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1 | Git 2.14 Release Notes |
2 | ====================== | |
3 | ||
cac25fc3 | 4 | Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes. |
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5 | |
6 | * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for | |
7 | 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a | |
8 | more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing | |
9 | users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be | |
10 | turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of | |
11 | this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming | |
12 | release (yet). | |
13 | ||
14 | * Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup | |
15 | sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that | |
16 | happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). | |
17 | We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there | |
18 | might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are | |
19 | greatly appreciated. | |
20 | ||
b3a847d1 JH |
21 | * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual |
22 | diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now | |
23 | become the default. | |
24 | ||
cac25fc3 JH |
25 | * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE |
26 | library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease | |
27 | in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the | |
28 | upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but | |
29 | the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended. | |
30 | ||
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31 | |
32 | Updates since v2.13 | |
33 | ------------------- | |
34 | ||
35 | UI, Workflows & Features | |
36 | ||
37 | * The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names | |
38 | of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now | |
39 | configurable. | |
40 | ||
41 | * "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags | |
42 | initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in | |
43 | subsequent fetches. | |
44 | ||
45 | * "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when | |
46 | necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. | |
10c78a16 | 47 | |
e83352ef JH |
48 | * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option. |
49 | ||
50 | * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules. | |
e83352ef JH |
51 | |
52 | * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it | |
53 | to pack-objects. | |
54 | ||
0339965c JH |
55 | * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect |
56 | and reject a message before sending it out. | |
0339965c JH |
57 | |
58 | * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail | |
59 | when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref, | |
60 | even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant. | |
61 | ||
cac25fc3 JH |
62 | * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in |
63 | 2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched, | |
64 | and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in | |
65 | "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work". | |
66 | Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would | |
67 | show. The include will happen if either one matches. | |
0339965c | 68 | |
cac25fc3 JH |
69 | * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The |
70 | diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false" | |
71 | for those who do not want it. | |
b3a847d1 | 72 | |
a393b0a4 JH |
73 | * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse |
74 | configuration. | |
75 | ||
05ec6e13 JH |
76 | * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname |
77 | --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--" | |
78 | disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there, | |
79 | we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not | |
80 | look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A | |
81 | pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from | |
82 | the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you | |
83 | are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which | |
84 | required disambiguation more often. The command line parser | |
85 | learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax | |
86 | looks like so. | |
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87 | |
88 | * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT | |
89 | and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library. | |
90 | ||
5402b135 | 91 | * "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that can be used |
e0aaa1b6 | 92 | to define common functions/variables that can be used by other |
5402b135 JH |
93 | filters. |
94 | ||
a2ba37c5 JH |
95 | * Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of |
96 | a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which | |
97 | would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We | |
98 | learned to give warnings when this happens. | |
99 | ||
cac25fc3 JH |
100 | * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there |
101 | are in its output. | |
e0aaa1b6 | 102 | |
5116f791 JH |
103 | * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git |
104 | commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit, | |
105 | i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users. | |
106 | Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status | |
107 | (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in | |
108 | line with the focus of "git commit"). | |
10c78a16 | 109 | |
cac25fc3 JH |
110 | * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options |
111 | which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that | |
112 | restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session. | |
8b2efe2a | 113 | |
5e5a7cd9 JH |
114 | * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it |
115 | has outlived its usefulness. | |
116 | ||
f3da2b79 JH |
117 | * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the |
118 | branch in the submodules to an updated base. | |
119 | ||
9902d365 ÆAB |
120 | * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep" |
121 | already had such a synonym. | |
8b2efe2a | 122 | |
b18a38bf ÆAB |
123 | * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with |
124 | --perl-regexp. This has been fixed. | |
125 | ||
10c78a16 JH |
126 | Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
127 | ||
128 | * The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger | |
129 | platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while | |
130 | "gc" is running in parallel. | |
131 | ||
132 | * Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't | |
