b3a847d1db · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ Backward compatibility notes.

18 might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are

19 greatly appreciated.

20

21 + * The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual

22 + diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now

23 + become the default.

24 +

25

26 Updates since v2.13

27 -------------------

@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

50

51 * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect

52 and reject a message before sending it out.

49 - (merge 6489660b4b jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).

53 + (merge 177409e589 jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).

54

55 * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail

56 when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,

@@ -60,6 +64,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

64 current repository to determine if the contents from the named path

65 should be included.

66

67 + * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics

68 + configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.

69 +

70

71 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

72

@@ -76,7 +83,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

83

84 * Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both

85 AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.

79 - (merge 505ad91304 ls/travis-doc-asciidoctor later to maint).

86

87 * Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our

88 historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot

@@ -116,7 +122,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

122 * Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as

123 recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of

124 multi-line comments.

119 - (merge 66f5f6dca9 ab/c-translators-comment-style later to maint).

125 +

126 + * The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" have been

127 + cleaned up, in preparation for further changes.

128 +

129 + * The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it

130 + easier to use by cgit.

131

132

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

@@ -136,40 +147,32 @@ notes for details).

147 mishandled a trailer block whose last line is an incomplete line.

148 This has been fixed so that an additional sign-off etc. are added

149 after completing the existing incomplete line.

139 - (merge 44dc738a39 jt/use-trailer-api-in-commands later to maint).

150

151 * The codepath in "git am" that is used when running "git rebase"

152 leaked memory held for the log message of the commits being rebased.

143 - (merge 721f5f1e35 jk/am-leakfix later to maint).

153

154 * "git clone --config var=val" is a way to populate the

155 per-repository configuration file of the new repository, but it did

156 not work well when val is an empty string. This has been fixed.

148 - (merge db4eca1fea jn/clone-add-empty-config-from-command-line later to maint).

157

158 * Setting "log.decorate=false" in the configuration file did not take

159 effect in v2.13, which has been corrected.

152 - (merge c74271aae7 ah/log-decorate-default-to-auto later to maint).

160

161 * A few codepaths in "checkout" and "am" working on an unborn branch

162 tried to access an uninitialized piece of memory.

156 - (merge 57e0ef0e0e rs/checkout-am-fix-unborn later to maint).

163

164 * The Web interface to gmane news archive is long gone, even though

165 the articles are still accessible via NTTP. Replace the links with

166 ones to public-inbox.org. Because their message identification is

167 based on the actual message-id, it is likely that it will be easier

168 to migrate away from it if/when necessary.

163 - (merge 5840eb9d14 ab/doc-replace-gmane-links later to maint).

169

170 * The receive-pack program now makes sure that the push certificate

171 records the same set of push options used for pushing.

167 - (merge cbaf82cc6b jt/push-options-doc later to maint).

172

173 * Tests have been updated to pass under GETTEXT_POISON (a mechanism

174 to ensure that output strings that should not be translated are

175 not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them.

172 - (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint).

176

177 * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a

178 submodule that itself has submodules.

@@ -185,58 +188,47 @@ notes for details).

188 in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This

189 strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other

190 options are in use, and need to be disabled.

188 - (merge da5a1f8100 jk/disable-pack-reuse-when-broken later to maint).

191

192 * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).

191 - (merge 443a12f37b js/plug-leaks later to maint).

193

194 * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use

195 --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request

196 will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish

197 to be merged.

197 - (merge b9b10d3681 jc/read-tree-empty-with-m later to maint).

198

199 * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out

200 with "platform native" line ending convention by default on

201 Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts

202 themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be

203 checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.

204 - (merge 2779f66505 js/eol-on-ourselves later to maint).

204

205 * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ...").

206 (merge 3d7dd2d3b6 jk/bug-to-abort later to maint).

207

208 * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path

209 configuration variables.

211 - (merge ce933ebd5a jk/doc-config-include later to maint).

210

211 * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does

212 not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native

213 speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.

