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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc index 9f8607a752..1e5281188f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.52.0.adoc @@ -14,6 +14,36 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new subcommand "git repo" gives users a way to grab various repository characteristics. + * A new command "git last-modified" has been added to show the closest + ancestor commit that touched each path. + + * "git refs exists" that works like "git show-ref --exists" has been + added. + + * "repo info" learns a short-hand option "-z" that is the same as + "--format=nul", and learns to report the objects format used in the + repository. + + * "core.commentChar=auto" that attempts to dynamically pick a + suitable comment character is non-workable, as it is too much + trouble to support for little benefit, and is marked as deprecated. + + * "git send-email" learned to drive "git imap-send" to store already + sent e-mails in an IMAP folder. + + * The "promisor-remote" capability mechanism has been updated to + allow the "partialCloneFilter" settings and the "token" value to be + communicated from the server side. + + * Declare that "git init" that is not otherwise configured uses + 'main' as the initial branch, not 'master', starting Git 3.0. + + * Keep giving hint about the default initial branch name for users + who may be surprised after Git 3.0 switch-over. + + * The stash.index configuration variable can be set to make "git stash + pop/apply" pretend that it was invoked with "--index". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -37,6 +67,41 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Remove dependency on the_repository and other globals from the commit-graph code, and other changes unrelated to de-globaling. + * Discord has been added to the first contribution documentation as + another way to ask for help. + + * Inspired by Ezekiel's recent effort to showcase Rust interface, the + hash function implementation used to hash lines have been updated + to the one used for ELF symbol lookup by Glibc. + + * Instead of scanning for the remaining items to see if there are + still commits to be explored in the queue, use khash to remember + which items are still on the queue (an unacceptable alternative is + to reserve one object flag bits). + + * The bulk-checkin code used to depend on a file-scope static + singleton variable, which has been updated to pass an instance + throughout the callchain. + + * CodingGuidelines now spells out how bitfields are to be written. + + * Adjust to the way newer versions of cURL selectivel enables tracing + options, so that our tests can continue to work. + (merge 1b5a6bfff3 jk/curl-global-trace-components later to maint). + + * The clear_alloc_state() API function was not fully clearing the + structure for reuse, but since nobody reuses it, replace it with a + variant that frees the structure as well, making the callers simpler. + + * "git range-diff" learned a way to limit the memory consumed by + O(N*N) cost matrix. + + * Some places in the code confused a variable that is *not* a boolean + to enable color but is an enum that records what the user requested + to do about color. A couple of bugs of this sort have been fixed, + while the code has been cleaned up to prevent similar bugs in the + future. + Fixes since v2.51 ----------------- @@ -86,6 +151,114 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. ignored") did not work well with "--name-only" and friends. (merge b55e6d36eb ly/diff-name-only-with-diff-from-content later to maint). + * Documentation for "git rebase" has been updated. + (merge 3f7f2b0359 je/doc-rebase later to maint). + + * The start_delayed_progress() function in the progress eye-candy API + did not clear its internal state, making an initial delay value + larger than 1 second ineffective, which has been corrected. + (merge 457534d041 js/progress-delay-fix later to maint). + + * The compatObjectFormat extension is used to hide an incomplete + feature that is not yet usable for any purpose other than + developing the feature further. Document it as such to discourage + its use by mere mortals. + (merge 716d905792 bc/doc-compat-object-format-not-working later to maint). + + * "git log -L..." compared trees of multiple parents with the tree of the + merge result in an unnecessarily inefficient way. + (merge 0a15bb634c sg/line-log-merge-optim later to maint). + + * Under a race against another process that is repacking the + repository, especially a partially cloned one, "git fetch" may + mistakenly think some objects we do have are missing, which has + been corrected. + (merge 8f32a5a6c0 jk/fetch-check-graph-objects-fix later to maint). + + * "git fetch" can clobber a symref that is dangling when the + remote-tracking HEAD is set to auto update, which has been + corrected. + + * "git describe <blob>" misbehaves and/or crashes in some corner + cases, which has been taught to exit with failure gracefully. + (merge 7c10e48e81 jk/describe-blob later to maint). + + * Manual