Documentation/RelNotes/2.45.0.txt

   1 Git v2.45 Release Notes
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   4 Backward Compatibility Notes
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   6 UI, Workflows & Features
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   8  * Integrate the reftable code into the refs framework as a backend.
   9    With "git init --ref-format=reftable", hopefully it would be a lot
  10    more efficient to manage a repository with many references.
  11
  12  * "git checkout -p" and friends learned that that "@" is a synonym
  13    for "HEAD".
  14
  15  * Variants of vimdiff learned to honor mergetool.<variant>.layout
  16    settings.
  17
  18  * "git reflog" learned a "list" subcommand that enumerates known reflogs.
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  21 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  22
  23  * The code to iterate over refs with the reftable backend has seen
  24    some optimization.
  25
  26  * More tests that are marked as "ref-files only" have been updated to
  27    improve test coverage of reftable backend.
  28
  29  * Some parts of command line completion script (in contrib/) have
  30    been micro-optimized.
  31
  32  * The way placeholders are to be marked-up in documentation have been
  33    specified; use "_<placeholder>_" to typeset the word inside a pair
  34    of <angle-brakets> emphasized.
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  36
  37 Fixes since v2.44
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  39
  40  * "git apply" on a filesystem without filemode support have learned
  41    to take a hint from what is in the index for the path, even when
  42    not working with the "--index" or "--cached" option, when checking
  43    the executable bit match what is required by the preimage in the
  44    patch.
  45    (merge 45b625142d cp/apply-core-filemode later to maint).
  46
  47  * "git column" has been taught to reject negative padding value, as
  48    it would lead to nonsense behaviour including division by zero.
  49    (merge 76fb807faa kh/column-reject-negative-padding later to maint).
  50
  51  * "git am --help" now tells readers what actions are available in
  52    "git am --whitespace=<action>", in addition to saying that the
  53    option is passed through to the underlying "git apply".
  54    (merge a171dac734 jc/am-whitespace-doc later to maint).
  55
  56  * "git tag --column" failed to check the exit status of its "git
  57    column" invocation, which has been corrected.
  58    (merge 92e66478fc rj/tag-column-fix later to maint).
  59
  60  * Credential helper based on libsecret (in contrib/) has been updated
  61    to handle an empty password correctly.
  62    (merge 8f1f2023b7 mh/libsecret-empty-password-fix later to maint).
  63
  64  * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to honor the "--trust-exit-code"
  65    option; it used to always exit with 0 and signalled success.
  66    (merge eb84c8b6ce ps/difftool-dir-diff-exit-code later to maint).
  67
  68  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
  69    (merge f0e578c69c rs/use-xstrncmpz later to maint).
  70    (merge 83e6eb7d7a ba/credential-test-clean-fix later to maint).
  71    (merge 64562d784d jb/doc-interactive-singlekey-do-not-need-perl later to maint).
  72    (merge c431a235e2 cp/t9146-use-test-path-helpers later to maint).
  73    (merge 82d75402d5 ds/doc-send-email-capitalization later to maint).
  74    (merge 41bff66e35 jc/doc-add-placeholder-fix later to maint).
  75    (merge 6835f0efe9 jw/remote-doc-typofix later to maint).
  76    (merge 244001aa20 hs/rebase-not-in-progress later to maint).