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1 | Git v2.46 Release Notes |
2 | ======================= | |
3 | ||
4 | Backward Compatibility Notes | |
5 | ||
6 | (None at this moment) | |
7 | ||
8 | UI, Workflows & Features | |
9 | ||
10 | * The "--rfc" option of "git format-patch" learned to take an | |
11 | optional string value to be used in place of "RFC" to tweak the | |
12 | "[PATCH]" on the subject header. | |
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13 | |
14 | * The credential helper protocol, together with the HTTP layer, have | |
15 | been enhanced to support authentication schemes different from | |
16 | username & password pair, like Bearer and NTLM. | |
17 | ||
18 | * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete | |
19 | "git symbolic-ref" a bit better (you need to enable plumbing | |
20 | commands to be completed with GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL_COMMANDS). | |
21 | ||
22 | * When the user responds to a prompt given by "git add -p" with an | |
23 | unsupported command, list of available commands were given, which | |
24 | was too much if the user knew what they wanted to type but merely | |
25 | made a typo. Now the user gets a much shorter error message. | |
26 | ||
27 | * The color parsing code learned to handle 12-bit RGB colors, spelled | |
28 | as "#RGB" (in addition to "#RRGGBB" that is already supported). | |
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30 | * The operation mode options (like "--get") the "git config" command |
31 | uses have been deprecated and replaced with subcommands (like "git | |
32 | config get"). | |
33 | ||
34 | * "git tag" learned the "--trailer" option to futz with the trailers | |
35 | in the same way as "git commit" does. | |
36 | ||
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37 | * A new global "--no-advice" option can be used to disable all advice |
38 | messages, which is meant to be used only in scripts. | |
39 | ||
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40 | * Updates to symbolic refs can now be made as a part of ref |
41 | transaction. | |
42 | ||
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43 | * The trailer API has been reshuffled a bit. |
44 | ||
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45 | * Terminology to call various ref-like things are getting |
46 | straightened out. | |
47 | ||
48 | * The command line completion script (in contrib/) has been adjusted | |
49 | to the recent update to "git config" that adopted subcommand based | |
50 | UI. | |
51 | ||
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52 | * The knobs to tweak how reftable files are written have been made |
53 | available as configuration variables. | |
54 | ||
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55 | * When "git push" notices that the commit at the tip of the ref on |
56 | the other side it is about to overwrite does not exist locally, it | |
57 | used to first try fetching it if the local repository is a partial | |
58 | clone. The command has been taught not to do so and immediately | |
59 | fail instead. | |
60 | ||
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61 | |
62 | Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. | |
63 | ||
64 | * Advertise "git contacts", a tool for newcomers to find people to | |
65 | ask review for their patches, a bit more in our developer | |
66 | documentation. | |
67 | ||
68 | * In addition to building the objects needed, try to link the objects | |
69 | that are used in fuzzer tests, to make sure at least they build | |
70 | without bitrot, in Linux CI runs. | |
71 | ||
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72 | * Code to write out reftable has seen some optimization and |
73 | simplification. | |
74 | ||
75 | * Tests to ensure interoperability between reftable written by jgit | |
76 | and our code have been added and enabled in CI. | |
77 | ||
78 | * The singleton index_state instance "the_index" has been eliminated | |
79 | by always instantiating "the_repository" and replacing references | |
80 | to "the_index" with references to its .index member. | |
81 | ||
3e4a232f | 82 | * Git-GUI has a new maintainer, Johannes Sixt. |
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84 | * The "test-tool" has been taught to run testsuite tests in parallel, |
85 | bypassing the need to use the "prove" tool. | |
86 | ||
87 | * The "whitespace check" task that was enabled for GitHub Actions CI | |
88 | has been ported to GitLab CI. | |
89 | ||
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90 | * The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the |
91 | primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an | |
92 | argument. | |
93 | ||
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94 | * Code clean-up to reduce inter-function communication inside |
95 | builtin/config.c done via the use of global variables. | |
96 | ||
97 | * The pack bitmap code saw some clean-up to prepare for a follow-up topic. | |
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98 | |
99 | * Preliminary code clean-up for "git send-email". | |
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100 | |
101 | * The default "creation-factor" used by "git format-patch" has been | |
102 | raised to make it more aggressively find matching commits. | |
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103 | |
104 | * Before discovering the repository details, We used to assume SHA-1 | |
105 | as the "default" hash function, which has been corrected. Hopefully | |
106 | this will smoke out codepaths that rely on such an unwarranted | |
107 | assumptions. | |
108 | ||
109 | * The project decision making policy has been documented. | |
110 | ||
111 | * The strcmp-offset tests have been rewritten using the unit test | |
112 | framework. | |
113 | ||
114 | * "git add -p" learned to complain when an answer with more than one | |
115 | letter is given to a prompt that expects a single letter answer. | |
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3e4a232f | 117 | |
