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1 Git 2.9 Release Notes

2 =====================

3

4 -Backward compatibility note

5 ----------------------------

4 +Backward compatibility notes

5 +----------------------------

6

7 The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and

8 -"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use

9 -"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.

8 +"git log" family by default enable the rename detection; you can still

9 +use "diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.

10

11 Merging two branches that have no common ancestor with "git merge" is

12 by default forbidden now to prevent creating such an unusual merge by

@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

30

31 * Comes with git-multimail 1.3.1 (in contrib/).

32

33 - * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"

34 - now enables the rename detection by default.

33 + * The end-user facing commands like "git diff" and "git log"

34 + now enable the rename detection by default.

35

36 * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and

37 there is no good way to override it from the command line. As

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

39 as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.

40

41 * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to

42 - customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.

42 + customize the diff shown in "git add -i" sessions.

43

44 * "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author

45 names.

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

64 to be used in a rare event that merges histories of two projects

65 that started their lives independently.

66

67 - * "git pull" has been taught to pass --allow-unrelated-histories

67 + * "git pull" has been taught to pass the "--allow-unrelated-histories"

68 option to underlying "git merge".

69

70 * "git apply -v" learned to report paths in the patch that were

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

87

88 * When "git log" shows the log message indented by 4-spaces, the

89 remainder of a line after a HT does not align in the way the author

90 - originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default in

90 + originally intended. The command now expands tabs by default to help

91 such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,

92 "--no-expand-tabs".

93

@@ -97,13 +97,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

97 * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict

98 signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was

99 no way to record these separate resolutions.

100 - (merge d9d501b068 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).

100

101 * "git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from

102 the history in Perforce.

103

104 * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of

106 - tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up

105 + tag to name a given commit, because it tried to come up

106 with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old

107 commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not

108 described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did

@@ -115,14 +114,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

114 commit."

115 (merge 7550424 js/name-rev-use-oldest-ref later to maint).

116

118 - * "git clone" learned "--shallow-submodules" option.

117 + * "git clone" learned the "--shallow-submodules" option.

118

119 * HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the

120 server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.

121

122 * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be

123 more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the

125 - contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.

124 + contents before and after it belong to logically separate units.

125

126 * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing

127 where the hook directory is.

@@ -147,12 +146,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

146 (public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in

147 its output.

148

150 - * "git commit" learned to pay attention to "commit.verbose"

151 - configuration variable and act as if "--verbose" option was

152 - given from the command line.

149 + * "git commit" learned to pay attention to the "commit.verbose"

150 + configuration variable and act as if the "--verbose" option

151 + was given from the command line.

152

154 - * Give hints to GMail users with two-factor auth enabled that

155 - they need app-specific-password when using send-email.

153 + * Updated documentation gives hints to GMail users with two-factor

154 + auth enabled that they need app-specific-password when using

155 + "git send-email".

156

157

158 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

174

175 * A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take

176 advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in

177 - parallel.

177 + parallel. Other updates to "git submodule" that move pieces of

178 + logic to C continues.

179

180 * Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization.

181

@@ -188,16 +189,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

189 do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a

190 Git repository.

191

191 - * Code restructuring around the "refs" area to prepare for pluggable

192 + * Code restructuring around the "refs" API to prepare for pluggable

193 refs backends.

194

194 - * Sources to many test helper binaries (and the generated helpers)

195 + * Sources to many test helper binaries and the generated helpers

196 have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the

197 top level of the tree.

198

199 * Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag"

200 commands by making one directly call into the other.

200 - (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint).

201

202 * "merge-recursive" strategy incorrectly checked if a path that is

203 involved in its internal merge exists in the working tree.

@@ -209,9 +209,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

209 * As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their

210 own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".

211

212 - * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.

213 -

214 - * Update of "git submodule" to move pieces of logic to C continues.

212 + * Move from "unsigned char[20]" to "struct object_id" continues.

213

214 * The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new

215 error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.

@@ -230,18 +228,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

228 test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it

229 expects in its output, so that these repetitions can be cleaned up.

230

233 - * Add perf test for "rebase -i"

231 + * Add perf test for "rebase -i".

232

233 * Common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation are

234 found by "make check-docs".

235

236 * t9xxx series has been updated primarily for readability, while

239 - fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelains have also been

240 - updated to fix possible bugs around their use of "test -z" and

241 - "test -n".

237 + fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelain commands have

238 + also been updated to fix possible bugs around their use of

239 + "test -z" and "test -n".

240

241 * CI test was taught to run git-svn tests.

242

243 + * "git cat-file --batch-all" has been sped up, by taking advantage

244 + of the fact that it does not have to read a list of objects, in two

245 + ways.

246 +

247 + * test updates to make it more readable and maintainable.

248 + (merge e6273f4 es/t1500-modernize later to maint).

249 +

250

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

252

@@ -329,11 +334,11 @@ notes for details).

334 * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did

335 not work well.

336

332 - * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs

333 - we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.

337 + * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation by updating a few API

338 + elements we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.

339

340 * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware

336 - that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.

341 + that socks5h:// proxies behave differently from socks5:// proxies.

342

343 * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to

344 printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.

@@ -354,12 +359,12 @@ notes for details).

359 * When "git merge" notices that the merge can be resolved purely at

360 the tree level (without having to merge blobs) and the resulting

361 tree happens to already exist in the object store, it forgot to

357 - update the index, which lead to an inconsistent state for later

358 - operations.

362 + update the index, which left an inconsistent state that would

363 + break later operations.

364

365 * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command

361 - recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run

362 - from the root level of the superproject.

366 + recurses into, but these paths were incorrectly reported when

367 + the command was not run from the root level of the superproject.

368

369 * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error

370 if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,

@@ -391,7 +396,6 @@ notes for details).

396 * "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting

397 from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent

398 commit to the first commit on the branch.

394 - (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint).

399

400 * Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test.

401

@@ -417,7 +421,6 @@ notes for details).

421 the configuration variable. This will stop requiring the users to

422 sign commit objects used internally as an implementation detail of

423 "git stash".

420 - (merge 6694856 jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign later to maint).

424

425 * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,

426 but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.

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455

456 * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose

457 shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).

455 - (merge 8e98b35 jk/rebase-interative-eval-fix later to maint).

458 + (merge 8e98b35 jk/rebase-interactive-eval-fix later to maint).

459

460 * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a

461 dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to

@@ -486,6 +489,12 @@ notes for details).

489 added the feature back in v2.1.0 timeframe.

490 (merge 462cbb4 rj/log-decorate-auto later to maint).

491

492 + * "git fast-import --export-marks" would overwrite the existing marks

493 + file even when it makes a dump from its custom die routine.

494 + Prevent it from doing so when we have an import-marks file but

495 + haven't finished reading it.

496 + (merge f4beed6 fc/fast-import-broken-marks-file later to maint).

497 +

498 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates

499 (merge 832c0e5 lp/typofixes later to maint).

500 (merge f5ee54a sb/z-is-gnutar-ism later to maint).

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