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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt index 527b07e9b..be598ad7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt @@ -37,7 +37,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features shorter than a page). * The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for - UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 6.3 better. + UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 7.0 better. + + * HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from + the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport. + + * The completion script for bash (in contrib/) has been updated to + handle aliases that define complex sequence of commands better. + + * The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default + enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the + multiple cores they have. + + * "git clone" applies the "if cloning from a local disk, physically + copy repository using hardlinks, unless otherwise told not to with + --no-local" optimization when url.*.insteadOf mechanism rewrites a + "git clone $URL" that refers to a repository over the network to a + clone from a local disk. * "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more timestamp formats, including "--date=now". @@ -49,6 +65,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features already starts a line in the message being edited for cases like "git commit --amend". + * "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to take the mail + signature from. + * "git grep" learned grep.fullname configuration variable to force "--full-name" to be default. This may cause regressions on scripted users that do not expect this new behaviour. @@ -56,6 +75,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git imap-send" learned to ask the credential helper for auth material. + * "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" set to the + "log.decorate" configuration variable to enable the "--decorate" + option automatically when the output is sent to tty. + * "git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream defined for the current branch, refused to run until merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that @@ -76,6 +99,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want to resurrect the now-ignored use case. + * "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a + replacement by editing an existing object. + + * "git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a + commit. + + * "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to + tell it to copy To: and Cc: headers found in the first input file + when emitting later input files. + * "git svn" learned to cope with malformed timestamps with only one digit in the hour part, e.g. 2014-01-07T5:01:02.048176Z, emitted by some broken subversion server implementations. @@ -83,17 +116,44 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag being edited as a comment in the editor. + * "git tag" learned to pay attention to "tag.sort" configuration, to + be used as the default sort order when no --sort=<value> the option + is given. + + * "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed + commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check + signed tags, was added. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up. + * The support for the profile-feedback build, which has been left + bit-rotten for quite a while, has been updated. + + * An experimental format to use two files (the base file and + incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been + introduced; this may reduce I/O cost of rewriting a large index + when only small part of the working tree changes. + + * Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top + by upstreaming them continues. + + * Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being + upstreamed here a bit by bit. + + * The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been + micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few + breakages during its development have been caught and fixed already + but there might remain some more still; please test and report if + you find any. + * The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB. * "git blame" has been optimized greatly by reorganising the data - structure that is used to keep track of the work to be done, thanks - to David Karstrup <dak@gnu.org>. + structure that is used to keep track of the work to be done. * "git diff" that compares 3-or-more trees (e.g. parents and the result of a merge) have been optimized. @@ -103,6 +163,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. example, "update-ref --stdin [-z]" has been updated to use this API. + * skip_prefix() and strip_suffix() API functions are used a lot more + widely throughout the codebase now. + + * Parts of the test scripts can be skipped by using a range notation, + e.g. "sh t1234-test.sh --run='1-4 6 8-'" to omit test piece 5 and 7 + and run everything else. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -119,6 +186,69 @@ notes for details). run "less" within "less" from doing so. (merge c0459ca je/pager-do-not-recurse later to maint). + * Tools that read diagnostic output in our standard error stream do + not want to see terminal control sequence (e.g. erase-to-eol). + Detect them by checking if the standard error stream is connected + to a tty. + (merge 38de156 mn/sideband-no-ansi later to maint). + + * Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted + with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been + corrected. + (merge 97c1364be6b pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint). + + * Reworded the error message given upon a failure to open an existing + loose object file due to e.g. permission issues; it was reported as + the object being corrupt, but that is not quite true. + (merge d6c8a05 jk/report-fail-to-read-objects-better later to maint). + + * "git log -2master" is a common typo that shows two commits starting + from whichever random branch that is not 'master' that happens to + be checked out currently. + (merge e3fa568 jc/revision-dash-count-parsing later to maint). + + * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was + subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed. + (merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint). + (merge 539e750 ek/alt-odb-entry-fix later to maint). + + * The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of + commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10 + in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did + not take into account that number of bytes and number of display + columns are different. + (merge 7d50987 as/pretty-truncate later to maint). + + * "%G" (nothing after G) is an invalid pretty format specifier, but + the parser did not notice it as garbage. + (merge 958b2eb jk/pretty-G-format-fixes later to maint). + + * A handful of code paths had to read the commit object more