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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fec1936 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,476 @@ +Git v2.45 Release Notes +======================= + +Backward Compatibility Notes + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend. + With "git init --ref-format=reftable", hopefully it would be a lot + more efficient to manage a repository with many references. + + * "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym + for "HEAD". + + * Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout + settings. + + * "git reflog" learned a "list" subcommand that enumerates known reflogs. + + * When a merge conflicted at a submodule, merge-ort backend used to + unconditionally give a lengthy message to suggest how to resolve + it. Now the message can be squelched as an advice message. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show + even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy. + + * "git rev-list --missing=print" has learned to optionally take + "--allow-missing-tips", which allows the objects at the starting + points to be missing. + + * "git merge-tree" has learned that the three trees involved in the + 3-way merge only need to be trees, not necessarily commits. + + * "git log --merge" learned to pay attention to CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and + other kinds of *_HEAD pseudorefs. + + * Platform specific tweaks for OS/390 has been added to + config.mak.uname. + + * Users with safe.bareRepository=explicit can still work from within + $GIT_DIR of a seconary worktree (which resides at .git/worktrees/$name/) + of the primary worktree without explicitly specifying the $GIT_DIR + environment variable or the --git-dir=<path> option. + + * The output format for dates "iso-strict" has been tweaked to show + a time in the Zulu timezone with "Z" suffix, instead of "+00:00". + + * "git diff" and friends learned two extra configuration variables, + diff.srcPrefix and diff.dstPrefix. + + * The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable had a name + that tempts users to set a Boolean value expressed in our usual + "false", "off", and "0", but it only took "no". This has been + corrected so "true" and its synonyms are taken as "normal", while + "false" and its synonyms are taken as "no". + + * Remove an ancient and not well maintained Hg-to-git migration + script from contrib/. + + * Hints that suggest what to do after resolving conflicts can now be + squelched by disabling advice.mergeConflict. + + * Allow git-cherry-pick(1) to automatically drop redundant commits via + a new `--empty` option, similar to the `--empty` options for + git-rebase(1) and git-am(1). Includes a soft deprecation of + `--keep-redundant-commits` as well as some related docs changes and + sequencer code cleanup. + + * "git config" learned "--comment=<message>" option to leave a + comment immediately after the "variable = value" on the same line + in the configuration file. + + * core.commentChar used to be limited to a single byte, but has been + updated to allow an arbitrary multi-byte sequence. + + * "git add -p" and other "interactive hunk selection" UI has learned to + skip showing the hunk immediately after it has already been shown, and + an additional action to explicitly ask to reshow the current hunk. + + * "git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which defers the decision of + whether and how to pack to the ref backend. This is used by the reftable + backend to avoid repacking of an already-optimal ref database. The new mode + is triggered from "git gc --auto". + + * "git add -u <pathspec>" and "git commit [-i] <pathspec>" did not + diagnose a pathspec element that did not match any files in certain + situations, unlike "git add <pathspec>" did. + + * The userdiff patterns for C# has been updated. + + * Git writes a "waiting for your editor" message on an incomplete + line after launching an editor, and then append another error + message on the same line if the editor errors out. It now clears + the "waiting for..." line before giving the error message. + + * The filename used for rejected hunks "git apply --reject" creates + was limited to PATH_MAX, which has been lifted. + + * When "git bisect" reports the commit it determined to be the + culprit, we used to show it in a format that does not honor common + UI tweaks, like log.date and log.decorate. The code has been + taught to use "git show" to follow more customizations. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen + some optimization. + + * More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to + improve test coverage of reftable backend. + + * Some parts of command line completion script (in contrib/) have + been micro-optimized. + + * The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been + specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair + of <angle-brackets> emphasized. + + * "git --no-lazy-fetch cmd" allows to run "cmd" while disabling lazy + fetching of objects from the promisor remote, which may be handy + for debugging. + + * The implementation in "git clean" that makes "-n" and "-i" ignore + clean.requireForce has been simplified, together with the + documentation. + + * Uses of xwrite() helper have been audited and updated for better + error checking and simpler code. + + * Some trace2 events that lacked def_param have learned to show it, + enriching the output. + + * The parse-options code that deals with abbreviated long option + names have been cleaned up. + + * The code in reftable backend that creates new table files works + better with the tempfile framework to avoid leaving cruft after a + failure. + + * The reftable code has its own custom binary search function whose + comparison callback has an unusual interface, which caused the + binary search to degenerate into a linear search, which has been + corrected. + + * The code to iterate over reflogs in the reftable has been optimized + to reduce memory allocation and deallocation. + + * Work to support a repository that work with both SHA-1 and SHA-256 + hash algorithms has started. + + * A new fuzz target that exercises config parsing code has been + added. + + * Fix the way recently added tests interpolate variables defined + outside them, and document the best practice to help future + developers. + + * Introduce an experimental protocol for contributors to propose the + topic description to be used in the "What's cooking" report, the + merge commit message for the topic, and in the release notes and + document it in the SubmittingPatches document. + + * The t/README file now gives a hint on running individual tests in + the "t/" directory with "make t<num>-*.sh t<num>-*.sh". + (merge 8d383806fc pb/test-scripts-are-build-targets later to maint). + + * The "hint:" messages given by the advice mechanism, when given a + message with a blank line, left a line with trailing whitespace, + which has been cleansed. + + * Documentation rules has been explicitly described how to mark-up + literal parts and a few manual pages have been updated as examples. + + * The .editorconfig file has been taught that a Makefile uses HT + indentation. + + * t-prio-queue test has been cleaned up by using C99 compound + literals; this is meant to also serve as a weather-balloon to smoke + out folks with compilers who have trouble compiling code that uses + the feature. + + * Windows binary used to decide the use of unix-domain socket at + build time, but it learned to make the decision at runtime instead. + + * The "shared repository" test in the t0610 reftable test failed + under restrictive umask setting (e.g. 007), which has been + corrected. + + * Document and apply workaround for a buggy version of dash that + mishandles "local var=val" construct. + + * The codepaths that reach date_mode_from_type() have been updated to + pass "struct date_mode" by value to make them thread safe. + + * The strategy to compact multiple tables of reftables after many + operations accumulate many entries has been improved to avoid + accumulating too many tables uncollected. + + * The code to iterate over reftable blocks has seen some optimization + to reduce memory allocation and deallocation. + + * The way "git fast-import" handles paths described in its input has + been tightened up and more clearly documented. + + * The cvsimport tests required that the platform understands + traditional timezone notations like CST6CDT, which has been + updated to work on those systems as long as they understand + POSIX notation with explicit tz transition dates. + + * The code to format trailers have been cleaned up. + + +Fixes since v2.44 +----------------- + + * "git apply" on a filesystem without filemode support have learned + to take a hint from what is in the index for the path, even when + not working with the "--index" or "--cached" option, when checking + the executable bit match what is required by the preimage in the + patch. + (merge 45b625142d cp/apply-core-filemode later to maint). + + * "git column" has been taught to reject negative padding value, as + it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero. + (merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint). + + * "git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in + "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the + option is passed through to the underlying "git apply". + (merge a171dac734 jc/am-whitespace-doc later to maint). + + * "git tag --column" failed to check the exit status of its "git + column" invocation, which has been corrected. + (merge 92e66478fc rj/tag-column-fix later to maint). + + * Credential helper based on libsecret (in contrib/) has been updated + to handle an empty password correctly. + (merge 8f1f2023b7 mh/libsecret-empty-password-fix later to maint). + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to honor the "--trust-exit-code" + option; it used to always exit with 0 and signalled success. + (merge eb84c8b6ce ps/difftool-dir-diff-exit-code later to maint). + + * The code incorrectly attempted to use textconv cache when asked, + even when we are not running in a repository, which has been + corrected. + (merge affe355fe7 jk/textconv-cache-outside-repo-fix later to maint). + + * Remove an empty file that shouldn't have been added in the first + place. + (merge 4f66942215 js/remove-cruft-files later to maint). + + * The logic to access reflog entries by date and number had ugly + corner cases at the boundaries, which have been cleaned up. + (merge 5edd126720 jk/reflog-special-cases-fix later to maint). + + * An error message from "git upload-pack", which