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1 | Git v2.44 Release Notes |
2 | ======================= | |
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4 | Backward Compatibility Notes |
5 | ||
d44a0188 | 6 | * "git checkout -B <branch>" used to allow switching to a branch that |
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7 | is in use on another worktree, but this was by mistake. The users |
8 | need to use "--ignore-other-worktrees" option. | |
9 | ||
10 | ||
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11 | UI, Workflows & Features |
12 | ||
13 | * "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)" | |
14 | magic pathspec. | |
15 | ||
16 | * "git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase, | |
17 | but it is still incompatible with the apply backend. | |
18 | ||
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19 | * Introduce "git replay", a tool meant on the server side without |
20 | working tree to recreate a history. | |
21 | ||
22 | * "git merge-file" learned to take the "--diff-algorithm" option to | |
23 | use algorithm different from the default "myers" diff. | |
24 | ||
055bb6e9 JH |
25 | * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete path |
26 | arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout" | |
27 | better. | |
28 | ||
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29 | * "git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>]" allowed a branch that is |
30 | in use in another worktree to be updated and checked out, which | |
31 | might be a bit unexpected. The rule has been tightened, which is a | |
32 | breaking change. "--ignore-other-worktrees" option is required to | |
33 | unbreak you, if you are used to the current behaviour that "-B" | |
34 | overrides the safety. | |
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35 | |
36 | * The builtin_objectmode attribute is populated for each path | |
37 | without adding anything in .gitattributes files, which would be | |
38 | useful in magic pathspec, e.g., ":(attr:builtin_objectmode=100755)" | |
39 | to limit to executables. | |
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41 | * "git fetch" learned to pay attention to "fetch.all" configuration |
42 | variable, which pretends as if "--all" was passed from the command | |
43 | line when no remote parameter was given. | |
44 | ||
45 | * In addition to (rather cryptic) Security Identifiers, show username | |
46 | and domain in the error message when we barf on mismatch between | |
47 | the Git directory and the current user on Windows. | |
48 | ||
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49 | * The error message given when "git branch -d branch" fails due to |
50 | commits unique to the branch has been split into an error and a new | |
51 | conditional advice message. | |
52 | ||
53 | * When given an existing but unreadable file as a configuration file, | |
54 | gitweb behaved as if the file did not exist at all, but now it | |
55 | errors out. This is a change that may break backward compatibility. | |
56 | ||
d44a0188 | 57 | * When $HOME/.gitconfig is missing but XDG config file is available, we |
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58 | should write into the latter, not former. "git gc" and "git |
59 | maintenance" wrote into a wrong "global config" file, which have | |
60 | been corrected. | |
61 | ||
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62 | * Define "special ref" as a very narrow set that consists of |
63 | FETCH_HEAD and MERGE_HEAD, and clarify everything else that used to | |
64 | be classified as such are actually just pseudorefs. | |
65 | ||
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66 | * All conditional "advice" messages show how to turn them off, which |
67 | becomes repetitive. Setting advice.* configuration explicitly on | |
68 | now omits the instruction part. | |
69 | ||
70 | * The "disable repository discovery of a bare repository" check, | |
71 | triggered by setting safe.bareRepository configuration variable to | |
72 | 'explicit', has been loosened to exclude the ".git/" directory inside | |
73 | a non-bare repository from the check. So you can do "cd .git && | |
74 | git cmd" to run a Git command that works on a bare repository without | |
75 | explicitly specifying $GIT_DIR now. | |
76 | ||
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77 | * The completion script (in contrib/) learned more options that can |
78 | be used with "git log". | |
79 | ||
80 | * The labels on conflict markers for the common ancestor, our version, | |
81 | and the other version are available to custom 3-way merge driver | |
82 | via %S, %X, and %Y placeholders. | |
83 | ||
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84 | * The write codepath for the reftable data learned to honor |
85 | core.fsync configuration. | |
86 | ||
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87 | * The "--fsck-objects" option of "git index-pack" now can take the |
88 | optional parameter to tweak severity of different fsck errors. | |
89 | ||
90 | * The wincred credential backend has been taught to support oauth | |
91 | refresh token the same way as credential-cache and | |
92 | credential-libsecret backends. | |
93 | ||
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94 | * Command line completion support (in contrib/) has been |
95 | updated for "git bisect". | |
96 | ||
97 | * "git branch" and friends learned to use the formatted text as | |
98 | sorting key, not the underlying timestamp value, when the --sort | |
99 | option is used with author or committer timestamp with a format | |
100 | specifier (e.g., "--sort=creatordate:format:%H:%M:%S"). | |
101 | ||
4fc51f00 JH |
102 | * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to |
103 | complete configuration variable names better. | |
104 | ||
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105 | |
106 | Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. | |
107 | ||
108 | * Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started. | |
109 | ||
110 | * Add support for GitLab CI. | |
111 | ||
112 | * "git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically | |
113 | which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output | |
114 | in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take | |
