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Git 2.38.2 Release Notes
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This is to backport various fixes accumulated during the development
towards Git 2.39, the next feature release.
Fixes since v2.38.1
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* Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
in C99.
* The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory
accesses, which has been corrected.
* "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
refspec, which has been corrected.
* "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
options used together without a good reason.
* Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation.
* "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used
from the memory, which has been fixed.
* "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit
itself, which has been corrected.
* In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a
merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and
led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected.
* Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can
find expected error messages in the log.
* Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a
substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access.
* The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read
from "ssh-keygen".
* "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure,
which has been corrected.
* Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
been clarified.
* "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
* The code to clean temporary object directories (used for
quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which
was a no-no.
* "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly
said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected.
* GitHub CI settings have been adjusted to recent reality, merging
and cherry-picking necessary topics that have been prepared for Git
2.39.
* `git rebase --update-refs` would delete references when all `update-ref`
commands in the sequencer were removed, which has been corrected.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Git v2.38 Release Notes
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UI, Workflows & Features
* "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative
pathspec.
* "git push" sometimes performs poorly when reachability bitmaps are
used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".
* "git grep -m<max-hits>" is a way to limit the hits shown per file.
* "git merge-tree" learned a new mode where it takes two commits and
computes a tree that would result in the merge commit, if the
histories leading to these two commits were to be merged.
* "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
move a path between directories that are "in cone" (i.e. expected
to be materialized in the working tree) and "out of cone"
(i.e. expected to be hidden). The handling of such cases has been
improved.
* Earlier, HTTP transport clients learned to tell the server side
what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
this was done only for some requests but not others.
* Introduce a safe.barerepository configuration variable that
allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories.
* Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been
tweaked.
* "git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the
rebased range with "--update-refs" option.
* "git ls-files" learns the "--format" option to tweak its output.
* "git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing
commit and tag objects.
* When "git merge" finds that it cannot perform a merge, it should
restore the working tree to the state before the command was
initiated, but in some corner cases it didn't.
* Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to
take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line.
* "git rm" has become more aware of the sparse-index feature.
* "git rev-list --disk-usage" learned to take an optional value
"human" to show the reported value in human-readable format, like
"3.40MiB".
* The "diagnose" feature to create a zip archive for diagnostic
material has been lifted from "scalar" and made into a feature of
"git bugreport".
* The namespaces used by "log --decorate" from "refs/" hierarchy by
default has been tightened.
* "git rev-list --ancestry-path=C A..B" is a natural extension of
"git rev-list A..B"; instead of choosing a subset of A..B to those
that have ancestry relationship with A, it lets a subset with
ancestry relationship with C.
* "scalar" now enables built-in fsmonitor on enlisted repositories,
when able.
* The bash prompt (in contrib/) learned to optionally indicate when
the index is unmerged.
* "git clone" command learned the "--bundle-uri" option to coordinate
with hosting sites the use of pre-prepared bundle files.
* "git range-diff" learned to honor pathspec argument if given.
* "git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
"From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
<ident> with "--force-in-body-from" option.
* The built-in fsmonitor refuses to work on a network mounted
repositories; a configuration knob for users to override this has
been introduced.
* The "scalar" addition from Microsoft is now part of the core Git
installation.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Collection of what is referenced by objects in promisor packs have
been optimized to inspect these objects in the in-pack order.
* Introduce a helper to see if a branch is already being worked on
(hence should not be newly checked out in a working tree), which
performs much better than the existing find_shared_symref() to
replace many uses of the latter.
* Teach "git archive" to (optionally and then by default) avoid
spawning an external "gzip" process when creating ".tar.gz" (and
".tgz") archives.
* Allow large objects read from a packstream to be streamed into a
loose object file straight, without having to keep it in-core as a
whole.
* Further preparation to turn git-submodule.sh into a builtin
continues.
* Apply Coccinelle rule to turn raw memmove() into MOVE_ARRAY() cpp
macro, which would improve maintainability and readability.
* Teach "make all" to build gitweb as well.
* Tweak tests so that they still work when the "git init" template
did not create .git/info directory.
* Add Coccinelle rules to detect the pattern of initializing and then
finalizing a structure without using it in between at all, which
happens after code restructuring and the compilers fail to
recognize as an unused variable.
* The code to convert between GPG trust level strings and internal
constants we use to represent them have been cleaned up.
* Support for libnettle as SHA256 implementation has been added.
* The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.
* A Coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
macro has been improved.
* API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser.
* Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero.
* The codepath to write multi-pack index has been taught to release a
large chunk of memory that holds an array of objects in the packs,
as soon as it is done with the array, to reduce memory consumption.
* Add a level of redirection to array allocation API in xdiff part,
to make it easier to share with the libgit2 project.
* "git fetch" client logs the partial clone filter used in the trace2
output.
* The "bundle URI" design gets documented.
* The common ancestor negotiation exchange during a "git fetch"
session now leaves trace log.
* Test portability improvements.
(merge 4d1d843be7 mt/rot13-in-c later to maint).
* The "subcommand" mode is introduced to parse-options API and update
the command line parser of Git commands with subcommands.
* The pack bitmap file gained a bitmap-lookup table to speed up
locating the necessary bitmap for a given commit.
* The assembly version of SHA-1 implementation for PPC has been
removed.
* The server side that responds to "git fetch" and "git clone"
request has been optimized by allowing it to send objects in its
object store without recomputing and validating the object names.
* Annotate function parameters that are not used (but cannot be
removed for structural reasons), to prepare us to later compile
with -Wunused warning turned on.
* Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".
* "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
move a path from a directory that is "in cone" to another directory
that is "out of cone". Handling of such a case has been improved.
* The chainlint script for our tests has been revamped.
Fixes since v2.37
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* Rewrite of "git add -i" in C that appeared in Git 2.25 didn't
correctly record a removed file to the index, which was fixed.
* Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is
shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature.
* Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and
add some missing information to the documentation.
* Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in
its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc.
* "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from
the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose
of creating the tree object(s) from its input.
* Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in
front of these messages.
* References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase"
documentation mark-up have been corrected.
* In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the
core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has
a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days.
* Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust
against different end-user vim settings.
* Plug various memory leaks, both in the main code and in test-tool
commands.
* Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in
the merge-ort strategy.
* The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against
GC, which has been corrected.
* A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor
remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected.
* "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn
did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which
has been corrected.
* An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to
at a bogus place, which as been corrected.
* Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool"
* "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable,
which shouldn't have. Fixed.
* A fix for a regression in test framework.
* mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved.
* Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in
"git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command
line completion to include them in its offerings.
* Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments.
* Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in
osx-keychain (in contrib/).
* Workaround for a false positive compiler warning.
* "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement
CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected.
* "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been
corrected.
* "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign
while recreating the throw-away merges.
* "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been
corrected.
* Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a
non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37.
* There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information
in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected.
* Gitweb had legacy URL shortener that is specific to the way
projects hosted on kernel.org used to (but no longer) work, which
has been removed.
* Fix build procedure for Windows that uses CMake so that it can pick
up the shell interpreter from local installation location.
* Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows
* Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows.
* Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer
"struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives
inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease). The
build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers.
* Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge
strategy backend.
* "git symbolic-ref symref non..sen..se" is now diagnosed as an error.
* A follow-up fix to a fix for a regression in 2.36 around hooks.
* Avoid repeatedly running getconf to ask libc version in the test
suite, and instead just as it once per script.
* Platform-specific code that determines if a directory is OK to use
as a repository has been taught to report more details, especially
on Windows.
* "vimdiff3" regression fix.
* "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode
before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has
hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been
corrected, but to help existing projects with broken tree objects
that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this
code detects has been demoted to "info" for now.
* Fixes to sparse index compatibility work for "reset" and "checkout"
commands.
* An earlier optimization discarded a tree-object buffer that is
still in use, which has been corrected.
* Fix deadlocks between main Git process and subprocess spawned via
the pipe_command() API, that can kill "git add -p" that was
reimplemented in C recently.
* The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by
mistake, which has been corrected.
* xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the
array", and "size of a single element", in this order. A call that
does not follow this ordering has been corrected.
* The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to
multiple threads, which were left leaked.
* Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04
to 22.04.
* The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash"
was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which
has been corrected.
* Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one
pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.
(merge 99e4d084ff tb/midx-with-changing-preferred-pack-fix later to maint).
* The clean-up of temporary files created via mks_tempfile_dt() was
racy and attempted to unlink() the leading directory when signals
are involved, which has been corrected.
(merge babe2e0559 rs/tempfile-cleanup-race-fix later to maint).
* FreeBSD portability fix for "git maintenance" that spawns "crontab"
to schedule tasks.
(merge ee69e7884e bc/gc-crontab-fix later to maint).
* Those who use diff-so-fancy as the diff-filter noticed a regression
or two in the code that parses the diff output in the built-in
version of "add -p", which has been corrected.
(merge 0a101676e5 js/add-p-diff-parsing-fix later to maint).
* Segfault fix-up to an earlier fix to the topic to teach "git reset"
and "git checkout" work better in a sparse checkout.
(merge 037f8ea6d9 vd/sparse-reset-checkout-fixes later to maint).
* "git diff --no-index A B" managed its the pathnames of its two
input files rather haphazardly, sometimes leaking them. The
command line argument processing has been straightened out to clean
it up.
(merge 2b43dd0eb5 rs/diff-no-index-cleanup later to maint).
* "git rev-list --verify-objects" ought to inspect the contents of
objects and notice corrupted ones, but it didn't when the commit
graph is in use, which has been corrected.
(merge b27ccae34b jk/rev-list-verify-objects-fix later to maint).
* More fixes to "add -p"
(merge 64ec8efb83 js/builtin-add-p-portability-fix later to maint).
* The parser in the script interface to parse-options in "git
rev-parse" has been updated to diagnose a bogus input correctly.
(merge f20b9c36d0 ow/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).
* The code that manages list-object-filter structure, used in partial
clones, leaked the instances, which has been plugged.
(merge 66eede4a37 jk/plug-list-object-filter-leaks later to maint).
* Fix another UI regression in the reimplemented "add -p".
(merge f6f0ee247f rs/add-p-worktree-mode-prompt-fix later to maint).
* "git fetch" over protocol v2 sent an incorrect ref prefix request
to the server and made "git pull" with configured fetch refspec
that does not cover the remote branch to merge with fail, which has
been corrected.
(merge 49ca2fba39 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).
* A result from opendir() was leaking in the commit-graph expiration
codepath, which has been plugged.
(merge 12f1ae5324 ml/commit-graph-expire-dir-leak-fix later to maint).
* Just like we have coding guidelines, we now have guidelines for
reviewers.
(merge e01b851923 vd/doc-reviewing-guidelines later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 77b9e85c0f vd/fix-perf-tests later to maint).
(merge 0682bc43f5 jk/test-crontab-fixes later to maint).
(merge b46dd1726c cc/doc-trailer-whitespace-rules later to maint).
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This is now handled centrally via OPSYS_EXPLICIT_LIBDEPS support in libiconv
and gettext-lib.
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Git v2.37 Release Notes
=======================
UI, Workflows & Features
* "vimdiff[123]" mergetool drivers have been reimplemented with a
more generic layout mechanism.
* "git -v" and "git -h" are now understood as "git --version" and
"git --help".
* The temporary files fed to external diff command are now generated
inside a new temporary directory under the same basename.
* "git log --since=X" will stop traversal upon seeing a commit that
is older than X, but there may be commits behind it that is younger
than X when the commit was created with a faulty clock. A new
option is added to keep digging without stopping, and instead
filter out commits with timestamp older than X.
* "git -c branch.autosetupmerge=simple branch $A $B" will set the $B
as $A's upstream only when $A and $B shares the same name, and "git
-c push.default=simple" on branch $A would push to update the
branch $A at the remote $B came from. Also more places use the
sole remote, if exists, before defaulting to 'origin'.
* A new doc has been added that lists tips for tools to work with
Git's codebase.
* "git remote -v" now shows the list-objects-filter used during
fetching from the remote, if available.
* With the new http.curloptResolve configuration, the CURLOPT_RESOLVE
mechanism that allows cURL based applications to use pre-resolved
IP addresses for the requests is exposed to the scripts.
* "git add -i" was rewritten in C some time ago and has been in
testing; the reimplementation is now exposed to general public by
default.
* Deprecate non-cone mode of the sparse-checkout feature.
* Introduce a filesystem-dependent mechanism to optimize the way the
bits for many loose object files are ensured to hit the disk
platter.
* The "do not remove the directory the user started Git in" logic,
when Git cannot tell where that directory is, is disabled. Earlier
we refused to run in such a case.
* A mechanism to pack unreachable objects into a "cruft pack",
instead of ejecting them into loose form to be reclaimed later, has
been introduced.
* Update the doctype written in gitweb output to xhtml5.
* The "transfer.credentialsInURL" configuration variable controls what
happens when a URL with embedded login credential is used on either
"fetch" or "push". Credentials are currently only detected in
`remote.<name>.url` config, not `remote.<name>.pushurl`.
* "git revert" learns "--reference" option to use more human-readable
reference to the commit it reverts in the message template it
prepares for the user.
* Various error messages that talk about the removal of
"--preserve-merges" in "rebase" have been strengthened, and "rebase
--abort" learned to get out of a state that was left by an earlier
use of the option.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The performance of the "untracked cache" feature has been improved
when "--untracked-files=<mode>" and "status.showUntrackedFiles"
are combined.
* "git stash" works better with sparse index entries.
* "git show :<path>" learned to work better with the sparse-index
feature.
* Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
the maintenance track.
* Preliminary code refactoring around transport and bundle code.
* "sparse-checkout" learns to work better with the sparse-index
feature.
* A workflow change for translators are being proposed. git.pot is
no longer version controlled and it is local responsibility of
translators to generate it.
* Plug the memory leaks from the trickiest API of all, the revision
walker.
* Rename .env_array member to .env in the child_process structure.
* The fsmonitor--daemon handles even more corner cases when
watching filesystem events.
* A new bug() and BUG_if_bug() API is introduced to make it easier to
uniformly log "detect multiple bugs and abort in the end" pattern.
Fixes since v2.36
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* "git submodule update" without pathspec should silently skip an
uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.
(merge 4f1ccef87c gc/submodule-update-part2 later to maint).
* "diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36
release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
<pathspec>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has
been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".
(merge f8781bfda3 jc/diff-tree-stdin-fix later to maint).
* Regression fix for 2.36 where "git name-rev" started to sometimes
reference strings after they are freed.
(merge 45a14f578e rs/name-rev-fix-free-after-use later to maint).
* "git show <commit1> <commit2>... -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec
when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
(merge 5cdb38458e jc/show-pathspec-fix later to maint).
* "git fast-export -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when showing the
second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.
(merge d1c25272f5 rs/fast-export-pathspec-fix later to maint).
* "git format-patch <args> -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when
showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
corrected.
(merge 91f8f7e46f rs/format-patch-pathspec-fix later to maint).
* "git clone --origin X" leaked piece of memory that held value read
from the clone.defaultRemoteName configuration variable, which has
been plugged.
(merge 6dfadc8981 jc/clone-remote-name-leak-fix later to maint).
* Get rid of a bogus and over-eager coccinelle rule.
(merge 08bdd3a185 jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null-fix later to maint).
* The path taken by "git multi-pack-index" command from the end user
was compared with path internally prepared by the tool without first
normalizing, which lead to duplicated paths not being noticed,
which has been corrected.
(merge 11f9e8de3d ds/midx-normalize-pathname-before-comparison later to maint).
* Correct choices of C compilers used in various CI jobs.
(merge 3506cae04f ab/cc-package-fixes later to maint).
* Various cleanups to "git p4".
(merge 4ff0108d9e jh/p4-various-fixups later to maint).
* The progress meter of "git blame" was showing incorrect numbers
when processing only parts of the file.
(merge e5f5d7d42e ea/progress-partial-blame later to maint).
* "git rebase --keep-base <upstream> <branch-to-rebase>" computed the
commit to rebase onto incorrectly, which has been corrected.
(merge 9e5ebe9668 ah/rebase-keep-base-fix later to maint).
* Fix a leak of FILE * in an error codepath.
(merge c0befa0c03 kt/commit-graph-plug-fp-leak-on-error later to maint).
* Avoid problems from interaction between malloc_check and address
sanitizer.
(merge 067109a5e7 pw/test-malloc-with-sanitize-address later to maint).
* The commit summary shown after making a commit is matched to what
is given in "git status" not to use the break-rewrite heuristics.
(merge 84792322ed rs/commit-summary-wo-break-rewrite later to maint).
* Update a few end-user facing messages around EOL conversion.
(merge c970d30c2c ah/convert-warning-message later to maint).
* Trace2 documentation updates.
(merge a6c80c313c js/trace2-doc-fixes later to maint).
* Build procedure fixup.
(merge 1fbfd96f50 mg/detect-compiler-in-c-locale later to maint).
* "git pull" without "--recurse-submodules=<arg>" made
submodule.recurse take precedence over fetch.recurseSubmodules by
mistake, which has been corrected.
(merge 5819417365 gc/pull-recurse-submodules later to maint).
* "git bisect" was too silent before it is ready to start computing
the actual bisection, which has been corrected.
(merge f11046e6de cd/bisect-messages-from-pre-flight-states later to maint).
* macOS CI jobs have been occasionally flaky due to tentative version
skew between perforce and the homebrew packager. Instead of
failing the whole CI job, just let it skip the p4 tests when this
happens.
(merge f15e00b463 cb/ci-make-p4-optional later to maint).
* A bit of test framework fixes with a few fixes to issues found by
valgrind.
(merge 7c898554d7 ab/valgrind-fixes later to maint).
* "git archive --add-file=<path>" picked up the raw permission bits
from the path and propagated to zip output in some cases, without
normalization, which has been corrected (tar output did not have
this issue).
(merge 6a61661967 jc/archive-add-file-normalize-mode later to maint).
* "make coverage-report" without first running "make coverage" did
not produce any meaningful result, which has been corrected.
(merge 96ddfecc5b ep/coverage-report-wants-test-to-have-run later to maint).
* The "--current" option of "git show-branch" should have been made
incompatible with the "--reflog" mode, but this was not enforced,
which has been corrected.
(merge 41c64ae0e7 jc/show-branch-g-current later to maint).
* "git fetch" unnecessarily failed when an unexpected optional
section appeared in the output, which has been corrected.
(merge 7709acf7be jt/fetch-peek-optional-section later to maint).
