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Git 2.14 Release Notes |
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Backward compatibility notes. |
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* Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for |
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'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a |
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more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing |
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users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be |
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turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of |
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this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming |
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release (yet). |
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* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup |
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sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that |
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happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG"). |
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We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there |
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might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are |
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greatly appreciated. |
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Updates since v2.13 |
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UI, Workflows & Features |
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* The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names |
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of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now |
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configurable. |
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* "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch all tags |
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initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in |
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subsequent fetches. |
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* "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when |
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necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit. |
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(merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint). |
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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* The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger |
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platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while |
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"gc" is running in parallel. |
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* Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't |
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accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object. |
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(merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint). |
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* Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to |
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remove the temporary directory used during the test. |
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* Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both |
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AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor. |
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(merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint). |
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* Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our |
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historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot |
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represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a |
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separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish |
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timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good |
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move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the |
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timestamp_t. |
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* We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho & |
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Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now. |
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. |
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Fixes since v2.13 |
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.13 in the maintenance |
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' |
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notes for details). |
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* "git gc" did not interact well with "git worktree"-managed |
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per-worktree refs. |
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* "git cherry-pick" and other uses of the sequencer machinery |
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mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line. |
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This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added |
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after completing the existing incomplete line. |
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(merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint). |
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* The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase" |
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leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased. |
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(merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint). |
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* "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the |
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per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did |
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not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed. |
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(merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint). |
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* Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take |
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effect in v2.13, which has been corrected. |
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(merge c74271aae7 ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto later to maint). |
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* A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch |
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tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory. |
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(merge 57e0ef0e0e rs/checkout-am-fix-unborn later to maint). |
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* The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though |
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the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with |
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ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is |
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based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier |
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to migrate away from it if/when necessary. |
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(merge 5840eb9d14 ab/doc-replace-gmane-links later to maint). |
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* The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate |
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records the same set of push options used for pushing. |
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(merge cbaf82cc6b jt/push-options-doc later to maint). |
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* Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism |
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to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are |
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not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them. |
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(merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint). |
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. |
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(merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint). |
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(merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint). |
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(merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint). |
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(merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint). |
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(merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).
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