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118 | Fixes since v2.45 |
119 | ----------------- | |
120 | ||
121 | * "git rebase --signoff" used to forget that it needs to add a | |
122 | sign-off to the resulting commit when told to continue after a | |
123 | conflict stops its operation. | |
124 | (merge a6c2654f83 pw/rebase-m-signoff-fix later to maint). | |
125 | ||
126 | * The procedure to build multi-pack-index got confused by the | |
127 | replace-refs mechanism, which has been corrected by disabling the | |
128 | latter. | |
129 | (merge 93e2ae1c95 xx/disable-replace-when-building-midx later to maint). | |
130 | ||
131 | * The "-k" and "--rfc" options of "format-patch" will now error out | |
132 | when used together, as one tells us not to add anything to the | |
133 | title of the commit, and the other one tells us to add "RFC" in | |
134 | addition to "PATCH". | |
135 | (merge cadcf58085 ds/format-patch-rfc-and-k later to maint). | |
136 | ||
137 | * "git stash -S" did not handle binary files correctly, which has | |
138 | been corrected. | |
139 | (merge 5fb7686409 aj/stash-staged-fix later to maint). | |
140 | ||
141 | * A scheduled "git maintenance" job is expected to work on all | |
142 | repositories it knows about, but it stopped at the first one that | |
143 | errored out. Now it keeps going. | |
144 | (merge c75662bfc9 js/for-each-repo-keep-going later to maint). | |
145 | ||
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146 | * zsh can pretend to be a normal shell pretty well except for some |
147 | glitches that we tickle in some of our scripts. Work them around | |
148 | so that "vimdiff" and our test suite works well enough with it. | |
149 | (merge fedd5c79ff bc/zsh-compatibility later to maint). | |
150 | ||
151 | * Command line completion support for zsh (in contrib/) has been | |
152 | updated to stop exposing internal state to end-user shell | |
153 | interaction. | |
154 | (merge 3c20acdf46 dk/zsh-git-repo-path-fix later to maint). | |
155 | ||
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156 | * Tests that try to corrupt in-repository files in chunked format did |
157 | not work well on macOS due to its broken "mv", which has been | |
158 | worked around. | |
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159 | |
160 | * The maximum size of attribute files is enforced more consistently. | |
161 | (merge c793f9cb08 tb/attr-limits later to maint). | |
162 | ||
163 | * Unbreak CI jobs so that we do not attempt to use Python 2 that has | |
164 | been removed from the platform. | |
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165 | |
166 | * Git 2.43 started using the tree of HEAD as the source of attributes | |
167 | in a bare repository, which has severe performance implications. | |
168 | For now, revert the change, without ripping out a more explicit | |
169 | support for the attr.tree configuration variable. | |
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171 | * The "--exit-code" option of "git diff" command learned to work with |
172 | the "--ext-diff" option. | |
173 | (merge 11be65cfa4 rs/external-diff-with-exit-code later to maint). | |
174 | ||
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175 | * Windows CI running in GitHub Actions started complaining about the |
176 | order of arguments given to calloc(); the imported regex code uses | |
177 | the wrong order almost consistently, which has been corrected. | |
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179 | * Expose "name conflict" error when a ref creation fails due to D/F |
180 | conflict in the ref namespace, to improve an error message given by | |
181 | "git fetch". | |
182 | (merge 9339fca23e it/refs-name-conflict later to maint). | |
183 | ||
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184 | * The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages |
185 | translation project. | |
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186 | |
187 | * The documentation for "git diff --name-only" has been clarified | |
188 | that it is about showing the names in the post-image tree. | |
189 | (merge 4986662cbc jc/doc-diff-name-only later to maint). | |
190 | ||
191 | * The credential helper that talks with osx keychain learned to avoid | |
192 | storing back the authentication material it just got received from | |
193 | the keychain. | |
194 | (merge e1ab45b2da kn/osxkeychain-skip-idempotent-store later to maint). | |
195 | ||
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196 | * The chainlint script (invoked during "make test") did nothing when |
197 | it failed to detect the number of available CPUs. It now falls | |
198 | back to 1 CPU to avoid the problem. | |
199 | (merge 2e7e9205be es/chainlint-ncores-fix later to maint). | |
200 | ||
201 | * Revert overly aggressive "layered defence" that went into 2.45.1 | |
202 | and friends, which broke "git-lfs", "git-annex", and other use | |
203 | cases, so that we can rebuild necessary counterparts in the open. | |
204 | ||
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205 | * "git init" in an already created directory, when the user |
206 | configuration has includeif.onbranch, started to fail recently, | |
207 | which has been corrected. | |
208 | (merge 407997c1dd ps/fix-reinit-includeif-onbranch later to maint). | |
209 | ||
d4cc1ec3 | 210 | * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
0f3415f1 | 211 | (merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint). |
3e4a232f | 212 | (merge 55702c543e fa/p4-error later to maint). |
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213 | (merge 2566a77774 vd/doc-merge-tree-x-option later to maint). |
214 | (merge b64b0df9da ds/scalar-reconfigure-all-fix later to maint). | |
b9cfe484 JH |
215 | (merge c81ffcff83 dm/update-index-doc-fix later to maint). |
216 | (merge fc0202b0e9 dg/fetch-pack-code-cleanup later to maint). | |
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217 | (merge 7150f140f9 mt/t0211-typofix later to maint). |
218 | (merge d424488901 jc/rev-parse-fatal-doc later to maint). |