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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt index 0570dcd877..fec193679f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt @@ -77,8 +77,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features skip showing the hunk immediately after it has already been shown, and an additional action to explicitly ask to reshow the current hunk. - * "git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which is a useful - addition to be triggered from "git gc --auto". + * "git pack-refs" learned the "--auto" option, which defers the decision of + whether and how to pack to the ref backend. This is used by the reftable + backend to avoid repacking of an already-optimal ref database. The new mode + is triggered from "git gc --auto". * "git add -u <pathspec>" and "git commit [-i] <pathspec>" did not diagnose a pathspec element that did not match any files in certain @@ -86,6 +88,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The userdiff patterns for C# has been updated. + * Git writes a "waiting for your editor" message on an incomplete + line after launching an editor, and then append another error + message on the same line if the editor errors out. It now clears + the "waiting for..." line before giving the error message. + + * The filename used for rejected hunks "git apply --reject" creates + was limited to PATH_MAX, which has been lifted. + + * When "git bisect" reports the commit it determined to be the + culprit, we used to show it in a format that does not honor common + UI tweaks, like log.date and log.decorate. The code has been + taught to use "git show" to follow more customizations. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -100,7 +115,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair - of <angle-brakets> emphasized. + of <angle-brackets> emphasized. * "git --no-lazy-fetch cmd" allows to run "cmd" while disabling lazy fetching of objects from the promisor remote, which may be handy @@ -110,9 +125,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. clean.requireForce has been simplified, together with the documentation. - * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen - some optimization. - * Uses of xwrite() helper have been audited and updated for better error checking and simpler code. @@ -185,6 +197,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. operations accumulate many entries has been improved to avoid accumulating too many tables uncollected. + * The code to iterate over reftable blocks has seen some optimization + to reduce memory allocation and deallocation. + + * The way "git fast-import" handles paths described in its input has + been tightened up and more clearly documented. + + * The cvsimport tests required that the platform understands + traditional timezone notations like CST6CDT, which has been + updated to work on those systems as long as they understand + POSIX notation with explicit tz transition dates. + + * The code to format trailers have been cleaned up. + Fixes since v2.44 ----------------- @@ -231,7 +256,7 @@ Fixes since v2.44 (merge 5edd126720 jk/reflog-special-cases-fix later to maint). * An error message from "git upload-pack", which responds to "git - fetch" requests, had a trialing NUL in it, which has been + fetch" requests, had a trailing NUL in it, which has been corrected. (merge 3f4c7a0805 sg/upload-pack-error-message-fix later to maint). @@ -248,7 +273,7 @@ Fixes since v2.44 This has been corrected. (merge 199f44cb2e ps/remote-helper-repo-initialization-fix later to maint). - * Various parts of upload-pack has been updated to bound the resource + * Various parts of upload-pack have been updated to bound the resource consumption relative to the size of the repository to protect from abusive clients. (merge 6cd05e768b jk/upload-pack-bounded-resources later to maint). @@ -295,11 +320,11 @@ Fixes since v2.44 variable that is no longer used. (merge 72a8d3f027 pw/rebase-i-ignore-cherry-pick-help-environment later to maint). - * The code to find the effective end of log message can fall into an + * The code to find the effective end of log messages can fall into an endless loop, which has been corrected. (merge 2541cba2d6 fs/find-end-of-log-message-fix later to maint). - * Mark-ups used in the documentation has been improved for + * Mark-up used in the documentation has been improved for consistency. (merge 45d5ed3e50 ja/doc-markup-fixes later to maint). @@ -393,7 +418,7 @@ Fixes since v2.44 configuration variable used to leak, which has been corrected. (merge 0e0fefb29f jc/unleak-core-excludesfile later to maint). - * vreportf(), which is usede by error() and friends, has been taught + * vreportf(), which is used by error() and friends, has been taught to give the error message printf-format string when its vsnprintf() call fails, instead of showing nothing useful to identify the nature of the error. @@ -402,6 +427,20 @@ Fixes since v2.44 * Adjust to an upcoming changes to GNU make that breaks our Makefiles. (merge 227b8fd902 tb/make-indent-conditional-with-non-spaces later to maint). + * Git 2.44 introduced a regression that makes the updated code to + barf in repositories with multi-pack index written by older + versions of Git, which has been corrected. + + * When .git/rr-cache/ rerere database gets corrupted or rerere is fed to + work on a file with conflicted hunks resolved incompletely, the rerere + machinery got confused and segfaulted, which has been corrected. + (merge 167395bb47 mr/rerere-crash-fix later to maint). + + * The "receive-pack" program (which responds to "git push") was not + converted to run "git maintenance --auto" when other codepaths that + used to run "git gc --auto" were updated, which has been corrected. + (merge 7bf3057d9c ps/run-auto-maintenance-in-receive-pack later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint). (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint). @@ -432,3 +471,6 @@ Fixes since v2.44 (merge b4454d5a7b pw/t3428-cleanup later to maint). (merge 84a7c33a4b pf/commitish-committish later to maint). (merge 8882ee9d68 la/mailmap-entry later to maint). + (merge 44bdba2fa6 rs/no-openssl-compilation-fix-on-macos later to maint). + (merge f412d72c19 yb/replay-doc-linkfix later to maint). + (merge 5da40be8d7 xx/rfc2822-date-format-in-doc later to maint). |