338 lines
15 KiB
Plaintext
338 lines
15 KiB
Plaintext
Git v2.37 Release Notes
|
|
=======================
|
|
|
|
UI, Workflows & Features
|
|
|
|
* "vimdiff[123]" mergetool drivers have been reimplemented with a
|
|
more generic layout mechanism.
|
|
|
|
* "git -v" and "git -h" are now understood as "git --version" and
|
|
"git --help".
|
|
|
|
* The temporary files fed to external diff command are now generated
|
|
inside a new temporary directory under the same basename.
|
|
|
|
* "git log --since=X" will stop traversal upon seeing a commit that
|
|
is older than X, but there may be commits behind it that is younger
|
|
than X when the commit was created with a faulty clock. A new
|
|
option is added to keep digging without stopping, and instead
|
|
filter out commits with timestamp older than X.
|
|
|
|
* "git -c branch.autosetupmerge=simple branch $A $B" will set the $B
|
|
as $A's upstream only when $A and $B shares the same name, and "git
|
|
-c push.default=simple" on branch $A would push to update the
|
|
branch $A at the remote $B came from. Also more places use the
|
|
sole remote, if exists, before defaulting to 'origin'.
|
|
|
|
* A new doc has been added that lists tips for tools to work with
|
|
Git's codebase.
|
|
|
|
* "git remote -v" now shows the list-objects-filter used during
|
|
fetching from the remote, if available.
|
|
|
|
* With the new http.curloptResolve configuration, the CURLOPT_RESOLVE
|
|
mechanism that allows cURL based applications to use pre-resolved
|
|
IP addresses for the requests is exposed to the scripts.
|
|
|
|
* "git add -i" was rewritten in C some time ago and has been in
|
|
testing; the reimplementation is now exposed to general public by
|
|
default.
|
|
|
|
* Deprecate non-cone mode of the sparse-checkout feature.
|
|
|
|
* Introduce a filesystem-dependent mechanism to optimize the way the
|
|
bits for many loose object files are ensured to hit the disk
|
|
platter.
|
|
|
|
* The "do not remove the directory the user started Git in" logic,
|
|
when Git cannot tell where that directory is, is disabled. Earlier
|
|
we refused to run in such a case.
|
|
|
|
* A mechanism to pack unreachable objects into a "cruft pack",
|
|
instead of ejecting them into loose form to be reclaimed later, has
|
|
been introduced.
|
|
|
|
* Update the doctype written in gitweb output to xhtml5.
|
|
|
|
* The "transfer.credentialsInURL" configuration variable controls what
|
|
happens when a URL with embedded login credential is used on either
|
|
"fetch" or "push". Credentials are currently only detected in
|
|
`remote.<name>.url` config, not `remote.<name>.pushurl`.
|
|
|
|
* "git revert" learns "--reference" option to use more human-readable
|
|
reference to the commit it reverts in the message template it
|
|
prepares for the user.
|
|
|
|
* Various error messages that talk about the removal of
|
|
"--preserve-merges" in "rebase" have been strengthened, and "rebase
|
|
--abort" learned to get out of a state that was left by an earlier
|
|
use of the option.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
|
|
|
|
* The performance of the "untracked cache" feature has been improved
|
|
when "--untracked-files=<mode>" and "status.showUntrackedFiles"
|
|
are combined.
|
|
|
|
* "git stash" works better with sparse index entries.
|
|
|
|
* "git show :<path>" learned to work better with the sparse-index
|
|
feature.
|
|
|
|
* Introduce and apply coccinelle rule to discourage an explicit
|
|
comparison between a pointer and NULL, and applies the clean-up to
|
|
the maintenance track.
|
|
|
|
* Preliminary code refactoring around transport and bundle code.
|
|
|
|
* "sparse-checkout" learns to work better with the sparse-index
|
|
feature.
|
|
|
|
* A workflow change for translators are being proposed. git.pot is
|
|
no longer version controlled and it is local responsibility of
|
|
translators to generate it.
|
|
|
|
* Plug the memory leaks from the trickiest API of all, the revision
|
|
walker.
|
|
|
|
* Rename .env_array member to .env in the child_process structure.
|
|
|
|
* The fsmonitor--daemon handles even more corner cases when
|
|
watching filesystem events.
|
|
|
|
* A new bug() and BUG_if_bug() API is introduced to make it easier to
|
|
uniformly log "detect multiple bugs and abort in the end" pattern.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fixes since v2.36
|
|
-----------------
|
|
|
|
* "git submodule update" without pathspec should silently skip an
|
|
uninitialized submodule, but it started to become noisy by mistake.
|
|
(merge 4f1ccef87c gc/submodule-update-part2 later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "diff-tree --stdin" has been broken for about a year, but 2.36
|
|
release broke it even worse by breaking running the command with
|
|
<pathspec>, which in turn broke "gitk" and got noticed. This has
|
|
been corrected by aligning its behaviour to that of "log".
|
|
(merge f8781bfda3 jc/diff-tree-stdin-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Regression fix for 2.36 where "git name-rev" started to sometimes
|
|
reference strings after they are freed.