115 | advantage of. | |
116 | ||
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117 | * Simplify API implementation to delete references by eliminating |
118 | duplication. | |
119 | ||
120 | * Subject approxidate() and show_date() machinery to OSS-Fuzz. | |
121 | ||
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122 | * A new helper to let us pretend that we called lstat() when we know |
123 | our cache_entry is up-to-date via fsmonitor. | |
124 | ||
125 | * The optimization based on fsmonitor in the "diff --cached" | |
126 | codepath is resurrected with the "fake-lstat" introduced earlier. | |
127 | ||
128 | * Test balloon to use C99 "bool" type from <stdbool.h> has been | |
129 | added. | |
130 | ||
131 | * "git clone" has been prepared to allow cloning a repository with | |
132 | non-default hash function into a repository that uses the reftable | |
133 | backend. | |
134 | ||
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135 | * Streaming spans of packfile data used to be done only from a |
136 | single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It | |
137 | has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too. | |
138 | ||
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139 | * Comment updates to help developers not to attempt to modify |
140 | messages from plumbing commands that must stay constant. | |
141 | ||
142 | It might make sense to reassess the plumbing needs every few years, | |
143 | but that should be done as a separate effort. | |
144 | ||
145 | * Move test-ctype helper to the unit-test framework. | |
146 | ||
147 | * Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a | |
148 | creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the | |
149 | files backend, use the refs API to populate it. | |
150 | ||
151 | * CI for GitLab learned to drive macOS jobs. | |
152 | ||
153 | * A few tests to "git commit -o <pathspec>" and "git commit -i | |
154 | <pathspec>" has been added. | |
155 | ||
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156 | * Tests on ref API are moved around to prepare for reftable. |
157 | ||
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158 | * The Makefile often had to say "-L$(path) -R$(path)" that repeats |
159 | the path to the same library directory for link time and runtime. | |
160 | A Makefile template is used to reduce such repetition. | |
161 | ||
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162 | * The priority queue test has been migrated to the unit testing |
163 | framework. | |
164 | ||
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165 | * Setting `feature.experimental` opts the user into multi-pack reuse |
166 | experiment | |
167 | ||
4cde9f07 JH |
168 | * Squelch node.js 16 deprecation warnings from GitHub Actions CI |
169 | by updating actions/github-script and actions/checkout that use | |
170 | node.js 20. | |
171 | ||
172 | * The mechanism to report the filename in the source code, used by | |
173 | the unit-test machinery, assumed that the compiler expanded __FILE__ | |
174 | to the path to the source given to the $(CC), but some compilers | |
175 | give full path, breaking the output. This has been corrected. | |
176 | ||
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177 | |
178 | Fixes since v2.43 | |
179 | ----------------- | |
180 | ||
181 | * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test | |
182 | suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected. | |
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183 | |
184 | * Update ref-related tests. | |
185 | ||
186 | * "git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when | |
187 | preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected. | |
188 | ||
189 | * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our | |
190 | (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version | |
191 | requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow | |
192 | simplifying our implementation. | |
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194 | * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records |
195 | information about commits that are lost from the object store, | |
196 | which has negative performance implications. The default has been | |
197 | flipped to disable this pessimization. | |
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198 | |
199 | * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or | |
200 | archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. | |
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201 | |
202 | * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed | |
203 | authentication material, which has been corrected. | |
624eb90f | 204 | |
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205 | * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new |
206 | paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice | |
207 | an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when | |
208 | rename detection was enabled. | |
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209 | |
210 | * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too | |
211 | loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the | |
212 | extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been | |
213 | tightened up. | |
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214 | |
215 | * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed | |
216 | to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was | |
217 | fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout". | |
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218 | |
219 | * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs | |
220 | even when BISECT_START file is gone. | |
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221 | |
222 | * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables | |
223 | specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected. | |
055bb6e9 | 224 | |
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225 | * Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git |
226 | show-ref". | |
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227 | |
228 | * The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid | |
229 | recursion. | |
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230 | |