* The way "git fetch" without "--update-head-ok" ensures that HEAD in
no worktree points at any ref being updated was too wasteful, which
has been optimized a bit.
(merge f7400da800 os/fetch-check-not-current-branch later to maint).
* "git fetch --recurse-submodules" from multiple remotes (either from
a remote group, or "--all") used to make one extra "git fetch" in
the submodules, which has been corrected.
(merge 0353c68818 jc/avoid-redundant-submodule-fetch later to maint).
* With a recent update to refuse access to repositories of other
people by default, "sudo make install" and "sudo git describe"
stopped working, which has been corrected.
(merge 6b11e3d52e cb/path-owner-check-with-sudo-plus later to maint).
* The tests that ensured merges stop when interfering local changes
are present did not make sure that local changes are preserved; now
they do.
(merge 4b317450ce jc/t6424-failing-merge-preserve-local-changes later to maint).
* Some real problems noticed by gcc 12 have been fixed, while false
positives have been worked around.
* Update the version of FreeBSD image used in Cirrus CI.
(merge c58bebd4c6 pb/use-freebsd-12.3-in-cirrus-ci later to maint).
* The multi-pack-index code did not protect the packfile it is going
to depend on from getting removed while in use, which has been
corrected.
(merge 4090511e40 tb/midx-race-in-pack-objects later to maint).
* Teach "git repack --geometric" work better with "--keep-pack" and
avoid corrupting the repository when packsize limit is used.
(merge 66731ff921 tb/geom-repack-with-keep-and-max later to maint).
* The documentation on the interaction between "--add-file" and
"--prefix" options of "git archive" has been improved.
(merge a75910602a rs/document-archive-prefix later to maint).
* A git subcommand like "git add -p" spawns a separate git process
while relaying its command line arguments. A pathspec with only
negative elements was mistakenly passed with an empty string, which
has been corrected.
(merge b02fdbc80a jc/all-negative-pathspec later to maint).
* With a more targeted workaround in http.c in another topic, we may
be able to lift this blanket "GCC12 dangling-pointer warning is
broken and unsalvageable" workaround.
(merge 419141e495 cb/buggy-gcc-12-workaround later to maint).
* A misconfigured 'branch..remote' led to a bug in configuration
parsing.
(merge f1dfbd9ee0 gc/zero-length-branch-config-fix later to maint).
* "git -c diff.submodule=log range-diff" did not show anything for
submodules that changed in the ranges being compared, and
"git -c diff.submodule=diff range-diff" did not work correctly.
Fix this by including the "--submodule=short" output
unconditionally to be compared.
* In Git 2.36 we revamped the way how hooks are invoked. One change
that is end-user visible is that the output of a hook is no longer
directly connected to the standard output of "git" that spawns the
hook, which was noticed post release. This is getting corrected.
(merge a082345372 ab/hooks-regression-fix later to maint).
* Updating the graft information invalidates the list of parents of
in-core commit objects that used to be in the graft file.
* "git show-ref --heads" (and "--tags") still iterated over all the
refs only to discard refs outside the specified area, which has
been corrected.
(merge c0c9d35e27 tb/show-ref-optim later to maint).
* Remove redundant copying (with index v3 and older) or possible
over-reading beyond end of mmapped memory (with index v4) has been
corrected.
(merge 6d858341d2 zh/read-cache-copy-name-entry-fix later to maint).
* Sample watchman interface hook sometimes failed to produce
correctly formatted JSON message, which has been corrected.
(merge 134047b500 sn/fsmonitor-missing-clock later to maint).
* Use-after-free (with another forget-to-free) fix.
(merge 323822c72b ab/remote-free-fix later to maint).
* Remove a coccinelle rule that is no longer relevant.
(merge b1299de4a1 jc/cocci-cleanup later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge e6b2582da3 cm/reftable-0-length-memset later to maint).
(merge 0b75e5bf22 ab/misc-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 52e1ab8a76 ea/rebase-code-simplify later to maint).
(merge 756d15923b sg/safe-directory-tests-and-docs later to maint).
(merge d097a23bfa ds/do-not-call-bug-on-bad-refs later to maint).
(merge c36c27e75c rs/t7812-pcre2-ws-bug-test later to maint).
(merge 1da312742d gf/unused-includes later to maint).
(merge 465b30a92d pb/submodule-recurse-mode-enum later to maint).
(merge 82b28c4ed8 km/t3501-use-test-helpers later to maint).
(merge 72315e431b sa/t1011-use-helpers later to maint).
(merge 95b3002201 cg/vscode-with-gdb later to maint).
(merge fbe5f6b804 tk/p4-utf8-bom later to maint).
(merge 17f273ffba tk/p4-with-explicity-sync later to maint).
(merge 944db25c60 kf/p4-multiple-remotes later to maint).
(merge b014cee8de jc/update-ozlabs-url later to maint).
(merge 4ec5008062 pb/ggg-in-mfc-doc later to maint).
(merge af845a604d tb/receive-pack-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 2acf4cf001 js/ci-gcc-12-fixes later to maint).
(merge 05e280c0a6 jc/http-clear-finished-pointer later to maint).
(merge 8c49d704ef fh/transport-push-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 1d232d38bd tl/ls-tree-oid-only later to maint).
(merge db7961e6a6 gc/document-config-worktree-scope later to maint).
(merge ce18a30bb7 fs/ssh-default-key-command-doc later to maint).
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Git 2.35 Release Notes
======================
Updates since Git 2.34
----------------------
Backward compatibility warts
* "_" is now treated as any other URL-valid characters in an URL when
matching the per-URL configuration variable names.
* The color palette used by "git grep" has been updated to match that
of GNU grep.
Note to those who build from the source
* You may need to define NO_UNCOMPRESS2 Makefile macro if you build
with zlib older than 1.2.9.
* If your compiler cannot grok C99, the build will fail. See the
instruction at the beginning of git-compat-util.h if this happens
to you.
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git status --porcelain=v2" now show the number of stash entries
with --show-stash like the normal output does.
* "git stash" learned the "--staged" option to stash away what has
been added to the index (and nothing else).
* "git var GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH" is a way to see what name is used for
the newly created branch if "git init" is run.
* Various operating modes of "git reset" have been made to work
better with the sparse index.
* "git submodule deinit" for a submodule whose .git metadata
directory is embedded in its working tree refused to work, until
the submodule gets converted to use the "absorbed" form where the
metadata directory is stored in superproject, and a gitfile at the
top-level of the working tree of the submodule points at it. The
command is taught to convert such submodules to the absorbed form
as needed.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learns that the "--date"
option of commands from the "git log" family takes "human" and
"auto" as valid values.
* "Zealous diff3" style of merge conflict presentation has been added.
* The "git log --format=%(describe)" placeholder has been extended to
allow passing selected command-line options to the underlying "git
describe" command.
* "default" and "reset" have been added to our color palette.
* The cryptographic signing using ssh keys can specify literal keys
for keytypes whose name do not begin with the "ssh-" prefix by
using the "key::" prefix mechanism (e.g. "key::ecdsa-sha2-nistp256").
* "git fetch" without the "--update-head-ok" option ought to protect
a checked out branch from getting updated, to prevent the working
tree that checks it out to go out of sync. The code was written
before the use of "git worktree" got widespread, and only checked
the branch that was checked out in the current worktree, which has
been updated.
* "git name-rev" has been tweaked to give output that is shorter and
easier to understand.
* "git apply" has been taught to ignore a message without a patch
with the "--allow-empty" option. It also learned to honor the
"--quiet" option given from the command line.
* The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
unified for a better user experience and performance.
* Many git commands that deal with working tree files try to remove a
directory that becomes empty (i.e. "git switch" from a branch that
has the directory to another branch that does not would attempt
remove all files in the directory and the directory itself). This
drops users into an unfamiliar situation if the command was run in
a subdirectory that becomes subject to removal due to the command.
The commands have been taught to keep an empty directory if it is
the directory they were started in to avoid surprising users.
* "git am" learns "--empty=(stop|drop|keep)" option to tweak what is
done to a piece of e-mail without a patch in it.
* The default merge message prepared by "git merge" records the name
of the current branch; the name can be overridden with a new option
to allow users to pretend a merge is made on a different branch.
* The way "git p4" shows file sizes in its output has been updated to
use human-readable units.
* "git -c branch.autosetupmerge=inherit branch new old" makes "new"
to have the same upstream as the "old" branch, instead of marking
"old" itself as its upstream.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The use of errno as a means to carry the nature of error in the ref
API implementation has been reworked and reduced.
* Teach and encourage first-time contributors to this project to
state the base commit when they submit their topic.
* The command line completion for "git send-email" options have been
tweaked to make it easier to keep it in sync with the command itself.
* Ensure that the sparseness of the in-core index matches the
index.sparse configuration specified by the repository immediately
after the on-disk index file is read.
* Code clean-up to eventually allow information on remotes defined
for an arbitrary repository to be read.
* Build optimization.
* Tighten code for testing pack-bitmap.
* Weather balloon to break people with compilers that do not support
C99.
* The "reftable" backend for the refs API, without integrating into
the refs subsystem, has been added.
* More tests are marked as leak-free.
* The test framework learns to list unsatisfied test prerequisites,
and optionally error out when prerequisites that are expected to be
satisfied are not.
* The default setting for trace2 event nesting was too low to cause
test failures, which is worked around by bumping it up in the test
framework.
* Drop support for TravisCI and update test workflows at GitHub.
* Many tests that used to need GIT_TEST_DEFAULT_INITIAL_BRANCH_NAME
mechanism to force "git" to use 'master' as the default name for
the initial branch no longer need it; the use of the mechanism from
them have been removed.
* Allow running our tests while disabling fsync.
* Document the parameters given to the reflog entry iterator callback
functions.
(merge e6e94f34b2 jc/reflog-iterator-callback-doc later to maint).
* The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or
nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we
want to test Git in.
* "diff --histogram" optimization.
* Weather balloon to find compilers that do not grok variable
declaration in the for() loop.
* diff and blame commands have been taught to work better with sparse
index.
* The chainlint test script linter in the test suite has been updated.
* The DEVELOPER=yes build uses -std=gnu99 now.
* "git format-patch" uses a single rev_info instance and then exits.
Mark the structure with UNLEAK() macro to squelch leak sanitizer.
* New interface into the tmp-objdir API to help in-core use of the
quarantine feature.
* Broken &&-chains in the test scripts have been corrected.
* The RCS keyword substitution in "git p4" used to be done assuming
that the contents are UTF-8 text, which can trigger decoding
errors. We now treat the contents as a bytestring for robustness
and correctness.
* The conditions to choose different definitions of the FLEX_ARRAY
macro for vendor compilers has been simplified to make it easier to
maintain.
* Correctness and performance update to "diff --color-moved" feature.
* "git upload-pack" (the other side of "git fetch") used a 8kB buffer
but most of its payload came on 64kB "packets". The buffer size
has been enlarged so that such a packet fits.
* "git fetch" and "git pull" are now declared sparse-index clean.
Also "git ls-files" learns the "--sparse" option to help debugging.
* Similar message templates have been consolidated so that
translators need to work on fewer number of messages.
Fixes since v2.34
-----------------
* "git grep" looking in a blob that has non-UTF8 payload was
completely broken when linked with certain versions of PCREv2
library in the latest release.
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
* "git pull" with any strategy when the other side is behind us
should succeed as it is a no-op, but doesn't.
* An earlier change in 2.34.0 caused JGit application (that abused
GIT_EDITOR mechanism when invoking "git config") to get stuck with
a SIGTTOU signal; it has been reverted.
* An earlier change that broke .gitignore matching has been reverted.
* Things like "git -c branch.sort=bogus branch new HEAD", i.e. the
operation modes of the "git branch" command that do not need the
sort key information, no longer errors out by seeing a bogus sort
key.
(merge 98e7ab6d42 jc/fix-ref-sorting-parse later to maint).
* The compatibility implementation for unsetenv(3) were written to
mimic ancient, non-POSIX, variant seen in an old glibc; it has been
changed to return an integer to match the more modern era.
(merge a38989bd5b jc/unsetenv-returns-an-int later to maint).
* The clean/smudge conversion code path has been prepared to better
work on platforms where ulong is narrower than size_t.
(merge 596b5e77c9 mc/clean-smudge-with-llp64 later to maint).
* Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output.
(merge 0ba558ffb1 if/redact-packfile-uri later to maint).
* CI has been taught to catch some Unicode directional formatting
sequence that can be used in certain mischief.
(merge 0e7696c64d js/ci-no-directional-formatting later to maint).
* The "--date=format:<strftime>" gained a workaround for the lack of
system support for a non-local timezone to handle "%s" placeholder.
(merge 9b591b9403 jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch later to maint).
* The "merge" subcommand of "git jump" (in contrib/) silently ignored
pathspec and other parameters.
(merge 67ba13e5a4 jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec later to maint).
* The code to decode the length of packed object size has been
corrected.
(merge 34de5b8eac jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow later to maint).
* The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a
choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the
default, which no longer is the case. This has been corrected.
(merge 71076d0edd ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge later to maint).
* "git fetch", when received a bad packfile, can fail with SIGPIPE.
This wasn't wrong per-se, but we now detect the situation and fail
in a more predictable way.
(merge 2a4aed42ec jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack later to maint).
* The function to cull a child process and determine the exit status
had two separate code paths for normal callers and callers in a
signal handler, and the latter did not yield correct value when the
child has caught a signal. The handling of the exit status has
been unified for these two code paths. An existing test with
flakiness has also been corrected.
(merge 5263e22cba jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix later to maint).
* When a non-existent program is given as the pager, we tried to
reuse an uninitialized child_process structure and crashed, which
has been fixed.
(merge f917f57f40 em/missing-pager later to maint).
* The single-key-input mode in "git add -p" had some code to handle
keys that generate a sequence of input via ReadKey(), which did not
handle end-of-file correctly, which has been fixed.
(merge fc8a8126df cb/add-p-single-key-fix later to maint).
* "git rebase -x" added an unnecessary 'exec' instructions before
'noop', which has been corrected.
(merge cc9dcdee61 en/rebase-x-fix later to maint).
* When the "git push" command is killed while the receiving end is
trying to report what happened to the ref update proposals, the
latter used to die, due to SIGPIPE. The code now ignores SIGPIPE
to increase our chances to run the post-receive hook after it
happens.
(merge d34182b9e3 rj/receive-pack-avoid-sigpipe-during-status-reporting later to maint).
* "git worktree add" showed "Preparing worktree" message to the
standard output stream, but when it failed, the message from die()
went to the standard error stream. Depending on the order the
stdio streams are flushed at the program end, this resulted in
confusing output. It has been corrected by sending all the chatty
messages to the standard error stream.
(merge b50252484f es/worktree-chatty-to-stderr later to maint).
* Coding guideline document has been updated to clarify what goes to
standard error in our system.
(merge e258eb4800 es/doc-stdout-vs-stderr later to maint).
* The sparse-index/sparse-checkout feature had a bug in its use of
the matching code to determine which path is in or outside the
sparse checkout patterns.
(merge 8c5de0d265 ds/sparse-deep-pattern-checkout-fix later to maint).
* "git rebase -x" by mistake started exporting the GIT_DIR and
GIT_WORK_TREE environment variables when the command was rewritten
in C, which has been corrected.
(merge 434e0636db en/rebase-x-wo-git-dir-env later to maint).
* When "git log" implicitly enabled the "decoration" processing
without being explicitly asked with "--decorate" option, it failed
to read and honor the settings given by the "--decorate-refs"
option.
* "git fetch --set-upstream" did not check if there is a current
branch, leading to a segfault when it is run on a detached HEAD,
which has been corrected.
(merge 17baeaf82d ab/fetch-set-upstream-while-detached later to maint).
* Among some code paths that ask an yes/no question, only one place
gave a prompt that looked different from the others, which has been
updated to match what the others create.
(merge 0fc8ed154c km/help-prompt-fix later to maint).
* "git log --invert-grep --author=<name>" used to exclude commits
written by the given author, but now "--invert-grep" only affects
the matches made by the "--grep=<pattern>" option.
(merge 794c000267 rs/log-invert-grep-with-headers later to maint).
* "git grep --perl-regexp" failed to match UTF-8 characters with
wildcard when the pattern consists only of ASCII letters, which has
been corrected.
(merge 32e3e8bc55 rs/pcre2-utf later to maint).
* Certain sparse-checkout patterns that are valid in non-cone mode
led to segfault in cone mode, which has been corrected.
* Use of certain "git rev-list" options with "git fast-export"
created nonsense results (the worst two of which being "--reverse"
and "--invert-grep --grep=<foo>"). The use of "--first-parent" is
made to behave a bit more sensible than before.
(merge 726a228dfb ws/fast-export-with-revision-options later to maint).
* Perf tests were run with end-user's shell, but it has been
corrected to use the shell specified by $TEST_SHELL_PATH.
(merge 9ccab75608 ja/perf-use-specified-shell later to maint).
* Fix dependency rules to generate hook-list.h header file.
(merge d3fd1a6667 ab/makefile-hook-list-dependency-fix later to maint).
* "git stash" by default triggers its "push" action, but its
implementation also made "git stash -h" to show short help only for
"git stash push", which has been corrected.
(merge ca7990cea5 ab/do-not-limit-stash-help-to-push later to maint).
* "git apply --3way" bypasses the attempt to do a three-way
application in more cases to address the regression caused by the
recent change to use direct application as a fallback.
(merge 34d607032c jz/apply-3-corner-cases later to maint).
* Fix performance-releated bug in "git subtree" (in contrib/).
(merge 3ce8888fb4 jl/subtree-check-parents-argument-passing-fix later to maint).
* Extend the guidance to choose the base commit to build your work
on, and hint/nudge contributors to read others' changes.
(merge fdfae830f8 jc/doc-submitting-patches-choice-of-base later to maint).
* A corner case bug in the ort merge strategy has been corrected.
(merge d30126c20d en/merge-ort-renorm-with-rename-delete-conflict-fix later to maint).
* "git stash apply" forgot to attempt restoring untracked files when
it failed to restore changes to tracked ones.
(merge 71cade5a0b en/stash-df-fix later to maint).
* Calling dynamically loaded functions on Windows has been corrected.
(merge 4a9b204920 ma/windows-dynload-fix later to maint).
* Some lockfile code called free() in signal-death code path, which
has been corrected.
(merge 58d4d7f1c5 ps/lockfile-cleanup-fix later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 74db416c9c cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge f9b2b6684d ja/doc-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 7d1b866778 jc/fix-first-object-walk later to maint).