133 | accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object. | |
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134 | |
135 | * Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to | |
136 | remove the temporary directory used during the test. | |
137 | ||
138 | * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both | |
139 | AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. | |
10c78a16 JH |
140 | |
141 | * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our | |
142 | historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot | |
143 | represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a | |
144 | separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish | |
145 | timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good | |
146 | move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the | |
147 | timestamp_t. | |
148 | ||
1eb43702 JH |
149 | * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & |
150 | Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. | |
151 | ||
e83352ef JH |
152 | * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. |
153 | ||
0339965c JH |
154 | * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the |
155 | default in-core index. | |
0339965c JH |
156 | |
157 | * Add perf-test for wildmatch. | |
0339965c JH |
158 | |
159 | * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been | |
160 | extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module. | |
0339965c JH |
161 | |
162 | * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core | |
163 | index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are | |
164 | discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case | |
165 | that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the | |
166 | main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these | |
167 | operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the | |
168 | cache is properly invalidated). | |
e83352ef | 169 | |
826c0641 | 170 | * The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up. |
826c0641 | 171 | |
f164c1bf JH |
172 | * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as |
173 | recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of | |
174 | multi-line comments. | |
b3a847d1 JH |
175 | |
176 | * The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" have been | |
177 | cleaned up, in preparation for further changes. | |
178 | ||
179 | * The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it | |
180 | easier to use by cgit. | |
f164c1bf | 181 | |
a393b0a4 JH |
182 | * Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its |
183 | contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure | |
184 | to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to | |
185 | report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O | |
186 | error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open). | |
187 | ||
188 | The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and | |
189 | ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno | |
190 | with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so. | |
191 | ||
192 | * We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is | |
193 | optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such | |
194 | errors if they are not due to missing files. | |
195 | ||
05ec6e13 JH |
196 | * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first |
197 | create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of | |
198 | the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing, | |
199 | which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index | |
200 | being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy. | |
201 | ||
5402b135 JH |
202 | * Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated |
203 | to one. | |
5402b135 JH |
204 | |
205 | * "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent | |
206 | with other parts of the system. | |
207 | ||
a2ba37c5 JH |
208 | * A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z] |
209 | (which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The | |
210 | pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should | |
211 | with "wildmatch". | |
212 | ||
213 | * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured | |
214 | for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'. | |
a2ba37c5 JH |
215 | |
216 | * A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the | |
217 | pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new | |
218 | FREE_AND_NULL() macro. | |
219 | ||
5116f791 JH |
220 | * Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it |
221 | from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a | |
222 | threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may | |
223 | be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may | |
224 | end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful). | |
225 | ||
50ff9ea4 JH |
226 | * Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to |
227 | work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with | |
228 | the superproject and its submodules) in a single process. | |
229 | ||
230 | * Optimize "what are the object names already taken in an alternate | |
231 | object database?" query that is used to derive the length of prefix | |
232 | an object name is uniquely abbreviated to. | |
233 | ||
f3da2b79 JH |
234 | * The hashmap API has been updated so that data to customize the |
235 | behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a | |
236 | hashmap is initialized. | |
237 | ||
b7ef54f2 ÆAB |
238 | * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is |
239 | now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to | |
240 | ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get | |
241 | it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped | |
242 | as part of the tree. | |
10c78a16 | 243 | |
981adb92 JH |
244 | * A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while |
245 | compiling but supported only one sanitize option. Allow more than | |
246 | one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar". | |
247 | ||
248 | * Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly | |
249 | to parse. | |
250 | ||
19533e2c JH |
251 | * We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and friends, as |
252 | a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not | |
253 | play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot" | |
254 | that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot | |
255 | file. This is a possible workaround for that problem. | |
256 | ||
257 | * It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that | |
258 | returns failure when a directory is opened for reading. | |
259 | ||
10c78a16 JH |
260 | Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
