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1 | Git 2.25 Release Notes |
2 | ====================== | |
3 | ||
4 | Updates since v2.24 | |
5 | ------------------- | |
6 | ||
7 | Backward compatibility notes | |
8 | ||
9 | ||
10 | UI, Workflows & Features | |
11 | ||
12 | * A tutorial on object enumeration has been added. | |
13 | ||
14 | * The branch description ("git branch --edit-description") has been | |
15 | used to fill the body of the cover letters by the format-patch | |
16 | command; this has been enhanced so that the subject can also be | |
17 | filled. | |
18 | ||
19 | * "git rebase --preserve-merges" has been marked as deprecated; this | |
20 | release stops advertising it in the "git rebase -h" output. | |
21 | ||
22 | * The code to generate multi-pack index learned to show (or not to | |
23 | show) progress indicators. | |
24 | ||
25 | * "git apply --3way" learned to honor merge.conflictStyle | |
26 | configuration variable, like merges would. | |
27 | ||
28 | * The custom format for "git log --format=<format>" learned the l/L | |
29 | placeholder that is similar to e/E that fills in the e-mail | |
30 | address, but only the local part on the left side of '@'. | |
31 | ||
228f5313 JH |
32 | * Documentation pages for "git shortlog" now list commit limiting |
33 | options explicitly. | |
34 | ||
35 | * The patterns to detect function boundary for Elixir language has | |
36 | been added. | |
37 | ||
38 | * The completion script (in contrib/) learned that the "--onto" | |
39 | option of "git rebase" can take its argument as the value of the | |
40 | option. | |
41 | ||
083378cc JH |
42 | * The userdiff machinery has been taught that "async def" is another |
43 | way to begin a "function" in Python. | |
44 | ||
45 | * "git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=<ref>" and the | |
46 | "--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the | |
47 | log message that gets compared. | |
48 | ||
49 | * "git rev-parse --show-toplevel" run outside of any working tree did | |
50 | not error out, which has been corrected. | |
51 | ||
99c33bed JH |
52 | * A few commands learned to take the pathspec from the standard input |
53 | or a named file, instead of taking it as the command line | |
54 | arguments, with the "--pathspec-from-file" option. | |
ad05a3d8 | 55 | |
ad05a3d8 JH |
56 | * "git submodule" learned a subcommand "set-url". |
57 | ||
58 | * "git log" family learned "--pretty=reference" that gives the name | |
59 | of a commit in the format that is often used to refer to it in log | |
60 | messages. | |
61 | ||
62 | * The interaction between "git clone --recurse-submodules" and | |
63 | alternate object store was ill-designed. The documentation and | |
64 | code have been taught to make more clear recommendations when the | |
65 | users see failures. | |
66 | ||
99c33bed JH |
67 | * Management of sparsely checked-out working tree has gained a |
68 | dedicated "sparse-checkout" command. | |
69 | ||
8679ef24 JH |
70 | * Miscellaneous small UX improvements on "git-p4". |
71 | ||
042ed3e0 JH |
72 | * "git sparse-checkout list" subcommand learned to give its output in |
73 | a more concise form when the "cone" mode is in effect. | |
74 | ||
d9f6f3b6 JH |
75 | |
76 | Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. | |
77 | ||
78 | * Debugging support for lazy cloning has been a bit improved. | |
79 | ||
80 | * Move the definition of a set of bitmask constants from 0ctal | |
81 | literal to (1U<<count) notation. | |
82 | ||
83 | * Test updates to prepare for SHA-2 transition continues. | |
84 | ||
228f5313 JH |
85 | * Crufty code and logic accumulated over time around the object |
86 | parsing and low-level object access used in "git fsck" have been | |
87 | cleaned up. | |
88 | ||
89 | * The implementation of "git log --graph" got refactored and then its | |
90 | output got simplified. | |
91 | ||