(merge 538ac74604 js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors later to maint).
(merge 152923b132 jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake later to maint).
(merge 9081a421a6 ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 42c456ff81 rs/mergesort later to maint).
(merge ad506e6780 tl/midx-docfix later to maint).
(merge bf5b83fd8a hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix later to maint).
(merge 49f1eb3b34 jk/refs-g11-workaround later to maint).
(merge 7d3fc7df70 jt/midx-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 7b089120d9 hn/create-reflog-simplify later to maint).
(merge 9e12400da8 cb/mingw-gmtime-r later to maint).
(merge 0bf0de6cc7 tb/pack-revindex-on-disk-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 2c68f577fc ew/cbtree-remove-unused-and-broken-cb-unlink later to maint).
(merge eafd6e7e55 ab/die-with-bug later to maint).
(merge 91028f7659 jc/grep-patterntype-default-doc later to maint).
(merge 47ca93d071 ds/repack-fixlets later to maint).
(merge e6a9bc0c60 rs/t4202-invert-grep-test-fix later to maint).
(merge deb5407a42 gh/gpg-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 999bba3e0b rs/daemon-plug-leak later to maint).
(merge 786eb1ba39 js/l10n-mention-ngettext-early-in-readme later to maint).
(merge 2f12b31b74 ab/makefile-msgfmt-wo-stats later to maint).
(merge 0517f591ca fs/gpg-unknown-key-test-fix later to maint).
(merge 97d6fb5a1f ma/header-dup-cleanup later to maint).
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Git 2.33.1 Release Notes
========================
This primarily is to backport various fixes accumulated during the
development towards Git 2.34, the next feature release.
Fixes since v2.33
-----------------
* The unicode character width table (used for output alignment) has
been updated.
* Input validation of "git pack-objects --stdin-packs" has been
corrected.
* Bugfix for common ancestor negotiation recently introduced in "git
push" codepath.
* "git pull" had various corner cases that were not well thought out
around its --rebase backend, e.g. "git pull --ff-only" did not stop
but went ahead and rebased when the history on other side is not a
descendant of our history. The series tries to fix them up.
* "git apply" miscounted the bytes and failed to read to the end of
binary hunks.
* "git range-diff" code clean-up.
* "git commit --fixup" now works with "--edit" again, after it was
broken in v2.32.
* Use upload-artifacts v1 (instead of v2) for 32-bit linux, as the
new version has a blocker bug for that architecture.
* Checking out all the paths from HEAD during the last conflicted
step in "git rebase" and continuing would cause the step to be
skipped (which is expected), but leaves MERGE_MSG file behind in
$GIT_DIR and confuses the next "git commit", which has been
corrected.
* Various bugs in "git rebase -r" have been fixed.
* mmap() imitation used to call xmalloc() that dies upon malloc()
failure, which has been corrected to just return an error to the
caller to be handled.
* "git diff --relative" segfaulted and/or produced incorrect result
when there are unmerged paths.
* The delayed checkout code path in "git checkout" etc. were chatty
even when --quiet and/or --no-progress options were given.
* "git branch -D <branch>" used to refuse to remove a broken branch
ref that points at a missing commit, which has been corrected.
* Build update for Apple clang.
* The parser for the "--nl" option of "git column" has been
corrected.
* "git upload-pack" which runs on the other side of "git fetch"
forgot to take the ref namespaces into account when handling
want-ref requests.
* The sparse-index support can corrupt the index structure by storing
a stale and/or uninitialized data, which has been corrected.
* Buggy tests could damage repositories outside the throw-away test
area we created. We now by default export GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES
to limit the damage from such a stray test.
* Even when running "git send-email" without its own threaded
discussion support, a threading related header in one message is
carried over to the subsequent message to result in an unwanted
threading, which has been corrected.
* The output from "git fast-export", when its anonymization feature
is in use, showed an annotated tag incorrectly.
* Recent "diff -m" changes broke "gitk", which has been corrected.
* "git maintenance" scheduler fix for macOS.
* A pathname in an advice message has been made cut-and-paste ready.
* The "git apply -3" code path learned not to bother the lower level
merge machinery when the three-way merge can be trivially resolved
without the content level merge.
* The code that optionally creates the *.rev reverse index file has
been optimized to avoid needless computation when it is not writing
the file out.
* "git range-diff -I... <range> <range>" segfaulted, which has been
corrected.
* The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
running Git.
* The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
subsystem has been cleaned up.
* "git update-ref --stdin" failed to flush its output as needed,
which potentially led the conversation to a deadlock.
* When "git am --abort" fails to abort correctly, it still exited
with exit status of 0, which has been corrected.
* Correct nr and alloc members of strvec struct to be of type size_t.
* "git stash", where the tentative change involves changing a
directory to a file (or vice versa), was confused, which has been
corrected.
* "git clone" from a repository whose HEAD is unborn into a bare
repository didn't follow the branch name the other side used, which
is corrected.
* "git cvsserver" had a long-standing bug in its authentication code,
which has finally been corrected (it is unclear and is a separate
question if anybody is seriously using it, though).
* "git difftool --dir-diff" mishandled symbolic links.
* Sensitive data in the HTTP trace were supposed to be redacted, but
we failed to do so in HTTP/2 requests.
* "make clean" has been updated to remove leftover .depend/
directories, even when it is not told to use them to compute header
dependencies.
* Protocol v0 clients can get stuck parsing a malformed feature line.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Git 2.33 Release Notes
======================
Updates since Git 2.32
----------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git send-email" learned the "--sendmail-cmd" command line option
and the "sendemail.sendmailCmd" configuration variable, which is a
more sensible approach than the current way of repurposing the
"smtp-server" that is meant to name the server to instead name the
command to talk to the server.
* The userdiff pattern for C# learned the token "record".
* "git rev-list" learns to omit the "commit <object-name>" header
lines from the output with the `--no-commit-header` option.
* "git worktree add --lock" learned to record why the worktree is
locked with a custom message.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The code to handle the "--format" option in "for-each-ref" and
friends made too many string comparisons on %(atom)s used in the
format string, which has been corrected by converting them into
enum when the format string is parsed.
* Use the hashfile API in the codepath that writes the index file to
reduce code duplication.
* Repeated rename detections in a sequence of mergy operations have
been optimized out for the 'ort' merge strategy.
* Preliminary clean-up of tests before the main reftable changes
hits the codebase.
* The backend for "diff -G/-S" has been updated to use pcre2 engine
when available.
* Use ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" pseudo target to simplify our Makefile.
* Code cleanup around struct_type_init() functions.
* "git send-email" optimization.
* GitHub Actions / CI update.
(merge 0dc787a9f2 js/ci-windows-update later to maint).
* Object accesses in repositories with many alternate object store
have been optimized.
* "git log" has been optimized not to waste cycles to load ref
decoration data that may not be needed.
* Many "printf"-like helper functions we have have been annotated
with __attribute__() to catch placeholder/parameter mismatches.
* Tests that cover protocol bits have been updated and helpers
used there have been consolidated.
* The CI gained a new job to run "make sparse" check.
* "git status" codepath learned to work with sparsely populated index
without hydrating it fully.
* A guideline for gender neutral documentation has been added.
* Documentation on "git diff -l<n>" and diff.renameLimit have been
updated, and the defaults for these limits have been raised.
* The completion support used to offer alternate spelling of options
that exist only for compatibility, which has been corrected.
* "TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=there make test" failed to work, which has
been corrected.
* "git bundle" gained more test coverage.
* "git read-tree" had a codepath where blobs are fetched one-by-one
from the promisor remote, which has been corrected to fetch in bulk.
* Rewrite of "git submodule" in C continues.
* "git checkout" and "git commit" learn to work without unnecessarily
expanding sparse indexes.
Fixes since v2.32
-----------------
* We historically rejected a very short string as an author name
while accepting a patch e-mail, which has been loosened.
(merge 72ee47ceeb ef/mailinfo-short-name later to maint).
* The parallel checkout codepath did not initialize object ID field
used to talk to the worker processes in a futureproof way.
* Rewrite code that triggers undefined behaviour warning.
(merge aafa5df0df jn/size-t-casted-to-off-t-fix later to maint).
* The description of "fast-forward" in the glossary has been updated.
(merge e22f2daed0 ry/clarify-fast-forward-in-glossary later to maint).
* Recent "git clone" left a temporary directory behind when the
transport layer returned an failure.
(merge 6aacb7d861 jk/clone-clean-upon-transport-error later to maint).
* "git fetch" over protocol v2 left its side of the socket open after
it finished speaking, which unnecessarily wasted the resource on
the other side.
(merge ae1a7eefff jk/fetch-pack-v2-half-close-early later to maint).
* The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git diff"
takes the "--anchored" option.
(merge d1e7c2cac9 tb/complete-diff-anchored later to maint).
* "git-svn" tests assumed that "locale -a", which is used to pick an
available UTF-8 locale, is available everywhere. A knob has been
introduced to allow testers to specify a suitable locale to use.
(merge 482c962de4 dd/svn-test-wo-locale-a later to maint).
* Update "git subtree" to work better on Windows.
(merge 77f37de39f js/subtree-on-windows-fix later to maint).
* Remove multimail from contrib/
(merge f74d11471f js/no-more-multimail later to maint).
* Make the codebase MSAN clean.
(merge 4dbc55e87d ah/uninitialized-reads-fix later to maint).
* Work around inefficient glob substitution in older versions of bash
by rewriting parts of a test.
(merge eb87c6f559 jx/t6020-with-older-bash later to maint).
* Avoid duplicated work while building reachability bitmaps.
(merge aa9ad6fee5 jk/bitmap-tree-optim later to maint).
* We broke "GIT_SKIP_TESTS=t?000" to skip certain tests in recent
update, which got fixed.
* The side-band demultiplexer that is used to display progress output
from the remote end did not clear the line properly when the end of
line hits at a packet boundary, which has been corrected.
* Some test scripts assumed that readlink(1) was universally
installed and available, which is not the case.
(merge 7c0afdf23c jk/test-without-readlink-1 later to maint).
* Recent update to completion script (in contrib/) broke those who
use the __git_complete helper to define completion to their custom
command.
(merge cea232194d fw/complete-cmd-idx-fix later to maint).
* Output from some of our tests were affected by the width of the
terminal that they were run in, which has been corrected by
exporting a fixed value in the COLUMNS environment.
(merge c49a177bec ab/fix-columns-to-80-during-tests later to maint).
* On Windows, mergetool has been taught to find kdiff3.exe just like
it finds winmerge.exe.
(merge 47eb4c6890 ms/mergetools-kdiff3-on-windows later to maint).
* When we cannot figure out how wide the terminal is, we use a
fallback value of 80 ourselves (which cannot be avoided), but when
we run the pager, we export it in COLUMNS, which forces the pager
to use the hardcoded value, even when the pager is perfectly
capable to figure it out itself. Stop exporting COLUMNS when we
fall back on the hardcoded default value for our own use.
(merge 9b6e2c8b98 js/stop-exporting-bogus-columns later to maint).
* "git cat-file --batch-all-objects"" misbehaved when "--batch" is in
use and did not ask for certain object traits.
(merge ee02ac6164 zh/cat-file-batch-fix later to maint).
* Some code and doc clarification around "git push".
* The "union" conflict resultion variant misbehaved when used with
binary merge driver.
(merge 382b601acd jk/union-merge-binary later to maint).
* Prevent "git p4" from failing to submit changes to binary file.
(merge 54662d5958 dc/p4-binary-submit-fix later to maint).
* "git grep --and -e foo" ought to have been diagnosed as an error
but instead segfaulted, which has been corrected.
(merge fe7fe62d8d rs/grep-parser-fix later to maint).
* The merge code had funny interactions between content based rename
detection and directory rename detection.
(merge 3585d0ea23 en/merge-dir-rename-corner-case-fix later to maint).
* When rebuilding the multi-pack index file reusing an existing one,
we used to blindly trust the existing file and ended up carrying
corrupted data into the updated file, which has been corrected.
(merge f89ecf7988 tb/midx-use-checksum later to maint).
* Update the location of system-side configuration file on Windows.
(merge e355307692 js/gfw-system-config-loc-fix later to maint).
* Code recently added to support common ancestry negotiation during
"git push" did not sanity check its arguments carefully enough.
(merge eff40457a4 ab/fetch-negotiate-segv-fix later to maint).
* Update the documentation not to assume users are of certain gender
and adds to guidelines to do so.
(merge 46a237f42f ds/gender-neutral-doc later to maint).
* "git commit --allow-empty-message" won't abort the operation upon
an empty message, but the hint shown in the editor said otherwise.
(merge 6f70f00b4f hj/commit-allow-empty-message later to maint).
* The code that gives an error message in "git multi-pack-index" when
no subcommand is given tried to print a NULL pointer as a strong,
which has been corrected.
(merge 88617d11f9 tb/reverse-midx later to maint).
* CI update.
(merge a066a90db6 js/ci-check-whitespace-updates later to maint).
* Documentation fix for "git pull --rebase=no".
(merge d3236becec fc/pull-no-rebase-merges-theirs-into-ours later to maint).
* A race between repacking and using pack bitmaps has been corrected.
(merge dc1daacdcc jk/check-pack-valid-before-opening-bitmap later to maint).
* The local changes stashed by "git merge --autostash" were lost when
the merge failed in certain ways, which has been corrected.
* Windows rmdir() equivalent behaves differently from POSIX ones in
that when used on a symbolic link that points at a directory, the
target directory gets removed, which has been corrected.
(merge 3e7d4888e5 tb/mingw-rmdir-symlink-to-directory later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge bfe35a6165 ah/doc-describe later to maint).
(merge f302c1e4aa jc/clarify-revision-range later to maint).
(merge 3127ff90ea tl/fix-packfile-uri-doc later to maint).
(merge a84216c684 jk/doc-color-pager later to maint).
(merge 4e0a64a713 ab/trace2-squelch-gcc-warning later to maint).
(merge 225f7fa847 ps/rev-list-object-type-filter later to maint).
(merge 5317dfeaed dd/honor-users-tar-in-tests later to maint).
(merge ace6d8e3d6 tk/partial-clone-repack-doc later to maint).
(merge 7ba68e0cf1 js/trace2-discard-event-docfix later to maint).
(merge 8603c419d3 fc/doc-default-to-upstream-config later to maint).
(merge 1d72b604ef jk/revision-squelch-gcc-warning later to maint).
(merge abcb66c614 ar/typofix later to maint).
(merge 9853830787 ah/graph-typofix later to maint).
(merge aac578492d ab/config-hooks-path-testfix later to maint).
(merge 98c7656a18 ar/more-typofix later to maint).
(merge 6fb9195f6c jk/doc-max-pack-size later to maint).
(merge 4184cbd635 ar/mailinfo-memcmp-to-skip-prefix later to maint).
(merge 91d2347033 ar/doc-libera-chat-in-my-first-contrib later to maint).
(merge 338abb0f04 ab/cmd-foo-should-return later to maint).
(merge 546096a5cb ab/xdiff-bug-cleanup later to maint).
(merge b7b793d1e7 ab/progress-cleanup later to maint).
(merge d94f9b8e90 ba/object-info later to maint).
(merge 52ff891c03 ar/test-code-cleanup later to maint).
(merge a0538e5c8b dd/document-log-decorate-default later to maint).
(merge ce24797d38 mr/cmake later to maint).
(merge 9eb542f2ee ab/pre-auto-gc-hook-test later to maint).
(merge 9fffc38583 bk/doc-commit-typofix later to maint).
(merge 1cf823d8f0 ks/submodule-cleanup later to maint).
(merge ebbf5d2b70 js/config-mak-windows-pcre-fix later to maint).
(merge 617480d75b hn/refs-iterator-peel-returns-boolean later to maint).
(merge 6a24cc71ed ar/submodule-helper-include-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 5632e838f8 rs/khash-alloc-cleanup later to maint).
(merge b1d87fbaf1 jk/typofix later to maint).
(merge e04170697a ab/gitignore-discovery-doc later to maint).
(merge 8232a0ff48 dl/packet-read-response-end-fix later to maint).
(merge eb448631fb dl/diff-merge-base later to maint).
(merge c510928a25 hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix later to maint).
(merge ddcb189d9d tb/bitmap-type-filter-comment-fix later to maint).
(merge 878b399734 pb/submodule-recurse-doc later to maint).
(merge 734283855f jk/config-env-doc later to maint).
(merge 482e1488a9 ab/getcwd-test later to maint).
(merge f0b922473e ar/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
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Seems that the input code depends on a HAVE_DEV_TTY setting that
autoconf doesn't actually check. I guess Linux packagers set this
explicitly; we shall too. Otherwise it falls back to libc getpass()
for all input, which disables echo unconditionally.
PKGREVISION -> 1
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Git 2.32 Release Notes
======================
Backward compatibility notes
----------------------------
* ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are
symbolic links are ignored.
* "git apply --3way" used to first attempt a straight application,
and only fell back to the 3-way merge algorithm when the stright
application failed. Starting with this version, the command will
first try the 3-way merge algorithm and only when it fails (either
resulting with conflict or the base versions of blobs are missing),
falls back to the usual patch application.
Updates since v2.31
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and
".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the
object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are
used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the
contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been
corrected.
* "git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the
stash.
* "git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder.
* "git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything
under the sun into a single pack (or split by size). A cleverer
strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been
introduced.
* The http codepath learned to let the credential layer to cache the
password used to unlock a certificate that has successfully been
used.
* "git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes made
to the contents while keeping the original log message intact,
learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be used to
tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message,
respectively.
* "git send-email" learned to honor the core.hooksPath configuration.
* "git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is
not an integer.
* "git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together
with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to
support custom trailers.
* "git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we
notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository.
* A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain
refs to be given a reachability bitmap.
* "gitweb" learned "e-mail privacy" feature to redact strings that
look like e-mail addresses on various pages.
* "git apply --3way" has always been "to fall back to 3-way merge
only when straight application fails". Swap the order of falling
back so that 3-way is always attempted first (only when the option
is given, of course) and then straight patch application is used as
a fallback when it fails.
* "git apply" now takes "--3way" and "--cached" at the same time, and
work and record results only in the index.
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has learned that
CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is a possible pseudo-ref.
* Userdiff patterns for "Scheme" has been added.
* "git log" learned "--diff-merges=<style>" option, with an
associated configuration variable log.diffMerges.
* "git log --format=..." placeholders learned %ah/%ch placeholders to
request the --date=human output.
