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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt index fa2834bd72..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 +48,7 @@ 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 @@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features has symbolic links inside its $GIT_DIR; an error message when that happens has been updated. - * "git branch --format=..." and "git format-patch --format=..." - learns "--omit-empty" to hide refs that whose formatting result - becomes an empty string from the output. + * 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 @@ -91,6 +91,32 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * 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. @@ -160,6 +186,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 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 ----------------- @@ -325,6 +359,20 @@ Fixes since v2.40 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). @@ -346,3 +394,6 @@ Fixes since v2.40 (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). |