9532ead987 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -53,6 +53,34 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

53 test scripts is now turned on by default.

54 (merge 92b269f jk/test-chain-lint later to maint).

55

56 + * Filter scripts were run with SIGPIPE disabled on the Git side,

57 + expecting that they may not read what Git feeds them to filter.

58 + We however treated a filter that does not read its input fully

59 + before exiting as an error.

60 +

61 + This changes semantics, but arguably in a good way. If a filter

62 + can produce its output without consuming its input using whatever

63 + magic, we now let it do so, instead of diagnosing it as a

64 + programming error.

65 +

66 + * Instead of dying immediately upon failing to obtain a lock, the

67 + locking (of refs etc) retries after a short while with backoff.

68 +

69 + * Introduce http.<url>.SSLCipherList configuration variable to tweak

70 + the list of cipher suite to be used with libcURL when talking with

71 + https:// sites.

72 +

73 + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) used "echo -n" to produce

74 + progress messages in a non-portable way.

75 +

76 + * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) does not have --squash option

77 + when pushing, but the documentation and help text pretended as if

78 + it did.

79 +

80 + * The Git subcommand completion (in contrib/) listed credential

81 + helpers among candidates, which is not something the end user would

82 + invoke interatively.

83 +

84

85 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

86

@@ -96,6 +124,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

124 is sent to the background instead.

125 (merge 9a9a41d lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint).

126

127 + * There was a dead code that used to handle "git pull --tags" and

128 + show special-cased error message, which was made irrelevant when

129 + the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.

130 + (merge 19d122b pt/pull-tags-error-diag later to maint).

131 +

132

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

134

@@ -107,6 +140,14 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.4 in the maintenance

140 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'

141 notes for details).

142

143 + * Git 2.4 broke setting verbosity and progress levels on "git clone"

144 + with native transports.

145 + (merge 822f0c4 mh/clone-verbosity-fix later to maint).

146 +

147 + * "git add -e" did not allow the user to abort the operation by

148 + killing the editor.

149 + (merge cb64800 jk/add-e-kill-editor later to maint).

150 +

151 * Memory usage of "git index-pack" has been trimmed by tens of

152 per-cent.

153 (merge c6458e6 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint).

@@ -236,6 +277,37 @@ notes for details).

277 files yet to be added to the index.

278 (merge d95d728 nd/diff-i-t-a later to maint).

279

280 + * There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect

281 + failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the

282 + test was written; turn it into a proper test.

283 + (merge 66d2e04 sb/t1020-cleanup later to maint).

284 +

285 + * The "log --decorate" enhancement in Git 2.4 that shows the commit

286 + at the tip of the current branch e.g. "HEAD -> master", did not

287 + work with --decorate=full.

288 + (merge 429ad20 mg/log-decorate-HEAD later to maint).

289 +

290 + * The ref API did not handle cases where 'refs/heads/xyzzy/frotz' is

291 + removed at the same time as 'refs/heads/xyzzy' is added (or vice

292 + versa) very well.

293 + (merge c628edf mh/ref-directory-file later to maint).

294 +

295 + * Multi-ref transaction support we merged a few releases ago

296 + unnecessarily kept many file descriptors open, risking to fail with

297 + resource exhaustion. This is for 2.4.x track.

298 + (merge 185ce3a mh/write-refs-sooner-2.4 later to maint).

299 +

300 + * "git bundle verify" did not diagnose extra parameters on the

301 + command line.

302 + (merge 7886cfa ps/bundle-verify-arg later to maint).

303 +

304 + * Various documentation mark-up fixes to make the output more

305 + consistent in general and also make AsciiDoctor (an alternative

306 + formatter) happier.

307 + (merge d0258b9 jk/asciidoc-markup-fix later to maint).

308 + (merge ad3967a jk/stripspace-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).

309 + (merge 975e382 ja/tutorial-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).

310 +

311 * Code cleanups and documentation updates.

312 (merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).

313 (merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).

@@ -245,3 +317,6 @@ notes for details).

317 (merge 1154aa4 jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak later to maint).

318 (merge 319b678 jk/sha1-file-reduce-useless-warnings later to maint).

319 (merge 9a35c14 fg/document-commit-message-stripping later to maint).

320 + (merge bbf431c ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file later to maint).

321 + (merge 309a9e3 jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl later to maint).

322 + (merge ccd593c dl/branch-error-message later to maint).

Fourth batch for 2.5 cycle