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1 Git 2.14 Release Notes

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

3

4 -Backward compatibility notes.

4 +Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.

5

6 * Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for

7 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a

@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Backward compatibility notes.

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

23 become the default.

24

25 + * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE

26 + library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease

27 + in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the

28 + upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but

29 + the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.

30 +

31

32 Updates since v2.13

33 -------------------

@@ -53,16 +59,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

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

60 even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.

61

56 - * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."

57 - mechanism has further been taught to take symlinks into account.

58 - The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to

59 - a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such

60 - a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the

61 - current repository to determine if the contents from the named path

62 - should be included.

62 + * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in

63 + 2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,

64 + and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in

65 + "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work".

66 + Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would

67 + show. The include will happen if either one matches.

68

64 - * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics

65 - configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.

69 + * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The

70 + diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"

71 + for those who do not want it.

72

73 * Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse

74 configuration.

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97 would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We

98 learned to give warnings when this happens.

99

94 - * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the

95 - user has in its output.

100 + * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there

101 + are in its output.

102

103 * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git

104 commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,

@@ -101,9 +107,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

107 (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in

108 line with the focus of "git commit").

109

104 - * "git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation

105 - that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single

106 - session.

110 + * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options

111 + which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that

112 + restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.

113

114 * An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it

115 has outlived its usefulness.

@@ -425,19 +431,17 @@ notes for details).

431 * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests

432 that would have caught it and others have been added.

433

428 - * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected.

434 + * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected.

435

436 * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.

437

432 - * The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting

438 + * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting

439 correctly.

440

441 * The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation

442 learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation

443 set does.

444

439 - * Update the sha1dc again to fix portability glitches.

440 -

445 * Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading.

446 (merge 2d105451c0 rs/apply-avoid-over-reading later to maint).

447

@@ -461,6 +465,28 @@ notes for details).

465 Git with address sanitizer more easily.

466 (merge 566cf0b3bd jk/build-with-asan later to maint).

467

468 + * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"

469 + ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed

470 + locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double

471 + slashes at the beginning.

472 + (merge 496f256989 tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path later to maint).

473 +

474 + * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had

475 + 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead

476 + show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more

477 + useful number.

478 + (merge 0fae1e072a rs/progress-overall-throughput-at-the-end later to maint).

479 +

480 + * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.

481 + (merge 8db1ae5740 jn/hooks-pre-rebase-sample-fix later to maint).

482 +

483 + * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before

484 + daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background

485 + auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the

486 + early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the

487 + early part also under the GC lock.

488 + (merge c45af94dbc jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook later to maint).

489 +

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

491 (merge 3f9c637ec7 pw/unquote-path-in-git-pm later to maint).

492 (merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).

A few more topics before 2.14-rc1