|
|
(merge 45a14f578e rs/name-rev-fix-free-after-use later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git show <commit1> <commit2>... -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec
|
|
when showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
|
|
corrected.
|
|
(merge 5cdb38458e jc/show-pathspec-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git fast-export -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when showing the
|
|
second and subsequent commits, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge d1c25272f5 rs/fast-export-pathspec-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git format-patch <args> -- <pathspec>" lost the pathspec when
|
|
showing the second and subsequent commits, which has been
|
|
corrected.
|
|
(merge 91f8f7e46f rs/format-patch-pathspec-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git clone --origin X" leaked piece of memory that held value read
|
|
from the clone.defaultRemoteName configuration variable, which has
|
|
been plugged.
|
|
(merge 6dfadc8981 jc/clone-remote-name-leak-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Get rid of a bogus and over-eager coccinelle rule.
|
|
(merge 08bdd3a185 jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The path taken by "git multi-pack-index" command from the end user
|
|
was compared with path internally prepared by the tool without first
|
|
normalizing, which lead to duplicated paths not being noticed,
|
|
which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 11f9e8de3d ds/midx-normalize-pathname-before-comparison later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Correct choices of C compilers used in various CI jobs.
|
|
(merge 3506cae04f ab/cc-package-fixes later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Various cleanups to "git p4".
|
|
(merge 4ff0108d9e jh/p4-various-fixups later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The progress meter of "git blame" was showing incorrect numbers
|
|
when processing only parts of the file.
|
|
(merge e5f5d7d42e ea/progress-partial-blame later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git rebase --keep-base <upstream> <branch-to-rebase>" computed the
|
|
commit to rebase onto incorrectly, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 9e5ebe9668 ah/rebase-keep-base-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Fix a leak of FILE * in an error codepath.
|
|
(merge c0befa0c03 kt/commit-graph-plug-fp-leak-on-error later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Avoid problems from interaction between malloc_check and address
|
|
sanitizer.
|
|
(merge 067109a5e7 pw/test-malloc-with-sanitize-address later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The commit summary shown after making a commit is matched to what
|
|
is given in "git status" not to use the break-rewrite heuristics.
|
|
(merge 84792322ed rs/commit-summary-wo-break-rewrite later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Update a few end-user facing messages around EOL conversion.
|
|
(merge c970d30c2c ah/convert-warning-message later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Trace2 documentation updates.
|
|
(merge a6c80c313c js/trace2-doc-fixes later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Build procedure fixup.
|
|
(merge 1fbfd96f50 mg/detect-compiler-in-c-locale later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git pull" without "--recurse-submodules=<arg>" made
|
|
submodule.recurse take precedence over fetch.recurseSubmodules by
|
|
mistake, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 5819417365 gc/pull-recurse-submodules later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git bisect" was too silent before it is ready to start computing
|
|
the actual bisection, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge f11046e6de cd/bisect-messages-from-pre-flight-states later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* macOS CI jobs have been occasionally flaky due to tentative version
|
|
skew between perforce and the homebrew packager. Instead of
|
|
failing the whole CI job, just let it skip the p4 tests when this
|
|
happens.
|
|
(merge f15e00b463 cb/ci-make-p4-optional later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* A bit of test framework fixes with a few fixes to issues found by
|
|
valgrind.
|
|
(merge 7c898554d7 ab/valgrind-fixes later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git archive --add-file=<path>" picked up the raw permission bits
|
|
from the path and propagated to zip output in some cases, without
|
|
normalization, which has been corrected (tar output did not have
|
|
this issue).
|
|
(merge 6a61661967 jc/archive-add-file-normalize-mode later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "make coverage-report" without first running "make coverage" did
|
|
not produce any meaningful result, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 96ddfecc5b ep/coverage-report-wants-test-to-have-run later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The "--current" option of "git show-branch" should have been made
|
|
incompatible with the "--reflog" mode, but this was not enforced,
|
|
which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 41c64ae0e7 jc/show-branch-g-current later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git fetch" unnecessarily failed when an unexpected optional
|
|
section appeared in the output, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 7709acf7be jt/fetch-peek-optional-section later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The way "git fetch" without "--update-head-ok" ensures that HEAD in
|
|
no worktree points at any ref being updated was too wasteful, which
|
|
has been optimized a bit.
|
|
(merge f7400da800 os/fetch-check-not-current-branch later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git fetch --recurse-submodules" from multiple remotes (either from
|
|
a remote group, or "--all") used to make one extra "git fetch" in
|
|
the submodules, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 0353c68818 jc/avoid-redundant-submodule-fetch later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* With a recent update to refuse access to repositories of other
|
|
people by default, "sudo make install" and "sudo git describe"
|
|
stopped working, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 6b11e3d52e cb/path-owner-check-with-sudo-plus later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The tests that ensured merges stop when interfering local changes
|
|
are present did not make sure that local changes are preserved; now
|
|
they do.
|
|
(merge 4b317450ce jc/t6424-failing-merge-preserve-local-changes later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Some real problems noticed by gcc 12 have been fixed, while false
|
|
positives have been worked around.
