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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes index b08a141..b0044cf 100644 --- a/.gitattributes +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ *.pm eol=lf diff=perl *.py eol=lf diff=python *.bat eol=crlf +CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md -whitespace /Documentation/**/*.txt eol=lf /command-list.txt eol=lf /GIT-VERSION-GEN eol=lf diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md index e7b4e2f..c8755e3 100644 --- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -16,4 +16,7 @@ If you prefer video, then [this talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7i_qQW__q might be useful to you as the presenter walks you through the contribution process by example. +Or, you can follow the ["My First Contribution"](https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution) +tutorial for another example of the contribution process. + Your friendly Git community! diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yml b/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f148305 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/check-whitespace.yml @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +name: check-whitespace + +# Get the repo with the commits(+1) in the series. +# Process `git log --check` output to extract just the check errors. +# Add a comment to the pull request with the check errors. + +on: + pull_request: + types: [opened, synchronize] + +jobs: + check-whitespace: + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + steps: + - name: Set commit count + shell: bash + run: echo "COMMIT_DEPTH=$((1+$COMMITS))" >>$GITHUB_ENV + env: + COMMITS: ${{ github.event.pull_request.commits }} + + - uses: actions/checkout@v2 + with: + fetch-depth: ${{ env.COMMIT_DEPTH }} + + - name: git log --check + id: check_out + run: | + log= + commit= + while read dash etc + do + case "${dash}" in + "---") + commit="${etc}" + ;; + "") + ;; + *) + if test -n "${commit}" + then + log="${log}\n${commit}" + echo "" + echo "--- ${commit}" + fi + commit= + log="${log}\n${dash} ${etc}" + echo "${dash} ${etc}" + ;; + esac + done <<< $(git log --check --pretty=format:"---% h% s" -${{github.event.pull_request.commits}}) + + if test -n "${log}" + then + echo "::set-output name=checkout::"${log}"" + exit 2 + fi + + - name: Add Check Output as Comment + uses: actions/github-script@v3 + id: add-comment + env: + log: ${{ steps.check_out.outputs.checkout }} + with: + script: | + await github.issues.createComment({ + issue_number: context.issue.number, + owner: context.repo.owner, + repo: context.repo.repo, + body: `Whitespace errors found in workflow ${{ github.workflow }}:\n\n\`\`\`\n${process.env.log.replace(/\\n/g, "\n")}\n\`\`\`` + }) + if: ${{ failure() }} diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f2f884 --- /dev/null +++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml @@ -0,0 +1,357 @@ +name: CI/PR + +on: [push, pull_request] + +env: + DEVELOPER: 1 + +jobs: + ci-config: + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + outputs: + enabled: ${{ steps.check-ref.outputs.enabled }}${{ steps.skip-if-redundant.outputs.enabled }} + steps: + - name: try to clone ci-config branch + run: | + git -c protocol.version=2 clone \ + --no-tags \ + --single-branch \ + -b ci-config \ + --depth 1 \ + --no-checkout \ + --filter=blob:none \ + https://github.com/${{ github.repository }} \ + config-repo && + cd config-repo && + git checkout HEAD -- ci/config || : ignore + - id: check-ref + name: check whether CI is enabled for ref + run: | + enabled=yes + if test -x config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref && + ! config-repo/ci/config/allow-ref '${{ github.ref }}' + then + enabled=no + fi + echo "::set-output name=enabled::$enabled" + - name: skip if the commit or tree was already tested + id: skip-if-redundant + uses: actions/github-script@v3 + if: steps.check-ref.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + with: + github-token: ${{secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN}} + script: | + try { + // Figure out workflow ID, commit and tree + const { data: run } = await github.actions.getWorkflowRun({ + owner: context.repo.owner, + repo: context.repo.repo, + run_id: context.runId, + }); + const workflow_id = run.workflow_id; + const head_sha = run.head_sha; + const tree_id = run.head_commit.tree_id; + + // See whether there is a successful run for that commit or tree + const { data: runs } = await github.actions.listWorkflowRuns({ + owner: context.repo.owner, + repo: context.repo.repo, + per_page: 500, + status: 'success', + workflow_id, + }); + for (const run of runs.workflow_runs) { + if (head_sha === run.head_sha) { + core.warning(`Successful run for the commit ${head_sha}: ${run.html_url}`); + core.setOutput('enabled', ' but skip'); + break; + } + if (run.head_commit && tree_id === run.head_commit.tree_id) { + core.warning(`Successful run for the tree ${tree_id}: ${run.html_url}`); + core.setOutput('enabled', ' but skip'); + break; + } + } + } catch (e) { + core.warning(e); + } + + windows-build: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + runs-on: windows-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - name: download git-sdk-64-minimal + shell: bash + run: | + ## Get artifact + urlbase=https://dev.azure.com/git-for-windows/git/_apis/build/builds + id=$(curl "$urlbase?definitions=22&statusFilter=completed&resultFilter=succeeded&\$top=1" | + jq -r ".value[] | .id") + download_url="$(curl "$urlbase/$id/artifacts" | + jq -r '.value[] | select(.name == "git-sdk-64-minimal").resource.downloadUrl')" + curl --connect-timeout 10 --retry 5 --retry-delay 0 --retry-max-time 240 \ + -o artifacts.zip "$download_url" + + ## Unzip and remove the artifact + unzip artifacts.zip + rm artifacts.zip + - name: build + shell: powershell + env: + HOME: ${{runner.workspace}} + MSYSTEM: MINGW64 + NO_PERL: 1 + run: | + & .\git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc @" + printf '%s\n' /git-sdk-64-minimal/ >>.git/info/exclude + + ci/make-test-artifacts.sh artifacts + "@ + - name: upload build artifacts + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: windows-artifacts + path: artifacts + - name: upload git-sdk-64-minimal + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: git-sdk-64-minimal + path: git-sdk-64-minimal + windows-test: + runs-on: windows-latest + needs: [windows-build] + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + nr: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - name: download build artifacts + uses: actions/download-artifact@v1 + with: + name: windows-artifacts + path: ${{github.workspace}} + - name: extract build artifacts + shell: bash + run: tar xf artifacts.tar.gz + - name: download git-sdk-64-minimal + uses: actions/download-artifact@v1 + with: + name: git-sdk-64-minimal + path: ${{github.workspace}}/git-sdk-64-minimal/ + - name: test + shell: powershell + run: | + & .\git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc @" + # Let Git ignore the SDK + printf '%s\n' /git-sdk-64-minimal/ >>.git/info/exclude + + ci/run-test-slice.sh ${{matrix.nr}} 10 + "@ + - name: ci/print-test-failures.sh + if: failure() + shell: powershell + run: | + & .\git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc ci/print-test-failures.sh + - name: Upload failed tests' directories + if: failure() && env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS != '' + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: failed-tests-windows + path: ${{env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS}} + vs-build: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + env: + MSYSTEM: MINGW64 + NO_PERL: 1 + GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS: "'user.name=CI' 'user.email=ci@git'" + runs-on: windows-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - name: download git-sdk-64-minimal + shell: bash + run: | + ## Get artifact + urlbase=https://dev.azure.com/git-for-windows/git/_apis/build/builds + id=$(curl "$urlbase?definitions=22&statusFilter=completed&resultFilter=succeeded&\$top=1" | + jq -r ".value[] | .id") + download_url="$(curl "$urlbase/$id/artifacts" | + jq -r '.value[] | select(.name == "git-sdk-64-minimal").resource.downloadUrl')" + curl --connect-timeout 10 --retry 5 --retry-delay 0 --retry-max-time 240 \ + -o artifacts.zip "$download_url" + + ## Unzip and remove the artifact + unzip artifacts.zip + rm artifacts.zip + - name: download vcpkg artifacts + shell: powershell + run: | + $urlbase = "https://dev.azure.com/git/git/_apis/build/builds" + $id = ((Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "${urlbase}?definitions=9&statusFilter=completed&resultFilter=succeeded&`$top=1").content | ConvertFrom-JSON).value[0].id + $downloadUrl = ((Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing "${urlbase}/$id/artifacts").content | ConvertFrom-JSON).value[0].resource.downloadUrl + (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile($downloadUrl, "compat.zip") + Expand-Archive compat.zip -DestinationPath . -Force + Remove-Item compat.zip + - name: add msbuild to PATH + uses: microsoft/setup-msbuild@v1 + - name: copy dlls to root + shell: powershell + run: | + & compat\vcbuild\vcpkg_copy_dlls.bat release + if (!$?) { exit(1) } + - name: generate Visual Studio solution + shell: bash + run: | + cmake `pwd`/contrib/buildsystems/ -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=`pwd`/compat/vcbuild/vcpkg/installed/x64-windows \ + -DMSGFMT_EXE=`pwd`/git-sdk-64-minimal/mingw64/bin/msgfmt.exe -DPERL_TESTS=OFF -DPYTHON_TESTS=OFF -DCURL_NO_CURL_CMAKE=ON + - name: MSBuild + run: msbuild git.sln -property:Configuration=Release -property:Platform=x64 -maxCpuCount:4 -property:PlatformToolset=v142 + - name: bundle artifact tar + shell: powershell + env: + MSVC: 1 + VCPKG_ROOT: ${{github.workspace}}\compat\vcbuild\vcpkg + run: | + & git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc @" + mkdir -p artifacts && + eval \"`$(make -n artifacts-tar INCLUDE_DLLS_IN_ARTIFACTS=YesPlease ARTIFACTS_DIRECTORY=artifacts 2>&1 | grep ^tar)\" + "@ + - name: upload build artifacts + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: vs-artifacts + path: artifacts + vs-test: + runs-on: windows-latest + needs: [vs-build, windows-build] + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + nr: [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - name: download git-sdk-64-minimal + uses: actions/download-artifact@v1 + with: + name: git-sdk-64-minimal + path: ${{github.workspace}}/git-sdk-64-minimal/ + - name: download build artifacts + uses: actions/download-artifact@v1 + with: + name: vs-artifacts + path: ${{github.workspace}} + - name: extract build artifacts + shell: bash + run: tar xf artifacts.tar.gz + - name: test + shell: powershell + env: + MSYSTEM: MINGW64 + NO_SVN_TESTS: 1 + GIT_TEST_SKIP_REBASE_P: 1 + run: | + & .\git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc @" + # Let Git ignore the SDK and the test-cache + printf '%s\n' /git-sdk-64-minimal/ /test-cache/ >>.git/info/exclude + + ci/run-test-slice.sh ${{matrix.nr}} 10 + "@ + - name: ci/print-test-failures.sh + if: failure() + shell: powershell + run: | + & .