c4df23f792 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Backward Compatibility Notes

14 which means some fetches of tags that did not fail with older

15 version of Git will fail without "--force" with this version.

16

17 + * "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av").

18 + Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..

19 +

20

21 Updates since v2.19

22 -------------------

@@ -69,6 +72,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

72 * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of

73 options "git stash list" command takes.

74

75 + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git fetch

76 + --multiple" only takes remote names as arguments and no refspecs.

77 +

78 + * "git status" learns to show progress bar when refreshing the index

79 + takes a long time.

80 + (merge ae9af12287 nd/status-refresh-progress later to maint).

81 +

82 + * "git help -a" and "git help -av" give different pieces of

83 + information, and generally the "verbose" version is more friendly

84 + to the new users. "git help -a" by default now uses the more

85 + verbose output (with "--no-verbose", you can go back to the

86 + original). Also "git help -av" now lists aliases and external

87 + commands, which it did not used to.

88 +

89 + * Unlike "grep", "git grep" by default recurses to the whole tree.

90 + The command learned "git grep --recursive" option, so that "git

91 + grep --no-recursive" can serve as a synonym to setting the

92 + max-depth to 0.

93 +

94 + * When pushing into a repository that borrows its objects from an

95 + alternate object store, "git receive-pack" that responds to the

96 + push request on the other side lists the tips of refs in the

97 + alternate to reduce the amount of objects transferred. This

98 + sometimes is detrimental when the number of refs in the alternate

99 + is absurdly large, in which case the bandwidth saved in potentially

100 + fewer objects transferred is wasted in excessively large ref

101 + advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now

102 + configurable with a pair of configuration variables.

103 +

104

105 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

106

@@ -132,6 +164,38 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

164 point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with

165 failure in such a case.

166

167 + * Various codepaths in the core-ish part learned to work on an

168 + arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default

169 + instance "the_index".

170 + (merge b3c7eef9b0 nd/the-index later to maint).

171 +

172 + * Code clean-up in the internal machinery used by "git status" and

173 + "git commit --dry-run".

174 + (merge 73ba5d78b4 ss/wt-status-committable later to maint).

175 +

176 + * Some environment variables that control the runtime options of Git

177 + used during tests are getting renamed for consistency.

178 + (merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint).

179 +

180 + * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows

181 + the index file to be read in parallel for performance.

182 +

183 + * The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is

184 + on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of

185 + the khash API and gain performance.

186 +

187 + * Over some transports, fetching objects with an exact commit object

188 + name can be done without first seeing the ref advertisements. The

189 + code has been optimized to exploit this.

190 +

191 + * In a partial clone that will lazily be hydrated from the

192 + originating repository, we generally want to avoid "does this

193 + object exist (locally)?" on objects that we deliberately omitted

194 + when we created the clone. The cache-tree codepath (which is used

195 + to write a tree object out of the index) however insisted that the

196 + object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial

197 + checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check.

198 +

199

200 Fixes since v2.19

201 -----------------

@@ -209,6 +273,23 @@ Fixes since v2.19

273 used for the first run, which has been corrected.

274 (merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to maint).

275

276 + * "git fetch $repo $object" in a partial clone did not correctly

277 + fetch the asked-for object that is referenced by an object in

278 + promisor packfile, which has been fixed.

279 +

280 + * A corner-case bugfix.

281 + (merge c5cbb27cb5 sm/show-superproject-while-conflicted later to maint).

282 +

283 + * Various fixes to "diff --color-moved-ws".

284 +

285 + * A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects

286 + will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating

287 + repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been

288 + optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob

289 + objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that

290 + no blobs are needed.

291 + (merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint).

292 +

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

294 (merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).

295 (merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).

@@ -231,3 +312,4 @@ Fixes since v2.19

312 (merge c56170a0c4 ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help later to maint).

313 (merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint).

314 (merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).

315 + (merge d9f079ad1a jc/how-to-document-api later to maint).

Fifth batch for 2.20