92 | * Follow recent push to move API docs from Documentation/ to header | |
93 | files and update config.h | |
94 | ||
95 | * "git bundle" has been taught to use the parse options API. "git | |
96 | bundle verify" learned "--quiet" and "git bundle create" learned | |
97 | options to control the progress output. | |
98 | ||
99 | * Handling of commit objects that use non UTF-8 encoding during | |
100 | "rebase -i" has been improved. | |
101 | ||
083378cc JH |
102 | * The beginning of rewriting "git add -i" in C. |
103 | ||
104 | * A label used in the todo list that are generated by "git rebase | |
105 | --rebase-merges" is used as a part of a refname; the logic to come | |
106 | up with the label has been tightened to avoid names that cannot be | |
107 | used as such. | |
108 | ||
109 | * The logic to avoid duplicate label names generated by "git rebase | |
110 | --rebase-merges" forgot that the machinery itself uses "onto" as a | |
111 | label name, which must be avoided by auto-generated labels, which | |
112 | has been corrected. | |
113 | ||
114 | * We have had compatibility fallback macro definitions for "PRIuMAX", | |
115 | "PRIu32", etc. but did not for "PRIdMAX", while the code used the | |
116 | last one apparently without any hiccup reported recently. The | |
117 | fallback macro definitions for these <inttypes.h> macros that must | |
118 | appear in C99 systems have been removed. | |
119 | ||
120 | * Recently we have declared that GIT_TEST_* variables take the | |
121 | usual boolean values (it used to be that some used "non-empty | |
122 | means true" and taking GIT_TEST_VAR=YesPlease as true); make | |
123 | sure we notice and fail when non-bool strings are given to | |
124 | these variables. | |
125 | ||
126 | * Users of oneway_merge() (like "reset --hard") learned to take | |
127 | advantage of fsmonitor to avoid unnecessary lstat(2) calls. | |
128 | ||
559c6fc3 JH |
129 | * Performance tweak on "git push" into a repository with many refs |
130 | that point at objects we have never heard of. | |
131 | ||
132 | * PerfTest fix to avoid stale result mixed up with the latest round | |
133 | of test results. | |
134 | ||
ad05a3d8 JH |
135 | * Hide lower-level verify_signed-buffer() API as a pure helper to |
136 | implement the public check_signature() function, in order to | |
137 | encourage new callers to use the correct and more strict | |
138 | validation. | |
139 | ||
b02fd2ac JH |
140 | * Unnecessary reading of state variables back from the disk during |
141 | sequencer operation has been reduced. | |
142 | ||
143 | * The code has been made to avoid gmtime() and localtime() and prefer | |
144 | their reentrant counterparts. | |
145 | ||
b02fd2ac JH |
146 | * In a repository with many packfiles, the cost of the procedure that |
147 | avoids registering the same packfile twice was unnecessarily high | |
148 | by using an inefficient search algorithm, which has been corrected. | |
149 | ||
99c33bed JH |
150 | * Redo "git name-rev" to avoid recursive calls. |
151 | ||
8679ef24 JH |
152 | * FreeBSD CI support via Cirrus-CI has been added. |
153 | ||
d9f6f3b6 JH |
154 | |
155 | Fixes since v2.24 | |
156 | ----------------- | |
157 | ||
158 | * "rebase -i" ceased to run post-commit hook by mistake in an earlier | |
159 | update, which has been corrected. | |
160 | ||
161 | * "git notes copy $original" ought to copy the notes attached to the | |
162 | original object to HEAD, but a mistaken tightening to command line | |
163 | parameter validation made earlier disabled that feature by mistake. | |
164 | ||
165 | * When all files from some subdirectory were renamed to the root | |
166 | directory, the directory rename heuristics would fail to detect that | |
167 | as a rename/merge of the subdirectory to the root directory, which has | |
168 | been corrected. | |
169 | ||
170 | * Code clean-up and a bugfix in the logic used to tell worktree local | |
171 | and repository global refs apart. | |
