Git 2.41-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 15, 2023 at 13:58 UTC
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@@ -91,6 +91,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably
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short limit, which has been removed.
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+ * Error messages given when working on an unborn branch that is
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+ checked out in another worktree have been improved.
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+ * The documentation was misleading about the interaction between
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+ GIT_DEFAULT_HASH and "git clone", which has been clarified to
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+ stress that the variable is to be ignored by the command.
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+ * "git send-email" learned "--header-cmd=<cmd>" that can inject
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+ arbitrary e-mail header lines to the outgoing messages.
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+ * "git fsck" learned to detect bit-flip breakages in the reachability
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+ bitmap files.
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+ * The "--stdin" option of "git name-rev" has been replaced with
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+ the "--annotate-stdin" option more than a year ago. We stop
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+ advertising it in the "git name-rev -h" output.
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+ * "git push --all" gained an alias "git push --branches".
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+ * "git fetch" learned the "--porcelain" option that emits what it did
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+ in a machine-parseable format.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -160,6 +182,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better
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output these days.
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+ * The tracing mechanism learned to notice and report when
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+ auto-discovered bare repositories are being used, as allowing so
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+ without explicitly stating the user intends to do so (with setting
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+ GIT_DIR for example) can be used with social engineering as an
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+ attack vector.
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+ * "git diff-files" learned not to expand sparse-index unless needed.
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Fixes since v2.40
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specify the end-of-line conversion.
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(merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint).
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+ * Gitk updates from GfW project.
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+ (merge 99e70f3077 js/gitk-fixes-from-gfw later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --dirstat" leaked memory, which has been plugged.
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+ (merge 83973981eb jc/dirstat-plug-leaks later to maint).
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+ * "git merge-tree" reads the basic configuration, which can be used
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+ by git forges to disable replace-refs feature.
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+ (merge b6551feadf ds/merge-tree-use-config later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
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(merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint).
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(merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint).
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(merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint).
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(merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint).
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+ (merge cbb83daeaf kh/doc-interpret-trailers-updates later to maint).
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+ (merge 3d77fbb664 ar/config-count-tests-updates later to maint).
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+ (merge b7cf25c8f4 jc/t9800-fix-use-of-show-s-raw later to maint).