responds to "git + fetch" requests, had a trailing NUL in it, which has been + corrected. + (merge 3f4c7a0805 sg/upload-pack-error-message-fix later to maint). + + * Clarify wording in the CodingGuidelines that requires <git-compat-util.h> + to be the first header file. + (merge 4e89f0e07c jc/doc-compat-util later to maint). + + * "git commit -v --cleanup=scissors" used to add the scissors line + twice in the log message buffer, which has been corrected. + (merge e90cc075cc jt/commit-redundant-scissors-fix later to maint). + + * A custom remote helper no longer cannot access the newly created + repository during "git clone", which is a regression in Git 2.44. + This has been corrected. + (merge 199f44cb2e ps/remote-helper-repo-initialization-fix later to maint). + + * Various parts of upload-pack have been updated to bound the resource + consumption relative to the size of the repository to protect from + abusive clients. + (merge 6cd05e768b jk/upload-pack-bounded-resources later to maint). + + * The upload-pack program, when talking over v2, accepted the + packfile-uris protocol extension from the client, even if it did + not advertise the capability, which has been corrected. + (merge a922bfa3b5 jk/upload-pack-v2-capability-cleanup later to maint). + + * Make sure failure return from merge_bases_many() is properly caught. + (merge 25fd20eb44 js/merge-base-with-missing-commit later to maint). + + * FSMonitor client code was confused when FSEvents were given in a + different case on a case-insensitive filesystem, which has been + corrected. + (merge 29c139ce78 jh/fsmonitor-icase-corner-case-fix later to maint). + + * The "core.commentChar" configuration variable only allows an ASCII + character, which was not clearly documented, which has been + corrected. + (merge fb7c556f58 kh/doc-commentchar-is-a-byte later to maint). + + * With release 2.44 we got rid of all uses of test_i18ngrep and there + is no in-flight topic that adds a new use of it. Make a call to + test_i18ngrep a hard failure, so that we can remove it at the end + of this release cycle. + (merge 381a83dfa3 jc/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git reflog" better. + (merge 1284f9cc11 rj/complete-reflog later to maint). + + * The logic to complete the command line arguments to "git worktree" + subcommand (in contrib/) has been updated to correctly honor things + like "git -C dir" etc. + (merge 3574816d98 rj/complete-worktree-paths-fix later to maint). + + * When git refuses to create a branch because the proposed branch + name is not a valid refname, an advice message is given to refer + the user to exact naming rules. + (merge 8fbd903e58 kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice later to maint). + + * Code simplification by getting rid of code that sets an environment + variable that is no longer used. + (merge 72a8d3f027 pw/rebase-i-ignore-cherry-pick-help-environment later to maint). + + * The code to find the effective end of log messages can fall into an + endless loop, which has been corrected. + (merge 2541cba2d6 fs/find-end-of-log-message-fix later to maint). + + * Mark-up used in the documentation has been improved for + consistency. + (merge 45d5ed3e50 ja/doc-markup-fixes later to maint). + + * The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable was + incorrectly documented to accept "false", which has been corrected. + + * Leaks from "git restore" have been plugged. + (merge 2f64da0790 rj/restore-plug-leaks later to maint). + + * "git bugreport --no-suffix" was not supported and instead + segfaulted, which has been corrected. + (merge b3b57c69da js/bugreport-no-suffix-fix later to maint). + + * The documentation for "%(trailers[:options])" placeholder in the + "--pretty" option of commands in the "git log" family has been + updated. + (merge bff85a338c bl/doc-key-val-sep-fix later to maint). + + * "git checkout --conflict=bad" reported a bad conflictStyle as if it + were given to a configuration variable; it has been corrected to + report that the command line option is bad. + (merge 5a99c1ac1a pw/checkout-conflict-errorfix later to maint). + + * Code clean-up in the "git log" machinery that implements custom log + message formatting. + (merge 1c10b8e5b0 jk/pretty-subject-cleanup later to maint). + + * "git config" corrupted literal HT characters written in the + configuration file as part of a value, which has been corrected. + (merge e6895c3f97 ds/config-internal-whitespace-fix later to maint). + + * A unit test for reftable code tried to enumerate all files in a + directory after reftable operations and expected to see nothing but + the files it wanted to leave there, but was fooled by .nfs* cruft + files left, which has been corrected. + (merge 0068aa7946 ps/reftable-unit-test-nfs-workaround later to maint). + + * The implementation and documentation of "object-format" option + exchange between the Git itself and its remote helpers did not + quite match, which has been corrected. + + * The "--pretty=<shortHand>" option of the commands in the "git log" + family, defined as "[pretty] shortHand = <expansion>" should have + been looked up case insensitively, but was not, which has been + corrected. + (merge f999d5188b bl/pretty-shorthand-config-fix later to maint). + + * "git apply" failed to extract the filename the patch applied to, + when