231 | * "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message, | |
232 | which has been corrected. | |
e79552d1 | 233 | |
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234 | * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better |
235 | with the reftable backend. | |
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236 | |
237 | * "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and | |
238 | being rebased when both are in effect at the same time. | |
a26002b6 | 239 | |
a54a84b3 JH |
240 | * "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command |
241 | line parameters, which has been corrected. | |
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242 | |
243 | * "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the | |
244 | patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been | |
245 | corrected. | |
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246 | |
247 | * "git sparse-checkout (add|set) --[no-]cone --end-of-options" did | |
248 | not handle "--end-of-options" correctly after a recent update. | |
249 | ||
d4dbce1d JH |
250 | * Unlike other environment variables that took the usual |
251 | true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1, | |
252 | which has been corrected. | |
d4dbce1d | 253 | |
186b115d JH |
254 | * Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch |
255 | --recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core | |
256 | commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary | |
257 | data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected. | |
186b115d | 258 | |
c5b45477 | 259 | * Update to a new feature recently added, "git show-ref --exists". |
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260 | |
261 | * oss-fuzz tests are built and run in CI. | |
262 | (merge c4a9cf1df3 js/oss-fuzz-build-in-ci later to maint). | |
263 | ||
264 | * Rename detection logic ignored the final line of a file if it is an | |
265 | incomplete line. | |
c5b45477 | 266 | |
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267 | * GitHub CI update. |
268 | (merge 0188b2c8e0 pb/ci-github-skip-logs-for-broken-tests later to maint). | |
269 | ||
270 | * "git diff --no-rename A B" did not disable rename detection but did | |
271 | not trigger an error from the command line parser. | |
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272 | |
273 | * "git archive --remote=<remote>" learned to talk over the smart | |
274 | http (aka stateless) transport. | |
275 | (merge 176cd68634 jx/remote-archive-over-smart-http later to maint). | |
276 | ||
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277 | * Fetching via protocol v0 over Smart HTTP transport sometimes failed |
278 | to correctly auto-follow tags. | |
279 | (merge fba732c462 jk/fetch-auto-tag-following-fix later to maint). | |
280 | ||
281 | * The documentation for the --exclude-per-directory option marked it | |
282 | as deprecated, which confused readers into thinking there may be a | |
283 | plan to remove it in the future, which was not our intention. | |
284 | (merge 0009542cab jc/ls-files-doc-update later to maint). | |
285 | ||
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286 | * "git diff --no-index file1 file2" segfaulted while invoking the |
287 | external diff driver, which has been corrected. | |
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288 | |
289 | * Rewrite //-comments to /* comments */ in files whose comments | |
290 | prevalently use the latter. | |
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291 | |
292 | * Cirrus CI jobs started breaking because we specified version of | |
293 | FreeBSD that is no longer available, which has been corrected. | |
294 | (merge 81fffb66d3 cb/use-freebsd-13-2-at-cirrus-ci later to maint). | |
295 | ||
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296 | * A caller called index_file_exists() that takes a string expressed |
297 | as <ptr, length> with a wrong length, which has been corrected. | |
298 | (merge 156e28b36d jh/sparse-index-expand-to-path-fix later to maint). | |
299 | ||
ad1a6695 JH |
300 | * A failed "git tag -s" did not necessarily result in an error |
301 | depending on the crypto backend, which has been corrected. | |
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302 | |
303 | * "git stash" sometimes was silent even when it failed due to | |
304 | unwritable index file, which has been corrected. | |
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305 | |
306 | * "git show-ref --verify" did not show things like "CHERRY_PICK_HEAD", | |
307 | which has been corrected. | |
308 | ||
4cde9f07 JH |
309 | * Recent conversion to allow more than 0/1 in GIT_FLUSH broke the |
310 | mechanism by flipping what yes/no means by mistake, which has been | |
311 | corrected. | |
4cde9f07 | 312 | |
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313 | * The sequencer machinery does not use the ref API and instead |
314 | records names of certain objects it needs for its correct operation | |
315 | in temporary files, which makes these objects susceptible to loss | |
316 | by garbage collection. These temporary files have been added as | |
317 | starting points for reachability analysis to fix this. | |
318 | (merge bc7f5db896 pw/gc-during-rebase later to maint). | |
319 | ||
320 | * "git cherry-pick" invoked during "git rebase -i" session lost | |
321 | the authorship information, which has been corrected. | |
322 | (merge e4301f73ff vn/rebase-with-cherry-pick-authorship later to maint). | |
323 | ||
324 | * The code paths that call repo_read_object_file() have been | |
325 | tightened to react to errors. | |
326 | (merge 568459bf5e js/check-null-from-read-object-file later to maint). | |
327 | ||
1a87c842 | 328 | * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
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329 | (merge 5aea3955bc rj/clarify-branch-doc-m later to maint). |
330 | (merge 9cce3be2df bk/bisect-doc-fix later to maint). | |
b50a608b | 331 | (merge 8430b438f6 vd/fsck-submodule-url-test later to maint). |
235986be | 332 | (merge 3cb4384683 jc/t0091-with-unknown-git later to maint). |
4fc51f00 | 333 | (merge 020456cb74 rs/receive-pack-remove-find-header later to maint). |
f41f85c9 | 334 | (merge bc47139f4f la/trailer-cleanups later to maint). |