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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc index c4fc561631..ba213c0d6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc @@ -35,6 +35,45 @@ UI, Workflows & Features allow the "partialCloneFilter" settings and the "token" value to be communicated from the server side. + * Declare that "git init" that is not otherwise configured uses + 'main' as the initial branch, not 'master', starting Git 3.0. + + * Keep giving hint about the default initial branch name for users + who may be surprised after Git 3.0 switch-over. + + * The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash + pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index". + + * "git fast-import" learned that "--signed-commits=<how>" option that + corresponds to that of "git fast-export". + + * Marking a hunk 'selected' in "git add -p" and then splitting made + all the split pieces 'selected'; this has been changed to make them + all 'undecided', which gives better end-user experience. + + * Configuration variables that take a pathname as a value + (e.g. blame.ignorerevsfile) can be marked as optional by prefixing + ":(optoinal)" before its value. + + * Show 'P'ipe command in "git add -p". + + * "git sparse-checkout" subcommand learned a new "clean" action to + prune otherwise unused working-tree files that are outside the + areas of interest. + + * "git fast-import" is taught to handle signed tags, just like it + recently learned to handle signed commits, in different ways. + + * A new configuration variable commitGraph.changedPaths allows to + turn "--changed-paths" on by default for "git commit-graph". + + * "Symlink symref" has been added to the list of things that will + disappear at Git 3.0 boundary. + + * "git maintenance" command learns the "geometric" strategy where it + avoids doing maintenance tasks that rebuilds everything from + scratch. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -74,11 +113,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. singleton variable, which has been updated to pass an instance throughout the callchain. + * The work to build on the bulk-checkin infrastructure to create many + objects at once in a transaction and to abstract it into the + generic object layer continues. + * CodingGuidelines now spells out how bitfields are to be written. - * 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. - (merge 1b5a6bfff3 jk/curl-global-trace-components later to maint). * The clear_alloc_state() API function was not fully clearing the structure for reuse, but since nobody reuses it, replace it with a @@ -87,6 +129,42 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git range-diff" learned a way to limit the memory consumed by O(N*N) cost matrix. + * Some places in the code confused a variable that is *not* a boolean + to enable color but is an enum that records what the user requested + to do about color. A couple of bugs of this sort have been fixed, + while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the + future. + + * The build procedure based on meson learned a target to only build + documentation, similar to "make doc". + (merge ff4ec8ded0 ps/meson-build-docs later to maint). + + * Dip our toes a bit to (optionally) use Rust implemented helper + called from our C code. + + * Documentation for "git log --pretty" options has been updated + to make it easier to translate. + + * Instead of three library archives (one for git, one for reftable, + and one for xdiff), roll everything into a single libgit.a archive. + This would help later effort to FFI into Rust. + + * The beginning of SHA1-SHA256 interoperability work. + + * Build procedure for a few credential helpers (in contrib/) have + been updated. + + * CI improvements to handle the recent Rust integration better. + + * The code in "git repack" machinery has been cleaned up to prepare + for incremental update of midx files. + + * Two slightly different ways to get at "all the packfiles" in API + has been cleaned up. + + * The code to walk revision graph to compute merge base has been + optimized. + Fixes since v2.51 ----------------- @@ -96,11 +174,9 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * During interactive rebase, using 'drop' on a merge commit lead to an error, which was incorrect. - (merge 4d491ade8f js/rebase-i-allow-drop-on-a-merge later to maint). * "git refs migrate" to migrate the reflog entries from a refs backend to another had a handful of bugs squashed. - (merge 465eff81de ps/reflog-migrate-fixes later to maint). * "git remote rename origin upstream" failed to move origin/HEAD to upstream/HEAD when origin/HEAD is unborn and performed other @@ -113,11 +189,9 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * "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. - (merge dfbfc2221b dl/push-missing-object-error later to maint). * Various bugs about rename handling in "ort" merge strategy have been fixed. - (merge f6ecb603ff en/ort-rename-fixes later to maint). * "git jump" (in contrib/) fails to parse the diff header correctly when a file has a space in its name, which has been corrected. @@ -128,7 +202,6 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. 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. - (merge e1d3d61a45 jc/diff-no-index-in-subdir later to maint). * Various options to "git diff" that makes comparison ignore certain aspects of the differences (like "space changes are ignored", @@ -136,19 +209,19 @@ 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). + * The above caused regressions, which has been corrected. + * 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. @@ -158,7 +231,6 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. 