261 | ||
262 | ||
263 | Fixes since v2.13 | |
264 | ----------------- | |
265 | ||
266 | Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance | |
267 | track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' | |
268 | notes for details). | |
269 | ||
270 | * "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed | |
271 | per-worktree refs. | |
272 | ||
273 | * "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery | |
274 | mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. | |
275 | This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added | |
276 | after completing the existing incomplete line. | |
10c78a16 JH |
277 | |
278 | * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" | |
279 | leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. | |
10c78a16 JH |
280 | |
281 | * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the | |
282 | per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did | |
283 | not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. | |
10c78a16 | 284 | |
1eb43702 JH |
285 | * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take |
286 | effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. | |
1eb43702 JH |
287 | |
288 | * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch | |
289 | tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. | |
1eb43702 JH |
290 | |
291 | * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though | |
292 | the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with | |
293 | ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is | |
294 | based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier | |
295 | to migrate away from it if/when necessary. | |
1eb43702 JH |
296 | |
297 | * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate | |
298 | records the same set of push options used for pushing. | |
1eb43702 JH |
299 | |
300 | * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism | |
301 | to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are | |
302 | not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. | |
1eb43702 | 303 | |
e83352ef JH |
304 | * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a |
305 | submodule that itself has submodules. | |
e83352ef | 306 | |
e83352ef JH |
307 | * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when |
308 | the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed | |
309 | in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This | |
310 | strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other | |
311 | options are in use, and need to be disabled. | |
e83352ef JH |
312 | |
313 | * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people). | |
e83352ef JH |
314 | |
315 | * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use | |
316 | --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request | |
317 | will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish | |
318 | to be merged. | |
e83352ef JH |
319 | |
320 | * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out | |
321 | with "platform native" line ending convention by default on | |
322 | Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts | |
323 | themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be | |
324 | checked out with eol=LF even on Windows. | |
e83352ef JH |
325 | |
326 | * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ..."). | |
e83352ef JH |
327 | |
328 | * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path | |
329 | configuration variables. | |
e83352ef JH |
330 | |
331 | * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does | |
332 | not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native | |
333 | speakers. Attempt to rephrase them. | |
e83352ef JH |
334 | |
335 | * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the | |
336 | documentation have been updated to https:// links. | |
e83352ef JH |
337 | |
338 | * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to | |
339 | resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs, | |
340 | which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem. | |
e83352ef JH |
341 | |
342 | * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'. | |
e83352ef JH |
343 | |
344 | * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has | |
345 | a new "push" subcommand. | |
e83352ef JH |
346 | |
347 | * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit | |
348 | -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end, | |
349 | i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been | |
350 | corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to | |
351 | the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it. | |
e83352ef JH |
352 | |
353 | * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other | |
354 | end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms | |
355 | that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND, | |
356 | but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing | |
357 | intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling | |
358 | traces from "receive-pack" in the test. | |
e83352ef JH |
359 | |
360 | * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at | |
361 | missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they | |
362 | should silently be ignored instead) | |
e83352ef | 363 | |
0339965c JH |
364 | * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that |
365 | they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the | |
366 | same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same | |
367 | age as the underlying commit would. | |
0339965c JH |
368 | |
369 | * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust | |
370 | against dead-locking in a threaded environment. | |
0339965c JH |
371 | |
372 | * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the | |
373 | tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or | |
374 | unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP | |
375 | tests have been salvaged to always run in this script. | |
0339965c JH |
376 | |
377 | * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only | |
378 | when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively. | |
0339965c | 379 | |
826c0641 JH |
380 | * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no |
381 | slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as | |
382 | that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem. | |
826c0641 JH |
383 | |
384 | * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files, | |
385 | even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x". | |
386 | "git status --ignored" did not list ignored and untracked files | |
387 | without "-uall". These have been corrected. | |
826c0641 JH |
388 | |
389 | * The result from "git diff" that compares two blobs, e.g. "git diff | |