* Replace GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM mechanism to decline from reading the
system-wide configuration file with GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM that lets
users specify from which file to read the system-wide configuration
(setting it to an empty file would essentially be the same as
setting NOSYSTEM), and introduce GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL to override the
per-user configuration in $HOME/.gitconfig.
* "git add" and "git rm" learned not to touch those paths that are
outside of sparse checkout.
* "git rev-list" learns the "--filter=object:type=<type>" option,
which can be used to exclude objects of the given kind from the
packfile generated by pack-objects.
* The command line completion (in contrib/) for "git stash" has been
updated.
* "git subtree" updates.
* It is now documented that "format-patch" skips merges.
* Options to "git pack-objects" that take numeric values like
--window and --depth should not accept negative values; the input
validation has been tightened.
* The way the command line specified by the trailer.<token>.command
configuration variable receives the end-user supplied value was
both error prone and misleading. An alternative to achieve the
same goal in a safer and more intuitive way has been added, as
the trailer.<token>.cmd configuration variable, to replace it.
* "git add -i --dry-run" does not dry-run, which was surprising. The
combination of options has taught to error out.
* "git push" learns to discover common ancestor with the receiving
end over protocol v2. This will hopefully make "git push" as
efficient as "git fetch" in avoiding objects from getting
transferred unnecessarily.
* "git mailinfo" (hence "git am") learned the "--quoted-cr" option to
control how lines ending with CRLF wrapped in base64 or qp are
handled.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Rename detection rework continues.
* GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is a mechanism to skip test pieces with
prerequisites to catch broken tests that depend on the side effects
of optional pieces, but did not work at all when negative
prerequisites were involved.
(merge 27d578d904 jk/fail-prereq-testfix later to maint).
* "git diff-index" codepath has been taught to trust fsmonitor status
to reduce number of lstat() calls.
(merge 7e5aa13d2c nk/diff-index-fsmonitor later to maint).
* Reorganize Makefile to allow building git.o and other essential
objects without extra stuff needed only for testing.
* Preparatory API changes for parallel checkout.
* A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like
fsmonitor on top.
* Fsck API clean-up.
* SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users
has been introduced. Also a procedure to follow when preparing
embargoed releases has been spelled out.
(merge 09420b7648 js/security-md later to maint).
* Optimize "rev-list --use-bitmap-index --objects" corner case that
uses negative tags as the stopping points.
* CMake update for vsbuild.
* An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object
back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced.
* Generate [ec]tags under $(QUIET_GEN).
* Clean-up codepaths that implements "git send-email --validate"
option and improves the message from it.
* The last remnant of gettext-poison has been removed.
* The test framework has been taught to optionally turn the default
merge strategy to "ort" throughout the system where we use
three-way merges internally, like cherry-pick, rebase etc.,
primarily to enhance its test coverage (the strategy has been
available as an explicit "-s ort" choice).
* A bit of code clean-up and a lot of test clean-up around userdiff
area.
* Handling of "promisor packs" that allows certain objects to be
missing and lazily retrievable has been optimized (a bit).
* When packet_write() fails, we gave an extra error message
unnecessarily, which has been corrected.
* The checkout machinery has been taught to perform the actual
write-out of the files in parallel when able.
* Show errno in the trace output in the error codepath that calls
read_raw_ref method.
* Effort to make the command line completion (in contrib/) safe with
"set -u" continues.
* Tweak a few tests for "log --format=..." that show timestamps in
various formats.
* The reflog expiry machinery has been taught to emit trace events.
* Over-the-wire protocol learns a new request type to ask for object
sizes given a list of object names.
Fixes since v2.31
-----------------
* The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure
there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31
timeframe.
* The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly
duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc.
* "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not
take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression
has been corrected.
* Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements.
* CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc().
* Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target.
* Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems,
which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe.
* We had a code to diagnose and die cleanly when a required
clean/smudge filter is missing, but an assert before that
unnecessarily fired, hiding the end-user facing die() message.
(merge 6fab35f748 mt/cleanly-die-upon-missing-required-filter later to maint).
* Update C code that sets a few configuration variables when a remote
is configured so that it spells configuration variable names in the
canonical camelCase.
(merge 0f1da600e6 ab/remote-write-config-in-camel-case later to maint).
* A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing
which version of the generation number gets used in the
commit-graph file.
(merge 702110aac6 ds/commit-graph-generation-config later to maint).
* Perf test update to work better in secondary worktrees.
(merge 36e834abc1 jk/perf-in-worktrees later to maint).
* Updates to memory allocation code around the use of pcre2 library.
(merge c1760352e0 ab/grep-pcre2-allocfix later to maint).
* "git -c core.bare=false clone --bare ..." would have segfaulted,
which has been corrected.
(merge 75555676ad bc/clone-bare-with-conflicting-config later to maint).
* When "git checkout" removes a path that does not exist in the
commit it is checking out, it wasn't careful enough not to follow
symbolic links, which has been corrected.
(merge fab78a0c3d mt/checkout-remove-nofollow later to maint).
* A few option description strings started with capital letters,
which were corrected.
(merge 5ee90326dc cc/downcase-opt-help later to maint).
* Plug or annotate remaining leaks that trigger while running the
very basic set of tests.
(merge 68ffe095a2 ah/plugleaks later to maint).
* The hashwrite() API uses a buffering mechanism to avoid calling
write(2) too frequently. This logic has been refactored to be
easier to understand.
(merge ddaf1f62e3 ds/clarify-hashwrite later to maint).
* "git cherry-pick/revert" with or without "--[no-]edit" did not spawn
the editor as expected (e.g. "revert --no-edit" after a conflict
still asked to edit the message), which has been corrected.
(merge 39edfd5cbc en/sequencer-edit-upon-conflict-fix later to maint).
* "git daemon" has been tightened against systems that take backslash
as directory separator.
(merge 9a7f1ce8b7 rs/daemon-sanitize-dir-sep later to maint).
* A NULL-dereference bug has been corrected in an error codepath in
"git for-each-ref", "git branch --list" etc.
(merge c685450880 jk/ref-filter-segfault-fix later to maint).
* Streamline the codepath to fix the UTF-8 encoding issues in the
argv[] and the prefix on macOS.
(merge c7d0e61016 tb/precompose-prefix-simplify later to maint).
* The command-line completion script (in contrib/) had a couple of
references that would have given a warning under the "-u" (nounset)
option.
(merge c5c0548d79 vs/completion-with-set-u later to maint).
* When "git pack-objects" makes a literal copy of a part of existing
packfile using the reachability bitmaps, its update to the progress
meter was broken.
(merge 8e118e8490 jk/pack-objects-bitmap-progress-fix later to maint).
* The dependencies for config-list.h and command-list.h were broken
when the former was split out of the latter, which has been
corrected.
(merge 56550ea718 sg/bugreport-fixes later to maint).
* "git push --quiet --set-upstream" was not quiet when setting the
upstream branch configuration, which has been corrected.
(merge f3cce896a8 ow/push-quiet-set-upstream later to maint).
* The prefetch task in "git maintenance" assumed that "git fetch"
from any remote would fetch all its local branches, which would
fetch too much if the user is interested in only a subset of
branches there.
(merge 32f67888d8 ds/maintenance-prefetch-fix later to maint).
* Clarify that pathnames recorded in Git trees are most often (but
not necessarily) encoded in UTF-8.
(merge 9364bf465d ab/pathname-encoding-doc later to maint).
* "git --config-env var=val cmd" weren't accepted (only
--config-env=var=val was).
(merge c331551ccf ps/config-env-option-with-separate-value later to maint).
* When the reachability bitmap is in effect, the "do not lose
recently created objects and those that are reachable from them"
safety to protect us from races were disabled by mistake, which has
been corrected.
(merge 2ba582ba4c jk/prune-with-bitmap-fix later to maint).
* Cygwin pathname handling fix.
(merge bccc37fdc7 ad/cygwin-no-backslashes-in-paths later to maint).
* "git rebase --[no-]reschedule-failed-exec" did not work well with
its configuration variable, which has been corrected.
(merge e5b32bffd1 ab/rebase-no-reschedule-failed-exec later to maint).
* Portability fix for command line completion script (in contrib/).
(merge f2acf763e2 si/zsh-complete-comment-fix later to maint).
* "git repack -A -d" in a partial clone unnecessarily loosened
objects in promisor pack.
* "git bisect skip" when custom words are used for new/old did not
work, which has been corrected.
* A few variants of informational message "Already up-to-date" has
been rephrased.
(merge ad9322da03 js/merge-already-up-to-date-message-reword later to maint).
* "git submodule update --quiet" did not propagate the quiet option
down to underlying "git fetch", which has been corrected.
(merge 62af4bdd42 nc/submodule-update-quiet later to maint).
* Document that our test can use "local" keyword.
(merge a84fd3bcc6 jc/test-allows-local later to maint).
* The word-diff mode has been taught to work better with a word
regexp that can match an empty string.
(merge 0324e8fc6b pw/word-diff-zero-width-matches later to maint).
* "git p4" learned to find branch points more efficiently.
(merge 6b79818bfb jk/p4-locate-branch-point-optim later to maint).
* When "git update-ref -d" removes a ref that is packed, it left
empty directories under $GIT_DIR/refs/ for
(merge 5f03e5126d wc/packed-ref-removal-cleanup later to maint).
* "git clean" and "git ls-files -i" had confusion around working on
or showing ignored paths inside an ignored directory, which has
been corrected.
(merge b548f0f156 en/dir-traversal later to maint).
* The handling of "%(push)" formatting element of "for-each-ref" and
friends was broken when the same codepath started handling
"%(push:<what>)", which has been corrected.
(merge 1e1c4c5eac zh/ref-filter-push-remote-fix later to maint).
* The bash prompt script (in contrib/) did not work under "set -u".
(merge 5c0cbdb107 en/prompt-under-set-u later to maint).
* The "chainlint" feature in the test framework is a handy way to
catch common mistakes in writing new tests, but tends to get
expensive. An knob to selectively disable it has been introduced
to help running tests that the developer has not modified.
(merge 2d86a96220 jk/test-chainlint-softer later to maint).
* The "rev-parse" command did not diagnose the lack of argument to
"--path-format" option, which was introduced in v2.31 era, which
has been corrected.
(merge 99fc555188 wm/rev-parse-path-format-wo-arg later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint).
(merge ea7e63921c jr/doc-ignore-typofix later to maint).
(merge 23c781f173 ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc later to maint).
(merge 42efa1231a jk/filter-branch-sha256 later to maint).
(merge 4c8e3dca6e tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config later to maint).
(merge 6534d436a2 bs/asciidoctor-installation-hints later to maint).
(merge 47957485b3 ab/read-tree later to maint).
(merge 2be927f3d1 ab/diff-no-index-tests later to maint).
(merge 76593c09bb ab/detox-gettext-tests later to maint).
(merge 28e29ee38b jc/doc-format-patch-clarify later to maint).
(merge fc12b6fdde fm/user-manual-use-preface later to maint).
(merge dba94e3a85 cc/test-helper-bloom-usage-fix later to maint).
(merge 61a7660516 hn/reftable-tables-doc-update later to maint).
(merge 81ed96a9b2 jt/fetch-pack-request-fix later to maint).
(merge 151b6c2dd7 jc/doc-do-not-capitalize-clarification later to maint).
(merge 9160068ac6 js/access-nul-emulation-on-windows later to maint).
(merge 7a14acdbe6 po/diff-patch-doc later to maint).
(merge f91371b948 pw/patience-diff-clean-up later to maint).
(merge 3a7f0908b6 mt/clean-clean later to maint).
(merge d4e2d15a8b ab/streaming-simplify later to maint).
(merge 0e59f7ad67 ah/merge-ort-i18n later to maint).
(merge e6f68f62e0 ls/typofix later to maint).
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Git 2.31.1 Release Notes
========================
Fixes since v2.31
-----------------
* The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure
there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31
timeframe.
* The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly
duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc.
* "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not
take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression
has been corrected.
* Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements.
* CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc().
* Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target.
* Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems,
which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
Git 2.31 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.30
-------------------
Backward incompatible and other important changes
* The "pack-redundant" command, which has been left stale with almost
unusable performance issues, now warns loudly when it gets used, as
we no longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d"
instead).
* The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to
update from v1.4 that we have been using.
* The support for deprecated PCRE1 library has been dropped.
* Fixes for CVE-2021-21300 in Git 2.30.2 (and earlier) is included.
UI, Workflows & Features
* The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it
easier to design output for machine consumption.
* When a user does not tell "git pull" to use rebase or merge, the
command gives a loud message telling a user to choose between
rebase or merge but creates a merge anyway, forcing users who would
want to rebase to redo the operation. Fix an early part of this
problem by tightening the condition to give the message---there is
no reason to stop or force the user to choose between rebase or
merge if the history fast-forwards.
* The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to
force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm.
* "git rev-parse" can be explicitly told to give output as absolute
or relative path with the `--path-format=(absolute|relative)` option.
* Bash completion (in contrib/) update to make it easier for
end-users to add completion for their custom "git" subcommands.
* "git maintenance" learned to drive scheduled maintenance on
platforms whose native scheduling methods are not 'cron'.
* After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for
the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and
@{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1}
* "git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the
standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point
at the same object.
* "git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option.
* "git ls-files" can and does show multiple entries when the index is
unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in
use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced.
* `git worktree list` now annotates worktrees as prunable, shows
locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained
a --verbose option.
* "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by
HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol
did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an
empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so.
* There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a
"commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git
range-diff" did not understand them.
* The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option
to show only one side of the compared range.
* "git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of
a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally
prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved.
* The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a
working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read
by accident, which has been corrected.
* "git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task.
* The error message given when a configuration variable that is
expected to have a boolean value has been improved.
* Signed commits and tags now allow verification of objects, whose
two object names (one in SHA-1, the other in SHA-256) are both
signed.
* "git rev-list" command learned "--disk-usage" option.
* "git {diff,log} --{skip,rotate}-to=<path>" allows the user to
discard diff output for early paths or move them to the end of the
output.
* "git difftool" learned "--skip-to=<path>" option to restart an
interrupted session from an arbitrary path.
* "git grep" has been tweaked to be limited to the sparse checkout
paths.
* "git rebase --[no-]fork-point" gained a configuration variable
rebase.forkPoint so that users do not have to keep specifying a
non-default setting.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* A 3-year old test that was not testing anything useful has been
corrected.
* Retire more names with "sha1" in it.
* The topological walk codepath is covered by new trace2 stats.
* Update the Code-of-conduct to version 2.0 from the upstream (we've
been using version 1.4).
* "git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing
a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git
fsck".
* Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via
environment variables have been introduced, and the way
GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked
to make it more robust.
* Tests have been updated so that they do not to get affected by the
name of the default branch "git init" creates.
* "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none
fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option.
* The peel_ref() API has been replaced with peel_iterated_oid().
* The .use_shell flag in struct child_process that is passed to
run_command() API has been clarified with a bit more documentation.
* Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree
extension in the index.
* The ls-refs protocol operation has been optimized to narrow the
sub-hierarchy of refs/ it walks to produce response.
* When removing many branches and tags, the code used to do so one
ref at a time. There is another API it can use to delete multiple
refs, and it makes quite a lot of performance difference when the
refs are packed.
* The "pack-objects" command needs to iterate over all the tags when
automatic tag following is enabled, but it actually iterated over
all refs and then discarded everything outside "refs/tags/"
hierarchy, which was quite wasteful.
* A perf script was made more portable.
* Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up
once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow
other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can
find more failures in a single run.
* We've carried compatibility codepaths for compilers without
variadic macros for quite some time, but the world may be ready for
them to be removed. Force compilation failure on exotic platforms
where variadic macros are not available to find out who screams in
such a way that we can easily revert if it turns out that the world
is not yet ready.
* Code clean-up to ensure our use of hashtables using object names as
keys use the "struct object_id" objects, not the raw hash values.
* Lose the debugging aid that may have been useful in the past, but
no longer is, in the "grep" codepaths.
* Some pretty-format specifiers do not need the data in commit object
(e.g. "%H"), but we were over-eager to load and parse it, which has
been made even lazier.
* Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may
not be controversial.
* Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which
traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core.
* The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of
the generation number to help topological revision traversal.
* Piecemeal of rewrite of "git bisect" in C continues.
* When a pager spawned by us exited, the trace log did not record its
exit status correctly, which has been corrected.
* Removal of GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON continues.
* The code to implement "git merge-base --independent" was poorly
done and was kept from the very beginning of the feature.
* Preliminary changes to fsmonitor integration.
* Performance improvements for rename detection.
* The common code to deal with "chunked file format" that is shared
by the multi-pack-index and commit-graph files have been factored
out, to help codepaths for both filetypes to become more robust.
* The approach to "fsck" the incoming objects in "index-pack" is
attractive for performance reasons (we have them already in core,
inflated and ready to be inspected), but fundamentally cannot be
applied fully when we receive more than one pack stream, as a tree
object in one pack may refer to a blob object in another pack as
".gitmodules", when we want to inspect blobs that are used as
".gitmodules" file, for example. Teach "index-pack" to emit
objects that must be inspected later and check them in the calling
"fetch-pack" process.
* The logic to handle "trailer" related placeholders in the
"--format=" mechanisms in the "log" family and "for-each-ref"
family is getting unified.
* Raise the buffer size used when writing the index file out from
(obviously too small) 8kB to (clearly sufficiently large) 128kB.
* It is reported that open() on some platforms (e.g. macOS Big Sur)
can return EINTR even though our timers are set up with SA_RESTART.
A workaround has been implemented and enabled for macOS to rerun
open() transparently from the caller when this happens.
Fixes since v2.30
-----------------
* Diagnose command line error of "git rebase" early.
* Clean up option descriptions in "git cmd --help".
* "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working
tree.
* Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for
group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent
directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test
failures.
* "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for
any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined
even once.
* Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list
all the available tools.
* Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac.
* The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD
display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.
* Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are
now forbidden.
* "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as
"Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is
that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty",
which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree
as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed.
* When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one
side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a
commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it
does.
* Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become
incorrect.
* Doc fix for packfile URI feature.
* When "git rebase -i" processes "fixup" insn, there is no reason to
clean up the commit log message, but we did the usual stripspace
processing. This has been corrected.
(merge f7d42ceec5 js/rebase-i-commit-cleanup-fix later to maint).
* Fix in passing custom args from "git clone" to "upload-pack" on the
other side.
(merge ad6b5fefbd jv/upload-pack-filter-spec-quotefix later to maint).