\git-sdk-64-minimal\usr\bin\bash.exe -lc ci/print-test-failures.sh + - name: Upload failed tests' directories + if: failure() && env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS != '' + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: failed-tests-windows + path: ${{env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS}} + regular: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + vector: + - jobname: linux-clang + cc: clang + pool: ubuntu-latest + - jobname: linux-gcc + cc: gcc + pool: ubuntu-latest + - jobname: osx-clang + cc: clang + pool: macos-latest + - jobname: osx-gcc + cc: gcc + pool: macos-latest + - jobname: linux-gcc-default + cc: gcc + pool: ubuntu-latest + env: + CC: ${{matrix.vector.cc}} + jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}} + runs-on: ${{matrix.vector.pool}} + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - run: ci/install-dependencies.sh + - run: ci/run-build-and-tests.sh + - run: ci/print-test-failures.sh + if: failure() + - name: Upload failed tests' directories + if: failure() && env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS != '' + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: failed-tests-${{matrix.vector.jobname}} + path: ${{env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS}} + dockerized: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + strategy: + fail-fast: false + matrix: + vector: + - jobname: linux-musl + image: alpine + - jobname: Linux32 + image: daald/ubuntu32:xenial + env: + jobname: ${{matrix.vector.jobname}} + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + container: ${{matrix.vector.image}} + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - run: ci/install-docker-dependencies.sh + - run: ci/run-build-and-tests.sh + - run: ci/print-test-failures.sh + if: failure() + - name: Upload failed tests' directories + if: failure() && env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS != '' + uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1 + with: + name: failed-tests-${{matrix.vector.jobname}} + path: ${{env.FAILED_TEST_ARTIFACTS}} + static-analysis: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + env: + jobname: StaticAnalysis + runs-on: ubuntu-18.04 + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - run: ci/install-dependencies.sh + - run: ci/run-static-analysis.sh + documentation: + needs: ci-config + if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes' + env: + jobname: Documentation + runs-on: ubuntu-latest + steps: + - uses: actions/checkout@v1 + - run: ci/install-dependencies.sh + - run: ci/test-documentation.sh @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ /git-bisect--helper /git-blame /git-branch +/git-bugreport /git-bundle /git-cat-file /git-check-attr @@ -66,6 +67,7 @@ /git-filter-branch /git-fmt-merge-msg /git-for-each-ref +/git-for-each-repo /git-format-patch /git-fsck /git-fsck-objects @@ -83,13 +85,13 @@ /git-init-db /git-interpret-trailers /git-instaweb -/git-legacy-stash /git-log /git-ls-files /git-ls-remote /git-ls-tree /git-mailinfo /git-mailsplit +/git-maintenance /git-merge /git-merge-base /git-merge-index @@ -113,7 +115,6 @@ /git-pack-redundant /git-pack-objects /git-pack-refs -/git-parse-remote /git-patch-id /git-prune /git-prune-packed @@ -133,8 +134,6 @@ /git-remote-ftps /git-remote-fd /git-remote-ext -/git-remote-testpy -/git-remote-testsvn /git-repack /git-replace /git-request-pull @@ -147,11 +146,9 @@ /git-rm /git-send-email /git-send-pack -/git-serve /git-sh-i18n /git-sh-i18n--envsubst /git-sh-setup -/git-sh-i18n /git-shell /git-shortlog /git-show @@ -189,6 +186,7 @@ /gitweb/gitweb.cgi /gitweb/static/gitweb.js /gitweb/static/gitweb.min.* +/config-list.h /command-list.h *.tar.gz *.dsc @@ -196,6 +194,7 @@ /git.spec *.exe *.[aos] +*.o.json *.py[co] .depend/ *.gcda @@ -217,6 +216,7 @@ /tags /TAGS /cscope* +/compile_commands.json *.hcc *.obj *.lib @@ -239,3 +239,4 @@ Release/ /git.VC.VC.opendb /git.VC.db *.dSYM +/contrib/buildsystems/out diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml index fc5730b..908330a 100644 --- a/.travis.yml +++ b/.travis.yml @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ compiler: matrix: include: - - env: jobname=GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON + - env: jobname=linux-gcc-default os: linux compiler: addons: @@ -32,7 +32,15 @@ matrix: services: - docker before_install: - script: ci/run-linux32-docker.sh + script: ci/run-docker.sh + - env: jobname=linux-musl + os: linux + compiler: + addons: + services: + - docker + before_install: + script: ci/run-docker.sh - env: jobname=StaticAnalysis os: linux compiler: diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md index fc4645d..65651be 100644 --- a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md +++ b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md @@ -8,73 +8,64 @@ this code of conduct may be banned from the community. ## Our Pledge -In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as -contributors and maintainers pledge to make participation in our project and -our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, -body size, disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and -expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, -nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and -orientation. +We as members, contributors, and leaders pledge to make participation in our +community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body +size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender +identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, +nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity +and orientation. + +We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming, +diverse, inclusive, and healthy community. ## Our Standards -Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment -include: +Examples of behavior that contributes to a positive environment for our +community include: -* Using welcoming and inclusive language -* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences -* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism -* Focusing on what is best for the community -* Showing empathy towards other community members +* Demonstrating empathy and kindness toward other people +* Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences +* Giving and gracefully accepting constructive feedback +* Accepting responsibility and apologizing to those affected by our mistakes, + and learning from the experience +* Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the + overall community -Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include: +Examples of unacceptable behavior include: -* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or - advances -* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks +* The use of sexualized language or imagery, and sexual attention or + advances of any kind +* Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks * Public or private harassment -* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic - address, without explicit permission +* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or email + address, without their explicit permission * Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting -## Our Responsibilities +## Enforcement Responsibilities -Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable -behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in -response to any instances of unacceptable behavior. +Community leaders are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of +acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in +response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, +or harmful. -Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or -reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions -that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or -permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, -threatening, offensive, or harmful. +Community leaders have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject +comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are +not aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation +decisions when appropriate. ## Scope -This Code of Conduct applies within all project spaces, and it also applies -when an individual is representing the project or its community in public -spaces. Examples of representing a project or community include using an -official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, -or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. -Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project -maintainers. +This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, and also applies when +an individual is officially representing the community in public spaces. +Examples of representing our community include using an official e-mail address, +posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed +representative at an online or offline event. ## Enforcement Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be -reported by contacting the project team at git@sfconservancy.org. All -complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response -that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project -team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of -an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted -separately. - -Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good -faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other -members of the project's leadership. - -The project leadership team can be contacted by email as a whole at +reported to the community leaders responsible for enforcement at git@sfconservancy.org, or individually: - Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> @@ -82,12 +73,73 @@ git@sfconservancy.org, or individually: - Jeff King <peff@peff.net> - Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> +All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly. + +All community leaders are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the +reporter of any incident. + +## Enforcement Guidelines + +Community leaders will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining +the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct: + +### 1. Correction + +**Community Impact**: Use of inappropriate language or other behavior deemed +unprofessional or unwelcome in the community. + +**Consequence**: A private, written warning from community leaders, providing +clarity around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the +behavior was inappropriate. A public apology may be requested. + +### 2. Warning + +**Community Impact**: A violation through a single incident or series +of actions. + +**Consequence**: A warning with consequences for continued behavior. No +interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with +those enforcing the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This +includes avoiding interactions in community spaces as well as external channels +like social media. Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or +permanent ban. + +### 3. Temporary Ban + +**Community Impact**: A serious violation of community standards, including +sustained inappropriate behavior. + +**Consequence**: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public +communication with the community for a specified period of time. No public or +private interaction with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction +with those enforcing the Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. +Violating these terms may lead to a permanent ban. + +### 4. Permanent Ban + +**Community Impact**: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community +standards, including sustained inappropriate behavior, harassment of an +individual, or aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals. + +**Consequence**: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within +the community. + ## Attribution This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], -version 1.4, available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/code-of-conduct.html +version 2.0, available at +[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html][v2.0]. + +Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by +[Mozilla's code of conduct enforcement ladder][Mozilla CoC]. + +For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at +[https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq][FAQ]. Translations are available +at [https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations][translations]. [homepage]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org +[v2.0]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct.html +[Mozilla CoC]: https://github.com/mozilla/diversity +[FAQ]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq +[translations]: https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations -For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see -https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index ed4e443..45465bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -91,16 +91,10 @@ For shell scripts specifically (not exhaustive): - No shell arrays. - - No strlen ${#parameter}. - - No pattern replacement ${parameter/pattern/string}. - We use Arithmetic Expansion $(( ... )). - - Inside Arithmetic Expansion, spell shell variables with $ in front - of them, as some shells do not grok $((x)) while accepting $(($x)) - just fine (e.g. dash older than 0.5.4). - - We do not use Process Substitution <(list) or >(list). - Do not write control structures on a single line with semicolon. @@ -238,6 +232,18 @@ For C programs: while( condition ) func (bar+1); + - Do not explicitly compare an integral value with constant 0 or '\0', + or a pointer value with constant NULL. For instance, to validate that + counted array <ptr, cnt> is initialized but has no elements, write: + + if (!ptr || cnt) + BUG("empty array expected"); + + and not: + + if (ptr == NULL || cnt != 0); + BUG("empty array expected"); + - We avoid using braces unnecessarily. I.e. if (bla) { @@ -483,16 +489,11 @@ For Python scripts: - We follow PEP-8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). - - As a minimum, we aim to be compatible with Python 2.6 and 2.7. + - As a minimum, we aim to be compatible with Python 2.7. - Where required libraries do not restrict us to Python 2, we try to also be compatible with Python 3.1 and later. - - When you must differentiate between Unicode literals and byte string - literals, it is OK to use the 'b' prefix. Even though the Python - documentation for version 2.6 does not mention this prefix, it has - been