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Git 2.32 Release Notes |
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Backward compatibility notes |
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* ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are |
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symbolic links are ignored. |
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Updates since v2.31 |
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UI, Workflows & Features |
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* It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and |
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".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the |
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object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are |
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used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the |
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contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been |
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corrected. |
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* "git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the |
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stash. |
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* "git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder. |
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* "git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything |
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under the sun into a single pack (or split by size). A cleverer |
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strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been |
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introduced. |
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* The http codepath learned to let the credential layer to cache the |
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password used to unlock a certificate that has successfully been |
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used. |
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* "git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes made |
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to the contents while keeping the original log message intact, |
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learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be used to |
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tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message, |
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respectively. |
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* When accessing a server with a URL like https://user:pass@site/, we |
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did not to fall back to the basic authentication with the |
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credential material embedded in the URL after the "Negotiate" |
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authentication failed. Now we do. |
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* "git send-email" learned to honor the core.hooksPath configuration. |
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* "git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is |
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not an integer. |
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* "git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together |
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with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to |
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support custom trailers. |
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* "git clone --reject-shallow" option fails the clone as soon as we |
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notice that we are cloning from a shallow repository. |
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* A configuration variable has been added to force tips of certain |
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refs to be given a reachability bitmap. |
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* "gitweb" learned "e-mail privacy" feature to redact strings that |
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look like e-mail addresses on various pages. |
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* "git apply --3way" has always been "to fall back to 3-way merge |
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only when straight application fails". Swap the order of falling |
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back so that 3-way is always attempted first (only when the option |
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is given, of course) and then straight patch application is used as |
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a fallback when it fails. |
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* "git apply" now takes "--3way" and "--cached" at the same time, and |
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work and record results only in the index. |
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* The command line completion (in contrib/) has learned that |
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CHERRY_PICK_HEAD is a possible pseudo-ref. |
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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* Rename detection rework continues. |
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* GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is a mechanism to skip test pieces with |
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prerequisites to catch broken tests that depend on the side effects |
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of optional pieces, but did not work at all when negative |
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prerequisites were involved. |
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(merge 27d578d904 jk/fail-prereq-testfix later to maint). |
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* "git diff-index" codepath has been taught to trust fsmonitor status |
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to reduce number of lstat() calls. |
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(merge 7e5aa13d2c nk/diff-index-fsmonitor later to maint). |
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* Reorganize Makefile to allow building git.o and other essential |
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objects without extra stuff needed only for testing. |
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* Preparatory API changes for parallel checkout. |
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* A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like |
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fsmonitor on top. |
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* Fsck API clean-up. |
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* SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users |
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has been introduced. Also a procedure to follow when preparing |
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embargoed releases has been spelled out. |
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(merge 09420b7648 js/security-md later to maint). |
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* Optimize "rev-list --use-bitmap-index --objects" corner case that |
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uses negative tags as the stopping points. |
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* CMake update for vsbuild. |
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* An on-disk reverse-index to map the in-pack location of an object |
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back to its object name across multiple packfiles is introduced. |
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* Generate [ec]tags under $(QUIET_GEN). |
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* Clean-up codepaths that implements "git send-email --validate" |
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option and improves the message from it. |
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* The last remnant of gettext-poison has been removed. |
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Fixes since v2.31 |
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* The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure |
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there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31 |
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timeframe. |
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* The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly |
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duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc. |
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* "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not |
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take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression |
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has been corrected. |
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* Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements. |
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* CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc(). |
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* Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target. |
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* Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems, |
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which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe. |
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* We had a code to diagnose and die cleanly when a required |
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clean/smudge filter is missing, but an assert before that |
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unnecessarily fired, hiding the end-user facing die() message. |
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(merge 6fab35f748 mt/cleanly-die-upon-missing-required-filter later to maint). |
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* Update C code that sets a few configuration variables when a remote |
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is configured so that it spells configuration variable names in the |
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canonical camelCase. |
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(merge 0f1da600e6 ab/remote-write-config-in-camel-case later to maint). |
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* A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing |
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which version of the generation number gets used in the |
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commit-graph file. |
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(merge 702110aac6 ds/commit-graph-generation-config later to maint). |
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* Perf test update to work better in secondary worktrees. |
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(merge 36e834abc1 jk/perf-in-worktrees later to maint). |
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* Updates to memory allocation code around the use of pcre2 library. |
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(merge c1760352e0 ab/grep-pcre2-allocfix later to maint). |
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* "git -c core.bare=false clone --bare ..." would have segfaulted, |
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which has been corrected. |
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(merge 75555676ad bc/clone-bare-with-conflicting-config later to maint). |
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* When "git checkout" removes a path that does not exist in the |
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commit it is checking out, it wasn't careful enough not to follow |
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symbolic links, which has been corrected. |
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(merge fab78a0c3d mt/checkout-remove-nofollow later to maint). |
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* A few option description strings started with capital letters, |
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which were corrected. |
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(merge 5ee90326dc cc/downcase-opt-help later to maint). |
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* Plug or annotate remaining leaks that trigger while running the |
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very basic set of tests. |
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(merge 68ffe095a2 ah/plugleaks later to maint). |
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* The hashwrite() API uses a buffering mechanism to avoid calling |
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write(2) too frequently. This logic has been refactored to be |
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easier to understand. |
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(merge ddaf1f62e3 ds/clarify-hashwrite later to maint). |
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* "git cherry-pick/revert" with or without "--[no-]edit" did not spawn |
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the editor as expected (e.g. "revert --no-edit" after a conflict |
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still asked to edit the message), which has been corrected. |
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(merge 39edfd5cbc en/sequencer-edit-upon-conflict-fix later to maint). |
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* "git daemon" has been tightened against systems that take backslash |
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as directory separator. |
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(merge 9a7f1ce8b7 rs/daemon-sanitize-dir-sep later to maint). |
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* A NULL-dereference bug has been corrected in an error codepath in |
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"git for-each-ref", "git branch --list" etc. |
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(merge c685450880 jk/ref-filter-segfault-fix later to maint). |
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* Streamline the codepath to fix the UTF-8 encoding issues in the |
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argv[] and the prefix on macOS. |
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(merge c7d0e61016 tb/precompose-prefix-simplify later to maint). |
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* The command-line completion script (in contrib/) had a couple of |
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references that would have given a warning under the "-u" (nounset) |
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option. |
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(merge c5c0548d79 vs/completion-with-set-u later to maint). |
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
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(merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint). |
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(merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint). |
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(merge ea7e63921c jr/doc-ignore-typofix later to maint). |
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(merge 23c781f173 ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc later to maint). |
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(merge 42efa1231a jk/filter-branch-sha256 later to maint). |
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(merge 4c8e3dca6e tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config later to maint). |
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(merge 6534d436a2 bs/asciidoctor-installation-hints later to maint). |
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(merge 47957485b3 ab/read-tree later to maint). |
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(merge 2be927f3d1 ab/diff-no-index-tests later to maint). |
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(merge 76593c09bb ab/detox-gettext-tests later to maint). |
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(merge 28e29ee38b jc/doc-format-patch-clarify later to maint). |
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(merge fc12b6fdde fm/user-manual-use-preface later to maint). |
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(merge dba94e3a85 cc/test-helper-bloom-usage-fix later to maint).
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