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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.46.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.46.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d1e4d016a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.46.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,226 @@ +Git v2.46 Release Notes +======================= + +Backward Compatibility Notes + + (None at this moment) + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The "--rfc" option of "git format-patch" learned to take an + optional string value to be used in place of "RFC" to tweak the + "[PATCH]" on the subject header. + + * The credential helper protocol, together with the HTTP layer, have + been enhanced to support authentication schemes different from + username & password pair, like Bearer and NTLM. + + * Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete + "git symbolic-ref" a bit better (you need to enable plumbing + commands to be completed with GIT_COMPLETION_SHOW_ALL_COMMANDS). + + * When the user responds to a prompt given by "git add -p" with an + unsupported command, list of available commands were given, which + was too much if the user knew what they wanted to type but merely + made a typo. Now the user gets a much shorter error message. + + * The color parsing code learned to handle 12-bit RGB colors, spelled + as "#RGB" (in addition to "#RRGGBB" that is already supported). + + * The operation mode options (like "--get") the "git config" command + uses have been deprecated and replaced with subcommands (like "git + config get"). + + * "git tag" learned the "--trailer" option to futz with the trailers + in the same way as "git commit" does. + + * A new global "--no-advice" option can be used to disable all advice + messages, which is meant to be used only in scripts. + + * Updates to symbolic refs can now be made as a part of ref + transaction. + + * The trailer API has been reshuffled a bit. + + * Terminology to call various ref-like things are getting + straightened out. + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) has been adjusted + to the recent update to "git config" that adopted subcommand based + UI. + + * The knobs to tweak how reftable files are written have been made + available as configuration variables. + + * When "git push" notices that the commit at the tip of the ref on + the other side it is about to overwrite does not exist locally, it + used to first try fetching it if the local repository is a partial + clone. The command has been taught not to do so and immediately + fail instead. + + * The promisor.quiet configuration knob can be set to true to make + lazy fetching from promisor remotes silent. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Advertise "git contacts", a tool for newcomers to find people to + ask review for their patches, a bit more in our developer + documentation. + + * In addition to building the objects needed, try to link the objects + that are used in fuzzer tests, to make sure at least they build + without bitrot, in Linux CI runs. + + * Code to write out reftable has seen some optimization and + simplification. + + * Tests to ensure interoperability between reftable written by jgit + and our code have been added and enabled in CI. + + * The singleton index_state instance "the_index" has been eliminated + by always instantiating "the_repository" and replacing references + to "the_index" with references to its .index member. + + * Git-GUI has a new maintainer, Johannes Sixt. + + * The "test-tool" has been taught to run testsuite tests in parallel, + bypassing the need to use the "prove" tool. + + * The "whitespace check" task that was enabled for GitHub Actions CI + has been ported to GitLab CI. + + * The refs API lost functions that implicitly assumes to work on the + primary ref_store by forcing the callers to pass a ref_store as an + argument. + + * Code clean-up to reduce inter-function communication inside + builtin/config.c done via the use of global variables. + + * The pack bitmap code saw some clean-up to prepare for a follow-up topic. + + * Preliminary code clean-up for "git send-email". + + * The default "creation-factor" used by "git format-patch" has been + raised to make it more aggressively find matching commits. + + * Before discovering the repository details, We used to assume SHA-1 + as the "default" hash function, which has been corrected. Hopefully + this will smoke out codepaths that rely on such an unwarranted + assumptions. + + * The project decision making policy has been documented. + + * The strcmp-offset tests have been rewritten using the unit test + framework. + + * "git add -p" learned to complain when an answer with more than one + letter is