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 @@ -170,20 +242,16 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * 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 + * 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`. - (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). + very well; serialize their execution to work around this problem. * "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 @@ -194,15 +262,12 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * 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). * A corner case bug in "git log -L..." has been corrected. - (merge e3106998ff sg/line-log-boundary-fixes later to maint). * "git rev-parse --short" and friends failed to disambiguate two objects with object names that share common prefix longer than 32 @@ -212,33 +277,135 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. * 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. - (merge 1092cd6435 jk/add-i-color later to maint). * "git subtree" (in contrib/) did not work correctly when splitting squashed subtrees, which has been improved. + * Import a newer version of the clar unit testing framework. + (merge 93dbb6b3c5 ps/clar-updates later to maint). + + * "git send-email --compose --reply-to=<address>" used to add + duplicated Reply-To: header, which made mailservers unhappy. This + has been corrected. + (merge f448f65719 nb/send-email-no-dup-reply-to later to maint). + + * "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. + + * There are double frees and leaks around setup_revisions() API used + in "git stash show", which has been fixed, and setup_revisions() + API gained a wrapper to make it more ergonomic when using it with + strvec-manged argc/argv pairs. + (merge a04bc71725 jk/setup-revisions-freefix later to maint). + + * 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. + + * "git last-modified" operating in non-recursive mode used to trigger + a BUG(), which has been corrected. + + * The use of "git config get" command to learn how ANSI color + sequence is for a particular type, e.g., "git config get + --type=color --default=reset no.such.thing", isn't very ergonomic. + (merge e4dabf4fd6 ps/config-get-color-fixes later to maint). + + * The "do you still use it?" message given by a command that is + deeply deprecated and allow us to suggest alternatives has been + updated. + + * 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 a size_t value was cast to curl_off_t without + checking has been updated to use the existing helper function. + + * "git reflog write" did not honor the configured user.name/email + which has been corrected. + + * Handling of an empty subdirectory of .git/refs/ in the ref-files + backend has been corrected. + + * Our CI script requires "sudo" that can be told to preserve + environment, but Ubuntu replaced with "sudo" with an implementation + that lacks the feature. Work this around by reinstalling the + original version. + + * The reftable backend learned to sanity check its on-disk data more + carefully. + (merge 466a3a1afd kn/reftable-consistency-checks later to maint). + + * A lot of code clean-up of xdiff. + Split out of a larger topic. + (merge 8b9c5d2e3a en/xdiff-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --range-diff=... --notes=..." did not drive the + underlying range-diff with correct --notes parameter, ending up + comparing with different set of notes from its main patch output + you would get from "git format-patch --notes=..." for a singleton + patch. + + * The code in "git add -p" and friends to iterate over hunks was + riddled with bugs, which has been corrected. + + * A few more things that patch authors can do to help maintainer to + keep track of their topics better. + (merge 1a41698841 tb/doc-submitting-patches later to maint). + + * An earlier addition to "git diff --no-index A B" to limit the + output with pathspec after the two directories misbehaved when + these directories were given with a trailing slash, which has been + corrected. + + * The "--short" option of "git status" that meant output for humans + and "-z" option to show NUL delimited output format did not mix + well, and colored some but not all things. The command has been + updated to color all elements consistently in such a case. + + * Unicode width table update. + + * GPG signing test set-up has been broken for a year, which has been + corrected. + (merge 516bf45749 jc/t1016-setup-fix later to maint). + + * Recent OpenSSH creates the Unix domain socket to communicate with + ssh-agent under $HOME instead of /tmp, which causes our test to + fail doe to overly long pathname in our test environment, which has + been worked around by using "ssh-agent -T". + + * strbuf_split*() to split a string into multiple strbufs is often a + wrong API to use. A few uses of it have been removed by + simplifying the code. + (merge 2ab72a16d9 ob/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git shortlog" knows "--committer" and "--author" options, which + the command line completion (in contrib/) did not handle well, + which has been corrected. + (merge c568fa8e1c kf/log-shortlog-completion-fix later to maint). + + * "git bisect" command did not react correctly to "git bisect help" + and "git bisect unknown", which has been corrected. + (merge 2bb3a012f3 rz/bisect-help-unknown later to maint). + + * The 'q'(uit) command in "git add -p" has been improved to quit + without doing any meaningless work before leaving, and giving EOF + (typically control-D) to the prompt is made to behave the same way. + + * The wildmatch code had a corner case bug that mistakenly makes + "foo**/bar" match with "foobar", which has been corrected. + (merge 1940a02dc1 jk/match-pathname-fix 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). (merge 529a60a885 ua/t1517-short-help-tests later to maint). (merge 22d421fed9 ac/deglobal-fmt-merge-log-config later to maint). - (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). - (merge 31397bc4f7 kh/doc-fast-import-markup-fix later to maint). - (merge ac7096723b jc/doc-includeif-hasconfig-remote-url-fix later to maint). - (merge fafc9b08b8 ag/doc-sendmail-gmail-example-update later to maint). (merge a66fc22bf9 rs/get-oid-with-flags-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 15b8abde07 js/mingw-includes-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2cebca0582 tb/cat-file-objectmode-update later to maint). + (merge 8f487db07a kh/doc-patch-id-1 later to maint). |