216 - (merge 6963893943 ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions later to maint).

214

215 * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the

216 documentation have been updated to https:// links.

220 - (merge 5e68729fd9 jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint).

217

218 * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to

219 resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,

220 which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.

225 - (merge 613a0e52ea kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint).

221

222 * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'.

228 - (merge d096d7f1ef pw/rebase-i-regression-fix later to maint).

223

224 * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has

225 a new "push" subcommand.

232 - (merge 3851e4483f tg/stash-push-fixup later to maint).

226

227 * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit

228 -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,

229 i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been

230 corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to

231 the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.

239 - (merge d76650b8d1 bm/interpret-trailers-cut-line-is-eom later to maint).

232

233 * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other

234 end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms

@@ -244,12 +236,10 @@ notes for details).

236 but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing

237 intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling

238 traces from "receive-pack" in the test.

247 - (merge 71406ed4d6 jk/alternate-ref-optim later to maint).

239

240 * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at

241 missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they

242 should silently be ignored instead)

252 - (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint).

243

244 * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that

245 they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the

@@ -269,12 +259,11 @@ notes for details).

259

260 * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only

261 when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively.

272 - (merge 0ead000c3a dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint).

262 + (merge bfbfc9a953 dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint).

263

264 * "foo\bar\baz" in "git fetch foo\bar\baz", even though there is no

265 slashes in it, cannot be a nickname for a remote on Windows, as

266 that is likely to be a pathname on a local filesystem.

277 - (merge d9244ecf4f js/bs-is-a-dir-sep-on-windows later to maint).

267

268 * "git clean -d" used to clean directories that has ignored files,

269 even though the command should not lose ignored ones without "-x".

@@ -292,30 +281,26 @@ notes for details).

281 was quite broken on some big-endian platforms and/or platforms that

282 do not like unaligned fetches. Update to the upstream code which

283 has already fixed these issues.

295 - (merge a0103914c2 ab/sha1dc-maint later to maint).

284

285 * "git am -h" triggered a BUG().

298 - (merge f3a2fffe06 jk/unbreak-am-h later to maint).

286

287 * The interaction of "url.*.insteadOf" and custom URL scheme's

288 whitelisting is now documented better.

302 - (merge 2c9a2ae285 jk/url-insteadof-config later to maint).

289 +

290 + * The timestamp of the index file is now taken after the file is

291 + closed, to help Windows, on which a stale timestamp is reported by

292 + fstat() on a file that is opened for writing and data was written

293 + but not yet closed.

294 + (merge 9f41c7a6b3 jh/close-index-before-stat later to maint).

295 +

296 + * "git pull --rebase --autostash" didn't auto-stash when the local history

297 + fast-forwards to the upstream.

298 + (merge f15e7cf5cc tb/pull-ff-rebase-autostash later to maint).

299

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

305 - (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).

306 - (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).

307 - (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint).

308 - (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint).

309 - (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).

310 - (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).

311 - (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).

301 (merge c5a9157393 jh/memihash-opt later to maint).

313 - (merge 80f4cd8046 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).

314 - (merge b275da816c ah/doc-interpret-trailers-ifexists later to maint).

315 - (merge fc7a5edb55 ah/doc-pretty-format-fix later to maint).

316 - (merge 7e95fcb4b5 sb/t5531-update-desc later to maint).

317 - (merge b8f354f294 sd/t3200-typofix later to maint).

318 - (merge ba746ff9c9 ah/doc-filter-branch-export-env later to maint).

302 (merge 44e2ff09ce ab/t3070-test-dedup later to maint).

303 (merge 9ee4aa95db rf/completion-config-commit later to maint).

321 - (merge fb87327aee ah/doc-rev-parse-short-default later to maint).

304 + (merge ef4fe5617e jk/connect-symref-info-leak-fix later to maint).

305 + (merge a56eea28c4 jk/drop-free-refspecs later to maint).

306 + (merge 0c79cee697 ad/pull-remote-doc later to maint).

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