4b9ab0ee01 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

51 * Prepare for Git on-disk repository representation to undergo

52 backward incompatible changes by introducing a new repository

53 format version "1", with an extension mechanism.

54 - (merge 067fbd4 jk/repository-extension later to maint).

54

55 * "git worktree" learned a "list" subcommand.

56

@@ -98,7 +97,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

97 clean-up tasks to be done in a shell variable, it should not be

98 used inside a subshell. Add a mechanism to allow 'bash' to catch

99 such uses, and fix the ones that were found.

101 - (merge 0968f12 jk/test-lint-forbid-when-finished-in-subshell later to maint).

100

101 * The debugging infrastructure for pkt-line based communication has

102 been improved to mark the side-band communication specifically.

@@ -120,7 +118,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

118 * The internal stripspace() function has been moved to where it

119 logically belongs to, i.e. strbuf API, and the command line parser

120 of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API.

123 - (merge bed4452 tk/stripspace later to maint).

121

122 * "git am" used to spawn "git mailinfo" via run_command() API once

123 per each patch, but learned to make a direct call to mailinfo()

@@ -180,63 +177,51 @@ notes for details).

177 (which is not a great UI element as they can only appear at the end

178 of the command line). Add notice to documentation of each and

179 every one of them.

183 - (merge 2b594bf mm/keyid-docs later to maint).

180

181 * "git blame --first-parent v1.0..v2.0" was not rejected but did not

182 limit the blame to commits on the first parent chain.

187 - (merge 95a4fb0 jk/blame-first-parent later to maint).

183

184 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) now can take whitespaces in the

185 pathnames, not only in the in-tree pathname but the name of the

191 - directory that the repository is in. (merge 5b6ab38

192 - as/subtree-with-spaces later to maint).

186 + directory that the repository is in.

187

188 * The ssh transport, just like any other transport over the network,

189 did not clear GIT_* environment variables, but it is possible to

190 use SendEnv and AcceptEnv to leak them to the remote invocation of

191 Git, which is not a good idea at all. Explicitly clear them just

192 like we do for the local transport.

199 - (merge a48b409 jk/connect-clear-env later to maint).

193

194 * Correct "git p4 --detect-labels" so that it does not fail to create

195 a tag that points at a commit that is also being imported.

203 - (merge b43702a ld/p4-import-labels later to maint).

196

197 * The Makefile always runs the library archiver with hardcoded "crs"

198 options, which was inconvenient for exotic platforms on which

199 people want to use programs with totally different set of command

200 line options.

209 - (merge ac179b4 jw/make-arflags-customizable later to maint).

201

202 * Customization to change the behaviour with "make -w" and "make -s"

203 in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.

213 - (merge ef49e05 jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix later to maint).

204

205 * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call

206 inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause

207 glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler

208 tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce

209 these unsafe calls.

220 - (merge 507d780 ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler later to maint).

210

211 * The way how --ref/--notes to specify the notes tree reference are

212 DWIMmed was not clearly documented.

224 - (merge e14c92e jk/notes-dwim-doc later to maint).

213

214 * "git gc" used to barf when a symbolic ref has gone dangling

215 (e.g. the branch that used to be your upstream's default when you

216 cloned from it is now gone, and you did "fetch --prune").

229 - (merge 14886b4 js/gc-with-stale-symref later to maint).

217

218 * "git clone --dissociate" runs a big "git repack" process at the

219 end, and it helps to close file descriptors that are open on the

220 packs and their idx files before doing so on filesystems that

221 cannot remove a file that is still open.

235 - (merge 786b150 js/clone-dissociate later to maint).

222

223 * Description of the "log.follow" configuration variable in "git log"

224 documentation is now also copied to "git config" documentation.

239 - (merge fd8d07e dt/log-follow-config later to maint).

225

226 * "git rebase -i" had a minor regression recently, which stopped

227 considering a line that begins with an indented '#' in its insn

@@ -244,93 +229,73 @@ notes for details).

