of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard
error stream.
+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
+ trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible
+ change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or
+ setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by",
+ can be used to disable this behaviour.
+
Updates since v2.19
-------------------
* "git format-patch" learned new "--interdiff" and "--range-diff"
options to explain the difference between this version and the
- previous attempt in the cover letter (or after the tree-dashes as
+ previous attempt in the cover letter (or after the three-dashes as
a comment).
* "git mailinfo" used in "git am" learned to make a best-effort
meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
output.
- * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port fo Git is
+ * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port of Git is
now set to Vista.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of
been improved.
(merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint).
+ * The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via
+ "tree:0" filter.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
+ trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the
+ command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
+ variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
+
+ * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option.
+
+ * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
+ settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
+
+ * "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
+ "git difftool" does.
+
+ * "git rebase -i" learned a new insn, 'break', that the user can
+ insert in the to-do list. Upon hitting it, the command returns
+ control back to the user.
+
+ * New "--pretty=format:" placeholders %GF and %GP that show the GPG
+ key fingerprints have been invented.
+
+ * On platforms with recent cURL library, http.sslBackend configuration
+ variable can be used to choose a different SSL backend at runtime.
+ The Windows port uses this mechanism to switch between OpenSSL and
+ Secure Channel while talking over the HTTPS protocol.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to disable SMTP authentication via the
+ "--smtp-auth=none" option, even when the smtp username is given
+ (which turns the authentication on by default).
+
+ * A fourth class of configuration files (in addition to the
+ traditional "system wide", "per user in the $HOME directory" and
+ "per repository in the $GIT_DIR/config") has been introduced so
+ that different worktrees that share the same repository (hence the
+ same $GIT_DIR/config file) can use different customization.
+
+ * A pattern with '**' that does not have a slash on either side used
+ to be an invalid one, but the code now treats such double-asterisks
+ the same way as two normal asterisks that happen to be adjacent to
+ each other.
+ (merge e5bbe09e88 nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk later to maint).
+
+ * The "--no-patch" option, which can be used to get a high-level
+ overview without the actual line-by-line patch difference shown, of
+ the "range-diff" command was earlier broken, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * The recently merged "rebase in C" has an escape hatch to use the
+ scripted version when necessary, but it hasn't been documented,
+ which has been corrected.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more
coverage to various areas.
+ * More codepaths are moving away from hardcoded hash sizes.
+
+ * The way the Windows port figures out the current directory has been
+ improved.
+
+ * The way DLLs are loaded on the Windows port has been improved.
+
+ * Some tests have been reorganized and renamed; "ls t/" now gives a
+ better overview of what is tested for these scripts than before.
+
+ * "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" have been reimplemented in C.
+
+ * Windows port learned to use nano-second resolution file timestamps.
+
+ * The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into
+ million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece
+ included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
+
+ * Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git
+ fetch" with hashmaps.
+
+ * Unify code to read the author-script used in "git am" and the
+ commands that use the sequencer machinery, e.g. "git rebase -i".
+
+ * In preparation to the day when we can deprecate and remove the
+ "rebase -p", make sure we can skip and later remove tests for
+ it.
+
+ * The history traversal used to implement the tag-following has been
+ optimized by introducing a new helper.
+
+ * The helper function to refresh the cached stat information in the
+ in-core index has learned to perform the lstat() part of the
+ operation in parallel on multi-core platforms.
+
+ * The code to traverse objects for reachability, used to decide what
+ objects are unreferenced and expendable, have been taught to also
+ consider per-worktree refs of other worktrees as starting points to
+ prevent data loss.
+
+ * "git add" needs to internally run "diff-files" equivalent, and the
+ codepath learned the same optimization as "diff-files" has to run
+ lstat(2) in parallel to find which paths have been updated in the
+ working tree.
+
+ * The procedure to install dependencies before testing at Travis CI
+ is getting revamped for both simplicity and flexibility, taking
+ advantage of the recent move to the vm-based environment.
+
+ * The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line
+ completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.
+
+ * The revision walker machinery learned to take advantage of the
+ commit generation numbers stored in the commit-graph file.
+
+ * The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS".
+
+ * The way -lcurl library gets linked has been simplified by taking
+ advantage of the fact that we can just ask curl-config command how.
+
+ * Various functions have been audited for "-Wunused-parameter" warnings
+ and bugs in them got fixed.
+
+ * A sanity check for start-up sequence has been added in the config
+ API codepath.
+
+ * The build procedure to link for fuzzing test has been made
+ customizable with a new Makefile variable.
+
+ * The way "git rebase" parses and forwards the command line options
+ meant for underlying "git am" has been revamped, which fixed for
+ options with parameters that were not passed correctly.
+
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
parent commits, which has been corrected.
(merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint).
+ * "git range-diff" did not work well when the compared ranges had
+ changes in submodules and the "--submodule=log" was used.
+
+ * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
+ bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
+ directory.
+ (merge f67b980771 jk/run-command-notdot later to maint).
+
+ * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
+ and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
+ (merge 34204c8166 js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
+ Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
+ were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
+ (merge ffd04e92e2 js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix later to maint).