172 | (merge f45f88b2e4 sg/dir-trie-fixes later to maint). | |
173 | ||
174 | * "git stash save" in a working tree that is sparsely checked out | |
175 | mistakenly removed paths that are outside the area of interest. | |
176 | (merge 4a58c3d7f7 js/update-index-ignore-removal-for-skip-worktree later to maint). | |
177 | ||
228f5313 JH |
178 | * "git rev-parse --git-path HEAD.lock" did not give the right path |
179 | when run in a secondary worktree. | |
180 | (merge 76a53d640f js/git-path-head-dot-lock-fix later to maint). | |
181 | ||
182 | * "git merge --no-commit" needs "--no-ff" if you do not want to move | |
183 | HEAD, which has been corrected in the manual page for "git bisect". | |
184 | (merge 8dd327b246 ma/bisect-doc-sample-update later to maint). | |
185 | ||
186 | * "git worktree add" internally calls "reset --hard" that should not | |
187 | descend into submodules, even when submodule.recurse configuration | |
188 | is set, but it was affected. This has been corrected. | |
189 | (merge 4782cf2ab6 pb/no-recursive-reset-hard-in-worktree-add later to maint). | |
190 | ||
191 | * Messages from die() etc. can be mixed up from multiple processes | |
192 | without even line buffering on Windows, which has been worked | |
193 | around. | |
194 | (merge 116d1fa6c6 js/vreportf-wo-buffering later to maint). | |
195 | ||
196 | * HTTP transport had possible allocator/deallocator mismatch, which | |
197 | has been corrected. | |
198 | ||
199 | * The watchman integration for fsmonitor was racy, which has been | |
200 | corrected to be more conservative. | |
201 | (merge dd0b61f577 kw/fsmonitor-watchman-fix later to maint). | |
202 | ||
203 | * Fetching from multiple remotes into the same repository in parallel | |
204 | had a bad interaction with the recent change to (optionally) update | |
205 | the commit-graph after a fetch job finishes, as these parallel | |
206 | fetches compete with each other. Which has been corrected. | |
207 | ||
208 | * Recent update to "git stash pop" made the command empty the index | |
209 | when run with the "--quiet" option, which has been corrected. | |
210 | ||
211 | * "git fetch" codepath had a big "do not lazily fetch missing objects | |
212 | when I ask if something exists" switch. This has been corrected by | |
213 | marking the "does this thing exist?" calls with "if not please do not | |
214 | lazily fetch it" flag. | |
215 | ||
216 | * Test update to avoid wasted cycles. | |
217 | (merge e0316695ec sg/skip-skipped-prereq later to maint). | |
218 | ||
219 | * Error handling after "git push" finishes sending the packdata and | |
220 | waits for the response to the remote side has been improved. | |
221 | (merge ad7a403268 jk/send-pack-remote-failure later to maint). | |
222 | ||
223 | * Some codepaths in "gitweb" that forgot to escape URLs generated | |
224 | based on end-user input have been corrected. | |
225 | (merge a376e37b2c jk/gitweb-anti-xss later to maint). | |
226 | ||
083378cc JH |
227 | * CI jobs for macOS has been made less chatty when updating perforce |
228 | package used during testing. | |
229 | (merge 0dbc4a0edf jc/azure-ci-osx-fix-fix later to maint). | |
230 | ||
231 | * "git unpack-objects" used to show progress based only on the number | |
232 | of received and unpacked objects, which stalled when it has to | |
233 | handle an unusually large object. It now shows the throughput as | |
234 | well. | |
235 | (merge bae60ba7e9 sg/unpack-progress-throughput later to maint). | |
236 | ||
237 | * The sequencer machinery compared the HEAD and the state it is | |
238 | attempting to commit to decide if the result would be a no-op | |
239 | commit, even when amending a commit, which was incorrect, and | |
240 | has been corrected. | |
241 | ||
242 | * The code to parse GPG output used to assume incorrectly that the | |
243 | finterprint for the primary key would always be present for a valid | |
