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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.47.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.47.0.txt index 30bae56aa8..cae537422b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.47.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.47.0.txt @@ -35,6 +35,38 @@ UI, Workflows & Features environment variables, but now they can be configured in the user's global and system wide configuration. + * "git send-email" learned "--translate-aliases" option that reads + addresses from the standard input and emits the result of applying + aliases on them to the standard output. + + * 'git for-each-ref' learned a new "--format" atom to find the branch + that the history leading to a given commit "%(is-base:<commit>)" is + likely based on. + + * The command line prompt support used to be littered with bash-isms, + which has been corrected to work with more shells. + + * Support for the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature has been added to z/OS port. + + * "git send-email" learned "--mailmap" option to allow rewriting the + recipient addresses. + + * "git mergetool" learned to use VSCode as a merge backend. + + * "git pack-redundant" has been marked for removal in Git 3.0. + + * One-line messages to "die" and other helper functions will get LF + added by these helper functions, but many existing messages had an + unnecessary LF at the end, which have been corrected. + + * The "scalar clone" command learned the "--no-tags" option. + + * The environment GIT_ADVICE has been intentionally kept undocumented + to discourage its use by interactive users. Add documentation to + help tool writers. + + * "git apply --3way" learned to take "--ours" and other options. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -85,6 +117,34 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. object in the config subsystem has been rewritten to pass a repository object through the callchain. + * Unused parameters have been either marked as UNUSED to squelch + -Wunused warnings or dropped from many functions.. + + * The code in the reftable library has been cleaned up by discarding + unused "generic" interface. + + * The underlying machinery for "git diff-index" has long been made to + expand the sparse index as needed, but the command fully expanded + the sparse index upfront, which now has been taught not to do. + + * More trace2 events at key points on push and fetch code paths have + been added. + + * Make our codebase compilable with the -Werror=unused-parameter + option. + + * "git cat-file" works well with the sparse-index, and gets marked as + such. + + * CI started failing completely for linux32 jobs, as the step to + upload failed test directory uses GitHub actions that is deprecated + and is now disabled. + + * Import clar unit tests framework libgit2 folks invented for our + use. + + * The error messages from the test script checker have been improved. + Fixes since v2.46 ----------------- @@ -114,61 +174,83 @@ Fixes since v2.46 corrected. * More leakfixes. - (merge f30bfafcd4 ps/leakfixes-part-3 later to maint). * The credential helper to talk to OSX keychain sometimes sent garbage bytes after the username, which has been corrected. - (merge b201316835 jk/osxkeychain-username-is-nul-terminated later to maint). * A recent update broke "git ls-remote" used outside a repository, which has been corrected. - (merge 9e89dcb66a ps/ls-remote-out-of-repo-fix later to maint). * The patch parser in 'git apply' has been a bit more lenient against unexpected mode bits, like 100664, recorded on extended header lines. - (merge e95d515141 jk/apply-patch-mode-check-fix later to maint). * "git config --value=foo --fixed-value section.key newvalue" barfed when the existing value in the configuration file used the valueless true syntax, which has been corrected. - (merge 615d2de3b4 tb/config-fixed-value-with-valueless-true later to maint). * The patch parser in "git patch-id" has been tightened to avoid getting confused by lines that look like a patch header in the log message. - (merge a6e9429f72 jc/patch-id later to maint). * "git reflog expire" failed to honor annotated tags when computing reachable commits. - (merge 5133ead528 jc/reflog-expire-lookup-commit-fix later to maint). * A flakey test and incorrect calls to strtoX() functions have been fixed. - (merge ec60bb9fc4 kl/test-fixes later to maint). * Follow-up on 2.45.1 regression fix. - (merge ee0be850b0 jc/safe-directory later to maint). * "git rev-list ... | git diff-tree -p --remerge-diff --stdin" should behave more or less like "git log -p --remerge-diff" but instead it crashed, forgetting to prepare a temporary object store needed. - (merge a77554ea09 xx/diff-tree-remerge-diff-fix later to maint). * "git bundle unbundle" outside a repository triggered a BUG() unnecessarily, which has been corrected. - (merge 96a9a3e42e ps/bundle-outside-repo-fix later to maint). + + * Maintenance tasks other than "gc" now properly go background when + "git maintenance" runs them. + + * We created a useless pseudo-merge reachability bitmap that is about + 0 commits, and attempted to include commits that are not in packs, + which made no sense. These bugs have been corrected. + (merge a72dfab8b8 tb/pseudo-merge-bitmap-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rebase -x --quiet" was not quiet, which was corrected. + + * The code path for compacting reftable files saw some bugfixes + against concurrent operation. + + * The code forgot to discard unnecessary in-core commit buffer data + for commits that "git log --skip=<number>" traversed but omitted + from the output, which has been corrected. + + * "git verify-pack" and "git index-pack" started dying outside a + repository, which has been corrected. + + * A data corruption bug when multi-pack-index is used and the same + objects are stored in multiple packfiles has been corrected. + + * "git pack-refs --auto" for the files backend was too aggressive, + which has been a bit tamed. + (merge c3459ae9ef ps/pack-refs-auto-heuristics later to maint). + + * A file descriptor left open is now properly closed when "git + sparse-checkout" updates the sparse patterns. + + * In a few corner cases "git diff --exit-code" failed to report + "changes" (e.g., renamed without any content change), which has + been corrected. + (merge 11591850dd rs/diff-exit-code-fix later to maint). + + * Cygwin does have /dev/tty support that is needed by things like + single-key input mode. + (merge 39ba986b0e rj/cygwin-has-dev-tty later to maint). + + * The interpret-trailers command failed to recognise the end of the + message when the commit log ends in an incomplete line. + (merge c02414a997 bl/trailers-and-incomplete-last-line-fix later to maint). * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge bb0498b1bb jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint). - (merge 7c7516b8db jc/jl-git-no-advice-fix later to maint). - (merge c3d034df16 jc/leakfix-hashfile later to maint). - (merge d98d9c77e5 jc/leakfix-mailmap later to maint). - (merge c199707496 jr/ls-files-expand-literal-doc later to maint). - (merge e2e373ba82 ss/packed-ref-store-leakfix later to maint). - (merge 0c4d5aa22d rs/use-decimal-width later to maint). - (merge 67be8c4de5 jc/document-use-of-local later to maint). - (merge 098be29f5b rs/t-example-simplify later to maint). - (merge 0d66f601a9 jc/tests-no-useless-tee later to maint). - (merge 170cdfc5a4 jc/grammo-fixes later to maint). - (merge 983555a1f2 jc/how-to-maintain-updates later to maint). - (merge e3209bd4df ps/stash-keep-untrack-empty-fix later to maint). + (merge be10ac7037 jc/mailinfo-header-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 9a36ea37ae jc/doc-skip-fetch-all-and-prefetch later to maint). + (merge 4460e052e0 jc/range-diff-lazy-setup later to maint). |