given to a prompt that expects a single letter answer. + + * The alias-expanded command lines are logged to the trace output. + + +Fixes since v2.45 +----------------- + + * "git rebase --signoff" used to forget that it needs to add a + sign-off to the resulting commit when told to continue after a + conflict stops its operation. + (merge a6c2654f83 pw/rebase-m-signoff-fix later to maint). + + * The procedure to build multi-pack-index got confused by the + replace-refs mechanism, which has been corrected by disabling the + latter. + (merge 93e2ae1c95 xx/disable-replace-when-building-midx later to maint). + + * The "-k" and "--rfc" options of "format-patch" will now error out + when used together, as one tells us not to add anything to the + title of the commit, and the other one tells us to add "RFC" in + addition to "PATCH". + (merge cadcf58085 ds/format-patch-rfc-and-k later to maint). + + * "git stash -S" did not handle binary files correctly, which has + been corrected. + (merge 5fb7686409 aj/stash-staged-fix later to maint). + + * A scheduled "git maintenance" job is expected to work on all + repositories it knows about, but it stopped at the first one that + errored out. Now it keeps going. + (merge c75662bfc9 js/for-each-repo-keep-going later to maint). + + * zsh can pretend to be a normal shell pretty well except for some + glitches that we tickle in some of our scripts. Work them around + so that "vimdiff" and our test suite works well enough with it. + (merge fedd5c79ff bc/zsh-compatibility later to maint). + + * Command line completion support for zsh (in contrib/) has been + updated to stop exposing internal state to end-user shell + interaction. + (merge 3c20acdf46 dk/zsh-git-repo-path-fix later to maint). + + * Tests that try to corrupt in-repository files in chunked format did + not work well on macOS due to its broken "mv", which has been + worked around. + + * The maximum size of attribute files is enforced more consistently. + (merge c793f9cb08 tb/attr-limits later to maint). + + * Unbreak CI jobs so that we do not attempt to use Python 2 that has + been removed from the platform. + + * Git 2.43 started using the tree of HEAD as the source of attributes + in a bare repository, which has severe performance implications. + For now, revert the change, without ripping out a more explicit + support for the attr.tree configuration variable. + + * The "--exit-code" option of "git diff" command learned to work with + the "--ext-diff" option. + (merge 11be65cfa4 rs/external-diff-with-exit-code later to maint). + + * Windows CI running in GitHub Actions started complaining about the + order of arguments given to calloc(); the imported regex code uses + the wrong order almost consistently, which has been corrected. + + * Expose "name conflict" error when a ref creation fails due to D/F + conflict in the ref namespace, to improve an error message given by + "git fetch". + (merge 9339fca23e it/refs-name-conflict later to maint). + + * The SubmittingPatches document now refers folks to manpages + translation project. + + * The documentation for "git diff --name-only" has been clarified + that it is about showing the names in the post-image tree. + (merge 4986662cbc jc/doc-diff-name-only later to maint). + + * The credential helper that talks with osx keychain learned to avoid + storing back the authentication material it just got received from + the keychain. + (merge e1ab45b2da kn/osxkeychain-skip-idempotent-store later to maint). + + * The chainlint script (invoked during "make test") did nothing when + it failed to detect the number of available CPUs. It now falls + back to 1 CPU to avoid the problem. + (merge 2e7e9205be es/chainlint-ncores-fix later to maint). + + * Revert overly aggressive "layered defence" that went into 2.45.1 + and friends, which broke "git-lfs", "git-annex", and other use + cases, so that we can rebuild necessary counterparts in the open. + + * "git init" in an already created directory, when the user + configuration has includeif.onbranch, started to fail recently, + which has been corrected. + (merge 407997c1dd ps/fix-reinit-includeif-onbranch later to maint). + + * Memory leaks in "git mv" has been plugged. + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 55702c543e fa/p4-error later to maint). + (merge 2566a77774 vd/doc-merge-tree-x-option later to maint). + (merge b64b0df9da ds/scalar-reconfigure-all-fix later to maint). + (merge c81ffcff83 dm/update-index-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge fc0202b0e9 dg/fetch-pack-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7150f140f9 mt/t0211-typofix later to maint). + (merge d424488901 jc/rev-parse-fatal-doc later to maint). + (merge 36d900d2b0 rs/difftool-env-simplify later to maint). |