than + once when showing header fields that are usually not parsed. The + internal data structure to keep track of the contents of the commit + object has been updated to reduce the need for this double-reading, + and to allow the caller find the length of the object. + (merge 218aa3a jk/commit-buffer-length later to maint). + + * The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde + expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path). + (merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint). + + * The completion scripts (in contrib/) did not know about quite a few + options that are common between "git merge" and "git pull", and a + couple of options unique to "git merge". + (merge 8fee872 jk/complete-merge-pull later to maint). + + * The unix-domain socket used by the sample credential cache daemon + tried to unlink an existing stale one at a wrong path, if the path + to the socket was given as an overlong path that does not fit in + sun_path member of the sockaddr_un structure. + (merge 2869b3e rs/fix-unlink-unix-socket later to maint). + + * An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library + function in a rarely used code path. + (merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint). + * "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have. @@ -134,10 +264,36 @@ notes for details). line endings. (merge 4d4813a bc/blame-crlf-test later to maint). + * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were + following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch, + because it incorrectly used strstr(). + (merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint). + * "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the commit did not have any log message. (merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint). + * "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode + bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged + bit. + (merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint). + + * "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when + all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even + under "--prune-empty". + (merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint). + + * "git format-patch" did not enforce the rule that the "--follow" + option from the log/diff family of commands must be used with + exactly one pathspec. + (merge dd63f16 jk/diff-follow-must-take-one-pathspec later to maint). + + * "git gc --auto" was recently changed to run in the background to + give control back early to the end-user sitting in front of the + terminal, but it forgot that housekeeping involving reflogs should + be done without other processes competing for accesses to the refs. + (merge 62aad18 nd/daemonize-gc later to maint). + * "git grep -O" to show the lines that hit in the pager did not work well with case insensitive search. We now spawn "less" with its "-I" option when it is used as the pager (which is the default). @@ -152,15 +308,64 @@ notes for details). distinguish missing objects from type errors. (merge 77583e7 jk/index-pack-report-missing later to maint). + * "log --show-signature" incorrectly decided the color to paint a + mergetag that was and was not correctly validated. + (merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint). + + * "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option. + (merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint). + + * "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while + parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch. + (merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint). + * On a case insensitive filesystem, merge-recursive incorrectly deleted the file that is to be renamed to a name that is the same except for case differences. (merge baa37bf dt/merge-recursive-case-insensitive later to maint). + * Merging changes into a file that ends in an incomplete line made the + last line into a complete one, even when the other branch did not + change anything around the end of file. + (merge ba31180 mk/merge-incomplete-files later to maint). + + * "git pack-objects" unnecessarily copied the previous contents when + extending the hashtable, even though it will populate the table + from scratch anyway. + (merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint). + + * Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that + are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by + mistake. + (merge d078d85 jk/repack-pack-keep-objects later to maint). + * "git rerere forget" did not work well when merge.conflictstyle was set to a non-default value. (merge de3d8bb fc/rerere-conflict-style later to maint). + * "git remote rm" and "git remote prune" can involve removing many + refs at once, which is not a very efficient thing to do when very + many refs exist in the packed-refs file. + (merge e6bea66 jl/remote-rm-prune later to maint). + + * "git log --exclude=<glob> --all | git shortlog" worked as expected, + but "git shortlog --exclude=<glob> --all", which is supposed to be + identical to the above pipeline, was not accepted at the command + line argument parser level. + (merge eb07774 jc/shortlog-ref-exclude later to maint). + + * The autostash mode of "git rebase -i" did not restore the dirty + working tree state if the user aborted the interactive rebase by + emptying the insn sheet. + (merge ddb5432 rr/rebase-autostash-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase --fork-point" did not filter out patch-identical + commits correctly. + + * During "git rebase --merge", a conflicted patch could not be + skipped with "--skip" if the next one also conflicted. + (merge 95104c7 bc/fix-rebase-merge-skip later to maint). + * "git show -s" (i.e. show log message only) used to incorrectly emit an extra blank line after a merge commit. (merge ad2f725 mk/show-s-no-extra-blank-line-for-merges later to maint). @@ -171,3 +376,22 @@ notes for details). race with a "read-write" operation that modify the index while it is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index. (merge 426ddee ym/fix-opportunistic-index-update-race later to maint). + + * "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified + submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set, + which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff + output during the course of development, and should not to hide + changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit + them. + (merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint). + + * Documentation for "git submodule sync" forgot to say that the subcommand + can take the "--recursive" option. + (merge 9393ae7 mc/doc-submodule-sync-recurse later to maint). + + * "git update-index --cacheinfo" in 2.0 release crashed on a + malformed command line. + (merge c8e1ee4 jc/rev-parse-argh-dashed-multi-words later to maint). + + * The mode to run tests with HTTP server tests disabled was broken. + (merge afa53fe na/no-http-test-in-the-middle later to maint). |