the change was about an empty file created in or deleted from + a directory whose name ends with a SP, which has been corrected. + (merge 776ffd1a30 jc/apply-parse-diff-git-header-names-fix later to maint). + + * Update a more recent tutorial doc. + (merge 95ab557b4b dg/myfirstobjectwalk-updates later to maint). + + * The test script had an incomplete and ineffective attempt to avoid + clobbering the testing user's real crontab (and its equivalents), + which has been completed. + (merge 73cb87773b es/test-cron-safety later to maint). + + * Use advice_if_enabled() API to rewrite a simple pattern to + call advise() after checking advice_enabled(). + (merge 6412d01527 rj/use-adv-if-enabled later to maint). + + * Another "set -u" fix for the bash prompt (in contrib/) script. + (merge d7805bc743 vs/complete-with-set-u-fix later to maint). + + * "git checkout/switch --detach foo", after switching to the detached + HEAD state, gave the tracking information for the 'foo' branch, + which was pointless. + + * "git apply" has been updated to lift the hardcoded pathname length + limit, which in turn allowed a mksnpath() function that is no + longer used. + (merge 708f7e0590 rs/apply-lift-path-length-limit later to maint). + + * A file descriptor leak in an error codepath, used when "git apply + --reject" fails to create the *.rej file, has been corrected. + (merge 2b1f456adf rs/apply-reject-fd-leakfix later to maint). + + * A config parser callback function fell through instead of returning + after recognising and processing a variable, wasting cycles, which + has been corrected. + (merge a816ccd642 ds/fetch-config-parse-microfix later to maint). + + * Fix was added to work around a regression in libcURL 8.7.0 (which has + already been fixed in their tip of the tree). + (merge 92a209bf24 jk/libcurl-8.7-regression-workaround later to maint). + + * The variable that holds the value read from the core.excludefile + configuration variable used to leak, which has been corrected. + (merge 0e0fefb29f jc/unleak-core-excludesfile later to maint). + + * vreportf(), which is used by error() and friends, has been taught + to give the error message printf-format string when its vsnprintf() + call fails, instead of showing nothing useful to identify the + nature of the error. + (merge c63adab961 rs/usage-fallback-to-show-message-format later to maint). + + * Adjust to an upcoming changes to GNU make that breaks our Makefiles. + (merge 227b8fd902 tb/make-indent-conditional-with-non-spaces later to maint). + + * Git 2.44 introduced a regression that makes the updated code to + barf in repositories with multi-pack index written by older + versions of Git, which has been corrected. + + * When .git/rr-cache/ rerere database gets corrupted or rerere is fed to + work on a file with conflicted hunks resolved incompletely, the rerere + machinery got confused and segfaulted, which has been corrected. + (merge 167395bb47 mr/rerere-crash-fix later to maint). + + * The "receive-pack" program (which responds to "git push") was not + converted to run "git maintenance --auto" when other codepaths that + used to run "git gc --auto" were updated, which has been corrected. + (merge 7bf3057d9c ps/run-auto-maintenance-in-receive-pack later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint). + (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint). + (merge 64562d784d jb/doc-interactive-singlekey-do-not-need-perl later to maint). + (merge c431a235e2 cp/t9146-use-test-path-helpers later to maint). + (merge 82d75402d5 ds/doc-send-email-capitalization later to maint). + (merge 41bff66e35 jc/doc-add-placeholder-fix later to maint). + (merge 6835f0efe9 jw/remote-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 244001aa20 hs/rebase-not-in-progress later to maint). + (merge 2ca6c07db2 jc/no-include-of-compat-util-from-headers later to maint). + (merge 87bd7fbb9c rs/fetch-simplify-with-starts-with later to maint). + (merge f39addd0d9 rs/name-rev-with-mempool later to maint). + (merge 9a97b43e03 rs/submodule-prefix-simplify later to maint). + (merge 40b8076462 ak/rebase-autosquash later to maint). + (merge 3223204456 eg/add-uflags later to maint). + (merge 5f78d52dce es/config-doc-sort-sections later to maint). + (merge 781fb7b4c2 as/option-names-in-messages later to maint). + (merge 51d41dc243 jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge e1aaf309db pb/ci-win-artifact-names-fix later to maint). + (merge ad538c61da jc/index-pack-fsck-levels later to maint). + (merge 67471bc704 ja/doc-formatting-fix later to maint). + (merge 86f9ce7dd6 bl/doc-config-fixes later to maint). + (merge 0d527842b7 az/grep-group-error-message-update later to maint). + (merge 7c43bdf07b rs/strbuf-expand-bad-format later to maint). + (merge 8b68b48d5c ds/typofix-core-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 39bb692152 rs/imap-send-use-xsnprintf later to maint). + (merge 8d320cec60 jc/t2104-style-fixes later to maint). + (merge b4454d5a7b pw/t3428-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 84a7c33a4b pf/commitish-committish later to maint). + (merge 8882ee9d68 la/mailmap-entry later to maint). + (merge 44bdba2fa6 rs/no-openssl-compilation-fix-on-macos later to maint). + (merge f412d72c19 yb/replay-doc-linkfix later to maint). + (merge 5da40be8d7 xx/rfc2822-date-format-in-doc later to maint). |