244 | signature, which has been corrected. | |
245 | (merge 67a6ea6300 hi/gpg-optional-pkfp-fix later to maint). | |
246 | ||
247 | * "git submodule status" and "git submodule status --cached" show | |
248 | different things, but the documentation did not cover them | |
249 | correctly, which has been corrected. | |
250 | (merge 8d483c8408 mg/doc-submodule-status-cached later to maint). | |
251 | ||
252 | * "git reset --patch $object" without any pathspec should allow a | |
253 | tree object to be given, but incorrectly required a committish, | |
254 | which has been corrected. | |
255 | ||
256 | * "git submodule status" that is run from a subdirectory of the | |
257 | superproject did not work well, which has been corrected. | |
258 | (merge 1f3aea22c7 mg/submodule-status-from-a-subdirectory later to maint). | |
259 | ||
260 | * The revision walking machinery uses resources like per-object flag | |
261 | bits that need to be reset before a new iteration of walking | |
262 | begins, but the resources related to topological walk were not | |
263 | cleared correctly, which has been corrected. | |
264 | (merge 0aa0c2b2ec mh/clear-topo-walk-upon-reset later to maint). | |
265 | ||
559c6fc3 JH |
266 | * TravisCI update. |
267 | (merge 176441bfb5 sg/osx-force-gcc-9 later to maint). | |
268 | ||
269 | * While running "revert" or "cherry-pick --edit" for multiple | |
270 | commits, a recent regression incorrectly detected "nothing to | |
271 | commit, working tree clean", instead of replaying the commits, | |
272 | which has been corrected. | |
273 | (merge befd4f6a81 sg/assume-no-todo-update-in-cherry-pick later to maint). | |
274 | ||
ad05a3d8 JH |
275 | * Work around a issue where a FD that is left open when spawning a |
276 | child process and is kept open in the child can interfere with the | |
277 | operation in the parent process on Windows. | |
278 | ||
279 | * One kind of progress messages were always given during commit-graph | |
280 | generation, instead of following the "if it takes more than two | |
281 | seconds, show progress" pattern, which has been corrected. | |
282 | ||
b02fd2ac JH |
283 | * "git rebase" did not work well when format.useAutoBase |
284 | configuration variable is set, which has been corrected. | |
285 | ||
286 | * The "diff" machinery learned not to lose added/removed blank lines | |
287 | in the context when --ignore-blank-lines and --function-context are | |
288 | used at the same time. | |
289 | (merge 0bb313a552 rs/xdiff-ignore-ws-w-func-context later to maint). | |
290 | ||
291 | * The test on "fast-import" used to get stuck when "fast-import" died | |
292 | in the middle. | |
293 | (merge 0d9b0d7885 sg/t9300-robustify later to maint). | |
294 | ||
99c33bed JH |
295 | * "git format-patch" can take a set of configured format.notes values |
296 | to specify which notes refs to use in the log message part of the | |
297 | output. The behaviour of this was not consistent with multiple | |
298 | --notes command line options, which has been corrected. | |
299 | (merge e0f9095aaa dl/format-patch-notes-config-fixup later to maint). | |
300 | ||
301 | * "git p4" used to ignore lfs.storage configuration variable, which | |
302 | has been corrected. | |
303 | (merge ea94b16fb8 rb/p4-lfs later to maint). | |
304 | ||
305 | * Assorted fixes to the directory traversal API. | |
306 | (merge 6836d2fe06 en/fill-directory-fixes later to maint). | |
307 | ||
8679ef24 JH |
308 | * Forbid pathnames that the platform's filesystem cannot represent on |
309 | MinGW. | |
310 | (merge 4dc42c6c18 js/mingw-reserved-filenames later to maint). | |
311 | ||
312 | * "git rebase --signoff" stopped working when the command was written | |
313 | in C, which has been corrected. | |
314 | (merge 4fe7e43c53 en/rebase-signoff-fix later to maint). | |
315 | ||
042ed3e0 JH |
316 | * An earlier update to Git for Windows declared that a tree object is |