* The command line completion (in contrib/) completed "git branch -d"
with branch names, but "git branch -D" offered tagnames in addition,
which has been corrected. "git branch -M" had the same problem.
(merge 27dc071b9a jk/complete-branch-force-delete later to maint).
* When commands are started from a subdirectory, they may have to
compare the path to the subdirectory (called prefix and found out
from $(pwd)) with the tracked paths. On macOS, $(pwd) and
readdir() yield decomposed path, while the tracked paths are
usually normalized to the precomposed form, causing mismatch. This
has been fixed by taking the same approach used to normalize the
command line arguments.
(merge 5c327502db tb/precompose-prefix-too later to maint).
* Even though invocations of "die()" were logged to the trace2
system, "BUG()"s were not, which has been corrected.
(merge 0a9dde4a04 jt/trace2-BUG later to maint).
* "git grep --untracked" is meant to be "let's ALSO find in these
files on the filesystem" when looking for matches in the working
tree files, and does not make any sense if the primary search is
done against the index, or the tree objects. The "--cached" and
"--untracked" options have been marked as mutually incompatible.
(merge 0c5d83b248 mt/grep-cached-untracked later to maint).
* Fix "git fsck --name-objects" which apparently has not been used by
anybody who is motivated enough to report breakage.
(merge e89f89361c js/fsck-name-objects-fix later to maint).
* Avoid individual tests in t5411 from getting affected by each other
by forcing them to use separate output files during the test.
(merge 822ee894f6 jx/t5411-unique-filenames later to maint).
* Test to make sure "git rev-parse one-thing one-thing" gives
the same thing twice (when one-thing is --since=X).
(merge a5cdca4520 ew/rev-parse-since-test later to maint).
* When certain features (e.g. grafts) used in the repository are
incompatible with the use of the commit-graph, we used to silently
turned commit-graph off; we now tell the user what we are doing.
(merge c85eec7fc3 js/commit-graph-warning later to maint).
* Objects that lost references can be pruned away, even when they
have notes attached to it (and these notes will become dangling,
which in turn can be pruned with "git notes prune"). This has been
clarified in the documentation.
(merge fa9ab027ba mz/doc-notes-are-not-anchors later to maint).
* The error codepath around the "--temp/--prefix" feature of "git
checkout-index" has been improved.
(merge 3f7ba60350 mt/checkout-index-corner-cases later to maint).
* The "git maintenance register" command had trouble registering bare
repositories, which had been corrected.
* A handful of multi-word configuration variable names in
documentation that are spelled in all lowercase have been corrected
to use the more canonical camelCase.
(merge 7dd0eaa39c dl/doc-config-camelcase later to maint).
* "git push $there --delete ''" should have been diagnosed as an
error, but instead turned into a matching push, which has been
corrected.
(merge 20e416409f jc/push-delete-nothing later to maint).
* Test script modernization.
(merge 488acf15df sv/t7001-modernize later to maint).
* An under-allocation for the untracked cache data has been corrected.
(merge 6347d649bc jh/untracked-cache-fix later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint).
(merge 9d336655ba js/doc-proto-v2-response-end later to maint).
(merge 1b5b8cf072 jc/maint-column-doc-typofix later to maint).
(merge 3a837b58e3 cw/pack-config-doc later to maint).
(merge 01168a9d89 ug/doc-commit-approxidate later to maint).
(merge b865734760 js/params-vs-args later to maint).
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Git v2.29.2 Release Notes
=========================
This release is primarily to fix brown-paper-bag breakages in the
2.29.0 release.
Fixes since v2.29.1
-------------------
* In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and
"am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been
corrected.
Git v2.29.1 Release Notes
=========================
This is to fix the build procedure change in 2.28 where we failed to
install a few programs that should be installed in /usr/bin (namely,
receive-pack, upload-archive and upload-pack) when the non-default
SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS installation option is in effect.
A minor glitch in a non-default installation may usually not deserve
a hotfix, but I know Git for Windows ship binaries built with this
option, so let's make an exception.
Git 2.29 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.28
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git help log" has been enhanced by sharing more material from the
documentation for the underlying "git rev-list" command.
* "git for-each-ref --format=<>" learned %(contents:size).
* "git merge" learned to selectively omit " into <branch>" at the end
of the title of default merge message with merge.suppressDest
configuration.
* The component to respond to "git fetch" request is made more
configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering
specification used for partial cloning.
* Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which
could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables.
* The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim
have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added.
* "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first
breakage along the first-parent chain.
* "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent
commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has
been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the
previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits.
* The commit labels used to explain each side of conflicted hunks
placed by the sequencer machinery have been made more readable by
humans.
* The "--batch-size" option of "git multi-pack-index repack" command
is now used to specify that very small packfiles are collected into
one until the total size roughly exceeds it.
* The recent addition of SHA-256 support is marked as experimental in
the documentation.
* "git fetch" learned --no-write-fetch-head option to avoid writing
the FETCH_HEAD file.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) usually omits redundant,
deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to
optionally include all of them.
* The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated
object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not
affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is.
* "git worktree" gained a "repair" subcommand to help users recover
after moving the worktrees or repository manually without telling
Git. Also, "git init --separate-git-dir" no longer corrupts
administrative data related to linked worktrees.
* The "--format=" option to the "for-each-ref" command and friends
learned a few more tricks, e.g. the ":short" suffix that applies to
"objectname" now also can be used for "parent", "tree", etc.
* "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach"
option to create a new worktree without being on a branch.
* "format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught
not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version.
* "add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent.
* The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the
underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help
reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging.
* "git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only
one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take
combination of both kind of filtering.
* "git maintenance", a "git gc"'s big brother, has been introduced to
take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the
object database cleaning.
* "git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to
outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook.
* "git push" that wants to be atomic and wants to send push
certificate learned not to prepare and sign the push certificate
when it fails the local check (hence due to atomicity it is known
that no certificate is needed).
* "git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom
filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters
option.
* The transport protocol v2 has become the default again.
* The installation procedure learned to optionally omit "git-foo"
executable files for each 'foo' built-in subcommand, which are only
required by old timers that still rely on the age old promise that
prepending "git --exec-path" output to PATH early in their script
will keep the "git-foo" calls they wrote working.
* The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git restore
-s <TAB>" is often followed by a refname.
* "git shortlog" has been taught to group commits by the contents of
the trailer lines, like "Reviewed-by:", "Coauthored-by:", etc.
* "git archive" learns the "--add-file" option to include untracked
files into a snapshot from a tree-ish.
* "git fetch" and "git push" support negative refspecs.
* "git format-patch" learns to take "whenAble" as a possible value
for the format.useAutoBase configuration variable to become no-op
when the automatically computed base does not make sense.
* Credential helpers are now allowed to terminate lines with CRLF
line ending, as well as LF line ending.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The changed-path Bloom filter is improved using ideas from an
independent implementation.
* Updates to the changed-paths bloom filter.
* The test framework has been updated so that most tests will run
with predictable (artificial) timestamps.
* Preliminary clean-up of the refs API in preparation for adding a
new refs backend "reftable".
* Dev support to limit the use of test_must_fail to only git commands.
* While packing many objects in a repository with a promissor remote,
lazily fetching missing objects from the promissor remote one by
one may be inefficient---the code now attempts to fetch all the
missing objects in batch (obviously this won't work for a lazy
clone that lazily fetches tree objects as you cannot even enumerate
what blobs are missing until you learn which trees are missing).
* The pretend-object mechanism checks if the given object already
exists in the object store before deciding to keep the data
in-core, but the check would have triggered lazy fetching of such
an object from a promissor remote.
* The argv_array API is useful for not just managing argv but any
"vector" (NULL-terminated array) of strings, and has seen adoption
to a certain degree. It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the
barrier to adoption.
* The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that
there is no interoperability between SHA-1 and SHA-256
repositories yet.
* CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile.
* A new helper function has_object() has been introduced to make it
easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to
trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it.
* A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro
does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static
inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the
former with the latter in <git-compat-util.h> header.
* Test framework update.
(merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint).
* Updates to "git merge" tests, in preparation for a new merge
strategy backend.
* midx and commit-graph files now use the byte defined in their file
format specification for identifying the hash function used for
object names.
* The FETCH_HEAD is now always read from the filesystem regardless of
the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the
normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file..
* An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands
have been turned into into built-in.
* A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to
execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo"
form, which have been corrected.
* When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets
cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first
checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer
exists.
* Internal API clean-up to handle two options "diff-index" and "log"
have, which happen to share the same short form, more sensibly.
* The "add -i/-p" machinery has been written in C but it is not used
by default yet. It is made default to those who are participating
in feature.experimental experiment.
* Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making
distribution tarballs.
* "git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater
parallelism.
* "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon
seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken.
* The logic to skip testing on the tagged commit and the tag itself
was not quite consistent which led to failure of Windows test
tasks. It has been revamped to consistently skip revisions that
have already been tested, based on the tree object of the revision.
Fixes since v2.28
-----------------
* The "mediawiki" remote backend which lives in contrib/mw-to-git/
and is not built with git by default, had an RCE bug allowing a
malicious MediaWiki server operator to inject arbitrary commands
for execution by a cloning client. This has been fixed.
The bug was discovered and reported by Joern Schneeweisz of GitLab
to the git-security mailing list. Its practical impact due to the
obscurity of git-remote-mediawiki was deemed small enough to forgo
a dedicated security release.
* "git clone --separate-git-dir=$elsewhere" used to stomp on the
contents of the existing directory $elsewhere, which has been
taught to fail when $elsewhere is not an empty directory.
(merge dfaa209a79 bw/fail-cloning-into-non-empty later to maint).
* With the base fix to 2.27 regresion, any new extensions in a v0
repository would still be silently honored, which is not quite
right. Instead, complain and die loudly.
(merge ec91ffca04 jk/reject-newer-extensions-in-v0 later to maint).
* Fetching from a lazily cloned repository resulted at the server
side in attempts to lazy fetch objects that the client side has,
many of which will not be available from the third-party anyway.
(merge 77aa0941ce jt/avoid-lazy-fetching-upon-have-check later to maint).
* Fix to an ancient bug caused by an over-eager attempt for
optimization.
(merge a98f7fb366 rs/add-index-entry-optim-fix later to maint).
* Pushing a ref whose name contains non-ASCII character with the
"--force-with-lease" option did not work over smart HTTP protocol,
which has been corrected.
(merge cd85b447bf bc/push-cas-cquoted-refname later to maint).
* "git mv src dst", when src is an unmerged path, errored out
correctly but with an incorrect error message to claim that src is
not tracked, which has been clarified.
(merge 9b906af657 ct/mv-unmerged-path-error later to maint).
* Fix to a regression introduced during 2.27 cycle.
(merge cada7308ad en/fill-directory-exponential later to maint).
* Command line completion (in contrib/) update.
(merge 688b87c81b mp/complete-show-color-moved later to maint).
* All "mergy" operations that internally use the merge-recursive
machinery should honor the merge.renormalize configuration, but
many of them didn't.
* Doc cleanup around "worktree".
(merge dc9c144be5 es/worktree-doc-cleanups later to maint).
* The "git blame --first-parent" option was not documented, but now
it is.
(merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint).
* The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to
cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed
to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory
buffer space. This has been corrected.
(merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint).
* Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index
and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file"
patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files"
and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the
command failed to do so for such a path.
(merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint).
* "git diff [<tree-ish>] $path" for a $path that is marked with i-t-a
bit was not showing the mode bits from the working tree.
(merge cb0dd22b82 rp/ita-diff-modefix later to maint).
* Ring buffer with size 4 used for bin-hex translation resulted in a
wrong object name in the sequencer's todo output, which has been
corrected.
(merge 5da69c0dac ak/sequencer-fix-find-uniq-abbrev later to maint).
* When given more than one target line ranges, "git blame -La,b
-Lc,d" was over-eager to coalesce groups of original lines and
showed incorrect results, which has been corrected.
(merge c2ebaa27d6 jk/blame-coalesce-fix later to maint).
* The regexp to identify the function boundary for FORTRAN programs
has been updated.
(merge 75c3b6b2e8 pb/userdiff-fortran-update later to maint).
* A few end-user facing messages have been updated to be
hash-algorithm agnostic.
(merge 4279000d3e jc/object-names-are-not-sha-1 later to maint).
* "unlink" emulation on MinGW has been optimized.
(merge 680e0b4524 jh/mingw-unlink later to maint).
* The purpose of "git init --separate-git-dir" is to initialize a
new project with the repository separate from the working tree,
or, in the case of an existing project, to move the repository
(the .git/ directory) out of the working tree. It does not make
sense to use --separate-git-dir with a bare repository for which
there is no working tree, so disallow its use with bare
repositories.
(merge ccf236a23a es/init-no-separate-git-dir-in-bare later to maint).
* "ls-files -o" mishandled the top-level directory of another git
working tree that hangs in the current git working tree.
(merge ab282aa548 en/dir-nonbare-embedded later to maint).
* Fix some incorrect UNLEAK() annotations.
(merge 3e19816dc0 jk/unleak-fixes later to maint).
* Use more buffered I/O where we used to call many small write(2)s.
(merge a698d67b08 rs/more-buffered-io later to maint).
* The patch-id computation did not ignore the "incomplete last line"
marker like whitespaces.
(merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint).
* Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work
well with transfer.fsckobjects set.
* The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when
parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and
"trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has
been corrected.
(merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint).
* Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the
index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards.
(merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint).
* "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec
mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been
corrected.
(merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint).
* The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help"
has been updated.
(merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint).
* Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and
running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start
digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like
"git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does.
(merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint).
* Various callers of run_command API have been modernized.
(merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint).
* List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were
inconsistent, which have been corrected.
(merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint).
* "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes
were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such
paths from the stat output.
(merge 1cf3d5db9b mr/diff-hide-stat-wo-textual-change later to maint).
* It was possible for xrealloc() to send a non-NULL pointer that has
been freed, which has been fixed.
(merge 6479ea4a8a jk/xrealloc-avoid-use-after-free later to maint).
* "git status" has trouble showing where it came from by interpreting
reflog entries that record certain events, e.g. "checkout @{u}", and
gives a hard/fatal error. Even though it inherently is impossible
to give a correct answer because the reflog entries lose some
information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was
on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even
if the record were available, the relationship between branches may
have changed), at least hide the error and allow "status" to show its
output.
* "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but
not those that are untracked, ignored or unmerged. They are all
shown quoted consistently.
* "git diff/show" on a change that involves a submodule used to read
the information on commits in the submodule from a wrong repository
and gave a wrong information when the commit-graph is involved.
(merge 85a1ec2c32 mf/submodule-summary-with-correct-repository later to maint).
* Unlike "git config --local", "git config --worktree" did not fail
early and cleanly when started outside a git repository.
(merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint).
* There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the
repository, which is meant to run once per process invocation, but
it ran every time the estimated value was requested.
(merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint).
* "git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints
the operation went through, which was misleading.
(merge 5a07c6c3c2 cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded later to maint).
* "git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options
to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes,
which has been corrected.
(merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all later to maint).
* The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" incorrectly used commit^N
where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation
ancestor, which has been corrected.
(merge 0acbf5997f ld/p4-unshelve-fix later to maint).
* "git clone" that clones from SHA-1 repository, while
GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to use SHA-256 already, resulted in an
unusable repository that half-claims to be SHA-256 repository
with SHA-1 objects and refs. This has been corrected.
* Adjust sample hooks for hash algorithm other than SHA-1.
(merge d8d3d632f4 dl/zero-oid-in-hooks later to maint).
* "git range-diff" showed incorrect diffstat, which has been
corrected.
* Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the
histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast-
forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the
pull.ff configuration variable.
(merge 54200cef86 ah/pull later to maint).
* Compilation fix around type punning.
(merge 176380fd11 jk/drop-unaligned-loads later to maint).
* "git blame --ignore-rev/--ignore-revs-file" failed to validate
their input are valid revision, and failed to take into account
that the user may want to give an annotated tag instead of a
commit, which has been corrected.
(merge 610e2b9240 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint).
* "git bisect start X Y", when X and Y are not valid committish
object names, should take X and Y as pathspec, but didn't.
(merge 73c6de06af cc/bisect-start-fix later to maint).
* The explanation of the "scissors line" has been clarified.
(merge 287416dba6 eg/mailinfo-doc-scissors later to maint).
* A race that leads to an access to a free'd data was corrected in
the codepath that reads pack files.
(merge bda959c476 mt/delta-base-cache-races later to maint).
* in_merge_bases_many(), a way to see if a commit is reachable from
any commit in a set of commits, was totally broken when the
commit-graph feature was in use, which has been corrected.
(merge 8791bf1841 ds/in-merge-bases-many-optim-bug later to maint).
* "git submodule update --quiet" did not squelch underlying "rebase"
and "pull" commands.
(merge 3ad0401e9e td/submodule-update-quiet later to maint).
* The lazy fetching done internally to make missing objects available
in a partial clone incorrectly made permanent damage to the partial
clone filter in the repository, which has been corrected.
* "log -c --find-object=X" did not work well to find a merge that
involves a change to an object X from only one parent.
(merge 957876f17d jk/diff-cc-oidfind-fix later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
(merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).
(merge 98c6871fad rs/grep-simpler-parse-object-or-die-call later to maint).
(merge 861c4ce141 en/typofixes later to maint).
(merge 60e47f6773 sg/ci-git-path-fix-with-pyenv later to maint).
(merge e2bfa50ac3 jb/doc-packfile-name later to maint).
(merge 918d8ff780 es/worktree-cleanup later to maint).
(merge dc156bc31f ma/t1450-quotefix later to maint).
(merge 56e743426b en/merge-recursive-comment-fixes later to maint).
(merge 7d23ff818f rs/bisect-oid-to-hex-fix later to maint).
(merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint).
(merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint).
(merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint).
(merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint).
(merge e767963ab6 rs/upload-pack-sigchain-fix later to maint).
(merge a831908599 rs/preserve-merges-unused-code-removal later to maint).
(merge 6dfefe70a9 jb/commit-graph-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 847b37271e pb/set-url-docfix later to maint).
(merge 748f733d54 mt/checkout-entry-dead-code-removal later to maint).
(merge ce820cbd58 dl/subtree-docs later to maint).
(merge 55fe225dde jk/leakfix later to maint).
(merge ee22a29215 so/pretty-abbrev-doc later to maint).
(merge 3100fd5588 jc/post-checkout-doc later to maint).