|
|
|
|
* Update the version of FreeBSD image used in Cirrus CI.
|
|
(merge c58bebd4c6 pb/use-freebsd-12.3-in-cirrus-ci later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The multi-pack-index code did not protect the packfile it is going
|
|
to depend on from getting removed while in use, which has been
|
|
corrected.
|
|
(merge 4090511e40 tb/midx-race-in-pack-objects later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Teach "git repack --geometric" work better with "--keep-pack" and
|
|
avoid corrupting the repository when packsize limit is used.
|
|
(merge 66731ff921 tb/geom-repack-with-keep-and-max later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* The documentation on the interaction between "--add-file" and
|
|
"--prefix" options of "git archive" has been improved.
|
|
(merge a75910602a rs/document-archive-prefix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* A git subcommand like "git add -p" spawns a separate git process
|
|
while relaying its command line arguments. A pathspec with only
|
|
negative elements was mistakenly passed with an empty string, which
|
|
has been corrected.
|
|
(merge b02fdbc80a jc/all-negative-pathspec later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* With a more targeted workaround in http.c in another topic, we may
|
|
be able to lift this blanket "GCC12 dangling-pointer warning is
|
|
broken and unsalvageable" workaround.
|
|
(merge 419141e495 cb/buggy-gcc-12-workaround later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* A misconfigured 'branch..remote' led to a bug in configuration
|
|
parsing.
|
|
(merge f1dfbd9ee0 gc/zero-length-branch-config-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* "git -c diff.submodule=log range-diff" did not show anything for
|
|
submodules that changed in the ranges being compared, and
|
|
"git -c diff.submodule=diff range-diff" did not work correctly.
|
|
Fix this by including the "--submodule=short" output
|
|
unconditionally to be compared.
|
|
|
|
* In Git 2.36 we revamped the way how hooks are invoked. One change
|
|
that is end-user visible is that the output of a hook is no longer
|
|
directly connected to the standard output of "git" that spawns the
|
|
hook, which was noticed post release. This is getting corrected.
|
|
(merge a082345372 ab/hooks-regression-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Updating the graft information invalidates the list of parents of
|
|
in-core commit objects that used to be in the graft file.
|
|
|
|
* "git show-ref --heads" (and "--tags") still iterated over all the
|
|
refs only to discard refs outside the specified area, which has
|
|
been corrected.
|
|
(merge c0c9d35e27 tb/show-ref-optim later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Remove redundant copying (with index v3 and older) or possible
|
|
over-reading beyond end of mmapped memory (with index v4) has been
|
|
corrected.
|
|
(merge 6d858341d2 zh/read-cache-copy-name-entry-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Sample watchman interface hook sometimes failed to produce
|
|
correctly formatted JSON message, which has been corrected.
|
|
(merge 134047b500 sn/fsmonitor-missing-clock later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Use-after-free (with another forget-to-free) fix.
|
|
(merge 323822c72b ab/remote-free-fix later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Remove a coccinelle rule that is no longer relevant.
|
|
(merge b1299de4a1 jc/cocci-cleanup later to maint).
|
|
|
|
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
|
|
(merge e6b2582da3 cm/reftable-0-length-memset later to maint).
|
|
(merge 0b75e5bf22 ab/misc-cleanup later to maint).
|
|
(merge 52e1ab8a76 ea/rebase-code-simplify later to maint).
|
|
(merge 756d15923b sg/safe-directory-tests-and-docs later to maint).
|
|
(merge d097a23bfa ds/do-not-call-bug-on-bad-refs later to maint).
|
|
(merge c36c27e75c rs/t7812-pcre2-ws-bug-test later to maint).
|
|
(merge 1da312742d gf/unused-includes later to maint).
|
|
(merge 465b30a92d pb/submodule-recurse-mode-enum later to maint).
|
|
(merge 82b28c4ed8 km/t3501-use-test-helpers later to maint).
|
|
(merge 72315e431b sa/t1011-use-helpers later to maint).
|
|
(merge 95b3002201 cg/vscode-with-gdb later to maint).
|
|
(merge fbe5f6b804 tk/p4-utf8-bom later to maint).
|
|
(merge 17f273ffba tk/p4-with-explicity-sync later to maint).
|
|
(merge 944db25c60 kf/p4-multiple-remotes later to maint).
|
|
(merge b014cee8de jc/update-ozlabs-url later to maint).
|
|
(merge 4ec5008062 pb/ggg-in-mfc-doc later to maint).
|
|
(merge af845a604d tb/receive-pack-code-cleanup later to maint).
|
|
(merge 2acf4cf001 js/ci-gcc-12-fixes later to maint).
|
|
(merge 05e280c0a6 jc/http-clear-finished-pointer later to maint).
|
|
(merge 8c49d704ef fh/transport-push-leakfix later to maint).
|
|
(merge 1d232d38bd tl/ls-tree-oid-only later to maint).
|
|
(merge db7961e6a6 gc/document-config-worktree-scope later to maint).
|
|
(merge ce18a30bb7 fs/ssh-default-key-command-doc later to maint).
|