+
+ * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
+ when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
+ as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge b072a25fad jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The logic to determine the archive type "git archive" uses did not
+ correctly kick in for "git archive --remote", which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
+ shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
+ does not pass fsck.
+ (merge 5dcfbf564c js/shallow-and-fetch-prune later to maint).
+
+ * Some codepaths failed to form a proper URL when .gitmodules record
+ the URL to a submodule repository as relative to the repository of
+ superproject, which has been corrected.
+ (merge e0a862fdaf sb/submodule-url-to-absolute later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" over protocol v2 into a shallow repository failed to
+ fetch full history behind a new tip of history that was diverged
+ before the cut-off point of the history that was previously fetched
+ shallowly.
+
+ * The command line completion machinery (in contrib/) has been
+ updated to allow the completion script to tweak the list of options
+ that are reported by the parse-options machinery correctly.
+ (merge 276b49ff34 nd/completion-negation later to maint).
+
+ * Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
+ small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
+ machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
+ and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
+ didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
+ (merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
+ file is getting prepared for the transition.
+ (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
+
+ * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
+ '--verbose-log' option.
+ (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
+
+ * A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
+ loop while processing truncated loose objects.
+ (merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint).
+
+ * "git ls-remote $there foo" was broken by recent update for the
+ protocol v2 and stopped showing refs that match 'foo' that are not
+ refs/{heads,tags}/foo, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 6a139cdd74 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Additional comment on a tricky piece of code to help developers.
+ (merge 0afbe3e806 jk/stream-pack-non-delta-clarification later to maint).
+
+ * A couple of tests used to leave the repository in a state that is
+ deliberately corrupt, which have been corrected.
+ (merge aa984dbe5e ab/pack-tests-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * The submodule support has been updated to read from the blob at
+ HEAD:.gitmodules when the .gitmodules file is missing from the
+ working tree.
+ (merge 2b1257e463 ao/submodule-wo-gitmodules-checked-out later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" was a bit loose in parsing responses from the other side
+ when talking over the protocol v2.
+
+ * "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first
+ saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches"
+ and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time")
+ worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the
+ same way, which has been fixed.
+ (merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git send-email --transfer-encoding=..." in recent versions of Git
+ sometimes produced an empty "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" header,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 3c88e46f1a al/send-email-auto-cte-fixup later to maint).
+
+ * The interface into "xdiff" library used to discover the offset and
+ size of a generated patch hunk by first formatting it into the
+ textual hunk header "@@ -n,m +k,l @@" and then parsing the numbers
+ out. A new interface has been introduced to allow callers a more
+ direct access to them.
+ (merge 5eade0746e jk/xdiff-interface later to maint).
+
+ * Pathspec matching against a tree object were buggy when negative
+ pathspec elements were involved, which has been fixed.
+ (merge b7845cebc0 nd/tree-walk-path-exclusion later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge" and "git pull" that merges into an unborn branch used
+ to completely ignore "--verify-signatures", which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 01a31f3bca jk/verify-sig-merge-into-void later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --autostash" did not correctly re-attach the HEAD at times.
+
+ * "rev-parse --exclude=<pattern> --branches=<pattern>" etc. did not
+ quite work, which has been corrected.
+ (merge 9ab9b5df0e ra/rev-parse-exclude-glob later to maint).
+
+ * When editing a patch in a "git add -i" session, a hunk could be
+ made to no-op. The "git apply" program used to reject a patch with
+ such a no-op hunk to catch user mistakes, but it is now updated to
+ explicitly allow a no-op hunk in an edited patch.
+ (merge 22cb3835b9 js/apply-recount-allow-noop later to maint).
+
+ * The URL to an MSDN page in a comment has been updated.
+ (merge 2ef2ae2917 js/mingw-msdn-url later to maint).
+
+ * "git ls-remote --sort=<thing>" can feed an object that is not yet
+ available into the comparison machinery and segfault, which has
+ been corrected to check such a request upfront and reject it.
+
+ * When "git bundle" aborts due to an empty commit ranges
+ (i.e. resulting in an empty pack), it left a file descriptor to an
+ lockfile open, which resulted in leftover lockfile on Windows where
+ you cannot remove a file with an open file descriptor. This has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 2c8ee1f53c jk/close-duped-fd-before-unlock-for-bundle later to maint).
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
(merge ca8ed443a5 mm/doc-no-dashed-git later to maint).
(merge ce366a8144 du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing later to maint).
(merge 61018fe9e0 du/cherry-is-plumbing later to maint).
+ (merge c7e5fe79b9 sb/strbuf-h-update later to maint).
+ (merge 8d2008196b tq/branch-create-wo-branch-get later to maint).
+ (merge 2e3c894f4b tq/branch-style-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c5d844af9c sg/doc-show-branch-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 081d91618b ah/doc-updates later to maint).
+ (merge b84c783882 jc/cocci-preincr later to maint).
+ (merge 5e495f8122 uk/merge-subtree-doc-update later to maint).
+ (merge aaaa881822 jk/uploadpack-packobjectshook-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 3063477445 tb/char-may-be-unsigned later to maint).
+ (merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 71571cd7d6 ma/sequencer-do-reset-saner-loop-termination later to maint).
+ (merge 9a4cb8781e cb/notes-freeing-always-null-fix later to maint).
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