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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc index 9f8607a752..959c8afe15 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc @@ -14,6 +14,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new subcommand "git repo" gives users a way to grab various repository characteristics. + * A new command "git last-modified" has been added to show the closest + ancestor commit that touched each path. + + * "git refs exists" that works like "git show-ref --exists" has been + added. + + * "repo info" learns a short-hand option "-z" that is the same as + "--format=nul", and learns to report the objects format used in the + repository. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -37,6 +47,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Remove dependency on the_repository and other globals from the commit-graph code, and other changes unrelated to de-globaling. + * Discord has been added to the first contribution documentation as + another way to ask for help. + + * Inspired by Ezekiel's recent effort to showcase Rust interface, the + hash function implementation used to hash lines have been updated + to the one used for ELF symbol lookup by Glibc. + + * Instead of scanning for the remaining items to see if there are + still commits to be explored in the queue, use khash to remember + which items are still on the queue (an unacceptable alternative is + to reserve one object flag bits). + + * The bulk-checkin code used to depend on a file-scope static + singleton variable, which has been updated to pass an instance + throughout the callchain. + Fixes since v2.51 ----------------- @@ -86,6 +112,71 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. ignored") did not work well with "--name-only" and friends. (merge b55e6d36eb ly/diff-name-only-with-diff-from-content later to maint). + * Documentation for "git rebase" has been updated. + (merge 3f7f2b0359 je/doc-rebase later to maint). + + * The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API + did not clear its internal state, making an initial delay value + larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected. + (merge 457534d041 js/progress-delay-fix later to maint). + + * The compatObjectFormat extension is used to hide an incomplete + feature that is not yet usable for any purpose other than + developing the feature further. Document it as such to discourage + its use by mere mortals. + (merge 716d905792 bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working later to maint). + + * "git log -L..." compared trees of multiple parents with the tree of the + merge result in an unnecessarily inefficient way. + (merge 0a15bb634c sg/line-log-merge-optim later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 8f32a5a6c0 jk/fetch-check-graph-objects-fix later to maint). + + * "git fetch" can clobber a symref that is dangling when the + remote-tracking HEAD is set to auto update, which has been + corrected. + + * "git describe <blob>" misbehaves and/or crashes in some corner + cases, which has been taught to exit with failure gracefully. + (merge 7c10e48e81 jk/describe-blob later to maint). + + * Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's + name. + (merge bcb20dda83 js/doc-gitk-history later to maint). + + * Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution + document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git` + instead of `gitgitgadget/git`. + (merge 37001cdbc4 ds/doc-ggg-pr-fork-clarify later to maint). + + * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work + very well; serialize their execution to work it around. + (merge 0eeacde50e da/cargo-serialize later to maint). + + * "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which + has been corrected. + (merge 93afe9b060 ds/path-walk-repack-fix later to maint). + + * "git ls-files <pathspec>..." should not necessarily have to expand + the index fully if a sparsified directory is excluded by the + pathspec; the code is taught to expand the index on demand to avoid + this. + (merge 681f26bccc ds/ls-files-lazy-unsparse later to maint). + + * Windows "real-time monitoring" interferes with the execution of + tests and affects negatively in both correctness and performance, + which has been disabled in Gitlab CI. + (merge 608cf5b793 ps/gitlab-ci-disable-windows-monitoring later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 88a2dc68c8 ps/upload-pack-oom-protection later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint). (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint). @@ -94,3 +185,16 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. (merge 741f36c7d9 kr/clone-synopsis-fix later to maint). (merge a60203a015 dk/t7005-editor-updates later to maint). (merge 7d4a5fef7d ds/doc-count-objects-fix later to maint). + (merge 16684b6fae ps/reftable-libgit2-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f38786baa7 ja/asciidoc-doctor-verbatim-fixes later to maint). + (merge 374579c6d4 kh/doc-interpret-trailers-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 44dce6541c kh/doc-config-typofix later to maint). + (merge 785628b173 js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird later to maint). + (merge e5c27bd3d8 je/doc-add later to maint). + (merge 13296ac909 ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info later to maint). + (merge 2f4bf83ffc km/alias-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge b0d97aac19 kh/doc-markup-fixes later to maint). + (merge f9a6705d9a tc/t0450-harden later to maint). + (merge c25651aefd ds/midx-write-fixes later to maint). + (merge 069c15d256 rs/object-name-extend-abbrev-len-update later to maint). + (merge bf5c224537 mm/worktree-doc-typofix later to maint). |