page for "gitk" is updated with the current maintainer's + name. + (merge bcb20dda83 js/doc-gitk-history later to maint). + + * Update the instruction to use of GGG in the MyFirstContribution + document to say that a GitHub PR could be made against `git/git` + instead of `gitgitgadget/git`. + (merge 37001cdbc4 ds/doc-ggg-pr-fork-clarify later to maint). + + * Makefile tried to run multiple "cargo build" which would not work + very well; serialize their execution to work it around. + (merge 0eeacde50e da/cargo-serialize later to maint). + + * "git repack --path-walk" lost objects in some corner cases, which + has been corrected. + (merge 93afe9b060 ds/path-walk-repack-fix later to maint). + + * "git ls-files <pathspec>..." should not necessarily have to expand + the index fully if a sparsified directory is excluded by the + pathspec; the code is taught to expand the index on demand to avoid + this. + (merge 681f26bccc ds/ls-files-lazy-unsparse later to maint). + + * Windows "real-time monitoring" interferes with the execution of + tests and affects negatively in both correctness and performance, + which has been disabled in Gitlab CI. + (merge 608cf5b793 ps/gitlab-ci-disable-windows-monitoring later to maint). + + * A broken or malicious "git fetch" can say that it has the same + object for many many times, and the upload-pack serving it can + exhaust memory storing them redundantly, which has been corrected. + (merge 88a2dc68c8 ps/upload-pack-oom-protection later to maint). + + * A corner case bug in "git log -L..." has been corrected. + (merge e3106998ff sg/line-log-boundary-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse --short" and friends failed to disambiguate two + objects with object names that share common prefix longer than 32 + characters, which has been fixed. + (merge 8655908b9e jc/longer-disambiguation-fix later to maint). + + * Some among "git add -p" and friends ignored color.diff and/or + color.ui configuration variables, which is an old regression, which + has been corrected. + (merge 1092cd6435 jk/add-i-color later to maint). + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) did not work correctly when splitting + squashed subtrees, which has been improved. + + * Import a newer version of the clar unit testing framework. + (merge 93dbb6b3c5 ps/clar-updates later to maint). + + * "git send-email --compose --reply-to=<address>" used to add + duplicated Reply-To: header, which made mailservers unhappy. This + has been corrected. + (merge f448f65719 nb/send-email-no-dup-reply-to later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" failed to clean-up the commit log message when the + command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which + has been corrected. + (merge 82a0a73e15 pw/rebase-i-cleanup-fix later to maint). + + * There are double frees and leaks around setup_revisions() API used + in "git stash show", which has been fixed, and setup_revisions() + API gained a wrapper to make it more ergonomic when using it with + strvec-manged argc/argv pairs. + (merge a04bc71725 jk/setup-revisions-freefix later to maint). + + * Deal more gracefully with directory / file conflicts when the files + backend is used for ref storage, by failing only the ones that are + involved in the conflict while allowing others. + (merge 948b2ab0d8 kn/refs-files-case-insensitive later to maint). + + * "git last-modified" operating in non-recursive mode used to trigger + a BUG(), which has been corrected. + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 823d537fa7 kh/doc-git-log-markup-fix later to maint). (merge cf7efa4f33 rj/t6137-cygwin-fix later to maint). @@ -94,3 +267,20 @@ including security updates, are included in this release. (merge 741f36c7d9 kr/clone-synopsis-fix later to maint). (merge a60203a015 dk/t7005-editor-updates later to maint). (merge 7d4a5fef7d ds/doc-count-objects-fix later to maint). + (merge 16684b6fae ps/reftable-libgit2-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f38786baa7 ja/asciidoc-doctor-verbatim-fixes later to maint). + (merge 374579c6d4 kh/doc-interpret-trailers-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge 44dce6541c kh/doc-config-typofix later to maint). + (merge 785628b173 js/doc-sending-patch-via-thunderbird later to maint). + (merge e5c27bd3d8 je/doc-add later to maint). + (merge 13296ac909 ps/object-store-midx-dedup-info later to maint). + (merge 2f4bf83ffc km/alias-doc-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge b0d97aac19 kh/doc-markup-fixes later to maint). + (merge f9a6705d9a tc/t0450-harden later to maint). + (merge c25651aefd ds/midx-write-fixes later to maint). + (merge 069c15d256 rs/object-name-extend-abbrev-len-update later to maint). + (merge bf5c224537 mm/worktree-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 31397bc4f7 kh/doc-fast-import-markup-fix later to maint). + (merge ac7096723b jc/doc-includeif-hasconfig-remote-url-fix later to maint). + (merge fafc9b08b8 ag/doc-sendmail-gmail-example-update later to maint). + (merge a66fc22bf9 rs/get-oid-with-flags-cleanup later to maint). |