289ec4d9ba · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Backward compatibility notes.

14 has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a

15 future release.

16

17 + * An ancient script "git relink" has been removed.

18 +

19

20 Updates since v2.11

21 -------------------

@@ -64,7 +66,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

66 * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in

67 the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is

68 more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.

67 - (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).

69

70 * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.

71

@@ -99,6 +100,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

100 "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out,

101 i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected.

102

103 + * "git submodule add" used to be confused and refused to add a

104 + locally created repository; users can now use "--force" option

105 + to add them.

106 + (merge 619acfc78c sb/submodule-add-force later to maint).

107 +

108 + * Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph"

109 + rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has

110 + been introduced.

111 + (merge 512aba261a nd/log-graph-configurable-colors later to maint).

112 +

113

114 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

115

@@ -115,7 +126,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

126 * The character width table has been updated to match Unicode 9.0

127

128 * Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.

118 - (merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint).

129

130 * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git

131 opens has been simplified.

@@ -150,7 +160,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

160

161 * Update the definition of the MacOSX test environment used by

162 TravisCI.

153 - (merge 672f51cb83 ls/travis-p4-on-macos later to maint).

163

164 * Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.

165 (merge 94d3997ecc js/difftool-builtin later to maint).

@@ -172,7 +181,6 @@ notes for details).

181

182 * "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and

183 some configuration variable it uses were not documented.

175 - (merge ea9a93dcc2 ew/svn-fixes later to maint).

184

185 * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like

186 "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!".

@@ -295,41 +303,32 @@ notes for details).

303 three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.

304 Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and

305 pack.compression variables the same way.

298 - (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint).

306

307 * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes

308 tree, which has been fixed.

302 - (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint).

309

310 * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales

311 lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.

306 - (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint).

312

313 * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.

309 - (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).

314

315 * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack

316 everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning

317 when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,

318 leading to disabling further "gc".

315 - (merge 1c409a705c dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc later to maint).

319

320 * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and

321 failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff

322 driver configuration.

320 - (merge 965cba2e7e jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config later to maint).

323

324 * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>

325 pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.

324 - (merge 4e76832984 jk/blame-fixes later to maint).

326

327 * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect

328 count when squashing more than 10 commits.

328 - (merge 356b8ecff1 jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix later to maint).

329

330 * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has

331 been corrected to error out with a message.

332 - (merge b10731f43d km/branch-get-push-while-detached later to maint).

332

333 * Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored

334 out, but without a meaningful error message.

@@ -338,7 +337,6 @@ notes for details).

337 * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and

338 took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree

339 structure. This has been fixed.

341 - (merge 46df6906f3 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).

340

341 * "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is

342 run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which

@@ -349,7 +347,6 @@ notes for details).

347

348 * Tighten a test to avoid mistaking an extended ERE regexp engine as

349 a PRE regexp engine.

352 - (merge 7675c7bd01 jk/grep-e-could-be-extended-beyond-posix later to maint).

350

351 * An error message with an ASCII control character like '\r' in it

352 can alter the message to hide its early part, which is problematic

@@ -382,13 +379,45 @@ notes for details).

379 * "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all.

380 (merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint).

381

382 + * After starting "git rebase -i", which first opens the user's editor

383 + to edit the series of patches to apply, but before saving the

384 + contents of that file, "git status" failed to show the current

385 + state (i.e. you are in an interactive rebase session, but you have

386 + applied no steps yet) correctly.

387 + (merge df9ded4984 js/status-pre-rebase-i later to maint).

388 +

389 + * Test tweak for FreeBSD where /usr/bin/unzip is unsuitable to run

390 + our tests but /usr/local/bin/unzip is usable.

391 + (merge d98b2c5fce js/unzip-in-usr-bin-workaround later to maint).

392 +

393 + * "git p4" did not work well with multiple git-p4.mapUser entries on

394 + Windows.

395 + (merge c3c2b05776 gv/mingw-p4-mapuser later to maint).

396 +

397 + * "git help" enumerates executable files in $PATH; the implementation

398 + of "is this file executable?" on Windows has been optimized.

399 + (merge c755015f79 hv/mingw-help-is-executable later to maint).

400 +

401 + * Test tweaks for those who have default ACL in their git source tree

402 + that interfere with the umask test.

403 + (merge d549d21307 mm/reset-facl-before-umask-test later to maint).

404 +

405 + * Names of the various hook scripts must be spelled exactly, but on

406 + Windows, an .exe binary must be named with .exe suffix; notice

407 + $GIT_DIR/hooks/<hookname>.exe as a valid <hookname> hook.

408 + (merge 235be51fbe js/mingw-hooks-with-exe-suffix later to maint).

409 +

410 + * Asciidoctor, an alternative reimplementation of AsciiDoc, still

411 + needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted

412 + with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of

413 + the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality.

414 + (merge 55d2d812e4 bc/use-asciidoctor-opt later to maint).

415 +

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

417 (merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).

418 (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).

388 - (merge 3f05402ac0 ad/bisect-terms later to maint).

419 (merge 874444b704 rh/diff-orderfile-doc later to maint).

390 - (merge c68d2d7c2b ws/request-pull-code-cleanup later to maint).

391 - (merge 007ac54401 js/exec-path-coverity-workaround later to maint).

392 - (merge 1797dc5176 jk/coding-guidelines-update later to maint).

393 - (merge 1d3f065e0e js/mingw-isatty later to maint).

394 - (merge 830c912a0e sb/in-core-index-doc later to maint).

420 + (merge eafd5d9483 cw/doc-sign-off later to maint).

421 + (merge 0aaad415bc rs/absolute-pathdup later to maint).

422 + (merge 4432dd6b5b rs/receive-pack-cleanup later to maint).

423 + (merge 540a398e9c sg/mailmap-self later to maint).

Ninth batch for 2.12; almost ready for -rc0