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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..903c665960 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,250 @@ +Git v2.45 Release Notes +======================= + +Backward Compatibility Notes + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend. + With "git init --ref-format=reftable", hopefully it would be a lot + more efficient to manage a repository with many references. + + * "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym + for "HEAD". + + * Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout + settings. + + * "git reflog" learned a "list" subcommand that enumerates known reflogs. + + * When a merge conflicted at a submodule, merge-ort backend used to + unconditionally give a lengthy message to suggest how to resolve + it. Now the message can be squelched as an advice message. + + * "git for-each-ref" learned "--include-root-refs" option to show + even the stuff outside the 'refs/' hierarchy. + + * "git rev-list --missing=print" has learned to optionally take + "--allow-missing-tips", which allows the objects at the starting + points to be missing. + + * "git merge-tree" has learned that the three trees involved in the + 3-way merge only need to be trees, not necessarily commits. + + * "git log --merge" learned to pay attention to CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and + other kinds of *_HEAD pseudorefs. + + * Platform specific tweaks for OS/390 has been added to + config.mak.uname. + + * Users with safe.bareRepository=explicit can still work from within + $GIT_DIR of a seconary worktree (which resides at .git/worktrees/$name/) + of the primary worktree without explicitly specifying the $GIT_DIR + environment variable or the --git-dir=<path> option. + + * The output format for dates "iso-strict" has been tweaked to show + a time in the Zulu timezone with "Z" suffix, instead of "+00:00". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen + some optimization. + + * More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to + improve test coverage of reftable backend. + + * Some parts of command line completion script (in contrib/) have + been micro-optimized. + + * The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been + specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair + of <angle-brakets> emphasized. + + * "git --no-lazy-fetch cmd" allows to run "cmd" while disabling lazy + fetching of objects from the promisor remote, which may be handy + for debugging. + + * The implementation in "git clean" that makes "-n" and "-i" ignore + clean.requireForce has been simplified, together with the + documentation. + + * 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. + + * Some trace2 events that lacked def_param have learned to show it, + enriching the output. + + * The parse-options code that deals with abbreviated long option + names have been cleaned up. + + * The code in reftable backend that creates new table files works + better with the tempfile framework to avoid leaving cruft after a + failure. + + * The reftable code has its own custom binary search function whose + comparison callback has an unusual interface, which caused the + binary search to degenerate into a linear search, which has been + corrected. + + * The code to iterate over reflogs in the reftable has been optimized + to reduce memory allocation and deallocation. + + +Fixes since v2.44 +----------------- + + * "git apply" on a filesystem without filemode support have learned + to take a hint from what is in the index for the path, even when + not working with the "--index" or "--cached" option, when checking + the executable bit match what is required by the preimage in the + patch. + (merge 45b625142d cp/apply-core-filemode later to maint). + + * "git column" has been taught to reject negative padding value, as + it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero. + (merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint). + + * "git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in + "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the + option is passed through to the underlying "git apply". + (merge a171dac734 jc/am-whitespace-doc later to maint). + + * "git tag --column" failed to check the exit status of its "git + column" invocation, which has been corrected. + (merge 92e66478fc rj/tag-column-fix later to maint). + + * Credential helper based on libsecret (in contrib/) has been updated + to handle an empty password correctly. + (merge 8f1f2023b7 mh/libsecret-empty-password-fix later to maint). + + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to honor the "--trust-exit-code" + option; it used to always exit with 0 and signalled success. + (merge eb84c8b6ce ps/difftool-dir-diff-exit-code later to maint). + + * The code incorrectly attempted to use textconv cache when asked, + even when we are not running in a repository, which has been + corrected. + (merge affe355fe7 jk/textconv-cache-outside-repo-fix later to maint). + + * Remove an empty file that shouldn't have been added in the first + place. + (merge 4f66942215 js/remove-cruft-files later to maint). + + * The logic to access reflog entries by date and number had ugly + corner cases at