229 Windows where CRLF left by the editor is turned into a trailing CR

230 on the line read via the "read" built-in command of bash. Both of

231 these issues are now fixed.

247 - (merge 39743cf gr/rebase-i-drop-warn later to maint).

232

233 * After "git checkout --detach", "git status" reported a fairly

234 useless "HEAD detached at HEAD", instead of saying at which exact

235 commit.

252 - (merge 0eb8548 mm/detach-at-HEAD-reflog later to maint).

236

237 * When "git send-email" wanted to talk over Net::SMTP::SSL,

238 Net::Cmd::datasend() did not like to be fed too many bytes at the

239 same time and failed to send messages. Send the payload one line

240 at a time to work around the problem.

258 - (merge f60c483 sa/send-email-smtp-batch-data-limit later to maint).

241

242 * When "git am" was rewritten as a built-in, it stopped paying

243 attention to user.signingkey, which was fixed.

262 - (merge 434c64d pt/am-builtin later to maint).

244

245 * It was not possible to use a repository-lookalike created by "git

246 worktree add" as a local source of "git clone".

266 - (merge d78db84 nd/clone-linked-checkout later to maint).

247

248 * On a case insensitive filesystems, setting GIT_WORK_TREE variable

249 using a random cases that does not agree with what the filesystem

250 thinks confused Git that it wasn't inside the working tree.

271 - (merge 63ec5e1 js/icase-wt-detection later to maint).

251

252 * Performance-measurement tests did not work without an installed Git.

274 - (merge 31cd128 sb/perf-without-installed-git later to maint).

253

254 * A test script for the HTTP service had a timing dependent bug,

255 which was fixed.

278 - (merge 362d8b6 sb/http-flaky-test-fix later to maint).

256

257 * There were some classes of errors that "git fsck" diagnosed to its

258 standard error that did not cause it to exit with non-zero status.

282 - (merge 122f76f jc/fsck-dropped-errors later to maint).

259

260 * Work around "git p4" failing when the P4 depot records the contents

261 in UTF-16 without UTF-16 BOM.

286 - (merge 1f5f390 ls/p4-translation-failure later to maint).

262

263 * When "git gc --auto" is backgrounded, its diagnosis message is

264 lost. Save it to a file in $GIT_DIR and show it next time the "gc

265 --auto" is run.

291 - (merge 329e6e8 nd/gc-auto-background-fix later to maint).

266

267 * The submodule code has been taught to work better with separate

268 work trees created via "git worktree add".

295 - (merge 11f9dd7 mk/submodule-gitdir-path later to maint).

269

270 * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in

271 grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no

272 grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is

273 quiescent.

301 - (merge fae1a90 jc/doc-gc-prune-now later to maint).

274

275 * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit

276 object header, which is fixed.

305 - (merge a5a4b3f jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line later to maint).

277

278 * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end

279 of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that,

280 but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash.

310 - (merge b2a7123 rd/test-path-utils later to maint).

281

282 * A test for interaction between untracked cache and sparse checkout

283 added in Git 2.5 days were flaky.

314 - (merge 9b680fb dt/t7063-fix-flaky-test later to maint).

284

285 * A couple of commands still showed "[options]" in their usage string

286 to note where options should come on their command line, but we

287 spell that "[<options>]" in most places these days.

319 - (merge d96a031 rt/placeholder-in-usage later to maint).

288

289 * The synopsis text and the usage string of subcommands that read

290 list of things from the standard input are often shown as if they

291 only take input from a file on a filesystem, which was misleading.

324 - (merge 33e8fc8 jc/usage-stdin later to maint).

292

293 * "git am -3" had a small regression where it is aborted in its error

294 handling codepath when underlying merge-recursive failed in certain

295 ways, as it assumed that the internal call to merge-recursive will

296 never die, which is not the case (yet).

330 - (merge c63d4b2 jc/am-3-fallback-regression-fix later to maint).

297

298 * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl.

333 - (merge 7e91e8d rp/link-curl-before-ssl later to maint).