390 | $commit1:$path $commit2:$path", used to be shown with the full | |
391 | object name as given on the command line, but it is more natural to | |
392 | use the $path in the output and use it to look up .gitattributes. | |
826c0641 | 393 | |
f164c1bf JH |
394 | * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 |
395 | was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that | |
396 | do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which | |
397 | has already fixed these issues. | |
f164c1bf JH |
398 | |
399 | * "git am -h" triggered a BUG(). | |
f164c1bf JH |
400 | |
401 | * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's | |
402 | whitelisting is now documented better. | |
b3a847d1 JH |
403 | |
404 | * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is | |
405 | closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by | |
406 | fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written | |
407 | but not yet closed. | |
b3a847d1 JH |
408 | |
409 | * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history | |
410 | fast-forwards to the upstream. | |
a393b0a4 JH |
411 | |
412 | * A flaky test has been corrected. | |
f164c1bf | 413 | |
05ec6e13 JH |
414 | * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the |
415 | command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository | |
416 | set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git | |
417 | potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing. | |
418 | (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint). | |
419 | ||
5402b135 | 420 | * Help contributors that visit us at GitHub. |
5402b135 JH |
421 | |
422 | * "git stash push <pathspec>" did not work from a subdirectory at all. | |
423 | Bugfix for a topic in v2.13 | |
5402b135 JH |
424 | |
425 | * As there is no portable way to pass timezone information to | |
426 | strftime, some output format from "git log" and friends are | |
427 | impossible to produce. Teach our own strbuf_addftime to replace %z | |
428 | and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this. | |
429 | (merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint). | |
430 | ||
a2ba37c5 JH |
431 | * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds |
432 | around underlying meld. | |
a2ba37c5 JH |
433 | |
434 | * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree | |
435 | configuration has been corrected. | |
a2ba37c5 JH |
436 | |
437 | * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an | |
438 | optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope | |
439 | of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization | |
440 | that is broken. | |
a2ba37c5 JH |
441 | |
442 | * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the | |
443 | configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and | |
444 | then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was | |
445 | unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the | |
446 | early-config mechanism that does not chdir around. | |
a2ba37c5 JH |
447 | |
448 | * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir | |
449 | that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API | |
450 | into its own header file. | |
451 | (merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint). | |
452 | ||
e0aaa1b6 JH |
453 | * "git add -p" were updated in 2.12 timeframe to cope with custom |
454 | core.commentchar but the implementation was buggy and a | |
455 | metacharacter like $ and * did not work. | |
e0aaa1b6 | 456 | |
5116f791 JH |
457 | * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests |
458 | that would have caught it and others have been added. | |
5116f791 | 459 | |
cac25fc3 | 460 | * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected. |
5116f791 JH |
461 | |
462 | * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input. | |
5116f791 | 463 | |
cac25fc3 | 464 | * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting |
50ff9ea4 | 465 | correctly. |
50ff9ea4 | 466 | |
8b2efe2a JH |
467 | * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation |
468 | learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation | |
469 | set does. | |
8b2efe2a | 470 | |
8b2efe2a | 471 | * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading. |
8b2efe2a JH |
472 | |
473 | * A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates | |
474 | did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in | |
475 | the certificate correctly. | |
8b2efe2a | 476 | |
5e5a7cd9 | 477 | * Update the character width tables. |
5e5a7cd9 JH |
478 | |
479 | * After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the | |
480 | code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends | |
481 | incorrectly stopped at the reflog entry that records the renaming | |
482 | of the branch. | |
5e5a7cd9 | 483 | |
8ba1d661 JH |
484 | * The rewrite of "git branch --list" using for-each-ref's internals |
485 | that happened in v2.13 regressed its handling of color.branch.local; | |
486 | this has been fixed. | |
f3da2b79 JH |
487 | |
488 | * The build procedure has been improved to allow building and testing | |
489 | Git with address sanitizer more easily. | |
19533e2c | 490 | (merge 425ca6710b jk/build-with-asan later to maint). |
8ba1d661 | 491 | |
cac25fc3 JH |
492 | * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository" |
493 | ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed | |
494 | locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double | |
495 | slashes at the beginning. | |
cac25fc3 JH |
496 | |
497 | * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had | |
498 | 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead | |
499 | show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more | |
500 | useful number. | |
cac25fc3 JH |
501 | |
502 | * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch. | |
cac25fc3 JH |
503 | |
504 | * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before | |
505 | daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background | |
506 | auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the | |
507 | early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the | |
508 | early part also under the GC lock. | |
cac25fc3 | 509 | |
981adb92 | 510 | * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter. |
981adb92 | 511 | |
10c78a16 | 512 | * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. |
8ba1d661 JH |
513 | (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint). |
514 | (merge 42c78a216e rs/use-div-round-up later to maint). | |
515 | (merge 5e8d2729ae rs/wt-status-cleanup later to maint). | |
4384e3cd JH |
516 | (merge bc9b7e207f as/diff-options-grammofix later to maint). |
517 | (merge ac05222b31 ah/patch-id-doc later to maint). |