(merge 17bae89476 pb/doc-external-diff-env later to maint).
(merge 27ed6ccc12 jk/worktree-check-clean-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 1302badd16 ea/blame-use-oideq later to maint).
(merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint).
(merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint).
(merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint).
(merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint).
(merge 0512eabd91 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint).
(merge d01141de5a so/combine-diff-simplify later to maint).
(merge 3be01e5ab1 sn/fast-import-doc later to maint).
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Git 2.27 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.26
-------------------
Backward compatibility notes
* When "git describe C" finds that commit C is pointed by a signed or
annotated tag, which records T as its tagname in the object, the
command gives T as its answer. Even if the user renames or moves
such a tag from its natural location in the "refs/tags/" hierarchy,
"git describe C" would still give T as the answer, but in such a
case "git show T^0" would no longer work as expected. There may be
nothing at "refs/tags/T" or even worse there may be a different tag
instead.
Starting from this version, "git describe" will always use the
"long" version, as if the "--long" option were given, when giving
its output based on such a misplaced tag to work around the problem.
* "git pull" issues a warning message until the pull.rebase
configuration variable is explicitly given, which some existing
users may find annoying---those who prefer not to rebase need to
set the variable to false to squelch the warning.
* The transport protocol version 2, which was promoted to the default
in Git 2.26 release, turned out to have some remaining rough edges,
so it has been demoted from the default.
UI, Workflows & Features
* A handful of options to configure SSL when talking to proxies have
been added.
* Smudge/clean conversion filters are now given more information
(e.g. the object of the tree-ish in which the blob being converted
appears, in addition to its path, which has already been given).
* When "git describe C" finds an annotated tag with tagname A to be
the best name to explain commit C, and the tag is stored in a
"wrong" place in the refs/tags hierarchy, e.g. refs/tags/B, the
command gave a warning message but used A (not B) to describe C.
If C is exactly at the tag, the describe output would be "A", but
"git rev-parse A^0" would not be equal as "git rev-parse C^0". The
behavior of the command has been changed to use the "long" form
i.e. A-0-gOBJECTNAME, which is correctly interpreted by rev-parse.
* "git pull" learned to warn when no pull.rebase configuration
exists, and neither --[no-]rebase nor --ff-only is given (which
would result a merge).
* "git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to
bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook).
* "git pull" shares many options with underlying "git fetch", but
some of them were not documented and some of those that would make
sense to pass down were not passed down.
* "git rebase" learned the "--no-gpg-sign" option to countermand
commit.gpgSign the user may have.
* The output from "git format-patch" uses RFC 2047 encoding for
non-ASCII letters on From: and Subject: headers, so that it can
directly be fed to e-mail programs. A new option has been added
to produce these headers in raw.
* "git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited
history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a
side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown
in addition to the commits that introduce real changes.
* The interactive input from various codepaths are consolidated and
any prompt possibly issued earlier are fflush()ed before we read.
* Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be
already in the upstream, without checking first.
* The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true',
enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21.
* "git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and
"commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical
accident. This has been documented.
* "git merge" learns the "--autostash" option.
* "sparse-checkout" UI improvements.
* "git update-ref --stdin" learned a handful of new verbs to let the
user control ref update transactions more explicitly, which helps
as an ingredient to implement two-phase commit-style atomic
ref-updates across multiple repositories.
* "git commit-graph write" learned different ways to write out split
files.
* Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to
check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom
filters.
* The approxidate parser learns to parse seconds with fraction and
ignore fractional part.
* The userdiff patterns for Markdown documents have been added.
* The sparse-checkout patterns have been forbidden from excluding all
paths, leaving an empty working tree, for a long time. This
limitation has been lifted.
* "git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents
out of "HEAD", instead of erring out.
* "git p4" learned to recover from a (broken) state where a directory
and a file are recorded at the same path in the Perforce repository
the same way as their clients do.
* "git multi-pack-index repack" has been taught to honor some
repack.* configuration variables.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The advise API has been revamped to allow more systematic enumeration of
advice knobs in the future.
* SHA-256 transition continues.
* The code to interface with GnuPG has been refactored.
* "git stash" has kept an escape hatch to use the scripted version
for a few releases, which got stale. It has been removed.
* Enable tests that require GnuPG on Windows.
* Minor test usability improvement.
* Trace2 enhancement to allow logging of the environment variables.
* Test clean-up continues.
* Perf-test update.
* A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against
misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors.
* Various tests have been updated to work around issues found with
shell utilities that come with busybox etc.
* The config API made mixed uses of int and size_t types to represent
length of various pieces of text it parsed, which has been updated
to use the correct type (i.e. size_t) throughout.
* The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
family.
* A new CI job to build and run test suite on linux with musl libc
has been added.
* Update the CI configuration to use GitHub Actions, retiring the one
based on Azure Pipelines.
* The directory traversal code had redundant recursive calls which
made its performance characteristics exponential with respect to
the depth of the tree, which was corrected.
* "git blame" learns to take advantage of the "changed-paths" Bloom
filter stored in the commit-graph file.
* The "bugreport" tool has been added.
* The object walk with object filter "--filter=tree:0" can now take
advantage of the pack bitmap when available.
* Instead of always building all branches at GitHub via Actions,
users can specify which branches to build.
* Codepaths that show progress meter have been taught to also use the
start_progress() and the stop_progress() calls as a "region" to be
traced.
* Instead of downloading Windows SDK for CI jobs for windows builds
from an external site (wingit.blob.core.windows.net), use the one
created in the windows-build job, to work around quota issues at
the external site.
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Git 2.25.2 Release Notes
========================
Fixes since v2.25.1
-------------------
* Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
* An earlier update to show the location of working tree in the error
message did not consider the possibility that a git command may be
run in a bare repository, which has been corrected.
* The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
corrected.
* Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
.gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
* "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with
their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it
goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity
in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were
not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been
corrected.
* The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that
records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the
code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an
input, but it is an input error.
* The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had
an off-by-one bug, which has been killed.
* "git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly
marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file.
* The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for
a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary
merge failure, which has been fixed.
* Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2
the default.
* "git merge signed-tag" while lacking the public key started to say
"No signature", which was utterly wrong. This regression has been
reverted.
* MinGW's poll() emulation has been improved.
* "git show" and others gave an object name in raw format in its
error output, which has been corrected to give it in hex.
* Both "git ls-remote -h" and "git grep -h" give short usage help,
like any other Git subcommand, but it is not unreasonable to expect
that the former would behave the same as "git ls-remote --head"
(there is no other sensible behaviour for the latter). The
documentation has been updated in an attempt to clarify this.
Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
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Git 2.25 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.24
-------------------
Backward compatibility notes
UI, Workflows & Features
* A tutorial on object enumeration has been added.
* The branch description ("git branch --edit-description") has been
used to fill the body of the cover letters by the format-patch
command; this has been enhanced so that the subject can also be
filled.
* "git rebase --preserve-merges" has been marked as deprecated; this
release stops advertising it in the "git rebase -h" output.
* The code to generate multi-pack index learned to show (or not to
show) progress indicators.
* "git apply --3way" learned to honor merge.conflictStyle
configuration variable, like merges would.
* The custom format for "git log --format=<format>" learned the l/L
placeholder that is similar to e/E that fills in the e-mail
address, but only the local part on the left side of '@'.
* Documentation pages for "git shortlog" now list commit limiting
options explicitly.
* The patterns to detect function boundary for Elixir language has
been added.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned that the "--onto"
option of "git rebase" can take its argument as the value of the
option.
* The userdiff machinery has been taught that "async def" is another
way to begin a "function" in Python.
* "git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=<ref>" and the
"--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the
log message that gets compared.
* "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" run outside of any working tree did
not error out, which has been corrected.
* A few commands learned to take the pathspec from the standard input
or a named file, instead of taking it as the command line
arguments, with the "--pathspec-from-file" option.
* "git submodule" learned a subcommand "set-url".
* "git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name
of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log
messages.
* The interaction between "git clone --recurse-submodules" and
alternate object store was ill-designed. The documentation and
code have been taught to make more clear recommendations when the
users see failures.
* Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a
dedicated "sparse-checkout" command.
* Miscellaneous small UX improvements on "git-p4".
* "git sparse-checkout list" subcommand learned to give its output in
a more concise form when the "cone" mode is in effect.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Debugging support for lazy cloning has been a bit improved.
* Move the definition of a set of bitmask constants from 0ctal
literal to (1U<<count) notation.
* Test updates to prepare for SHA-2 transition continues.
* Crufty code and logic accumulated over time around the object
parsing and low-level object access used in "git fsck" have been
cleaned up.
* The implementation of "git log --graph" got refactored and then its
output got simplified.
* Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header
files and update config.h
* "git bundle" has been taught to use the parse options API. "git
bundle verify" learned "--quiet" and "git bundle create" learned
options to control the progress output.
* Handling of commit objects that use non UTF-8 encoding during
"rebase -i" has been improved.
* The beginning of rewriting "git add -i" in C.
* A label used in the todo list that are generated by "git rebase
--rebase-merges" is used as a part of a refname; the logic to come
up with the label has been tightened to avoid names that cannot be
used as such.
* The logic to avoid duplicate label names generated by "git rebase
--rebase-merges" forgot that the machinery itself uses "onto" as a
label name, which must be avoided by auto-generated labels, which
has been corrected.
* We have had compatibility fallback macro definitions for "PRIuMAX",
"PRIu32", etc. but did not for "PRIdMAX", while the code used the
last one apparently without any hiccup reported recently. The
fallback macro definitions for these <inttypes.h> macros that must
appear in C99 systems have been removed.
* Recently we have declared that GIT_TEST_* variables take the
usual boolean values (it used to be that some used "non-empty
means true" and taking GIT_TEST_VAR=YesPlease as true); make
sure we notice and fail when non-bool strings are given to
these variables.
* Users of oneway_merge() (like "reset --hard") learned to take
advantage of fsmonitor to avoid unnecessary lstat(2) calls.
* Performance tweak on "git push" into a repository with many refs
that point at objects we have never heard of.
* PerfTest fix to avoid stale result mixed up with the latest round
of test results.
* Hide lower-level verify_signed-buffer() API as a pure helper to
implement the public check_signature() function, in order to
encourage new callers to use the correct and more strict
validation.
* Unnecessary reading of state variables back from the disk during
sequencer operation has been reduced.
* The code has been made to avoid gmtime() and localtime() and prefer
their reentrant counterparts.
* In a repository with many packfiles, the cost of the procedure that
avoids registering the same packfile twice was unnecessarily high
by using an inefficient search algorithm, which has been corrected.
* Redo "git name-rev" to avoid recursive calls.
* FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI has been added.
Fixes since v2.24
-----------------
* "rebase -i" ceased to run post-commit hook by mistake in an earlier
update, which has been corrected.
* "git notes copy $original" ought to copy the notes attached to the
original object to HEAD, but a mistaken tightening to command line
parameter validation made earlier disabled that feature by mistake.
* When all files from some subdirectory were renamed to the root
directory, the directory rename heuristics would fail to detect that
as a rename/merge of the subdirectory to the root directory, which has
been corrected.
* Code clean-up and a bugfix in the logic used to tell worktree local
and repository global refs apart.
* "git stash save" in a working tree that is sparsely checked out
mistakenly removed paths that are outside the area of interest.
* "git rev-parse --git-path HEAD.lock" did not give the right path
when run in a secondary worktree.
* "git merge --no-commit" needs "--no-ff" if you do not want to move
HEAD, which has been corrected in the manual page for "git bisect".
* "git worktree add" internally calls "reset --hard" that should not
descend into submodules, even when submodule.recurse configuration
is set, but it was affected. This has been corrected.
* Messages from die() etc. can be mixed up from multiple processes
without even line buffering on Windows, which has been worked
around.
* HTTP transport had possible allocator/deallocator mismatch, which
has been corrected.
* The watchman integration for fsmonitor was racy, which has been
corrected to be more conservative.
* Fetching from multiple remotes into the same repository in parallel
had a bad interaction with the recent change to (optionally) update
the commit-graph after a fetch job finishes, as these parallel
fetches compete with each other. Which has been corrected.
* Recent update to "git stash pop" made the command empty the index
when run with the "--quiet" option, which has been corrected.
* "git fetch" codepath had a big "do not lazily fetch missing objects
when I ask if something exists" switch. This has been corrected by
marking the "does this thing exist?" calls with "if not please do not
lazily fetch it" flag.
* Test update to avoid wasted cycles.
* Error handling after "git push" finishes sending the packdata and
waits for the response to the remote side has been improved.
* Some codepaths in "gitweb" that forgot to escape URLs generated
based on end-user input have been corrected.
* CI jobs for macOS has been made less chatty when updating perforce
package used during testing.
* "git unpack-objects" used to show progress based only on the number
of received and unpacked objects, which stalled when it has to
handle an unusually large object. It now shows the throughput as
well.
* The sequencer machinery compared the HEAD and the state it is
attempting to commit to decide if the result would be a no-op
commit, even when amending a commit, which was incorrect, and
has been corrected.
* The code to parse GPG output used to assume incorrectly that the
finterprint for the primary key would always be present for a valid
signature, which has been corrected.
* "git submodule status" and "git submodule status --cached" show
different things, but the documentation did not cover them
correctly, which has been corrected.
* "git reset --patch $object" without any pathspec should allow a
tree object to be given, but incorrectly required a committish,
which has been corrected.
* "git submodule status" that is run from a subdirectory of the
superproject did not work well, which has been corrected.
* The revision walking machinery uses resources like per-object flag
bits that need to be reset before a new iteration of walking
begins, but the resources related to topological walk were not
cleared correctly, which has been corrected.
* TravisCI update.
* While running "revert" or "cherry-pick --edit" for multiple
commits, a recent regression incorrectly detected "nothing to
commit, working tree clean", instead of replaying the commits,
which has been corrected.
* Work around a issue where a FD that is left open when spawning a
child process and is kept open in the child can interfere with the
operation in the parent process on Windows.
* One kind of progress messages were always given during commit-graph
generation, instead of following the "if it takes more than two
seconds, show progress" pattern, which has been corrected.
* "git rebase" did not work well when format.useAutoBase
configuration variable is set, which has been corrected.
* The "diff" machinery learned not to lose added/removed blank lines
in the context when --ignore-blank-lines and --function-context are
used at the same time.
* The test on "fast-import" used to get stuck when "fast-import" died
in the middle.
* "git format-patch" can take a set of configured format.notes values
to specify which notes refs to use in the log message part of the
output. The behaviour of this was not consistent with multiple
--notes command line options, which has been corrected.
* "git p4" used to ignore lfs.storage configuration variable, which
has been corrected.
* Assorted fixes to the directory traversal API.
* Forbid pathnames that the platform's filesystem cannot represent on
MinGW.
* "git rebase --signoff" stopped working when the command was written
in C, which has been corrected.
* An earlier update to Git for Windows declared that a tree object is
invalid if it has a path component with backslash in it, which was
overly strict, which has been corrected. The only protection the
Windows users need is to prevent such path (or any path that their
filesystem cannot check out) from entering the index.
* The code to write split commit-graph file(s) upon fetching computed
bogus value for the parameter used in splitting the resulting
files, which has been corrected.
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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At least with NetBSD (9.99.17) sh(1) the `streaming support for --stdin'
test of t0008-ignores.sh hangs. Force to use bash for tests and add it as a
test dependency. (This needs to be investigate further.)
The entire test suite is now runs but at least on NetBSD 9.99.17
t0301-credential-cache.sh test 29 `use user socket if user directory
exists' and test 30 `use user socket if user directory is a symlink to
a directory' fail.
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Changes:
2.24.1
======
This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.14.6, v2.15.4,
v2.17.3, v2.20.2 and in v2.21.1, addressing the security issues
CVE-2019-1348, CVE-2019-1349, CVE-2019-1350, CVE-2019-1351,
CVE-2019-1352, CVE-2019-1353, CVE-2019-1354, CVE-2019-1387, and
CVE-2019-19604.
* CVE-2019-1348:
The --export-marks option of git fast-import is exposed also via
the in-stream command feature export-marks=... and it allows
overwriting arbitrary paths.
* CVE-2019-1349:
When submodules are cloned recursively, under certain circumstances
Git could be fooled into using the same Git directory twice. We now
require the directory to be empty.
* CVE-2019-1350:
Incorrect quoting of command-line arguments allowed remote code
execution during a recursive clone in conjunction with SSH URLs.
* CVE-2019-1351:
While the only permitted drive letters for physical drives on
Windows are letters of the US-English alphabet, this restriction
does not apply to virtual drives assigned via subst <letter>:
<path>. Git mistook such paths for relative paths, allowing writing
outside of the worktree while cloning.
* CVE-2019-1352:
Git was unaware of NTFS Alternate Data Streams, allowing files
inside the .git/ directory to be overwritten during a clone.
* CVE-2019-1353:
When running Git in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (also known as
"WSL") while accessing a working directory on a regular Windows
drive, none of the NTFS protections were active.
* CVE-2019-1354:
Filenames on Linux/Unix can contain backslashes. On Windows,
backslashes are directory separators. Git did not use to refuse to
write out tracked files with such filenames.
* CVE-2019-1387:
Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is
caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very
targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.
Credit for finding these vulnerabilities goes to Microsoft Security
Response Center, in particular to Nicolas Joly. The `fast-import`
fixes were provided by Jeff King, the other fixes by Johannes
Schindelin with help from Garima Singh.
* CVE-2019-19604:
The change to disallow `submodule.<name>.update=!command` entries in
`.gitmodules` which was introduced v2.15.4 (and for which v2.17.3
added explicit fsck checks) fixes the vulnerability in v2.20.x where
a recursive clone followed by a submodule update could execute code
contained within the repository without the user explicitly having
asked for that.
Credit for finding this vulnerability goes to Joern Schneeweisz,
credit for the fixes goes to Jonathan Nieder.
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That version has a different JIT version enabled. Remove PaX mprotect
workaround.
Bump PKGREVISION.
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Git 2.24 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.23
-------------------
Backward compatibility note
* "filter-branch" is showing its age and alternatives are available.
From this release, we started to discourage its use and hint
people about filter-repo.
UI, Workflows & Features
* We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of
the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering.
* The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but
that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter
between revs and pathspec.
* A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of
configuration variables is introduced.
* "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first
clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true
upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it.
* Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
(merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
* "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.
* A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced.
* Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been
added.
* The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more
than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading
missing objects on demand.
* The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone)
learned to take a combined filter specification.
* The documentation and tests for "git format-patch" have been
cleaned up.