317 | invalid if it has a path component with backslash in it, which was | |
318 | overly strict, which has been corrected. The only protection the | |
319 | Windows users need is to prevent such path (or any path that their | |
320 | filesystem cannot check out) from entering the index. | |
321 | (merge 224c7d70fa js/mingw-loosen-overstrict-tree-entry-checks later to maint). | |
322 | ||
323 | * The code to write split commit-graph file(s) upon fetching computed | |
324 | bogus value for the parameter used in splitting the resulting | |
325 | files, which has been corrected. | |
326 | (merge 63020f175f ds/commit-graph-set-size-mult later to maint). | |
327 | ||
d9f6f3b6 JH |
328 | * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
329 | (merge 80736d7c5e jc/am-show-current-patch-docfix later to maint). | |
330 | (merge 8b656572ca sg/commit-graph-usage-fix later to maint). | |
228f5313 JH |
331 | (merge 6c02042139 mr/clone-dir-exists-to-path-exists later to maint). |
332 | (merge 44ae131e38 sg/blame-indent-heuristics-is-now-the-default later to maint). | |
333 | (merge 0115e5d929 dl/doc-diff-no-index-implies-exit-code later to maint). | |
334 | (merge 270de6acbe en/t6024-style later to maint). | |
335 | (merge 14c4776d75 ns/test-desc-typofix later to maint). | |
336 | (merge 68d40f30c4 dj/typofix-merge-strat later to maint). | |
337 | (merge f66e0401ab jk/optim-in-pack-idx-conversion later to maint). | |
338 | (merge 169bed7421 rs/parse-options-dup-null-fix later to maint). | |
339 | (merge 51bd6be32d rs/use-copy-array-in-mingw-shell-command-preparation later to maint). | |
340 | (merge b018719927 ma/t7004 later to maint). | |
341 | (merge 932757b0cc ar/install-doc-update-cmds-needing-the-shell later to maint). | |
083378cc JH |
342 | (merge 46efd28be1 ep/guard-kset-tar-headers later to maint). |
343 | (merge 9e5afdf997 ec/fetch-mark-common-refs-trace2 later to maint). | |
344 | (merge f0e58b3fe8 pb/submodule-update-fetches later to maint). | |
345 | (merge 2a02262078 dl/t5520-cleanup later to maint). | |
346 | (merge a4fb016ba1 js/pkt-line-h-typofix later to maint). | |
559c6fc3 JH |
347 | (merge 54a7a64613 rs/simplify-prepare-cmd later to maint). |
348 | (merge 3eae30e464 jk/lore-is-the-archive later to maint). | |
349 | (merge 14b7664df8 dl/lore-is-the-archive later to maint). | |
ad05a3d8 JH |
350 | (merge 0e40a73a4c po/bundle-doc-clonable later to maint). |
351 | (merge e714b898c6 as/t7812-missing-redirects-fix later to maint). | |
352 | (merge 528d9e6d01 jk/perf-wo-git-dot-pm later to maint). | |
353 | (merge fc42f20e24 sg/test-squelch-noise-in-commit-bulk later to maint). | |
354 | (merge c64368e3a2 bc/t9001-zsh-in-posix-emulation-mode later to maint). | |
b02fd2ac JH |
355 | (merge 11de8dd7ef dr/branch-usage-casefix later to maint). |
356 | (merge e05e8cf074 rs/archive-zip-code-cleanup later to maint). | |
357 | (merge 147ee35558 rs/commit-export-env-simplify later to maint). | |
358 | (merge 4507ecc771 rs/patch-id-use-oid-to-hex later to maint). | |
99c33bed JH |
359 | (merge 51a0a4ed95 mr/bisect-use-after-free later to maint). |
360 | (merge cc2bd5c45d pb/submodule-doc-xref later to maint). | |
361 | (merge df5be01669 ja/doc-markup-cleanup later to maint). | |
362 | (merge 7c5cea7242 mr/bisect-save-pointer-to-const-string later to maint). | |
8679ef24 | 363 | (merge 20a67e8ce9 js/use-test-tool-on-path later to maint). |
042ed3e0 JH |
364 | (merge 4e61b2214d ew/packfile-syscall-optim later to maint). |
365 | (merge ace0f86c7f pb/clarify-line-log-doc later to maint). | |
366 | (merge 763a59e71c en/merge-recursive-oid-eq-simplify later to maint). | |
7a6a90c6 JH |
367 | (merge 4e2c4c0d4f do/gitweb-typofix-in-comments later to maint). |
368 | (merge 421c0ffb02 jb/doc-multi-pack-idx-fix later to maint). | |
369 | (merge f8740c586b pm/am-in-body-header-doc-update later to maint). | |
370 | (merge 5814d44d9b tm/doc-submodule-absorb-fix later to maint). |