83232e3864 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -49,6 +49,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

49 * "git mergetool" learned to offer Sublime Merge (smerge) as one of

50 its backends.

51

52 + * A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index

53 + file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree

54 + implementation.

55 +

56 + * "git difftool" can now run outside a repository.

57 +

58 + * "git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences

59 + between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out

60 + another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the

61 + index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the

62 + HEAD are different.

63 +

64 + * A progress indicator has been added to the "index-pack" step, which

65 + often makes users wait for completion during "git clone".

66 +

67 + * "git submodule" learns "set-branch" subcommand that allows the

68 + submodule.*.branch settings to be modified.

69 +

70

71 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

72

@@ -94,6 +112,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

112 command getting non-unique when a new option that share the same

113 prefix is added.

114

115 + * The scripted version of "git rebase -i" wrote and rewrote the todo

116 + list many times during a single step of its operation, and the

117 + recent C-rewrite made a faithful conversion of the logic to C. The

118 + implementation has been updated to carry necessary information

119 + around in-core to avoid rewriting the same file over and over

120 + unnecessarily.

121 +

122 + * Test framework update to more robustly clean up leftover files and

123 + processes after tests are done.

124 +

125 + * Conversion from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.

126 +

127 + * While running "git diff" in a lazy clone, we can upfront know which

128 + missing blobs we will need, instead of waiting for the on-demand

129 + machinery to discover them one by one. The code learned to aim to

130 + achieve better performance by batching the request for these

131 + promised blobs.

132 +

133

134 Fixes since v2.21

135 -----------------

@@ -240,6 +276,81 @@ Fixes since v2.21

276 * The documentation for "git read-tree --reset -u" has been updated.

277 (merge b5a0bd694c nd/read-tree-reset-doc later to maint).

278

279 + * Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be

280 + update_server_info() funtion.

281 + (merge b3223761c8 jk/server-info-rabbit-hole later to maint).

282 +

283 + * The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been

284 + updated.

285 + (merge 5a1dbd48bc nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update later to maint).

286 +

287 + * "git cherry-pick --options A..B", after giving control back to the

288 + user to ask help resolving a conflicted step, did not honor the

289 + options it originally received, which has been corrected.

290 +

291 + * Various glitches in "git gc" around reflog handling have been fixed.

292 +

293 + * The code to read from commit-graph file has been cleanup with more

294 + careful error checking before using data read from it.

295 +

296 + * Performance fix around "git fetch" that grabs many refs.

297 + (merge b764300912 jt/fetch-pack-wanted-refs-optim later to maint).

298 +

299 + * Protocol v2 support in "git fetch-pack" of shallow clones has been

300 + corrected.

301 +

302 + * Performance fix around "git blame", especially in a linear history

303 + (which is the norm we should optimize for).

304 + (merge f892014943 dk/blame-keep-origin-blob later to maint).

305 +

306 + * Performance fix for "rev-list --parents -- pathspec".

307 + (merge 8320b1dbe7 jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue later to maint).

308 +

309 + * Updating the display with progress message has been cleaned up to

310 + deal better with overlong messages.

311 + (merge 545dc345eb sg/overlong-progress-fix later to maint).

312 +

313 + * "git blame -- path" in a non-bare repository starts blaming from

314 + the working tree, and the same command in a bare repository errors

315 + out because there is no working tree by definition. The command

316 + has been taught to instead start blaming from the commit at HEAD,

317 + which is more useful.

318 + (merge a544fb08f8 sg/blame-in-bare-start-at-head later to maint).

319 +

320 + * An underallocation in the code to read the untracked cache

321 + extension has been corrected.

322 + (merge 3a7b45a623 js/untracked-cache-allocfix later to maint).

323 +

324 + * The code is updated to check the result of memory allocation before

325 + it is used in more places, by using xmalloc and/or xcalloc calls.

326 + (merge 999b951b28 jk/xmalloc later to maint).

327 +

328 + * The GETTEXT_POISON test option has been quite broken ever since it

329 + was made runtime-tunable, which has been fixed.

330 + (merge f88b9cb603 jc/gettext-test-fix later to maint).

331 +

332 + * Test fix on APFS that is incapable of store paths in Latin-1.

333 + (merge 3889149619 js/iso8895-test-on-apfs later to maint).

334 +

335 + * "git submodule foreach <command> --quiet" did not pass the option

336 + down correctly, which has been corrected.

337 + (merge a282f5a906 nd/submodule-foreach-quiet later to maint).

338 +

339 + * "git send-email" has been taught to use quoted-printable when the

340 + payload contains carriage-return. The use of the mechanism is in

341 + line with the design originally added the codepath that chooses QP

342 + when the payload has overly long lines.

343 + (merge 74d76a1701 bc/send-email-qp-cr later to maint).

344 +

345 + * The recently added feature to add addresses that are on

346 + anything-by: trailers in 'git send-email' was found to be way too

347 + eager and considered nonsense strings as if they can be legitimate

348 + beginning of *-by: trailer. This has been tightened.

349 +

350 + * Build with gettext breaks on recent macOS w/ Homebrew when

351 + /usr/local/bin is not on PATH, which has been corrected.

352 + (merge 92a1377a2a js/macos-gettext-build later to maint).

353 +

354 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.

355 (merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint).

356 (merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint).

@@ -267,3 +378,10 @@ Fixes since v2.21

378 (merge 0b918b75af sg/t5318-cleanup later to maint).

379 (merge 68ed71b53c cb/doco-mono later to maint).

380 (merge a34dca2451 nd/interpret-trailers-docfix later to maint).

381 + (merge cf7b857a77 en/fast-import-parsing-fix later to maint).

382 + (merge fe61ccbc35 po/rerere-doc-fmt later to maint).

383 + (merge ffea0248bf po/describe-not-necessarily-7 later to maint).

384 + (merge 7cb7283adb tg/ls-files-debug-format-fix later to maint).

385 + (merge f64a21bd82 tz/doc-apostrophe-no-longer-needed later to maint).

386 + (merge dbe7b41019 js/t3301-unbreak-notes-test later to maint).

387 + (merge d8083e4180 km/t3000-retitle later to maint).

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