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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..277a2a18a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Git v2.10.3 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.10.2 +------------------- + + * Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors + script file "git am" internally uses. + This by itself is not useful until a second caller appears in the + future for "rebase -i" helper. + + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to + complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of + reference to "git cmd ^master". + + * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the + trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like + "Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending + on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module. + + * The code that we have used for the past 10+ years to cycle + 4-element ring buffers turns out to be not quite portable in + theoretical world. + + * "git daemon" used fixed-length buffers to turn URL to the + repository the client asked for into the server side directory + path, using snprintf() to avoid overflowing these buffers, but + allowed possibly truncated paths to the directory. This has been + tightened to reject such a request that causes overlong path to be + required to serve. + + * Recent update to git-sh-setup (a library of shell functions that + are used by our in-tree scripted Porcelain commands) included + another shell library git-sh-i18n without specifying where it is, + relying on the $PATH. This has been fixed to be more explicit by + prefixing $(git --exec-path) output in front. + + * Fix for a racy false-positive test failure. + + * Portability update and workaround for builds on recent Mac OS X. + + * Update to the test framework made in 2.9 timeframe broke running + the tests under valgrind, which has been fixed. + + * Improve the rule to convert "unsigned char [20]" into "struct + object_id *" in contrib/coccinelle/ + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..01db423a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +Git 2.12 Release Notes +====================== + +Backward compatibility notes. + + * Use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' is + still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that + instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this + change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, + upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That + is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet). + + * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..." + has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the + upcoming release. + + +Updates since v2.11 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Various updates to "git p4". + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + * + + +Fixes since v2.10 +----------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * We often decide if a session is interactive by checking if the + standard I/O streams are connected to a TTY, but isatty() that + comes with Windows incorrectly returned true if it is used on NUL + (i.e. an equivalent to /dev/null). This has been fixed. + (merge cbb3f3c9b1 js/mingw-isatty later to maint). + + * "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and + some configuration variable it uses were not documented. + (merge ea9a93dcc2 ew/svn-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rev-parse --symbolic" failed with a more recent notation like + "HEAD^-1" and "HEAD^!". + (merge a2e7b04c44 jk/rev-parse-symbolic-parents-fix later to maint). + + * An empty directory in a working tree that can simply be nuked used + to interfere while merging or cherry-picking a change to create a + submodule directory there, which has been fixed.. + (merge 5423d2e700 dt/empty-submodule-in-merge later to maint). + + * The code in "git push" to compute if any commit being pushed in the + superproject binds a commit in a submodule that hasn't been pushed + out was overly inefficient, making it unusable even for a small + project that does not have any submodule but have a reasonable + number of refs. + (merge 250ab24ab3 hv/submodule-not-yet-pushed-fix later to maint). + + * "git push --dry-run --recurse-submodule=on-demand" wasn't + "--dry-run" in the submodules. + (merge 0301c821c5 bw/push-dry-run later to maint). + + * The output from "git worktree list" was made in readdir() order, + and was unstable. + (merge 4df1d4d466 nd/worktree-list-fixup later to maint). + + * mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode configuration variable did not apply + to built-in tools, but now it does. + (merge 2967284456 da/mergetool-trust-exit-code later to maint). + + * "git p4" LFS support was broken when LFS stores an empty blob. + (merge d5eb3cf5e7 ls/p4-empty-file-on-lfs later to maint). + + * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. + (merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint). + (merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint). |