the boundaries, which have been cleaned up. + (merge 5edd126720 jk/reflog-special-cases-fix later to maint). + + * An error message from "git upload-pack", which responds to "git + fetch" requests, had a trialing NUL in it, which has been + corrected. + (merge 3f4c7a0805 sg/upload-pack-error-message-fix later to maint). + + * Clarify wording in the CodingGuidelines that requires <git-compat-util.h> + to be the first header file. + (merge 4e89f0e07c jc/doc-compat-util later to maint). + + * "git commit -v --cleanup=scissors" used to add the scissors line + twice in the log message buffer, which has been corrected. + (merge e90cc075cc jt/commit-redundant-scissors-fix later to maint). + + * A custom remote helper no longer cannot access the newly created + repository during "git clone", which is a regression in Git 2.44. + This has been corrected. + (merge 199f44cb2e ps/remote-helper-repo-initialization-fix later to maint). + + * Various parts of upload-pack has been updated to bound the resource + consumption relative to the size of the repository to protect from + abusive clients. + (merge 6cd05e768b jk/upload-pack-bounded-resources later to maint). + + * The upload-pack program, when talking over v2, accepted the + packfile-uris protocol extension from the client, even if it did + not advertise the capability, which has been corrected. + (merge a922bfa3b5 jk/upload-pack-v2-capability-cleanup later to maint). + + * Make sure failure return from merge_bases_many() is properly caught. + (merge 25fd20eb44 js/merge-base-with-missing-commit later to maint). + + * FSMonitor client code was confused when FSEvents were given in a + different case on a case-insensitive filesystem, which has been + corrected. + (merge 29c139ce78 jh/fsmonitor-icase-corner-case-fix later to maint). + + * The "core.commentChar" configuration variable only allows an ASCII + character, which was not clearly documented, which has been + corrected. + (merge fb7c556f58 kh/doc-commentchar-is-a-byte later to maint). + + * With release 2.44 we got rid of all uses of test_i18ngrep and there + is no in-flight topic that adds a new use of it. Make a call to + test_i18ngrep a hard failure, so that we can remove it at the end + of this release cycle. + (merge 381a83dfa3 jc/test-i18ngrep later to maint). + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git reflog" better. + (merge 1284f9cc11 rj/complete-reflog later to maint). + + * The logic to complete the command line arguments to "git worktree" + subcommand (in contrib/) has been updated to correctly honor things + like "git -C dir" etc. + (merge 3574816d98 rj/complete-worktree-paths-fix later to maint). + + * When git refuses to create a branch because the proposed branch + name is not a valid refname, an advice message is given to refer + the user to exact naming rules. + (merge 8fbd903e58 kh/branch-ref-syntax-advice later to maint). + + * Code simplification by getting rid of code that sets an environment + variable that is no longer used. + (merge 72a8d3f027 pw/rebase-i-ignore-cherry-pick-help-environment later to maint). + + * The code to find the effective end of log message 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 + consistency. + (merge 45d5ed3e50 ja/doc-markup-fixes later to maint). + + * The status.showUntrackedFiles configuration variable was + incorrectly documented to accept "false", which has been corrected. + + * Leaks from "git restore" have been plugged. + (merge 2f64da0790 rj/restore-plug-leaks later to maint). + + * "git bugreport --no-suffix" was not supported and instead + segfaulted, which has been corrected. + (merge b3b57c69da js/bugreport-no-suffix-fix later to maint). + + * The documentation for "%(trailers[:options])" placeholder in the + "--pretty" option of commands in the "git log" family has been + updated. + (merge bff85a338c bl/doc-key-val-sep-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint). + (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint). + (merge 64562d784d jb/doc-interactive-singlekey-do-not-need-perl later to maint). + (merge c431a235e2 cp/t9146-use-test-path-helpers later to maint). + (merge 82d75402d5 ds/doc-send-email-capitalization later to maint). + (merge 41bff66e35 jc/doc-add-placeholder-fix later to maint). + (merge 6835f0efe9 jw/remote-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 244001aa20 hs/rebase-not-in-progress later to maint). + (merge 2ca6c07db2 jc/no-include-of-compat-util-from-headers later to maint). + (merge 87bd7fbb9c rs/fetch-simplify-with-starts-with later to maint). + (merge f39addd0d9 rs/name-rev-with-mempool later to maint). + (merge 9a97b43e03 rs/submodule-prefix-simplify later to maint). + (merge 40b8076462 ak/rebase-autosquash later to maint). + (merge 3223204456 eg/add-uflags later to maint). + (merge 5f78d52dce es/config-doc-sort-sections later to maint). + (merge 781fb7b4c2 as/option-names-in-messages later to maint). + (merge 51d41dc243 jk/doc-remote-helpers-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge e1aaf309db pb/ci-win-artifact-names-fix later to maint). + (merge ad538c61da jc/index-pack-fsck-levels later to maint). + (merge 67471bc704 ja/doc-formatting-fix later to maint). + (merge 86f9ce7dd6 bl/doc-config-fixes later to maint). |