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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8cbcba7384..0000000000 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.42.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,151 +0,0 @@ -Git v2.42 Release Notes -======================= - -UI, Workflows & Features - - * "git pack-refs" learns "--include" and "--exclude" to tweak the ref - hierarchy to be packed using pattern matching. - - * 'git worktree add' learned how to create a worktree based on an - orphaned branch with `--orphan`. - - * "git pack-objects" learned to invoke a new hook program that - enumerates extra objects to be used as anchoring points to keep - otherwise unreachable objects in cruft packs. - - * Add more "git var" for toolsmiths to learn various locations Git is - configured with either via the configuration or hardcoded defaults. - - -Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - - * "git diff-tree" has been taught to take advantage of the - sparse-index feature. - - * Clang's sanitizer implementation seems to work better than GCC's. - (merge d88d727143 jk/ci-use-clang-for-sanitizer-jobs later to maint). - - * The object traversal using reachability bitmap done by - "pack-object" has been tweaked to take advantage of the fact that - using "boundary" commits as representative of all the uninteresting - ones can save quite a lot of object enumeration. - - * discover_git_directory() no longer touches the_repository. - - * "git worktree" learned to work better with sparse index feature. - - * When the external merge driver is killed by a signal, its output - should not be trusted as a resolution with conflicts that is - proposed by the driver, but the code did. - - * The set-up code for the get_revision() API now allows feeding - options like --all and --not in the --stdin mode. - - -Fixes since v2.41 ------------------ - - * "git tag" learned to leave the "$GIT_DIR/TAG_EDITMSG" file when the - command failed, so that the user can salvage what they typed. - (merge 08c12ec1d0 kh/keep-tag-editmsg-upon-failure later to maint). - - * The "-s" (silent, squelch) option of the "diff" family of commands - did not interact with other options that specify the output format - well. This has been cleaned up so that it will clear all the - formatting options given before. - (merge 9d484b92ed jc/diff-s-with-other-options later to maint). - - * Update documentation regarding Coccinelle patches. - (merge 3bd0097cfc gc/doc-cocci-updates later to maint). - - * Some atoms that can be used in "--format=<format>" for "git ls-tree" - were not supported by "git ls-files", even though they were relevant - in the context of the latter. - (merge 4d28c4f75f zh/ls-files-format-atoms later to maint). - - * Document more pseudo-refs and teach the command line completion - machinery to complete AUTO_MERGE. - (merge 982ff3a649 pb/complete-and-document-auto-merge-and-friends later to maint). - - * "git submodule" code trusted the data coming from the config (and - the in-tree .gitmodules file) too much without validating, leading - to NULL dereference if the user mucks with a repository (e.g. - submodule.<name>.url is removed). This has been corrected. - (merge fbc806acd1 tb/submodule-null-deref-fix later to maint). - - * The value of config.worktree is per-repository, but has been kept - in a singleton global variable per process. This has been OK as - most Git operations interacted with a single repository at a time, - but not right for operations like recursive "grep" that want to - access multiple repositories from a single process without forking. - - The global variable has been eliminated and made into a member in - the per-repository data structure. - (merge 3867f6d650 vd/worktree-config-is-per-repository later to maint). - - * "git [-c log.follow=true] log [--follow] ':(glob)f**'" used to barf. - (merge 8260bc5902 jk/log-follow-with-non-literal-pathspec later to maint). - - * Introduce a mechanism to disable replace refs globally and per - repository. - (merge 9c7d1b057f ds/disable-replace-refs later to maint). - - * "git cat-file --batch" and friends learned "-Z" that uses NUL - delimiter for both input and output. - (merge f79e18849b ps/cat-file-null-output later to maint). - - * The reimplemented "git add -i" did not honor color.ui configuration. - (merge 6f74648cea ds/add-i-color-configuration-fix later to maint). - - * Compilation fix for platforms without D_TYPE in struct dirent. - (merge 03bf92b9bf as/dtype-compilation-fix later to maint). - - * Suggest to refrain from using hex literals that are non-portable - when writing printf(1) format strings. - (merge f0b68f0546 jt/doc-use-octal-with-printf later to maint). - - * Simplify error message when run-command fails to start a command. - (merge 6d224ac286 rs/run-command-exec-error-on-noent later to maint). - - * Gracefully deal with a stale MIDX file that lists a packfile that - no longer exists. - (merge 06f3867865 tb/open-midx-bitmap-fallback later to maint). - - * Even when diff.ignoreSubmodules tells us to ignore submodule - changes, "git commit" with an index that already records changes to - submodules should include the submodule changes in the resulting - commit, but it did not. - (merge 5768478edc js/defeat-ignore-submodules-config-with-explicit-addition later to maint). - - * When "git commit --trailer=..." invokes the interpret-trailers - machinery, it knows what it feeds to interpret-trailers is a full - log message without any patch, but failed to express that by - passing the "--no-divider" option, which has been corrected. - (merge be3d654343 jk/commit-use-no-divider-with-interpret-trailers later to maint). - - * Avoid breakage of "git pack-objects --cruft" due to inconsistency - between the way the code enumerates packfiles in the repository. - (merge 73320e49ad tb/collect-pack-filenames-fix later to maint). - - * We create .pack and then .idx, we consider only packfiles that have - .idx usable (those with only .pack are not ready yet), so we should - remove .idx before removing .pack for consistency. - (merge 0dd1324a73 ds/remove-idx-before-pack later to maint). - - * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 51f9d2e563 sa/doc-ls-remote later to maint). - (merge c6d26a9dda jk/format-patch-message-id-unleak later to maint). - (merge f7e063f326 ps/fetch-cleanups later to maint). - (merge e4cf013468 tl/quote-problematic-arg-for-clarity later to maint). - (merge 20025fdfc7 tz/test-ssh-verifytime-fix later to maint). - (merge e48a21df65 tz/test-fix-pthreads-prereq later to maint). - (merge 68b51172e3 mh/commit-reach-get-reachable-plug-leak later to maint). - (merge aeee1408ce kh/use-default-notes-doc later to maint). - (merge 3b8724bce6 jc/test-modernization later to maint). - (merge 447a3b7331 jc/test-modernization-2 later to maint). - (merge d57fa7fc73 la/doc-interpret-trailers later to maint). - (merge 548afb0d9a la/docs-typofixes later to maint). - (merge 3744ffcbcd rs/doc-ls-tree-hex-literal later to maint). - (merge 6c26da8404 mh/credential-erase-improvements later to maint). - (merge 78e56cff69 tz/lib-gpg-prereq-fix later to maint). - (merge 80d32e84b5 rj/leakfixes later to maint). |