* On Windows, the root level of UNC share is now allowed to be used
just like any other directory.
* The command line completion support (in contrib/) learned about the
"--skip" option of "git revert" and "git cherry-pick".
* "git rebase --keep-base <upstream>" tries to find the original base
of the topic being rebased and rebase on top of that same base,
which is useful when running the "git rebase -i" (and its limited
variant "git rebase -x").
The command also has learned to fast-forward in more cases where it
can instead of replaying to recreate identical commits.
* A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit
graph after finishing.
* "git add -i" has been taught to show the total number of hunks and
the hunks that has been processed so far when showing prompts.
* "git fetch --jobs=<n>" allowed <n> parallel jobs when fetching
submodules, but this did not apply to "git fetch --multiple" that
fetches from multiple remote repositories. It now does.
* The installation instruction for zsh completion script (in
contrib/) has been a bit improved.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The code to write commit-graph over given commit object names has
been made a bit more robust.
* The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries
the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs.
* Further clean-up of the initialization code.
* xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address
space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation
failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex
and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource
users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms.
It has been simplified away.
* Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been
optimized away.
* The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports
learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been
corrected.
* Preparation for SHA-256 upgrade continues in the test department.
(merge 0c37c41d13 bc/hash-independent-tests-part-5 later to maint).
* The memory ownership model of the "git fast-import" got
straightened out.
* Output from trace2 subsystem is formatted more prettily now.
* The internal code originally invented for ".gitignore" processing
got reshuffled and renamed to make it less tied to "excluding" and
stress more that it is about "matching", as it has been reused for
things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
path is "included".
* "git stash" learned to write refreshed index back to disk.
* Coccinelle checks are done on more source files than before now.
* The cache-tree code has been taught to be less aggressive in
attempting to see if a tree object it computed already exists in
the repository.
* The code to parse and use the commit-graph file has been made more
robust against corrupted input.
* The hg-to-git script (in contrib/) has been updated to work with
Python 3.
* Update the way build artifacts in t/helper/ directory are ignored.
* Preparation for SHA-256 upgrade continues.
* "git log --graph" for an octopus merge is sometimes colored
incorrectly, which is demonstrated and documented but not yet
fixed.
* The trace2 output, when sending them to files in a designated
directory, can populate the directory with too many files; a
mechanism is introduced to set the maximum number of files and
discard further logs when the maximum is reached.
* We have adopted a Code-of-conduct document.
(merge 3f9ef874a7 jk/coc later to maint).
Fixes since v2.23
-----------------
* "git grep --recurse-submodules" that looks at the working tree
files looked at the contents in the index in submodules, instead of
files in the working tree.
(merge 6a289d45c0 mt/grep-submodules-working-tree later to maint).
* Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer
overflows and hardened.
(merge 5aa02f9868 jk/tree-walk-overflow later to maint).
* "git pack-refs" can lose refs that are created while running, which
is getting corrected.
(merge a613d4f817 sc/pack-refs-deletion-racefix later to maint).
* "git checkout" and "git restore" to re-populate the index from a
tree-ish (typically HEAD) did not work correctly for a path that
was removed and then added again with the intent-to-add bit, when
the corresponding working tree file was empty. This has been
corrected.
* Compilation fix.
(merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint).
* "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting.
(merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint).
* We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split
diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but
some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has
been corrected.
(merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint).
* Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe.
(merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint).
* "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in
some corner cases, which has been corrected.
(merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint).
* On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch
commits from submodule projects, while still working in the
superproject, which has been corrected.
(merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint).
* Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe.
(merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint).
* "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves
against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to
show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected.
(merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint).
* The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of
updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying
subsequent steps.
(merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
* Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the
xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency.
(merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint).
* Build fix to adjust .gitignore to unignore a path that we started to track.
(merge aac6ff7b5b js/visual-studio later to maint).
* A few implementation fixes in the notes API.
(merge 60fe477a0b mh/notes-duplicate-entries later to maint).
* Fix an earlier regression to "git push --all" which should have
been forbidden when the target remote repository is set to be a
mirror.
(merge 8e4c8af058 tg/push-all-in-mirror-forbidden later to maint).
* Fix an earlier regression in the test suite, which mistakenly
stopped running HTTPD tests.
(merge 3960290675 sg/git-test-boolean later to maint).
* "git rebase --autostash <upstream> <branch>", when <branch> is
different from the current branch, incorrectly moved the tip of the
current branch, which has been corrected.
(merge bf1e28e0ad bw/rebase-autostash-keep-current-branch later to maint).
* Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain.
(merge 83b0b8953e ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo later to maint).
* Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0
no longer works with the older one.
(merge f6461b82b9 bc/doc-use-docbook-5 later to maint).
* The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with
asciidoctor.
(merge c4d2f6143a ma/user-manual-markup-update later to maint).
* Make sure the grep machinery does not abort when seeing a payload
that is not UTF-8 even when JIT is not in use with PCRE1.
(merge ad7c543e3b cb/skip-utf8-check-with-pcre1 later to maint).
* The name of the blob object that stores the filter specification
for sparse cloning/fetching was interpreted in a wrong place in the
code, causing Git to abort.
* "git log --decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" was incorrectly
overruled when the "--simplify-by-decoration" option is used, which
has been corrected.
(merge 0cc7380d88 rs/simplify-by-deco-with-deco-refs-exclude later to maint).
* The "upload-pack" (the counterpart of "git fetch") needs to disable
commit-graph when responding to a shallow clone/fetch request, but
the way this was done made Git panic, which has been corrected.
* The object traversal machinery has been optimized not to load tree
objects when we are only interested in commit history.
(merge 72ed80c784 jk/list-objects-optim-wo-trees later to maint).
* The object name parser for "Nth parent" syntax has been made more
robust against integer overflows.
(merge 59fa5f5a25 rs/nth-parent-parse later to maint).
* The code used in following tags in "git fetch" has been optimized.
(merge b7e2d8bca5 ms/fetch-follow-tag-optim later to maint).
* Regression fix for progress output.
(merge 2bb74b53a4 sg/progress-fix later to maint).
* A bug in merge-recursive code that triggers when a branch with a
symbolic link is merged with a branch that replaces it with a
directory has been fixed.
(merge 83e3ad3b12 jt/merge-recursive-symlink-is-not-a-dir-in-way later to maint).
* The rename detection logic sorts a list of rename source candidates
by similarity to pick the best candidate, which means that a tie
between sources with the same similarity is broken by the original
location in the original candidate list (which is sorted by path).
Force the sorting by similarity done with a stable sort, which is
not promised by system supplied qsort(3), to ensure consistent
results across platforms.
(merge 2049b8dc65 js/diff-rename-force-stable-sort later to maint).
* The code to skip "UTF" and "UTF-" prefix, when computing an advice
message, did not work correctly when the prefix was "UTF", which
has been fixed.
(merge b181676ce9 rs/convert-fix-utf-without-dash later to maint).
* The author names taken from SVN repositories may have extra leading
or trailing whitespaces, which are now munged away.
(merge 4ddd4bddb1 tk/git-svn-trim-author-name later to maint).
* "git rebase -i" showed a wrong HEAD while "reword" open the editor.
(merge b0a3186140 pw/rebase-i-show-HEAD-to-reword later to maint).
* A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface.
(merge c581e4a749 ab/pcre-jit-fixes later to maint).
* PCRE fixes.
(merge ff61681b46 cb/pcre1-cleanup later to maint).
* "git range-diff" segfaulted when diff.noprefix configuration was
used, as it blindly expected the patch it internally generates to
have the standard a/ and b/ prefixes. The command now forces the
internal patch to be built without any prefix, not to be affected
by any end-user configuration.
(merge 937b76ed49 js/range-diff-noprefix later to maint).
* "git stash apply" in a subdirectory of a secondary worktree failed
to access the worktree correctly, which has been corrected.
(merge dfd557c978 js/stash-apply-in-secondary-worktree later to maint).
* The merge-recursive machinery is one of the most complex parts of
the system that accumulated cruft over time. This large series
cleans up the implementation quite a bit.
(merge b657047719 en/merge-recursive-cleanup later to maint).
* Pretty-printed command line formatter (used in e.g. reporting the
command being run by the tracing API) had a bug that lost an
argument that is an empty string, which has been corrected.
(merge ce2d7ed2fd gs/sq-quote-buf-pretty later to maint).
* "git range-diff" failed to handle mode-only change, which has been
corrected.
(merge 2b6a9b13ca tg/range-diff-output-update later to maint).
* Dev support update.
(merge 4f3c1dc5d6 dl/allow-running-cocci-verbosely later to maint).
* "git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>"
not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which was corrected.
* "git stash save" lost local changes to submodules, which has been
corrected.
(merge 556895d0c8 jj/stash-reset-only-toplevel later to maint).
* The atomic push over smart HTTP transport did not work, which has
been corrected.
(merge 6f1194246a bc/smart-http-atomic-push later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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Git 2.23 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.22
-------------------
Backward compatibility note
* The "--base" option of "format-patch" computed the patch-ids for
prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to
compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable".
* The "git log" command by default behaves as if the --mailmap option
was given.
UI, Workflows & Features
* The "git fast-export/import" pair has been taught to handle commits
with log messages in encoding other than UTF-8 better.
* In recent versions of Git, per-worktree refs are exposed in
refs/worktrees/<wtname>/ hierarchy, which means that worktree names
must be a valid refname component. The code now sanitizes the names
given to worktrees, to make sure these refs are well-formed.
* "git merge" learned "--quit" option that cleans up the in-progress
merge while leaving the working tree and the index still in a mess.
* "git format-patch" learns a configuration to set the default for
its --notes=<ref> option.
* The code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
interpreted as a commit-ish has been improved.
* "git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
"--remote-submodules" option.
* The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
or less equivalent.
* "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
people).
* The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
boundary for Rust has been added.
* "git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
"--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
status.aheadBehind.
* "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
The commands learned "--no-show-forced-updates" option to disable
this safety feature.
* Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
"checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
command.
* "git branch --list" learned to always output the detached HEAD as
the first item (when the HEAD is detached, of course), regardless
of the locale.
* The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on
the branch the HEAD currently is on.
* "git rev-list --objects" learned the "--no-object-names" option to
squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for
pack-objects.
* A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into
"git tag -s".
* "git multi-pack-index" learned expire and repack subcommands.
* "git blame" learned to "ignore" commits in the history, whose
effects (as well as their presence) get ignored.
* "git cherry-pick/revert" learned a new "--skip" action.
* The tips of refs from the alternate object store can be used as
starting point for reachability computation now.
* Extra blank lines in "git status" output have been reduced.
* The commits in a repository can be described by multiple
commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
updated incrementally.
* "git range-diff" output has been tweaked for easier identification
of which part of what file the patch shown is about.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Update supporting parts of "git rebase" to remove code that should
no longer be used.
* Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to
ensure that the remainder of the tests still succeeds when tests
with prerequisites are skipped.
* "git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the
same contents.
* The way of specifying the path to find dynamic libraries at runtime
has been simplified. The old default to pass -R/path/to/dir has been
replaced with the new default to pass -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/dir,
which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an
old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R"
* Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
on a range (A..B).
* A new tutorial targeting specifically aspiring git-core
developers has been added.
* Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked
libraries from at runtime.
* "git mergetool" and its tests now spawn fewer subprocesses.
* Dev support update to help tracing out tests.
* Support to build with MSVC has been updated.
* "git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the
auto-gc only once at the very end.
* A handful of Windows build patches have been upstreamed.
* The code to read state files used by the sequencer machinery for
"git status" has been made more robust against a corrupt or stale
state files.
* "git for-each-ref" with multiple patterns have been optimized.
* The tree-walk API learned to pass an in-core repository
instance throughout more codepaths.
* When one step in multi step cherry-pick or revert is reset or
committed, the command line prompt script failed to notice the
current status, which has been improved.
* Many GIT_TEST_* environment variables control various aspects of
how our tests are run, but a few followed "non-empty is true, empty
or unset is false" while others followed the usual "there are a few
ways to spell true, like yes, on, etc., and also ways to spell
false, like no, off, etc." convention.
* Adjust the dir-iterator API and apply it to the local clone
optimization codepath.
* We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
a blanket ban against them.
* A test helper has been introduced to optimize preparation of test
repositories with many simple commits, and a handful of test
scripts have been updated to use it.
Fixes since v2.22
-----------------
* A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>"
ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
corrected.
* "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
* The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
backend was mixed up, leading to an unrelated file descriptor getting
closed, which has been fixed.
* A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should
give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is
otherwise no need to create a new merge and replace the existing
one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been
corrected.
* Code cleanup and futureproof.
* More parameter validation.
* "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
output, which has been corrected.
* The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
use, which has been corrected.
* "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
* "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
* "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
when both options are given.
* The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
has been corrected.
* Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
* The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
"git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
* "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
from in the local repository and in the published repository are
different.
* When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
* "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are
necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been
corrected.
* The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a
lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API
correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element
of the array in use. This has been corrected.
* The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
matches directories") has been revamped.
* The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end
of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence.
* The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been
updated.
* "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out
in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with
'+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown
with '*' in front.
(merge 6e9381469e nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head later to maint).
* Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via
"import" based transports.
* The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
new instance to replace it.
* "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse,
which did not work well.
* Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search.
* "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment
character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been
corrected.
* "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting
rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected.
* "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding
"git rebase -r", which has been corrected.
* An incorrect list of options was cached after command line
completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires
a repository outside one), which has been corrected.
* The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has
been made more robust and also easier to follow.
* The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output
without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been
fixed.
* Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated,
but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been
corrected. The output of protocol capabilities for debugging has
been tweaked a bit.
* Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor
support to clear cruft in the progress output.
* "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed
to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the
"--recursive" option was in use.
* The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be
effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not
affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not
the case. This has been corrected.
* The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
forms to make them more recognisable.
* Generation of pack bitmaps are now disabled when .keep files exist,
as these are mutually exclusive features.
(merge 7328482253 ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default later to maint).
* "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message
"needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was
confusing. This has been corrected.
* "git stash --keep-index" did not work correctly on paths that have
been removed, which has been fixed.
(merge b932f6a5e8 tg/stash-keep-index-with-removed-paths later to maint).
* Window 7 update ;-)
* A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read
past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed.
* "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now
it gives a warning.
* "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely,
the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when
it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without
having to consult the other end, which has been corrected.
* The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while
looking for --function-context line in a corner case, which has been
corrected.
(merge b777f3fd61 jk/xdiff-clamp-funcname-context-index later to maint).
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge fbec05c210 cc/test-oidmap later to maint).
(merge 7a06fb038c jk/no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint).
(merge 81ed2b405c cb/xdiff-no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint).
(merge d61e6ce1dd sg/fsck-config-in-doc later to maint).
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Git 2.21 Release Notes
======================
Backward Compatibility Notes
----------------------------
* Historically, the "-m" (mainline) option can only be used for "git
cherry-pick" and "git revert" when working with a merge commit.
This version of Git no longer warns or errors out when working with
a single-parent commit, as long as the argument to the "-m" option
is 1 (i.e. it has only one parent, and the request is to pick or
revert relative to that first parent). Scripts that relied on the
behaviour may get broken with this change.
Updates since v2.20
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* The "http.version" configuration variable can be used with recent
enough versions of cURL library to force the version of HTTP used
to talk when fetching and pushing.
* Small fixes and features for fast-export and fast-import, mostly on
the fast-export side has been made.
* "git push $there $src:$dst" rejects when $dst is not a fully
qualified refname and it is not clear what the end user meant. The
codepath has been taught to give a clearer error message, and also
guess where the push should go by taking the type of the pushed
object into account (e.g. a tag object would want to go under
refs/tags/).
* "git checkout [<tree-ish>] path..." learned to report the number of
paths that have been checked out of the index or the tree-ish,
which gives it the same degree of noisy-ness as the case in which
the command checks out a branch. "git checkout -m <pathspec>" to
undo conflict resolution gives a similar message.
* "git quiltimport" learned "--keep-non-patch" option.
* "git worktree remove" and "git worktree move" refused to work when
there is a submodule involved. This has been loosened to ignore
uninitialized submodules.
* "git cherry-pick -m1" was forbidden when picking a non-merge
commit, even though there _is_ parent number 1 for such a commit.
This was done to avoid mistakes back when "cherry-pick" was about
picking a single commit, but is no longer useful with "cherry-pick"
that can pick a range of commits. Now the "-m$num" option is
allowed when picking any commit, as long as $num names an existing
parent of the commit.
* Update "git multimail" from the upstream.
* "git p4" update.
* The "--format=<placeholder>" option of for-each-ref, branch and tag
learned to show a few more traits of objects that can be learned by
the object_info API.
* "git rebase -i" learned to re-execute a command given with 'exec'
to run after it failed the last time.
* "git diff --color-moved-ws" updates.
* Custom userformat "log --format" learned %S atom that stands for
the tip the traversal reached the commit from, i.e. --source.
* "git instaweb" learned to drive http.server that comes with
"batteries included" Python installation (both Python2 & 3).
* A new encoding UTF-16LE-BOM has been invented to force encoding to
UTF-16 with BOM in little endian byte order, which cannot be directly
generated by using iconv.
* A new date format "--date=human" that morphs its output depending
on how far the time is from the current time has been introduced.
"--date=auto:human" can be used to use this new format (or any
existing format) when the output is going to the pager or to the
terminal, and otherwise the default format.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Code clean-up with optimization for the codepath that checks
(non-)existence of loose objects.
* More codepaths have become aware of working with in-core repository
instances other than the default "the_repository".
* The "strncat()" function is now among the banned functions.
* Portability updates for the HPE NonStop platform.
* Earlier we added "-Wformat-security" to developer builds, assuming
that "-Wall" (which includes "-Wformat" which in turn is required
to use "-Wformat-security") is always in effect. This is not true
when config.mak.autogen is in use, unfortunately. This has been
fixed by unconditionally adding "-Wall" to developer builds.
* The loose object cache used to optimize existence look-up has been
updated.
* Flaky tests can now be repeatedly run under load with the
"--stress" option.
* Documentation/Makefile is getting prepared for manpage
localization.
* "git fetch-pack" now can talk the version 2 protocol.
* sha-256 hash has been added and plumbed through the code to allow
building Git with the "NewHash".
* Debugging help for http transport.
* "git fetch --deepen=<more>" has been corrected to work over v2
protocol.
* The code to walk tree objects has been taught that we may be
working with object names that are not computed with SHA-1.