supported since version 2.6.0. - Error Messages - Do not end error messages with a full stop. diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile index 8fe829c..81d1bf7 100644 --- a/Documentation/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/Makefile @@ -17,9 +17,11 @@ MAN1_TXT += git.txt MAN1_TXT += gitk.txt MAN1_TXT += gitweb.txt +# man5 / man7 guides (note: new guides should also be added to command-list.txt) MAN5_TXT += gitattributes.txt MAN5_TXT += githooks.txt MAN5_TXT += gitignore.txt +MAN5_TXT += gitmailmap.txt MAN5_TXT += gitmodules.txt MAN5_TXT += gitrepository-layout.txt MAN5_TXT += gitweb.conf.txt @@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ MAN7_TXT += gitcredentials.txt MAN7_TXT += gitcvs-migration.txt MAN7_TXT += gitdiffcore.txt MAN7_TXT += giteveryday.txt +MAN7_TXT += gitfaq.txt MAN7_TXT += gitglossary.txt MAN7_TXT += gitnamespaces.txt MAN7_TXT += gitremote-helpers.txt @@ -92,6 +95,7 @@ TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-capabilities TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-common TECH_DOCS += technical/protocol-v2 TECH_DOCS += technical/racy-git +TECH_DOCS += technical/reftable TECH_DOCS += technical/send-pack-pipeline TECH_DOCS += technical/shallow TECH_DOCS += technical/signature-format @@ -149,32 +153,9 @@ endif -include ../config.mak.autogen -include ../config.mak -# -# For docbook-xsl ... -# -1.68.1, no extra settings are needed? -# 1.69.0, set ASCIIDOC_ROFF? -# 1.69.1-1.71.0, set DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP? -# 1.71.1, set ASCIIDOC_ROFF? -# 1.72.0, set DOCBOOK_XSL_172. -# 1.73.0-, no extra settings are needed -# - -ifdef DOCBOOK_XSL_172 -ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff -MANPAGE_XSL = manpage-1.72.xsl -else - ifndef ASCIIDOC_ROFF - # docbook-xsl after 1.72 needs the regular XSL, but will not - # pass-thru raw roff codes from asciidoc.conf, so turn them off. - ASCIIDOC_EXTRA += -a git-asciidoc-no-roff - endif -endif ifndef NO_MAN_BOLD_LITERAL XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-bold-literal.xsl endif -ifdef DOCBOOK_SUPPRESS_SP -XMLTO_EXTRA += -m manpage-suppress-sp.xsl -endif # Newer DocBook stylesheet emits warning cruft in the output when # this is not set, and if set it shows an absolute link. Older @@ -292,7 +273,9 @@ install-html: html ../GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE $(QUIET_SUBDIR0)../ $(QUIET_SUBDIR1) GIT-VERSION-FILE +ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean) -include ../GIT-VERSION-FILE +endif # # Determine "include::" file references in asciidoc files. @@ -306,7 +289,9 @@ doc.dep : $(docdep_prereqs) $(wildcard *.txt) $(wildcard config/*.txt) build-doc $(PERL_PATH) ./build-docdep.perl >$@+ $(QUIET_STDERR) && \ mv $@+ $@ +ifneq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),clean) -include doc.dep +endif cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \ cmds-ancillarymanipulators.txt \ @@ -315,6 +300,7 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \ cmds-plumbingmanipulators.txt \ cmds-synchingrepositories.txt \ cmds-synchelpers.txt \ + cmds-guide.txt \ cmds-purehelpers.txt \ cmds-foreignscminterface.txt @@ -322,7 +308,7 @@ $(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT) $(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \ - $(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(QUIET_STDERR) && \ + $(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(cmds_txt) $(QUIET_STDERR) && \ date >$@ mergetools_txt = mergetools-diff.txt mergetools-merge.txt @@ -399,7 +385,10 @@ SubmittingPatches.txt: SubmittingPatches $(QUIET_GEN) cp $< $@ XSLT = docbook.xsl -XSLTOPTS = --xinclude --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css +XSLTOPTS = +XSLTOPTS += --xinclude +XSLTOPTS += --stringparam html.stylesheet docbook-xsl.css +XSLTOPTS += --param generate.consistent.ids 1 user-manual.html: user-manual.xml $(XSLT) $(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \ diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt index 427274d..af0a9da 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstContribution.txt @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ component you're working on, followed by a blank line (always required) and then the body of your commit message, which should provide the bulk of the context. Remember to be explicit and provide the "Why" of your change, especially if it couldn't easily be understood from your diff. When editing your commit message, -don't remove the Signed-off-by line which was added by `-s` above. +don't remove the `Signed-off-by` trailer which was added by `-s` above. ---- psuh: add a built-in by popular demand @@ -319,14 +319,14 @@ function body: ... git_config(git_default_config, NULL); - if (git_config_get_string_const("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) + if (git_config_get_string_tmp("user.name", &cfg_name) > 0) printf(_("No name is found in config\n")); else printf(_("Your name: %s\n"), cfg_name); ---- `git_config()` will grab the configuration from config files known to Git and -apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_const()` will look up +apply standard precedence rules. `git_config_get_string_tmp()` will look up a specific key ("user.name") and give you the value. There are a number of single-key lookup functions like this one; you can see them all (and more info about how to use `git_config()`) in `Documentation/technical/api-config.txt`. @@ -507,6 +507,9 @@ documentation is consistent with other Git and UNIX manpages; this makes life easier for your user, who can skip to the section they know contains the information they need. +NOTE: Before trying to build the docs, make sure you have the package `asciidoc` +installed. + Now that you've written your manpage, you'll need to build it explicitly. We convert your AsciiDoc to troff which is man-readable like so: @@ -522,8 +525,6 @@ $ make -C Documentation/ git-psuh.1 $ man Documentation/git-psuh.1 ---- -NOTE: You may need to install the package `asciidoc` to get this to work. - While this isn't as satisfying as running through `git help`, you can at least check that your help page looks right. @@ -663,7 +664,7 @@ mention the right animal somewhere: ---- test_expect_success 'runs correctly with no args and good output' ' git psuh >actual && - test_i18ngrep Pony actual + grep Pony actual ' ---- @@ -1142,11 +1143,25 @@ After a few days, you will hopefully receive a reply to your patchset with some comments. Woohoo! Now you can get back to work. It's good manners to reply to each comment, notifying the reviewer that you have -made the change requested, feel the original is better, or that the comment +made the change suggested, feel the original is better, or that the comment inspired you to do something a new way which is superior to both the original and the suggested change. This way reviewers don't need to inspect your v2 to figure out whether you implemented their comment or not. +Reviewers may ask you about what you wrote in the patchset, either in +the proposed commit log message or in the changes themselves. You +should answer these questions in your response messages, but often the +reason why reviewers asked these questions to understand what you meant +to write is because your patchset needed clarification to be understood. + +Do not be satisfied by just answering their questions in your response +and hear them say that they now understand what you wanted to say. +Update your patches to clarify the points reviewers had trouble with, +and prepare your v2; the words you used to explain your v1 to answer +reviewers' questions may be useful thing to use. Your goal is to make +your v2 clear enough so that it becomes unnecessary for you to give the +same explanation to the next person who reads it. + If you are going to push back on a comment, be polite and explain why you feel your original is better; be prepared that the reviewer may still disagree with you, and the rest of the community may weigh in on one side or the other. As @@ -1179,8 +1194,8 @@ look at the section below this one for some context.) [[after-approval]] === After Review Approval -The Git project has four integration branches: `pu`, `next`, `master`, and -`maint`. Your change will be placed into `pu` fairly early on by the maintainer +The Git project has four integration branches: `seen`, `next`, `master`, and +`maint`. Your change will be placed into `seen` fairly early on by the maintainer while it is still in the review process; from there, when it is ready for wider testing, it will be merged into `next`. Plenty of early testers use `next` and may report issues. Eventually, changes in `next` will make it to `master`, diff --git a/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt b/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt index aa828df..2d10eea 100644 --- a/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt +++ b/Documentation/MyFirstObjectWalk.txt @@ -182,30 +182,6 @@ its `init_log_defaults()` sets its own state (`decoration_style`) and asks `grep` and `diff` to initialize themselves by calling each of their initialization functions. -For our first example within `git walken`, we don't intend to use any other -components within Git, and we don't have any configuration to do. However, we -may want to add some later, so for now, we can add an empty placeholder. Create -a new function in `builtin/walken.c`: - ----- -static void init_walken_defaults(void) -{ - /* - * We don't actually need the same components `git log` does; leave this - * empty for now. - */ -} ----- - -Make sure to add a line invoking it inside of `cmd_walken()`. - ----- -int cmd_walken(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) -{ - init_walken_defaults(); -} ----- - ==== Configuring From `.gitconfig` Next, we should have a look at any relevant configuration settings (i.e., @@ -357,9 +333,6 @@ static void walken_commit_walk(struct rev_info *rev) ... while ((commit = get_revision(rev))) { - if (!commit) - continue; - strbuf_reset(&prettybuf); pp_commit_easy(CMIT_FMT_ONELINE, commit, &prettybuf); puts(prettybuf.buf); @@ -391,17 +364,9 @@ Next, let's try to filter the commits we see based on their author. This is equivalent to running `git log --author=<pattern>`. We can add a filter by modifying `rev_info.grep_filter`, which is a `struct grep_opt`. -First some setup. Add `init_grep_defaults()` to `init_walken_defaults()` and add -`grep_config()` to `git_walken_config()`: +First some setup. Add `grep_config()` to `git_walken_config()`: ---- -static void init_walken_defaults(void) -{ - init_grep_defaults(the_repository); -} - -... - static int git_walken_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb) { grep_config(var, value, cb); diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2f181e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Git v2.17.6 Release Notes +========================= + +This release addresses the security issues CVE-2021-21300. + +Fixes since v2.17.5 +------------------- + + * CVE-2021-21300: + On case-insensitive file systems with support for symbolic links, + if Git is configured globally to apply delay-capable clean/smudge + filters (such as Git LFS), Git could be fooled into running + remote code during a clone. + +Credit for finding and fixing this vulnerability goes to Matheus +Tavares, helped by Johannes Schindelin. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfb1de4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.18.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6 to address +the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for that +version for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bcca6cd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.19.6 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6 and +v2.18.5 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the +release notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1dfb784 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.20.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5 +and v2.19.6 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see +the release notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0089dd6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Git v2.21.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6 and v2.20.5 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; +see the release notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b280d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.22.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, +v2.18.5, v2.19.6, v2.20.5 and v2.21.4 to address the security +issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for these versions +for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6e5424d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.23.