299

300 * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive

301 filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem

@@ -340,40 +305,31 @@ notes for details).

305 cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free.

306 This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of

307 borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat.

343 - (merge 41284eb dt/name-hash-dir-entry-fix later to maint).

308

309 * "git merge-file" tried to signal how many conflicts it found, which

310 obviously would not work well when there are too many of them.

347 - (merge e34f802 jk/merge-file-exit-code later to maint).

311

312 * The error message from "git blame --contents --reverse" incorrectly

313 talked about "--contents --children".

351 - (merge 9526197 mk/blame-error-message later to maint).

314

315 * "git imap-send" did not compile well with older version of cURL library.

354 - (merge 71d9257 js/imap-send-curl-compilation-fix later to maint).

316

317 * Merging a branch that removes a path and another that changes the

318 mode bits on the same path should have conflicted at the path, but

319 it didn't and silently favoured the removal.

359 - (merge 72fac66 jk/delete-modechange-conflict later to maint).

320

321 * "git --literal-pathspecs add -u/-A" without any command line

322 argument misbehaved ever since Git 2.0.

363 - (merge 29abb33 jc/add-u-A-default-to-top later to maint).

323

324 * "git daemon" uses "run_command()" without "finish_command()", so it

325 needs to release resources itself, which it forgot to do.

367 - (merge b1b49ff rs/daemon-plug-child-leak later to maint).

326

327 * "git status --branch --short" accessed beyond the constant string

328 "HEAD", which has been corrected.

371 - (merge c72b49d rs/wt-status-detached-branch-fix later to maint).

329

330 * We peek objects from submodule's object store by linking it to the

331 list of alternate object databases, but the code to do so forgot to

332 correctly initialize the list.

376 - (merge 9a6e4f0 jk/initialization-fix-to-add-submodule-odb later to maint).

333

334 * The code to prepare the working tree side of temporary directory

335 for the "dir-diff" feature forgot that symbolic links need not be

@@ -381,7 +337,6 @@ notes for details).

337 special cases and overwrites them. Besides, it was wrong to try

338 computing the object name of the target of symbolic link, which may

339 not even exist or may be a directory.

384 - (merge cfe2d4b da/difftool later to maint).

340

341 * A Range: request can be responded with a full response and when

342 asked properly libcurl knows how to strip the result down to the

@@ -390,16 +345,13 @@ notes for details).

345

346 * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in

347 the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them.

393 - (merge 478f34d dk/gc-idx-wo-pack later to maint).

348

349 * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take

350 more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround

351 for it.

398 - (merge 001fd7a ad/sha1-update-chunked later to maint).

352

353 * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we

354 are on an orphan or an unborn branch.

402 - (merge c26f70c sg/bash-prompt-dirty-orphan later to maint).

355

356 * A build without NO_IPv6 used to use gethostbyname() when guessing

357 user's hostname, instead of getaddrinfo() that is used in other

@@ -412,20 +364,4 @@ notes for details).

364

365 * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.

366 (merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).

415 - (merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).

416 - (merge 29bc480 nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option later to maint).

417 - (merge be510e0 jk/asciidoctor-section-heading-markup-fix later to maint).

418 - (merge 83e6bda tk/typofix-connect-unknown-proto-error later to maint).

419 - (merge a43eb67 tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo later to maint).

420 - (merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup later to maint).

421 - (merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint).

367 (merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint).

423 - (merge ae9f274 es/worktree-add later to maint).

424 - (merge 3b19dba jc/em-dash-in-doc later to maint).

425 - (merge f3f38c7 jc/everyday-markup later to maint).

426 - (merge 77d5f71 xf/user-manual-markup later to maint).

427 - (merge b2af482 xf/user-manual-ff later to maint).

428 - (merge e510ab8 rs/pop-commit later to maint).

429 - (merge fdcdb77 js/misc-fixes later to maint).

430 - (merge c949b00 rs/show-branch-argv-array later to maint).

431 - (merge 56a8aea nd/doc-check-ref-format-typo later to maint).

Update release notes to 2.7