* The in-core repository instances are passed through more codepaths.
* Update the protocol message specification to allow only the limited
use of scaled quantities. This is to ensure potential compatibility
issues will not get out of hand.
* Micro-optimize the code that prepares commit objects to be walked
by "git rev-list" when the commit-graph is available.
* "git fetch" and "git upload-pack" learned to send all exchanges over
the sideband channel while talking the v2 protocol.
* The codepath to write out commit-graph has been optimized by
following the usual pattern of visiting objects in in-pack order.
* The codepath to show progress meter while writing out commit-graph
file has been improved.
* Cocci rules have been updated to encourage use of strbuf_addbuf().
* "git rebase --merge" has been reimplemented by reusing the internal
machinery used for "git rebase -i".
* More code in "git bisect" has been rewritten in C.
* Instead of going through "git-rebase--am" scriptlet to use the "am"
backend, the built-in version of "git rebase" learned to drive the
"am" backend directly.
* The assumption to work on the single "in-core index" instance has
been reduced from the library-ish part of the codebase.
* The test lint learned to catch non-portable "sed" options.
* "git pack-objects" learned another algorithm to compute the set of
objects to send, that trades the resulting packfile off to save
traversal cost to favor small pushes.
* The travis CI scripts have been corrected to build Git with the
compiler(s) of our choice.
* "git submodule update" learned to abort early when core.worktree
for the submodule is not set correctly to prevent spreading damage.
* Test suite has been adjusted to run on Azure Pipeline.
* Running "Documentation/doc-diff x" from anywhere other than the
top-level of the working tree did not show the usage string
correctly, which has been fixed.
* Use of the sparse tool got easier to customize from the command
line to help developers.
* A new target "coverage-prove" to run the coverage test under
"prove" has been added.
* A flakey "p4" test has been removed.
* The code and tests assume that the system supplied iconv() would
always use BOM in its output when asked to encode to UTF-16 (or
UTF-32), but apparently some implementations output big-endian
without BOM. A compile-time knob has been added to help such
systems (e.g. NonStop) to add BOM to the output to increase
portability.
Fixes since v2.20
-----------------
* Updates for corner cases in merge-recursive.
(merge cc4cb0902c en/merge-path-collision later to maint).
* "git checkout frotz" (without any double-dash) avoids ambiguity by
making sure 'frotz' cannot be interpreted as a revision and as a
path at the same time. This safety has been updated to check also
a unique remote-tracking branch 'frotz' in a remote, when dwimming
to create a local branch 'frotz' out of a remote-tracking branch
'frotz' from a remote.
(merge be4908f103 nd/checkout-dwim-fix later to maint).
* Refspecs configured with "git -c var=val clone" did not propagate
to the resulting repository, which has been corrected.
(merge 7eae4a3ac4 sg/clone-initial-fetch-configuration later to maint).
* A properly configured username/email is required under
user.useConfigOnly in order to create commits; now "git stash"
(even though it creates commit objects to represent stash entries)
command is exempt from the requirement.
(merge 3bc2111fc2 sd/stash-wo-user-name later to maint).
* The http-backend CGI process did not correctly clean up the child
processes it spawns to run upload-pack etc. when it dies itself,
which has been corrected.
(merge 02818a98d7 mk/http-backend-kill-children-before-exit later to maint).
* "git rev-list --exclude-promisor-objects" had to take an object
that does not exist locally (and is lazily available) from the
command line without barfing, but the code dereferenced NULL.
(merge 4cf67869b2 md/list-lazy-objects-fix later to maint).
* The traversal over tree objects has learned to honor
":(attr:label)" pathspec match, which has been implemented only for
enumerating paths on the filesystem.
(merge 5a0b97b34c nd/attr-pathspec-in-tree-walk later to maint).
* BSD port updates.
(merge 4e3ecbd439 cb/openbsd-allows-reading-directory later to maint).
(merge b6bdc2a0f5 cb/t5004-empty-tar-archive-fix later to maint).
(merge 82cbc8cde2 cb/test-lint-cp-a later to maint).
* Lines that begin with a certain keyword that come over the wire, as
well as lines that consist only of one of these keywords, ought to
be painted in color for easier eyeballing, but the latter was
broken ever since the feature was introduced in 2.19, which has
been corrected.
(merge 1f67290450 hn/highlight-sideband-keywords later to maint).
* "git log -G<regex>" looked for a hunk in the "git log -p" patch
output that contained a string that matches the given pattern.
Optimize this code to ignore binary files, which by default will
not show any hunk that would match any pattern (unless textconv or
the --text option is in effect, that is).
(merge e0e7cb8080 tb/log-G-binary later to maint).
* "git submodule update" ought to use a single job unless asked, but
by mistake used multiple jobs, which has been fixed.
(merge e3a9d1aca9 sb/submodule-fetchjobs-default-to-one later to maint).
* "git stripspace" should be usable outside a git repository, but
under the "-s" or "-c" mode, it didn't.
(merge 957da75802 jn/stripspace-wo-repository later to maint).
* Some of the documentation pages formatted incorrectly with
Asciidoctor, which have been fixed.
(merge b62eb1d2f4 ma/asciidoctor later to maint).
* The core.worktree setting in a submodule repository should not be
pointing at a directory when the submodule loses its working tree
(e.g. getting deinit'ed), but the code did not properly maintain
this invariant.
* With zsh, "git cmd path<TAB>" was completed to "git cmd path name"
when the completed path has a special character like SP in it,
without any attempt to keep "path name" a single filename. This
has been fixed to complete it to "git cmd path\ name" just like
Bash completion does.
* The test suite tried to see if it is run under bash, but the check
itself failed under some other implementations of shell (notably
under NetBSD). This has been corrected.
(merge 54ea72f09c sg/test-bash-version-fix later to maint).
* "git gc" and "git repack" did not close the open packfiles that
they found unneeded before removing them, which didn't work on a
platform incapable of removing an open file. This has been
corrected.
(merge 5bdece0d70 js/gc-repack-close-before-remove later to maint).
* The code to drive GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF command relied on the string
returned from getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that
has been corrected.
(merge 6776a84dae kg/external-diff-save-env later to maint).
* There were many places the code relied on the string returned from
getenv() to be non-volatile, which is not true, that have been
corrected.
(merge 0da0e9268b jk/save-getenv-result later to maint).
* The v2 upload-pack protocol implementation failed to honor
hidden-ref configuration, which has been corrected.
(merge e20b4192a3 jk/proto-v2-hidden-refs-fix later to maint).
* "git fetch --recurse-submodules" may not fetch the necessary commit
that is bound to the superproject, which is getting corrected.
(merge be76c21282 sb/submodule-recursive-fetch-gets-the-tip later to maint).
* "git rebase" internally runs "checkout" to switch between branches,
and the command used to call the post-checkout hook, but the
reimplementation stopped doing so, which is getting fixed.
* "git add -e" got confused when the change it wants to let the user
edit is smaller than the previous change that was left over in a
temporary file.
(merge fa6f225e01 js/add-e-clear-patch-before-stating later to maint).
* "git p4" failed to update a shelved change when there were moved
files, which has been corrected.
(merge 7a10946ab9 ld/git-p4-shelve-update-fix later to maint).
* The codepath to read from the commit-graph file attempted to read
past the end of it when the file's table-of-contents was corrupt.
* The compat/obstack code had casts that -Wcast-function-type
compilation option found questionable.
(merge 764473d257 sg/obstack-cast-function-type-fix later to maint).
* An obvious typo in an assertion error message has been fixed.
(merge 3c27e2e059 cc/test-ref-store-typofix later to maint).
* In Git for Windows, "git clone \\server\share\path" etc. that uses
UNC paths from command line had bad interaction with its shell
emulation.
* "git add --ignore-errors" did not work as advertised and instead
worked as an unintended synonym for "git add --renormalize", which
has been fixed.
(merge e2c2a37545 jk/add-ignore-errors-bit-assignment-fix later to maint).
* On a case-insensitive filesystem, we failed to compare the part of
the path that is above the worktree directory in an absolute
pathname, which has been corrected.
* Asking "git check-attr" about a macro (e.g. "binary") on a specific
path did not work correctly, even though "git check-attr -a" listed
such a macro correctly. This has been corrected.
(merge 7b95849be4 jk/attr-macro-fix later to maint).
* "git pack-objects" incorrectly used uninitialized mutex, which has
been corrected.
(merge edb673cf10 ph/pack-objects-mutex-fix later to maint).
* "git checkout -b <new> [HEAD]" to create a new branch from the
current commit and check it out ought to be a no-op in the index
and the working tree in normal cases, but there are corner cases
that do require updates to the index and the working tree. Running
it immediately after "git clone --no-checkout" is one of these
cases that an earlier optimization kicked in incorrectly, which has
been fixed.
(merge 8424bfd45b bp/checkout-new-branch-optim later to maint).
* "git diff --color-moved --cc --stat -p" did not work well due to
funny interaction between a bug in color-moved and the rest, which
has been fixed.
(merge dac03b5518 jk/diff-cc-stat-fixes later to maint).
* When GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR is set, the command was incorrectly
started when modes of "git rebase" that implicitly uses the
machinery for the interactive rebase are run, which has been
corrected.
(merge 891d4a0313 pw/no-editor-in-rebase-i-implicit later to maint).
* The commit-graph facility did not work when in-core objects that
are promoted from unknown type to commit (e.g. a commit that is
accessed via a tag that refers to it) were involved, which has been
corrected.
(merge 4468d4435c sg/object-as-type-commit-graph-fix later to maint).
* "git fetch" output cleanup.
(merge dc40b24df4 nd/fetch-compact-update later to maint).
* "git cat-file --batch" reported a dangling symbolic link by
mistake, when it wanted to report that a given name is ambiguous.
* Documentation around core.crlf has been updated.
(merge c9446f0504 jk/autocrlf-overrides-eol-doc later to maint).
* The documentation of "git commit-tree" said that the command
understands "--gpg-sign" in addition to "-S", but the command line
parser did not know about the longhand, which has been corrected.
* "git rebase -x $cmd" did not reject multi-line command, even though
the command is incapable of handling such a command. It now is
rejected upfront.
(merge c762aada1a pw/rebase-x-sanity-check later to maint).
* Output from "git help" was not correctly aligned, which has been
fixed.
(merge 6195a76da4 nd/help-align-command-desc later to maint).
* The "git submodule summary" subcommand showed shortened commit
object names by mechanically truncating them at 7-hexdigit, which
has been improved to let "rev-parse --short" scale the length of
the abbreviation with the size of the repository.
(merge 0586a438f6 sh/submodule-summary-abbrev-fix later to maint).
* The way the OSX build jobs updates its build environment used the
"--quiet" option to "brew update" command, but it wasn't all that
quiet to be useful. The use of the option has been replaced with
an explicit redirection to the /dev/null (which incidentally would
have worked around a breakage by recent updates to homebrew, which
has fixed itself already).
(merge a1ccaedd62 sg/travis-osx-brew-breakage-workaround later to maint).
* "git --work-tree=$there --git-dir=$here describe --dirty" did not
work correctly as it did not pay attention to the location of the
worktree specified by the user by mistake, which has been
corrected.
(merge c801170b0c ss/describe-dirty-in-the-right-directory later to maint).
* "git fetch" over protocol v2 that needs to make a second connection
to backfill tags did not clear a variable that holds shallow
repository information correctly, leading to an access of freed
piece of memory.
* Some errors from the other side coming over smart HTTP transport
were not noticed, which has been corrected.
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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This release is primarily to fix brown-paper-bag breakages in the
2.20.0 release.
Fixes since v2.20
* A few newly added tests were not portable and caused minority
platforms to report false breakages, which have been fixed.
* Portability fix for a recent update to parse-options API.
* "git help -a" did not work well when an overly long alias is
defined, which has been corrected.
* A recent update accidentally squelched an error message when the
run_command API failed to run a missing command, which has been
corrected.
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Git 2.19 Release Notes
Updates since v2.18
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths
added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents
of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new
files. They are now shown as new by default.
"git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an
otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new
paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit.
* "git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
line number but the column number of the hit.
* The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for
"--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect
it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l"
is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
future repurposing of the it when it is used.
* The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated.
* The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends
out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an
overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to
automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line
in the payload has been introduced and is made the default.
* "git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor
checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a
remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that
have tracking branches that share the same names.
(merge 8d7b558bae ab/checkout-default-remote later to maint).
* "git grep" learned the "--only-matching" option.
* "git rebase --rebase-merges" mode now handles octopus merges as
well.
* Add a server-side knob to skip commits in exponential/fibbonacci
stride in an attempt to cover wider swath of history with a smaller
number of iterations, potentially accepting a larger packfile
transfer, instead of going back one commit a time during common
ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction.
(merge 42cc7485a2 jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping later to maint).
* A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added,
primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the
replace mechanism altogether.
* Teach "git tag -s" etc. a few configuration variables (gpg.format
that can be set to "openpgp" or "x509", and gpg.<format>.program
that is used to specify what program to use to deal with the format)
to allow x.509 certs with CMS via "gpgsm" to be used instead of
openpgp via "gnupg".
* Many more strings are prepared for l10n.
* "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should
continue with submitting.
* The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent
bad objects from entering repository can be customized via
receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a
counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with
fetch.fsck.* configuration variables.
* "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a short-hand for
"interactive".
* "git instaweb" has been adjusted to run better with newer Apache on
RedHat based distros.
* "git range-diff" is a reimplementation of "git tbdiff" that lets us
compare individual patches in two iterations of a topic.
* The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.
* "git branch --list" learned to take the default sort order from the
'branch.sort' configuration variable, just like "git tag --list"
pays attention to 'tag.sort'.
* "git worktree" command learned "--quiet" option to make it less
verbose.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
* The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field,
which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the
code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a
more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated.
* A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized.
(merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint).
* The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
throughout the object access API continues.
* Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
codebase to report the list of configuration variables
subcommands care about to help complete them.
* Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to
slim down the latter and make it easier to manage.
* Make refspec parsing codepath more robust.
* Some flaky tests have been fixed.
* Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various
pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase
has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to
negate them.
* Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/)
has been updated.
* Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah
bitmap subsystem.
* Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3.
* Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules
file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration
files, to read random configuration items from it.
* "git fast-import" has been updated to avoid attempting to create
delta against a zero-byte-long string, which is pointless.
* The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic
option.
(merge 2b647a05d7 bb/pedantic later to maint).
* The character display width table has been updated to match the
latest Unicode standard.
(merge 570951eea2 bb/unicode-11-width later to maint).
* test-lint now looks for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test
scripts.
* Conversion from uchar[40] to struct object_id continues.
* Recent "security fix" to pay attention to contents of ".gitmodules"
while accepting "git push" was a bit overly strict than necessary,
which has been adjusted.
* "git fsck" learns to make sure the optional commit-graph file is in
a sane state.
* "git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked.
* Code restructuring and a small fix to transport protocol v2 during
fetching.
* Parsing of -L[<N>][,[<M>]] parameters "git blame" and "git log"
take has been tweaked.
* lookup_commit_reference() and friends have been updated to find
in-core object for a specific in-core repository instance.
* Various glitches in the heuristics of merge-recursive strategy have
been documented in new tests.
* "git fetch" learned a new option "--negotiation-tip" to limit the
set of commits it tells the other end as "have", to reduce wasted
bandwidth and cycles, which would be helpful when the receiving
repository has a lot of refs that have little to do with the
history at the remote it is fetching from.
* For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries
allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a
dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead.
* Tests to cover various conflicting cases have been added for
merge-recursive.
* Tests to cover conflict cases that involve submodules have been
added for merge-recursive.
* Look for broken "&&" chains that are hidden in subshell, many of
which have been found and corrected.
* The singleton commit-graph in-core instance is made per in-core
repository instance.
* "make DEVELOPER=1 DEVOPTS=pedantic" allows developers to compile
with -pedantic option, which may catch more problematic program
constructs and potential bugs.
* Preparatory code to later add json output for telemetry data has
been added.
* Update the way we use Coccinelle to find out-of-style code that
need to be modernised.
* It is too easy to misuse system API functions such as strcat();
these selected functions are now forbidden in this codebase and
will cause a compilation failure.
* Add a script (in contrib/) to help users of VSCode work better with
our codebase.
* The Travis CI scripts were taught to ship back the test data from
failed tests.
(merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint).
* The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing
placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically
without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option
arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and
fixed.
(merge 5f0df44cd7 rs/parse-opt-lithelp later to maint).
* Noiseword "extern" has been removed from function decls in the
header files.
* A few atoms like %(objecttype) and %(objectsize) in the format
specifier of "for-each-ref --format=<format>" can be filled without
getting the full contents of the object, but just with the object
header. These cases have been optimized by calling
oid_object_info() API (instead of reading and inspecting the data).
* The end result of documentation update has been made to be
inspected more easily to help developers.
* The API to iterate over all objects learned to optionally list
objects in the order they appear in packfiles, which helps locality
of access if the caller accesses these objects while as objects are
enumerated.
* Improve built-in facility to catch broken &&-chain in the tests.
* The more library-ish parts of the codebase learned to work on the
in-core index-state instance that is passed in by their callers,
instead of always working on the singleton "the_index" instance.
* A test prerequisite defined by various test scripts with slightly
different semantics has been consolidated into a single copy and
made into a lazily defined one.
(merge 6ec633059a wc/make-funnynames-shared-lazy-prereq later to maint).
* After a partial clone, repeated fetches from promisor remote would
have accumulated many packfiles marked with .promisor bit without
getting them coalesced into fewer packfiles, hurting performance.
"git repack" now learned to repack them.
* Partially revert the support for multiple hash functions to regain
hash comparison performance; we'd think of a way to do this better
in the next cycle.
* "git help --config" (which is used in command line completion)
missed the configuration variables not described in the main
config.txt file but are described in another file that is included
by it, which has been corrected.
* The test linter code has learned that the end of here-doc mark
"EOF" can be quoted in a double-quote pair, not just in a
single-quote pair.
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Git v2.17.1:
Fixes:
* This release contains the same fixes made in the v2.13.7 version of
Git, covering CVE-2018-11233 and 11235, and forward-ported to
v2.14.4, v2.15.2 and v2.16.4 releases. See release notes to
v2.13.7 for details.
* In addition to the above fixes, this release has support on the
server side to reject pushes to repositories that attempt to create
such problematic .gitmodules file etc. as tracked contents, to help
hosting sites protect their customers by preventing malicious
contents from spreading.
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