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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt index 0fc82a83fc..8a9e17016e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Git v2.41 Release Notes UI, Workflows & Features - * Allow information carried on the WWW-AUthenticate header to be + * Allow information carried on the WWW-Authenticate header to be passed to the credential helpers. * A new "fetch.hideRefs" option can be used to exclude specified refs @@ -48,7 +48,74 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git clone" from an empty repository learned to propagate the choice of the hash algorithm from the source repository to the - newly created repository. + newly created repository over any one of the v0/v1/v2 protocol. + + * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learns a new configuration + guiDefault to optionally favor configured guitool over non-gui-tool + automatically when $DISPLAY is set. + + * "git branch -d origin/master" would say "no such branch", but it is + likely a missed "-r" if refs/remotes/origin/master exists. The + command has been taught to give such a hint in its error message. + + * Clean-up of the code path that deals with merge strategy option + handling in "git rebase". + + * "git clone --local" stops copying from an original repository that + has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that + happens has been updated. + + * The "--format=..." option of "git for-each-ref", "git branch", and + "git tag" commands learn "--omit-empty" to hide refs whose + formatting results in an empty string from the output. + + * The sendemail-validate validate hook learned to pass the total + number of input files and where in the sequence each invocation is + via environment variables. + + * When "gc" needs to retain unreachable objects, packing them into + cruft packs (instead of exploding them into loose object files) has + been offered as a more efficient option for some time. Now the use + of cruft packs has been made the default and no longer considered + an experimental feature. + + * The output given by "git blame" that attributes a line to contents + taken from the file specified by the "--contents" option shows it + differently from a line attributed to the working tree file. + + * "git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate + hook by passing an extra argument from the command line. + + * The credential subsystem learns to help OAuth framework. + + * The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably + short limit, which has been removed. + + * Error messages given when working on an unborn branch that is + checked out in another worktree have been improved. + + * The documentation was misleading about the interaction between + GIT_DEFAULT_HASH and "git clone", which has been clarified to + stress that the variable is to be ignored by the command. + + * "git send-email" learned "--header-cmd=<cmd>" that can inject + arbitrary e-mail header lines to the outgoing messages. + + * "git fsck" learned to detect bit-flip breakages in the reachability + bitmap files. + + * The "--stdin" option of "git name-rev" has been replaced with + the "--annotate-stdin" option more than a year ago. We stop + advertising it in the "git name-rev -h" output. + + * "git push --all" gained an alias "git push --branches". + + * "git fetch" learned the "--porcelain" option that emits what it did + in a machine-parseable format. + + * "git --attr-source=<tree> cmd $args" is a new way to have any + command to read attributes not from the working tree but from the + given tree object. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -88,6 +155,45 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git sparse-checkout" command learns a debugging aid for the sparse rule definitions. + * "git write-tree" learns to work better with sparse-index. + + * The on-disk reverse index that allows mapping from the pack offset + to the object name for the object stored at the offset has been + enabled by default. + + * "git fsck" learned to validate the on-disk pack reverse index files. + + * strtok() and strtok_r() are banned in this codebase. + + * The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system + had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra + suffixes. The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like + "-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share + the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix. + + * ctype tests have been taught to test EOF, too. + + * The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed + size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of + the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has + been corrected. + + * The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common + ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive; + it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage. + + * Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation + formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better + output these days. + + * The tracing mechanism learned to notice and report when + auto-discovered bare repositories are being used, as allowing so + without explicitly stating the user intends to do so (with setting + GIT_DIR for example) can be used with social engineering as an + attack vector. + + * "git diff-files" learned not to expand sparse-index unless needed. + Fixes since v2.40 ----------------- @@ -193,6 +299,80 @@ Fixes since v2.40 /usr/bin/perl, which have been corrected. (merge c1917156a0 jk/use-perl-path-consistently later to maint). + * Documentation mark-up fix. + (merge 78b6369e67 la/mfc-markup-fix later to maint). + + * Doc toolchain update to remove old workaround for AsciiDoc. + (merge 8806120de6 fc/remove-header-workarounds-for-asciidoc later to maint). + + * The userdiff regexp patterns for various filetypes that are built + into the system have been updated to avoid triggering regexp errors + from UTF-8 aware regex engines. + (merge be39144954 rs/userdiff-multibyte-regex later to maint). + + * The approxidate() API has been simplified by losing an extra + function that did the same thing as another one. + (merge 8a7f0b666f rs/remove-approxidate-relative later to maint). + + * Code clean-up to replace a hardcoded constant with a CPP macro. + (merge c870de6502 rs/get-tar-commit-id-use-defined-const later to maint). + + * Doc build simplification. + (merge 9a09ed3229 fc/doc-stop-using-manversion later to maint). + + * "git archive" run from a subdirectory mishandled attributes and + paths outside the current directory. + (merge 92b1dd1b9e rs/archive-from-subdirectory-fixes later to maint). + + * The code to parse capability list for v0 on-wire protocol fell into + an infinite loop when a capability appears multiple times, which + has been corrected. + + * Geometric repacking ("git repack --geometric=<n>") in a repository + that borrows from an alternate object database had various corner + case bugs, which have been corrected. + (merge d85cd18777 ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates later to maint). + + * The "%GT" placeholder for the "--format" option of "git log" and + friends caused BUG() to trigger on a commit signed with an unknown + key, which has been corrected. + (merge 7891e46585 jk/gpg-trust-level-fix later to maint). + + * The completion script used to use bare "read" without the "-r" + option to read the contents of various state files, which risked + getting confused with backslashes in them. This has been + corrected. + (merge 197152098a ek/completion-use-read-r-to-read-literally later to maint). + + * A small API fix to the ort merge strategy backend. + (merge 000c4ceca7 en/ort-finalize-after-0-merges-fix later to maint). + + * The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient + to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed + author/committer ident. + (merge 90ef0f14eb jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident later to maint). + + * Retitle a test script with an overly narrow name. + (merge 8bb19c14fb ob/t3501-retitle later to maint). + + * Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to + specify the end-of-line conversion. + (merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint). + + * Gitk updates from GfW project. + (merge 99e70f3077 js/gitk-fixes-from-gfw later to maint). + + * "git diff --dirstat" leaked memory, which has been plugged. + (merge 83973981eb jc/dirstat-plug-leaks later to maint). + + * "git merge-tree" reads the basic configuration, which can be used + by git forges to disable replace-refs feature. + (merge b6551feadf ds/merge-tree-use-config later to maint). + + * A few bugs in the sequencer machinery that results in miscounting + the steps have been corrected. + (merge 170eea9750 js/rebase-count-fixes later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint). (merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint). @@ -208,3 +388,12 @@ Fixes since v2.40 (merge cc48ddd937 jk/chainlint-fixes later to maint). (merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint). (merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint). + (merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint). + (merge d45cbe3fe0 ob/sequencer-i18n-fix later to maint). + (merge b734fe49fd ob/messages-capitalize-exception later to maint). + (merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint). + (merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint). + (merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint). + (merge cbb83daeaf kh/doc-interpret-trailers-updates later to maint). + (merge 3d77fbb664 ar/config-count-tests-updates later to maint). + (merge b7cf25c8f4 jc/t9800-fix-use-of-show-s-raw later to maint). |