1fe8f2cf46 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ Backward compatibility notes.

5

6 * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant

7 'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that

8 - finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"', which

9 - ends up removing everything. This release starts warning about the

8 + finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"' by

9 + mistake (when the user meant to give "$path"), which ends up

10 + removing everything. This release starts warning about the

11 use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and

12 asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead.

13

@@ -144,6 +145,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

145 prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the

146 "Changes not staged for commit" section.

147

148 + * The smudge/clean filter API expect an external process is spawned

149 + to filter the contents for each path that has a filter defined. A

150 + new type of "process" filter API has been added to allow the first

151 + request to run the filter for a path to spawn a single process, and

152 + all filtering need is served by this single process for multiple

153 + paths, reducing the process creation overhead.

154 +

155 + * The user always has to say "stash@{$N}" when naming a single

156 + element in the default location of the stash, i.e. reflogs in

157 + refs/stash. The "git stash" command learned to accept "git stash

158 + apply 4" as a short-hand for "git stash apply stash@{4}".

159 +

160

161 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

162

@@ -230,6 +243,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

243 * Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement

244 "rebase -i" continues.

245

246 + * Git generally does not explicitly close file descriptors that were

247 + open in the parent process when spawning a child process, but most

248 + of the time the child does not want to access them. As Windows does

249 + not allow removing or renaming a file that has a file descriptor

250 + open, a slow-to-exit child can even break the parent process by

251 + holding onto them. Use O_CLOEXEC flag to open files in various

252 + codepaths.

253 +

254 + * Update "interpret-trailers" machinery and teaches it that people in

255 + real world write all sorts of crufts in the "trailer" that was

256 + originally designed to have the neat-o "Mail-Header: like thing"

257 + and nothing else.

258 +

259

260 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

261

@@ -341,7 +367,6 @@ notes for details).

367 * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of

368 commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a

369 color-reset sequence to the output.

344 - (merge 82b83da8d3 rs/c-auto-resets-attributes later to maint).

370

371 * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been

372 fixed.

@@ -358,7 +383,6 @@ notes for details).

383 beyond the end of the mapped region. This was fixed by introducing

384 a regexec_buf() helper that takes a <ptr,len> pair with REG_STARTEND

385 extension.

361 - (merge 842a516cb0 js/regexec-buf later to maint).

386

387 * The procedure to build Git on Mac OS X for Travis CI hardcoded the

388 internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a

@@ -383,7 +407,6 @@ notes for details).

407 mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.

408 This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due

409 to a design bug, which has been fixed.

386 - (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint).

410

411 * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an

412 e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname

@@ -433,11 +456,9 @@ notes for details).

456 version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add

457 imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work

458 and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead.

436 - (merge d2d07ab861 ak/curl-imap-send-explicit-scheme later to maint).

459

460 * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how

461 to detect support of SSL by libcurl better.

440 - (merge 924b7eb1c9 dp/autoconf-curl-ssl later to maint).

462

463 * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to

464 complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of

@@ -464,27 +485,22 @@ notes for details).

485 Kerberos. We took an unspecified (NULL) username and sent ":"

486 (i.e. no username, no password) to CURLOPT_USERPWD, but did not do

487 the same when the username is explicitly set to an empty string.

467 - (merge 5275c3081c dt/http-empty-auth later to maint).

488

489 * "git clone" of a local repository can be done at the filesystem

490 level, but the codepath did not check errors while copying and

491 adjusting the file that lists alternate object stores.

472 - (merge 22d3b8de1b jk/clone-copy-alternates-fix later to maint).

492

493 * Documentation for "git commit" was updated to clarify that "commit

494 -p <paths>" adds to the current contents of the index to come up

495 with what to commit.

477 - (merge 7431596ab1 nd/commit-p-doc later to maint).

496

497 * A stray symbolic link in $GIT_DIR/refs/ directory could make name

498 resolution loop forever, which has been corrected.

481 - (merge e8c42cb9ce jk/ref-symlink-loop later to maint).

499

500 * The "submodule.<name>.path" stored in .gitmodules is never copied

501 to .git/config and such a key in .git/config has no meaning, but

502 the documentation described it and submodule.<name>.url next to

503 each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed.

487 - (merge 72710165c9 sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path later to maint).

504

505 * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git

506 worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion

@@ -493,29 +509,23 @@ notes for details).

509 branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare

510 reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare

511 repository. The check has been corrected to allow it.

496 - (merge 171c646f8c dk/worktree-dup-checkout-with-bare-is-ok later to maint).

512

513 * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork

514 point from the upstream.

500 - (merge 4f21454b55 jk/merge-base-fork-point-without-reflog later to maint).

515

516 * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant

517 to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles

518 when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not

519 going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.

506 - (merge 5827a03545 jk/fetch-quick-tag-following later to maint).

520

521 * Protect our code from over-eager compilers.

509 - (merge 0ac52a38e8 jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).

522

523 * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token

524 "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated

525 to describe it.

514 - (merge 15ef78008a bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc later to maint).

526

527 * A hot-fix for a test added by a recent topic that went to both

528 'master' and 'maint' already.

518 - (merge 76e368c378 tg/add-chmod+x-fix later to maint).

529

530 * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the

531 trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like

@@ -529,12 +539,10 @@ notes for details).

539 in unnecessary failure. This has been corrected by introducing a

540 new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose

541 output separately to the log file.

532 - (merge 614fe01521 jk/tap-verbose-fix later to maint).

542

543 * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with

544 tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to

545 work around them.

537 - (merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint).

546

547 * A minor regression fix for "git submodule" that was introduced

548 when more helper functions were reimplemented in C.

@@ -553,11 +561,17 @@ notes for details).

561 required to serve.

562 (merge 6bdb0083be jk/daemon-path-ok-check-truncation later to maint).

563

564 + * Recent update to git-sh-setup (a library of shell functions that

565 + are used by our in-tree scripted Porcelain commands) included

566 + another shell library git-sh-i18n without specifying where it is,

567 + relying on the $PATH. This has been fixed to be more explicit by

568 + prefixing $(git --exec-path) output in front.

569 + (merge 1073094f30 ak/sh-setup-dot-source-i18n-fix later to maint).

570 +

571 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.

557 - (merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint).

558 - (merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint).

559 - (merge 30cfe72d37 rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix later to maint).

560 - (merge d709f1fb9d jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments later to maint).

561 - (merge 13092a916d jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null later to maint).

562 - (merge 86009f32bb pb/test-parse-options-expect later to maint).

563 - (merge 749a2279a4 yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc later to maint).

572 + (merge 5c238e29a8 jk/common-main later to maint).

573 + (merge 5a5749e45b ak/pre-receive-hook-template-modefix later to maint).

574 + (merge 6d834ac8f1 jk/rebase-config-insn-fmt-docfix later to maint).

575 + (merge de9f7fa3b0 rs/commit-pptr-simplify later to maint).

576 + (merge 4259d693fc sc/fmt-merge-msg-doc-markup-fix later to maint).

577 + (merge 28fab7b23d nd/test-helpers later to maint).

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