. + + * "git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to + use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing + the summary of the incoming changes. + + * "git imap-send" has been broken for a long time, which has been + resurrected and then taught to talk OAuth2.0 etc. + + * Some error messages from "git imap-send" has been updated. + + * When "git daemon" sees a signal while attempting to accept() a new + client, instead of retrying, it skipped it by mistake, which has + been corrected. + + * The reftable ref backend has matured enough; Git 3.0 will make it + the default format in a newly created repositories by default. + + * "netrc" credential helper has been improved to understand textual + service names (like smtp) in addition to the numeric port numbers + (like 25). + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -32,10 +61,40 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Meson-based build/test framework now understands TAP output generated by our tests. + * "Do not explicitly initialize to zero" rule has been clarified in + the CodingGuidelines document. + + * A test helper "test_seq" function learned the "-f <fmt>" option, + which allowed us to simplify a lot of test scripts. + + * A lot of stale stuff has been removed from the contrib/ hierarchy. + + * "git push" and "git fetch" are taught to update refs in batches to + gain performance. + + * Some code paths in the "git prune" used to ignore passed in + repository object and used the_repository singleton instance + instead, which has been corrected. + + * Update ".clang-format" and ".editorconfig" to match our style guide + a bit better. + + * "make coccicheck" succeeds even when spatch made suggestions, which + has been updated to fail in such a case. + + * Code clean-up around object access API. + + * Define .precision to more canned parse-options type to avoid bugs + coming from using a variable with a wrong type to capture the + parsed values. + Fixes since v2.50 ----------------- +Unless otherwise noted, all the changes in 2.50.X maintenance track, +including security updates, are included in this release. + * A memory-leak in an error code path has been plugged. (merge 7082da85cb ly/commit-graph-graph-write-leakfix later to maint). @@ -47,6 +106,78 @@ Fixes since v2.50 corrected. (merge 3717a5775a jw/doc-txt-to-adoc-refs later to maint). + * "git stash -p <pathspec>" improvements. + (merge 468817bab2 pw/stash-p-pathspec-fixes later to maint). + + * "git send-email" incremented its internal message counter when a + message was edited, which made logic that treats the first message + specially misbehave, which has been corrected. + (merge 2cc27b3501 ag/send-email-edit-threading-fix later to maint). + + * "git stash" recorded a wrong branch name when submodules are + present in the current checkout, which has been corrected. + (merge ffb36c64f2 kj/stash-onbranch-submodule-fix later to maint). + + * When asking to apply mailmap to both author and committer field + while showing a commit object, the field that appears later was not + correctly parsed and replaced, which has been corrected. + (merge abf94a283f sa/multi-mailmap-fix later to maint). + + * "git maintenance" lacked the care "git gc" had to avoid holding + onto the repository lock for too long during packing refs, which + has been remedied. + (merge 1b5074e614 ps/maintenance-ref-lock later to maint). + + * Avoid regexp_constraint and instead use comparison_constraint when + listing functions to exclude from application of coccinelle rules, + as spatch can be built with different regexp engine X-<. + (merge f2ad545813 jc/cocci-avoid-regexp-constraint later to maint). + + * Updating submodules from the upstream did not work well when + submodule's HEAD is detached, which has been improved. + (merge ca62f524c1 jk/submodule-remote-lookup-cleanup later to maint). + + * Remove unnecessary check from "git daemon" code. + (merge 0c856224d2 cb/daemon-fd-check-fix later to maint). + + * Use of sysctl() system call to learn the total RAM size used on + BSDs has been corrected. + (merge 781c1cf571 cb/total-ram-bsd-fix later to maint). + + * Drop FreeBSD 4 support and declare that we support only FreeBSD 12 + or later, which has memmem() supported. + (merge 0392f976a7 bs/config-mak-freebsd later to maint). + + * A diff-filter with negative-only specification like "git log + --diff-filter=d" did not trigger correctly, which has been fixed. + (merge 375ac087c5 jk/all-negative-diff-filter-fix later to maint). + + * A failure to open the index file for writing due to conflicting + access did not state what went wrong, which has been corrected. + (merge 9455397a5c hy/read-cache-lock-error-fix later to maint). + + * Tempfile removal fix in the codepath to sign commits with SSH keys. + (merge 4498127b04 re/ssh-sign-buffer-fix later to maint). + + * Code and test clean-up around string-list API. + (merge 6e5b26c3ff sj/string-list later to maint). + + * "git apply -N" should start from the current index and register + only new files, but it instead started from an empty index, which + has been corrected. + (merge 2b49d97fcb rp/apply-intent-to-add-fix later to maint). + + * Leakfix with a new and a bit invasive test on pack-bitmap files. + (merge bfd5522e98 ly/load-bitmap-leakfix later to maint). + + * "git fetch --prune" used to be O(n^2) expensive when there are many + refs, which has been corrected. + (merge 87d8d8c5d0 ph/fetch-prune-optim later to maint). + + * When a ref creation at refs/heads/foo/bar fails, the files backend + now removes refs/heads/foo/ if the directory is otherwise not used. + (merge a3a7f20516 ps/refs-files-remove-empty-parent later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint). (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint). @@ -56,3 +187,17 @@ Fixes since v2.50 (merge bfc9f9cc64 ly/submodule-update-failure-leakfix later to maint). (merge 65dff89c6b ma/doc-diff-cc-headers later to maint). (merge efb61591ee jm/bundle-uri-debug-output-to-fp later to maint). + (merge a3d278bb64 ly/prepare-show-merge-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1fde1c5daf ac/preload-index-wo-the-repository later to maint). + (merge 855cfc65ae rm/t2400-modernize later to maint). + (merge 2939494284 ly/run-builtin-use-passed-in-repo later to maint). + (merge ff73f375bb jg/mailinfo-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 996f14c02b jj/doc-branch-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 1e77de1864 cb/ci-freebsd-update-to-14.3 later to maint). + (merge b0e9d25865 jk/fix-leak-send-pack later to maint). + (merge f3a9558c8c bs/remote-helpers-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge c4e9775c60 kh/doc-config-subcommands later to maint). + (merge de404249ab ps/perlless-test-fixes later to maint). + (merge 953049eed8 ts/merge-orig-head-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 0c83bbc704 rj/freebsd-sysinfo-build-fix later to maint). + (merge ad7780b38f ps/doc-pack-refs-auto-with-files-backend-fix later to maint). |