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4 and v2.22.5 to address the security +issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for these versions +for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e216ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.24.4 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5 and v2.23.4 to address the +security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for these +versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcb9566 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.25.5 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4 and v2.24.4 to address +the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for +these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4111c38 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.26.3 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4, v2.24.4 and v2.25.5 +to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release +notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15518d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,525 @@ +Git 2.27 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.26 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility notes + + * When "git describe C" finds that commit C is pointed by a signed or + annotated tag, which records T as its tagname in the object, the + command gives T as its answer. Even if the user renames or moves + such a tag from its natural location in the "refs/tags/" hierarchy, + "git describe C" would still give T as the answer, but in such a + case "git show T^0" would no longer work as expected. There may be + nothing at "refs/tags/T" or even worse there may be a different tag + instead. + + Starting from this version, "git describe" will always use the + "long" version, as if the "--long" option were given, when giving + its output based on such a misplaced tag to work around the problem. + + * "git pull" issues a warning message until the pull.rebase + configuration variable is explicitly given, which some existing + users may find annoying---those who prefer not to rebase need to + set the variable to false to squelch the warning. + + * The transport protocol version 2, which was promoted to the default + in Git 2.26 release, turned out to have some remaining rough edges, + so it has been demoted from the default. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * A handful of options to configure SSL when talking to proxies have + been added. + + * Smudge/clean conversion filters are now given more information + (e.g. the object of the tree-ish in which the blob being converted + appears, in addition to its path, which has already been given). + + * When "git describe C" finds an annotated tag with tagname A to be + the best name to explain commit C, and the tag is stored in a + "wrong" place in the refs/tags hierarchy, e.g. refs/tags/B, the + command gave a warning message but used A (not B) to describe C. + If C is exactly at the tag, the describe output would be "A", but + "git rev-parse A^0" would not be equal as "git rev-parse C^0". The + behavior of the command has been changed to use the "long" form + i.e. A-0-gOBJECTNAME, which is correctly interpreted by rev-parse. + + * "git pull" learned to warn when no pull.rebase configuration + exists, and neither --[no-]rebase nor --ff-only is given (which + would result a merge). + + * "git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to + bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook). + + * "git pull" shares many options with underlying "git fetch", but + some of them were not documented and some of those that would make + sense to pass down were not passed down. + + * "git rebase" learned the "--no-gpg-sign" option to countermand + commit.gpgSign the user may have. + + * The output from "git format-patch" uses RFC 2047 encoding for + non-ASCII letters on From: and Subject: headers, so that it can + directly be fed to e-mail programs. A new option has been added + to produce these headers in raw. + + * "git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited + history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a + side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown + in addition to the commits that introduce real changes. + + * The interactive input from various codepaths are consolidated and + any prompt possibly issued earlier are fflush()ed before we read. + + * Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be + already in the upstream, without checking first. + + * The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true', + enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21. + + * "git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and + "commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical + accident. This has been documented. + + * "git merge" learns the "--autostash" option. + + * "sparse-checkout" UI improvements. + + * "git update-ref --stdin" learned a handful of new verbs to let the + user control ref update transactions more explicitly, which helps + as an ingredient to implement two-phase commit-style atomic + ref-updates across multiple repositories. + + * "git commit-graph write" learned different ways to write out split + files. + + * Introduce an extension to the commit-graph to make it efficient to + check for the paths that were modified at each commit using Bloom + filters. + + * The approxidate parser learns to parse seconds with fraction and + ignore fractional part. + + * The userdiff patterns for Markdown documents have been added. + + * The sparse-checkout patterns have been forbidden from excluding all + paths, leaving an empty working tree, for a long time. This + limitation has been lifted. + + * "git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents + out of "HEAD", instead of erring out. + + * "git p4" learned to recover from a (broken) state where a directory + and a file are recorded at the same path in the Perforce repository + the same way as their clients do. + + * "git multi-pack-index repack" has been taught to honor some + repack.* configuration variables. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The advise API has been revamped to allow more systematic enumeration of + advice knobs in the future. + + * SHA-256 transition continues. + + * The code to interface with GnuPG has been refactored. + + * "git stash" has kept an escape hatch to use the scripted version + for a few releases, which got stale. It has been removed. + + * Enable tests that require GnuPG on Windows. + + * Minor test usability improvement. + + * Trace2 enhancement to allow logging of the environment variables. + + * Test clean-up continues. + + * Perf-test update. + + * A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against + misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors. + + * Various tests have been updated to work around issues found with + shell utilities that come with busybox etc. + + * The config API made mixed uses of int and size_t types to represent + length of various pieces of text it parsed, which has been updated + to use the correct type (i.e. size_t) throughout. + + * The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git + log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable + log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the + family. + + * A new CI job to build and run test suite on linux with musl libc + has been added. + + * Update the CI configuration to use GitHub Actions, retiring the one + based on Azure Pipelines. + + * The directory traversal code had redundant recursive calls which + made its performance characteristics exponential with respect to + the depth of the tree, which was corrected. + + * "git blame" learns to take advantage of the "changed-paths" Bloom + filter stored in the commit-graph file. + + * The "bugreport" tool has been added. + + * The object walk with object filter "--filter=tree:0" can now take + advantage of the pack bitmap when available. + + * Instead of always building all branches at GitHub via Actions, + users can specify which branches to build. + + * Codepaths that show progress meter have been taught to also use the + start_progress() and the stop_progress() calls as a "region" to be + traced. + + * Instead of downloading Windows SDK for CI jobs for windows builds + from an external site (wingit.blob.core.windows.net), use the one + created in the windows-build job, to work around quota issues at + the external site. + + +Fixes since v2.26 +----------------- + + * The real_path() convenience function can easily be misused; with a + bit of code refactoring in the callers' side, its use has been + eliminated. + (merge 49d3c4b481 am/real-path-fix later to maint). + + * Update "git p4" to work with Python 3. + (merge 6bb40ed20a yz/p4-py3 later to maint). + + * The mechanism to prevent "git commit" from making an empty commit + or amending during an interrupted cherry-pick was broken during the + rewrite of "git rebase" in C, which has been corrected. + (merge 430b75f720 pw/advise-rebase-skip later to maint). + + * Fix "git checkout --recurse-submodules" of a nested submodule + hierarchy. + (merge 846f34d351 pb/recurse-submodules-fix later to maint). + + * The "--fork-point" mode of "git rebase" regressed when the command + was rewritten in C back in 2.20 era, which has been corrected. + (merge f08132f889 at/rebase-fork-point-regression-fix later to maint). + + * The import-tars importer (in contrib/fast-import/) used to create + phony files at the top-level of the repository when the archive + contains global PAX headers, which made its own logic to detect and + omit the common leading directory ineffective, which has been + corrected. + (merge c839fcff65 js/import-tars-do-not-make-phony-files-from-pax-headers later to maint). + + * Simplify the commit ancestry connectedness check in a partial clone + repository in which "promised" objects are assumed to be obtainable + lazily on-demand from promisor remote repositories. + (merge 2b98478c6f jt/connectivity-check-optim-in-partial-clone later to maint). + + * The server-end of the v2 protocol to serve "git clone" and "git + fetch" was not prepared to see a delim packets at unexpected + places, which led to a crash. + (merge cacae4329f jk/harden-protocol-v2-delim-handling later to maint). + + * When fed a midx that records no objects, some codepaths tried to + loop from 0 through (num_objects-1), which, due to integer + arithmetic wrapping around, made it nonsense operation with out of + bounds array accesses. The code has been corrected to reject such + an midx file. + (merge 796d61cdc0 dr/midx-avoid-int-underflow later to maint). + + * Utitiles run via the run_command() API were not spawned correctly + on Cygwin, when the paths to them are given as a full path with + backslashes. + (merge 05ac8582bc ak/run-command-on-cygwin-fix later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase" tried to run a rebase even after noticing that + the pull results in a fast-forward and no rebase is needed nor + sensible, for the past few years due to a mistake nobody noticed. + (merge fbae70ddc6 en/pull-do-not-rebase-after-fast-forwarding later to maint). + + * "git rebase" with the merge backend did not work well when the + rebase.abbreviateCommands configuration was set. + (merge de9f1d3ef4 ag/rebase-merge-allow-ff-under-abbrev-command later to maint). + + * The logic to auto-follow tags by "git clone --single-branch" was + not careful to avoid lazy-fetching unnecessary tags, which has been + corrected. + (merge 167a575e2d jk/use-quick-lookup-in-clone-for-tag-following later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" did not leave the reflog entries correctly. + (merge 1f6965f994 en/sequencer-reflog-action later to maint). + + * The more aggressive updates to remote-tracking branches we had for + the past 7 years or so were not reflected in the documentation, + which has been corrected. + (merge a44088435c pb/pull-fetch-doc later to maint). + + * We've left the command line parsing of "git log :/a/b/" broken for + about a full year without anybody noticing, which has been + corrected. + (merge 0220461071 jc/missing-ref-store-fix later to maint). + + * Misc fixes for Windows. + (merge 3efc128cd5 js/mingw-fixes later to maint). + + * "git rebase" (again) learns to honor "--no-keep-empty", which lets + the user to discard commits that are empty from the beginning (as + opposed to the ones that become empty because of rebasing). The + interactive rebase also marks commits that are empty in the todo. + (merge 50ed76148a en/rebase-no-keep-empty later to maint). + + * Parsing the host part out of URL for the credential helper has been corrected. + (merge 4c5971e18a jk/credential-parsing-end-of-host-in-URL later to maint). + + * Document the recommended way to abort a failing test early (e.g. by + exiting a loop), which is to say "return 1". + (merge 7cc112dc95 jc/doc-test-leaving-early later to maint). + + * The code that refreshes the last access and modified time of + on-disk packfiles and loose object files have been updated. + (merge 312cd76130 lr/freshen-file-fix later to maint). + + * Validation of push certificate has been made more robust against + timing attacks. + (merge 719483e547 bc/constant-memequal later to maint). + + * The custom hash function used by "git fast-import" has been + replaced with the one from hashmap.c, which gave us a nice + performance boost. + (merge d8410a816b jk/fast-import-use-hashmap later to maint). + + * The "git submodule" command did not initialize a few variables it + internally uses and was affected by variable settings leaked from + the environment. + (merge 65d100c4dd lx/submodule-clear-variables later to maint). + + * Raise the minimum required version of docbook-xsl package to 1.74, + as 1.74.0 was from late 2008, which is more than 10 years old, and + drop compatibility cruft from our documentation suite. + (merge 3c255ad660 ma/doc-discard-docbook-xsl-1.73 later to maint). + + * "git log" learns "--[no-]mailmap" as a synonym to "--[no-]use-mailmap" + (merge 88acccda38 jc/log-no-mailmap later to maint). + + * "git commit-graph write --expire-time=<timestamp>" did not use the + given timestamp correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge b09b785c78 ds/commit-graph-expiry-fix later to maint). + + * Tests update to use "test-chmtime" instead of "touch -t". + (merge e892a56845 ds/t5319-touch-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff" in a partial clone learned to avoid lazy loading blob + objects in more casese when they are not needed. + (merge 95acf11a3d jt/avoid-prefetch-when-able-in-diff later to maint). + + * "git push --atomic" used to show failures for refs that weren't + even pushed, which has been corrected. + (merge dfe1b7f19c jx/atomic-push later to maint). + + * Code in builtin/*, i.e. those can only be called from within + built-in subcommands, that implements bulk of a couple of + subcommands have been moved to libgit.a so that they could be used + by others. + (merge 9460fd48b5 dl/libify-a-few later to maint). + + * Allowing the user to split a patch hunk while "git stash -p" does + not work well; a band-aid has been added to make this (partially) + work better. + + * "git diff-tree --pretty --notes" used to hit an assertion failure, + as it forgot to initialize the notes subsystem. + (merge 5778b22b3d tb/diff-tree-with-notes later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" fixes. + (merge 8d1675eb7f vd/range-diff-with-custom-pretty-format-fix later to maint). + + * "git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other + commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run + from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected. + (merge 45115d8490 mt/grep-cquote-path later to maint). + + * GNU/Hurd is also among the ones that need the fopen() wrapper. + (merge 274a1328fb jc/gnu-hurd-lets-fread-read-dirs later to maint). + + * Those fetching over protocol v2 from linux-next and other kernel + repositories are reporting that v2 often fetches way too much than + needed. + (merge 11c7f2a30b jn/demote-proto2-from-default later to maint). + + * The upload-pack protocol v2 gave up too early before finding a + common ancestor, resulting in a wasteful fetch from a fork of a + project. This has been corrected to match the behaviour of v0 + protocol. + (merge 2f0a093dd6 jt/v2-fetch-nego-fix later to maint). + + * The build procedure did not use the libcurl library and its include + files correctly for a custom-built installation. + (merge 0573831950 jk/build-with-right-curl later to maint). + + * Tighten "git mailinfo" to notice and error out when decoded result + contains NUL in it. + (merge 3919997447 dd/mailinfo-with-nul later to maint). + + * Fix in-core inconsistency after fetching into a shallow repository + that broke the code to write out commit-graph. + (merge 37b9dcabfc tb/reset-shallow later to maint). + + * The commit-graph code exhausted file descriptors easily when it + does not have to. + (merge c8828530b7 tb/commit-graph-fd-exhaustion-fix later to maint). + + * The multi-pack-index left mmapped file descriptors open when it + does not have to. + (merge 6c7ff7cf7f ds/multi-pack-index later to maint). + + * Recent update to Homebrew used by macOS folks breaks build by + moving gettext library and necessary headers. + (merge a0b3108618 ds/build-homebrew-gettext-fix later to maint). + + * Incompatible options "--root" and "--fork-point" of "git rebase" + have been marked and documented as being incompatible. + (merge a35413c378 en/rebase-root-and-fork-point-are-incompatible later to maint). + + * Error and verbose trace messages from "git push" did not redact + credential material embedded in URLs. + (merge d192fa5006 js/anonymise-push-url-in-errors later to maint). + + * Update the parser used for credential.<URL>.<variable> + configuration, to handle <URL>s with '/' in them correctly. + (merge b44d0118ac bc/wildcard-credential later to maint). + + * Recent updates broke parsing of "credential.<url>.<key>" where + <url> is not a full URL (e.g. [credential "https://"] helper = ...) + stopped working, which has been corrected. + (merge 9a121b0d22 js/partial-urlmatch-2.17 later to maint). + (merge cd93e6c029 js/partial-urlmatch later to maint). + + * Some of the files commit-graph subsystem keeps on disk did not + correctly honor the core.sharedRepository settings and some were + left read-write. + + * In error messages that "git switch" mentions its option to create a + new branch, "-b/-B" options were shown, where "-c/-C" options + should be, which has been corrected. + (merge 7c16ef7577 dl/switch-c-option-in-error-message later to maint). + + * With the recent tightening of the code that is used to parse + various parts of a URL for use in the credential subsystem, a + hand-edited credential-store file causes the credential helper to + die, which is a bit too harsh to the users. Demote the error + behaviour to just ignore and keep using well-formed lines instead. + (merge c03859a665 cb/credential-store-ignore-bogus-lines later to maint). + + * The samples in the credential documentation has been updated to + make it clear that we depict what would appear in the .git/config + file, by adding appropriate quotes as needed.. + (merge 177681a07e jk/credential-sample-update later to maint). + + * "git branch" and other "for-each-ref" variants accepted multiple + --sort=<key> options in the increasing order of precedence, but it + had a few breakages around "--ignore-case" handling, and tie-breaking + with the refname, which have been fixed. + (merge 7c5045fc18 jk/for-each-ref-multi-key-sort-fix later to maint). + + * The coding guideline for shell scripts instructed to refer to a + variable with dollar-sign inside arithmetic expansion to work + around a bug in old versions of dash, which is a thing of the past. + Now we are not forbidden from writing $((var+1)). + (merge 32b5fe7f0e jk/arith-expansion-coding-guidelines later to maint). + + * The <stdlib.h> header on NetBSD brings in its own definition of + hmac() function (eek), which conflicts with our own and unrelated + function with the same name. Our function has been renamed to work + around the issue. + (merge 3013118eb8 cb/avoid-colliding-with-netbsd-hmac later to maint). + + * The basic test did not honor $TEST_SHELL_PATH setting, which has + been corrected. + (merge 0555e4af58 cb/t0000-use-the-configured-shell later to maint). + + * Minor in-code comments and documentation updates around credential + API. + (merge 1aed817f99 cb/credential-doc-fixes later to maint). + + * Teach "am", "commit", "merge" and "rebase", when they are run with + the "--quiet" option, to pass "--quiet" down to "gc --auto". + (merge 7c3e9e8cfb jc/auto-gc-quiet later to maint). + + * The code to skip unmerged paths in the index when sparse checkout + is in use would have made out-of-bound access of the in-core index + when the last path was unmerged, which has been corrected. + + * Serving a "git fetch" client over "git://" and "ssh://" protocols + using the on-wire protocol version 2 was buggy on the server end + when the client needs to make a follow-up request to + e.g. auto-follow tags. + (merge 08450ef791 cc/upload-pack-v2-fetch-fix later to maint). + + * "git bisect replay" had trouble with input files when they used + CRLF line ending, which has been corrected. + (merge 6c722cbe5a cw/bisect-replay-with-dos later to maint). + + * "rebase -i" segfaulted when rearranging a sequence that has a + fix-up that applies another fix-up (which may or may not be a + fix-up of yet another step). + (merge 02471e7e20 js/rebase-autosquash-double-fixup-fix later to maint). + + * "git fsck" ensures that the paths recorded in tree objects are + sorted and without duplicates, but it failed to notice a case where + a blob is followed by entries that sort before a tree with the same + name. This has been corrected. + (merge 9068cfb20f rs/fsck-duplicate-names-in-trees later to maint). + + * Code clean-up by removing a compatibility implementation of a + function we no longer use. + (merge 84b0115f0d cb/no-more-gmtime later to maint). + + * When a binary file gets modified and renamed on both sides of history + to different locations, both files would be written to the working + tree but both would have the contents from "ours". This has been + corrected so that the path from each side gets their original content. + + * Fix for a copy-and-paste error introduced during 2.20 era. + (merge e68a5272b1 ds/multi-pack-verify later to maint). + + * Update an unconditional use of "grep -a" with a perl script in a test. + (merge 1eb7371236 dd/t5703-grep-a-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint). + (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint). + (merge 9c688735f6 rs/doc-passthru-fetch-options later to maint). + (merge 757c2ba3e2 en/oidset-uninclude-hashmap later to maint). + (merge 8312aa7d74 jc/config-tar later to maint). + (merge d00a5bdd50 ss/submodule-foreach-cb later to maint). + (merge 64d1022e14 ar/test-style-fixes later to maint). + (merge 4a465443a6 ds/doc-clone-filter later to maint). + (merge bb2dbe301b jk/t3419-drop-expensive-tests later to maint). + (merge d3507cc712 js/test-junit-finalization-fix later to maint). + (merge 2149b6748f bc/faq later to maint). + (merge 12dc0879f1 jk/test-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 344420bf0f pb/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 7cd54d37dc dl/wrapper-fix-indentation later to maint). + (merge 78725ebda9 jc/allow-strlen-substitution-in-shell-scripts later to maint). + (merge 2ecfcdecc6 jm/gitweb-fastcgi-utf8 later to maint). + (merge 0740d0a5d3 jk/oid-array-cleanups later to maint). + (merge a1aba0c95c js/t0007-typofix later to maint). + (merge 76ba7fa225 ma/config-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 826f0c0df2 js/subtree-doc-update-to-asciidoctor-2 later to maint). + (merge 88eaf361e0 eb/mboxrd-doc later to maint). + (merge 051cc54941 tm/zsh-complete-switch-restore later to maint). + (merge 39102cf4fe ms/doc-revision-illustration-fix later to maint). + (merge 4d9378bfad eb/gitweb-more-trailers later to maint). + (merge bdccbf7047 mt/doc-worktree-ref later to maint). + (merge ce9baf234f dl/push-recurse-submodules-fix later to maint). + (merge 4153274052 bc/doc-credential-helper-value later to maint). + (merge 5c7bb0146e jc/codingstyle-compare-with-null later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1e08a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.27.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4, v2.24.4, v2.25.5 +and v2.26.3 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; see +the release notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6baf781 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,236 @@ +Git 2.28 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.27 +------------------- + +Backward compatibility notes + + * "fetch.writeCommitGraph" is deemed to be still a bit too risky and + is no longer part of the "feature.experimental" set. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The commands in the "diff" family learned to honor "diff.relative" + configuration variable. + + * The check in "git fsck" to ensure that the tree objects are sorted + still had corner cases it missed unsorted entries. + + * The interface to redact sensitive information in the trace output + has been simplified. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete + options that the "git switch" command takes. + + * "git diff" used to take arguments in random and nonsense range + notation, e.g. "git diff A..B C", "git diff A..B C...D", etc., + which has been cleaned up. + + * "git diff-files" has been taught to say paths that are marked as + intent-to-add are new files, not modified from an empty blob. + + * "git status" learned to report the status of sparse checkout. + + * "git difftool" has trouble dealing with paths added to the index + with the intent-to-add bit. + + * "git fast-export --anonymize" learned to take customized mapping to + allow its users to tweak its output more usable for debugging. + + * The command line completion support (in contrib/) used to be + prepared to work with "set -u" but recent changes got a bit more + sloppy. This has been corrected. + + * "git gui" now allows opening work trees from the start-up dialog. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Code optimization for a common case. + (merge 8777616e4d an/merge-single-strategy-optim later to maint). + + * We've adopted a convention that any on-stack structure can be + initialized to have zero values in all fields with "= { 0 }", + even when the first field happens to be a pointer, but sparse + complained that a null pointer should be spelled NULL for a long + time. Start using -Wno-universal-initializer option to squelch + it (the latest sparse has it on by default). + + * "git log -L..." now takes advantage of the "which paths are touched + by this commit?" info stored in the commit-graph system. + + * As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library reports + a REG_ILLSEQ error when fed invalid UTF-8, add logic to detect that + automatically and skip the affected tests. + + * "git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use. + + * Support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE has been rewritten in terms of + GIT_TRACE_CURL. + + * Preliminary clean-ups around refs API, plus file format + specification documentation for the reftable backend. + + * Workaround breakage in MSVC build, where "curl-config --cflags" + gives settings appropriate for GCC build. + + * Code clean-up of "git clean" resulted in a fix of recent + performance regression. + + * Code clean-up in the codepath that serves "git fetch" continues. + + * "git merge-base --is-ancestor" is taught to take advantage of the + commit graph. + + * Rewrite of parts of the scripted "git submodule" Porcelain command + continues; this time it is "git submodule set-branch" subcommand's + turn. + + * The "fetch/clone" protocol has been updated to allow the server to + instruct the clients to grab pre-packaged packfile(s) in addition + to the packed object data coming over the wire. + + * A misdesigned strbuf_write_fd() function has been retired. + + * SHA-256 migration work continues, including CVS/SVN interface. + + * A few fields in "struct commit" that do not have to always be + present have been moved to commit slabs. + + * API cleanup for get_worktrees() + + * By renumbering object flag bits, "struct object" managed to lose + bloated inter-field padding. + + * The name of the primary branch in existing repositories, and the + default name used for the first branch in newly created + repositories, is made configurable, so that we can eventually wean + ourselves off of the hardcoded 'master'. + + * The effort to avoid using test_must_fail on non-git command continues. + + * In 2.28-rc0, we corrected a bug that some repository extensions are + honored by mistake even in a version 0 repositories (these + configuration variables in extensions.* namespace were supposed to + have special meaning in repositories whose version numbers are 1 or + higher), but this was a bit too big a change. The behaviour in + recent versions of Git where certain extensions.* were honored by + mistake even in version 0 repositories has been restored. + + +Fixes since v2.27 +----------------- + + * The "--prepare-p4-only" option of "git p4" is supposed to stop + after replaying one changeset, but kept going (by mistake?) + + * The error message from "git checkout -b foo -t bar baz" was + confusing. + + * Some repositories in the wild have commits that record nonsense + committer timezone (e.g. rails.git); "git fast-import" learned an + option to pass these nonsense timestamps intact to allow recreating + existing repositories as-is. + (merge d42a2fb72f en/fast-import-looser-date later to maint). + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) tried to complete + "git stash -p" as if it were "git stash push -p", but it was too + aggressive and also affected "git stash show -p", which has been + corrected. + (merge fffd0cf520 vs/complete-stash-show-p-fix later to maint). + + * On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the + remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side + prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has + been updated to make it more robust. + + * "git checkout -p" did not handle a newly added path at all. + (merge 2c8bd8471a js/checkout-p-new-file later to maint). + + * The code to parse "git bisect start" command line was lax in + validating the arguments. + (merge 4d9005ff5d cb/bisect-helper-parser-fix later to maint). + + * Reduce memory usage during "diff --quiet" in a worktree with too + many stat-unmatched paths. + (merge d2d7fbe129 jk/diff-memuse-optim-with-stat-unmatch later to maint). + + * The reflog entries for "git clone" and "git fetch" did not + anonymize the URL they operated on. + (merge 46da295a77 js/reflog-anonymize-for-clone-and-fetch later to maint). + + * The behaviour of "sparse-checkout" in the state "git clone + --no-checkout" left was changed accidentally in 2.27, which has + been corrected. + + * Use of negative pathspec, while collecting paths including + untracked ones in the working tree, was broken. + + * The same worktree directory must be registered only once, but + "git worktree move" allowed this invariant to be violated, which + has been corrected. + (merge 810382ed37 es/worktree-duplicate-paths later to maint). + + * The effect of sparse checkout settings on submodules is documented. + (merge e7d7c73249 en/sparse-with-submodule-doc later to maint). + + * Code clean-up around "git branch" with a minor bugfix. + (merge dc44639904 dl/branch-cleanup later to maint). + + * A branch name used in a test has been clarified to match what is + going on. + (merge 08dc26061f pb/t4014-unslave later to maint). + + * An in-code comment in "git diff" has been updated. + (merge c592fd4c83 dl/diff-usage-comment-update later to maint). + + * The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent + renaming of "pu" branch to "seen". + (merge 6dca5dbf93 js/pu-to-seen later to maint). + + * The code to push changes over "dumb" HTTP had a bad interaction + with the commit reachability code due to incorrect allocation of + object flag bits, which has been corrected. + (merge 64472d15e9 bc/http-push-flagsfix later to maint). + + * "git send-email --in-reply-to=<msg>" did not use the In-Reply-To: + header with the value given from the command line, and let it be + overridden by the value on In-Reply-To: header in the messages + being sent out (if exists). + (merge f9f60d7066 ra/send-email-in-reply-to-from-command-line-wins later to maint). + + * "git log -Lx,y:path --before=date" lost track of where the range + should be because it didn't take the changes made by the youngest + commits that are omitted from the output into account. + + * When "fetch.writeCommitGraph" configuration is set in a shallow + repository and a fetch moves the shallow boundary, we wrote out + broken commit-graph files that do not match the reality, which has + been corrected. + + * "git checkout" failed to catch an error from fstat() after updating + a path in the working tree. + (merge 35e6e212fd mt/entry-fstat-fallback-fix later to maint). + + * When an aliased command, whose output is piped to a pager by git, + gets killed by a signal, the pager got into a funny state, which + has been corrected (again). + (merge c0d73a59c9 ta/wait-on-aliased-commands-upon-signal later to maint). + + * The code to produce progress output from "git commit-graph --write" + had a few breakages, which have been fixed. + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint). + (merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 788db145c7 dl/t-readme-spell-git-correctly later to maint). + (merge 45a87a83bb dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version later to maint). + (merge b75a219904 es/advertise-contribution-doc later to maint). + (merge 0c9a4f638a rs/pull-leakfix later to maint). + (merge d546fe2874 rs/commit-reach-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 087bf5409c mk/pb-pretty-email-without-domain-part-fix later to maint). + (merge 5f4ee57ad9 es/worktree-code-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 0172f7834a cc/cat-file-usage-update later to maint). + (merge 81de0c01cf ma/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8484c82 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.28.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Git v2.28.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4, v2.24.4, v2.25.5, +v2.26.3 and v2.27.1 to address the security issue CVE-2021-21300; +see the release notes for these versions for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06ba2f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,514 @@ +Git 2.29 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.28 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git help log" has been enhanced by sharing more material from the + documentation for the underlying "git rev-list" command. + + * "git for-each-ref --format=<>" learned %(contents:size). + + * "git merge" learned to selectively omit " into <branch>" at the end + of the title of default merge message with merge.suppressDest + configuration. + + * The component to respond to "git fetch" request is made more + configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering + specification used for partial cloning. + + * Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which + could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables. + + * The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim + have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added. + + * "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first + breakage along the first-parent chain. + + * "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent + commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has + been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the + previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits. + + * The commit labels used to explain each side of conflicted hunks + placed by the sequencer machinery have been made more readable by + humans. + + * The "--batch-size" option of "git multi-pack-index repack" command + is now used to specify that very small packfiles are collected into + one until the total size roughly exceeds it. + + * The recent addition of SHA-256 support is marked as experimental in + the documentation. + + * "git fetch" learned --no-write-fetch-head option to avoid writing + the FETCH_HEAD file. + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) usually omits redundant, + deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to + optionally include all of them. + + * The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated + object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not + affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is. + + * "git worktree" gained a "repair" subcommand to help users recover + after moving the worktrees or repository manually without telling + Git. Also, "git init --separate-git-dir" no longer corrupts + administrative data related to linked worktrees. + + * The "--format=" option to the "for-each-ref" command and friends + learned a few more tricks, e.g. the ":short" suffix that applies to + "objectname" now also can be used for "parent", "tree", etc. + + * "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach" + option to create a new worktree without being on a branch. + + * "format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught + not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version. + + * "add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent. + + * The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the + underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help + reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging. + + * "git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only + one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take + combination of both kind of filtering. + + * "git maintenance", a "git gc"'s big brother, has been introduced to + take care of more repository maintenance tasks, not limited to the + object database cleaning. + + * "git receive-pack" that accepts requests by "git push" learned to + outsource most of the ref updates to the new "proc-receive" hook. + + * "git push" that wants to be atomic and wants to send push + certificate learned not to prepare and sign the push certificate + when it fails the local check (hence due to atomicity it is known + that no certificate is needed). + + * "git commit-graph write" learned to limit the number of bloom + filters that are computed from scratch with the --max-new-filters + option. + + * The transport protocol v2 has become the default again. + + * The installation procedure learned to optionally omit "git-foo" + executable files for each 'foo' built-in subcommand, which are only + required by old timers that still rely on the age old promise that + prepending "git --exec-path" output to PATH early in their script + will keep the "git-foo" calls they wrote working. + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git restore + -s <TAB>" is often followed by a refname. + + * "git shortlog" has been taught to group commits by the contents of + the trailer lines, like "Reviewed-by:", "Coauthored-by:", etc. + + * "git archive" learns the "--add-file" option to include untracked + files into a snapshot from a tree-ish. + + * "git fetch" and "git push" support negative refspecs. + + * "git format-patch" learns to take "whenAble" as a possible value + for the format.useAutoBase configuration variable to become no-op + when the automatically computed base does not make sense. + + * Credential helpers are now allowed to terminate lines with CRLF + line ending, as well as LF line ending. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The changed-path Bloom filter is improved using ideas from an + independent implementation. + + * Updates to the changed-paths bloom filter. + + * The test framework has been updated so that most tests will run + with predictable (artificial) timestamps. + + * Preliminary clean-up of the refs API in preparation for adding a + new refs backend "reftable". + + * Dev support to limit the use of test_must_fail to only git commands. + + * While packing many objects in a repository with a promissor remote, + lazily fetching missing objects from the promissor remote one by + one may be inefficient---the code now attempts to fetch all the + missing objects in batch (obviously this won't work for a lazy + clone that lazily fetches tree objects as you cannot even enumerate + what blobs are missing until you learn which trees are missing). + + * The pretend-object mechanism checks if the given object already + exists in the object store before deciding to keep the data + in-core, but the check would have triggered lazy fetching of such + an object from a promissor remote. + + * The argv_array API is useful for not just managing argv but any + "vector" (NULL-terminated array) of strings, and has seen adoption + to a certain degree. It has been renamed to "strvec" to reduce the + barrier to adoption. + + * The final leg of SHA-256 transition plus doc updates. Note that + there is no interoperability between SHA-1 and SHA-256 + repositories yet. + + * CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile. + + * A new helper function has_object() has been introduced to make it + easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to + trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it. + + * A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro + does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static + inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the + former with the latter in <git-compat-util.h> header. + + * Test framework update. + (merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + + * Updates to "git merge" tests, in preparation for a new merge + strategy backend. + + * midx and commit-graph files now use the byte defined in their file + format specification for identifying the hash function used for + object names. + + * The FETCH_HEAD is now always read from the filesystem regardless of + the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the + normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file.. + + * An unused binary has been discarded, and and a bunch of commands + have been turned into into built-in. + + * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to + execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo" + form, which have been corrected. + + * When a packfile is removed by "git repack", multi-pack-index gets + cleared; the code was taught to do so less aggressively by first + checking if the midx actually refers to a pack that no longer + exists. + + * Internal API clean-up to handle two options "diff-index" and "log" + have, which happen to share the same short form, more sensibly. + + * The "add -i/-p" machinery has been written in C but it is not used + by default yet. It is made default to those who are participating + in feature.experimental experiment. + + * Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making + distribution tarballs. + + * "git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater + parallelism. + + * "diff-highlight" (in contrib/) had a logic to flush its output upon + seeing a blank line but the way it detected a blank line was broken. + + * The logic to skip testing on the tagged commit and the tag itself + was not quite consistent which led to failure of Windows test + tasks. It has been revamped to consistently skip revisions that + have already been tested, based on the tree object of the revision. + + +Fixes since v2.28 +----------------- + + * The "mediawiki" remote backend which lives in contrib/mw-to-git/ + and is not built with git by default, had an RCE bug allowing a + malicious MediaWiki server operator to inject arbitrary commands + for execution by a cloning client. This has been fixed. + + The bug was discovered and reported by Joern Schneeweisz of GitLab + to the git-security mailing list. Its practical impact due to the + obscurity of git-remote-mediawiki was deemed small enough to forgo + a dedicated security release. + + * "git clone --separate-git-dir=$elsewhere" used to stomp on the + contents of the existing directory $elsewhere, which has been + taught to fail when $elsewhere is not an empty directory. + (merge dfaa209a79 bw/fail-cloning-into-non-empty later to maint). + + * With the base fix to 2.27 regresion, any new extensions in a v0 + repository would still be silently honored, which is not quite + right. Instead, complain and die loudly. + (merge ec91ffca04 jk/reject-newer-extensions-in-v0 later to maint). + + * Fetching from a lazily cloned repository resulted at the server + side in attempts to lazy fetch objects that the client side has, + many of which will not be available from the third-party anyway. + (merge 77aa0941ce jt/avoid-lazy-fetching-upon-have-check later to maint). + + * Fix to an ancient bug caused by an over-eager attempt for + optimization. + (merge a98f7fb366 rs/add-index-entry-optim-fix later to maint). + + * Pushing a ref whose name contains non-ASCII character with the + "--force-with-lease" option did not work over smart HTTP protocol, + which has been corrected. + (merge cd85b447bf bc/push-cas-cquoted-refname later to maint). + + * "git mv src dst", when src is an unmerged path, errored out + correctly but with an incorrect error message to claim that src is + not tracked, which has been clarified. + (merge 9b906af657 ct/mv-unmerged-path-error later to maint). + + * Fix to a regression introduced during 2.27 cycle. + (merge cada7308ad en/fill-directory-exponential later to maint). + + * Command line completion (in contrib/) update. + (merge 688b87c81b mp/complete-show-color-moved later to maint). + + * All "mergy" operations that internally use the merge-recursive + machinery should honor the merge.renormalize configuration, but + many of them didn't. + + * Doc cleanup around "worktree". + (merge dc9c144be5 es/worktree-doc-cleanups later to maint). + + * The "git blame --first-parent" option was not documented, but now + it is. + (merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint). + + * The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to + cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed + to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory + buffer space. This has been corrected. + (merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint). + + * Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index + and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file" + patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files" + and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the + command failed to do so for such a path. + (merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint). + + * "git diff [<tree-ish>] $path" for a $path that is marked with i-t-a + bit was not showing the mode bits from the working tree. + (merge cb0dd22b82 rp/ita-diff-modefix later to maint). + + * Ring buffer with size 4 used for bin-hex translation resulted in a + wrong object name in the sequencer's todo output, which has been + corrected. + (merge 5da69c0dac ak/sequencer-fix-find-uniq-abbrev later to maint). + + * When given more than one target line ranges, "git blame -La,b + -Lc,d" was over-eager to coalesce groups of original lines and + showed incorrect results, which has been corrected. + (merge c2ebaa27d6 jk/blame-coalesce-fix later to maint). + + * The regexp to identify the function boundary for FORTRAN programs + has been updated. + (merge 75c3b6b2e8 pb/userdiff-fortran-update later to maint). + + * A few end-user facing messages have been updated to be + hash-algorithm agnostic. + (merge 4279000d3e jc/object-names-are-not-sha-1 later to maint). + + * "unlink" emulation on MinGW has been optimized. + (merge 680e0b4524 jh/mingw-unlink later to maint). + + * The purpose of "git init --separate-git-dir" is to initialize a + new project with the repository separate from the working tree, + or, in the case of an existing project, to move the repository + (the .git/ directory) out of the working tree. It does not make + sense to use --separate-git-dir with a bare repository for which + there is no working tree, so disallow its use with bare + repositories. + (merge ccf236a23a es/init-no-separate-git-dir-in-bare later to maint). + + * "ls-files -o" mishandled the top-level directory of another git + working tree that hangs in the current git working tree. + (merge ab282aa548 en/dir-nonbare-embedded later to maint). + + * Fix some incorrect UNLEAK() annotations. + (merge 3e19816dc0 jk/unleak-fixes later to maint). + + * Use more buffered I/O where we used to call many small write(2)s. + (merge a698d67b08 rs/more-buffered-io later to maint). + + * The patch-id computation did not ignore the "incomplete last line" + marker like whitespaces. + (merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint). + + * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work + well with transfer.fsckobjects set. + + * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when + parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and + "trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has + been corrected. + (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint). + + * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the + index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards. + (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint). + + * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec + mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been + corrected. + (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint). + + * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help" + has been updated. + (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint). + + * Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and + running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start + digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like + "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does. + (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint). + + * Various callers of run_command API have been modernized. + (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * List of options offered and accepted by "git add -i/-p" were + inconsistent, which have been corrected. + (merge ce910287e7 pw/add-p-allowed-options-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff --stat -w" showed 0-line changes for paths whose changes + were only whitespaces, which was not intuitive. We now omit such + paths from the stat output. + (merge 1cf3d5db9b mr/diff-hide-stat-wo-textual-change later to maint). + + * It was possible for xrealloc() to send a non-NULL pointer that has + been freed, which has been fixed. + (merge 6479ea4a8a jk/xrealloc-avoid-use-after-free later to maint). + + * "git status" has trouble showing where it came from by interpreting + reflog entries that record certain events, e.g. "checkout @{u}", and + gives a hard/fatal error. Even though it inherently is impossible + to give a correct answer because the reflog entries lose some + information (e.g. "@{u}" does not record what branch the user was + on hence which branch 'the upstream' needs to be computed, and even + if the record were available, the relationship between branches may + have changed), at least hide the error and allow "status" to show its + output. + + * "git status --short" quoted a path with SP in it when tracked, but + not those that are untracked, ignored or unmerged. They are all + shown quoted consistently. + + * "git diff/show" on a change that involves a submodule used to read + the information on commits in the submodule from a wrong repository + and gave a wrong information when the commit-graph is involved. + (merge 85a1ec2c32 mf/submodule-summary-with-correct-repository later to maint). + + * Unlike "git config --local", "git config --worktree" did not fail + early and cleanly when started outside a git repository. + (merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint). + + * There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the + repository, which is meant to run once per process invocation, but + it ran every time the estimated value was requested. + (merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint). + + * "git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints + the operation went through, which was misleading. + (merge 5a07c6c3c2 cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded later to maint). + + * "git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options + to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes, + which has been corrected. + (merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all later to maint). + + * The "unshelve" subcommand of "git p4" incorrectly used commit^N + where it meant to say commit~N to name the Nth generation + ancestor, which has been corrected. + (merge 0acbf5997f ld/p4-unshelve-fix later to maint). + + * "git clone" that clones from SHA-1 repository, while + GIT_DEFAULT_HASH set to use SHA-256 already, resulted in an + unusable repository that half-claims to be SHA-256 repository + with SHA-1 objects and refs. This has been corrected. + + * Adjust sample hooks for hash algorithm other than SHA-1. + (merge d8d3d632f4 dl/zero-oid-in-hooks later to maint). + + * "git range-diff" showed incorrect diffstat, which has been + corrected. + + * Earlier we taught "git pull" to warn when the user does not say the + histories need to be merged, rebased or accepts only fast- + forwarding, but the warning triggered for those who have set the + pull.ff configuration variable. + (merge 54200cef86 ah/pull later to maint). + + * Compilation fix around type punning. + (merge 176380fd11 jk/drop-unaligned-loads later to maint). + + * "git blame --ignore-rev/--ignore-revs-file" failed to validate + their input are valid revision, and failed to take into account + that the user may want to give an annotated tag instead of a + commit, which has been corrected. + (merge 610e2b9240 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint). + + * "git bisect start X Y", when X and Y are not valid committish + object names, should take X and Y as pathspec, but didn't. + (merge 73c6de06af cc/bisect-start-fix later to maint). + + * The explanation of the "scissors line" has been clarified. + (merge 287416dba6 eg/mailinfo-doc-scissors later to maint). + + * A race that leads to an access to a free'd data was corrected in + the codepath that reads pack files. + (merge bda959c476 mt/delta-base-cache-races later to maint). + + * in_merge_bases_many(), a way to see if a commit is reachable from + any commit in a set of commits, was totally broken when the + commit-graph feature was in use, which has been corrected. + (merge 8791bf1841 ds/in-merge-bases-many-optim-bug later to maint). + + * "git submodule update --quiet" did not squelch underlying "rebase" + and "pull" commands. + (merge 3ad0401e9e td/submodule-update-quiet later to maint). + + * The lazy fetching done internally to make missing objects available + in a partial clone incorrectly made permanent damage to the partial + clone filter in the repository, which has been corrected. + + * "log -c --find-object=X" did not work well to find a merge that + involves a change to an object X from only one parent. + (merge 957876f17d jk/diff-cc-oidfind-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint). + (merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint). + (merge 98c6871fad rs/grep-simpler-parse-object-or-die-call later to maint). + (merge 861c4ce141 en/typofixes later to maint). + (merge 60e47f6773 sg/ci-git-path-fix-with-pyenv later to maint). + (merge e2bfa50ac3 jb/doc-packfile-name later to maint). + (merge 918d8ff780 es/worktree-cleanup later to maint). + (merge dc156bc31f ma/t1450-quotefix later to maint). + (merge 56e743426b en/merge-recursive-comment-fixes later to maint). + (merge 7d23ff818f rs/bisect-oid-to-hex-fix later to maint). + (merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint). + (merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint). + (merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint). + (merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint). + (merge e767963ab6 rs/upload-pack-sigchain-fix later to maint). + (merge a831908599 rs/preserve-merges-unused-code-removal later to maint). + (merge 6dfefe70a9 jb/commit-graph-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 847b37271e pb/set-url-docfix later to maint). + (merge 748f733d54 mt/checkout-entry-dead-code-removal later to maint). + (merge ce820cbd58 dl/subtree-docs later to maint). + (merge 55fe225dde jk/leakfix later to maint). + (merge ee22a29215 so/pretty-abbrev-doc later to maint). + (merge 3100fd5588 jc/post-checkout-doc later to maint). + (merge 17bae89476 pb/doc-external-diff-env later to maint). + (merge 27ed6ccc12 jk/worktree-check-clean-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1302badd16 ea/blame-use-oideq later to maint). + (merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint). + (merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint). + (merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint). + (merge 0512eabd91 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint). + (merge d01141de5a so/combine-diff-simplify later to maint). + (merge 3be01e5ab1 sn/fast-import-doc later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..295ee21 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.29.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This is to fix the build procedure change in 2.28 where we failed to +install a few programs that should be installed in /usr/bin (namely, +receive-pack, upload-archive and upload-pack) when the non-default +SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS installation option is in effect. + +A minor glitch in a non-default installation may usually not deserve +a hotfix, but I know Git for Windows ship binaries built with this +option, so let's make an exception. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..632b5b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Git v2.29.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is primarily to fix brown-paper-bag breakages in the +2.29.0 release. + +Fixes since v2.29.1 +------------------- + + * In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and + "am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been + corrected. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e10eedb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.29.3 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, +v2.18.5, v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4, v2.24.4, +v2.25.5, v2.26.3, v2.27.1 and v2.28.1 to address the security +issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for these versions +for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2f1dc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,401 @@ +Git 2.30 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.29 +------------------- + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * Userdiff for PHP update. + + * Userdiff for Rust update. + + * Userdiff for CSS update. + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git + stash show" takes the options "git diff" takes. + + * "git worktree list" now shows if each worktree is locked. This + possibly may open us to show other kinds of states in the future. + + * "git maintenance", an extended big brother of "git gc", continues + to evolve. + + * "git push --force-with-lease[=<ref>]" can easily be misused to lose + commits unless the user takes good care of their own "git fetch". + A new option "--force-if-includes" attempts to ensure that what is + being force-pushed was created after examining the commit at the + tip of the remote ref that is about to be force-replaced. + + * "git clone" learned clone.defaultremotename configuration variable + to customize what nickname to use to call the remote the repository + was cloned from. + + * "git checkout" learned to use checkout.guess configuration variable + and enable/disable its "--[no-]guess" option accordingly. + + * "git resurrect" script (in contrib/) learned that the object names + may be longer than 40-hex depending on the hash function in use. + + * "git diff A...B" learned "git diff --merge-base A B", which is a + longer short-hand to say the same thing. + + * A sample 'push-to-checkout' hook, that performs the same as + what the built-in default action does, has been added. + + * "git diff" family of commands learned the "-I<regex>" option to + ignore hunks whose changed lines all match the given pattern. + + * The userdiff pattern learned to identify the function definition in + POSIX shells and bash. + + * "git checkout-index" did not consistently signal an error with its + exit status, but now it does. + + * A commit and tag object may have CR at the end of each and + every line (you can create such an object with hash-object or + using --cleanup=verbatim to decline the default clean-up + action), but it would make it impossible to have a blank line + to separate the title from the body of the message. We are now + more lenient and accept a line with lone CR on it as a blank line, + too. + + * Exit codes from "git remote add" etc. were not usable by scripted + callers, but now they are. + + * "git archive" now allows compression level higher than "-9" + when generating tar.gz output. + + * Zsh autocompletion (in contrib/) update. + + * The maximum length of output filenames "git format-patch" creates + has become configurable (used to be capped at 64). + + * "git rev-parse" learned the "--end-of-options" to help scripts to + safely take a parameter that is supposed to be a revision, e.g. + "git rev-parse --verify -q --end-of-options $rev". + + * The command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to expand + commands that are alias of alias. + + * "git update-ref --stdin" learns to take multiple transactions in a + single session. + + * Various subcommands of "git config" that take value_regex + learned the "--literal-value" option to take the value_regex option + as a literal string. + + * The transport layer was taught to optionally exchange the session + ID assigned by the trace2 subsystem during fetch/push transactions. + + * "git imap-send" used to ignore configuration variables like + core.askpass; this has been corrected. + + * "git $cmd $args", when $cmd is not a recognised subcommand, by + default tries to see if $cmd is a typo of an existing subcommand + and optionally executes the corrected command if there is only one + possibility, depending on the setting of help.autocorrect; the + users can now disable the whole thing, including the cycles spent + to find a likely typo, by setting the configuration variable to + 'never'. + + * "@" sometimes worked (e.g. "git push origin @:there") as a part of + a refspec element, but "git push origin @" did not work, which has + been corrected. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * Use "git archive" more to produce the release tarball. + + * GitHub Actions automated test improvement to skip tests on a tree + identical to what has already been tested. + + * Test-coverage for running commit-graph task "git maintenance" has + been extended. + + * Our test scripts can be told to run only individual pieces while + skipping others with the "--run=..." option; they were taught to + take a substring of test title, in addition to numbers, to name the + test pieces to run. + + * Adjust tests so that they won't scream when the default initial + branch name is different from 'master'. + + * Rewriting "git bisect" in C continues. + + * More preliminary tests have been added to document desired outcomes + of various "directory rename" situations. + + * Micro clean-up of a couple of test scripts. + + * "git diff" and other commands that share the same machinery to + compare with working tree files have been taught to take advantage + of the fsmonitor data when available. + + * The code to detect premature EOF in the sideband demultiplexer has + been cleaned up. + + * "git fetch --depth=<n>" over the stateless RPC / smart HTTP + transport handled EOF from the client poorly at the server end. + + * A specialization of hashmap that uses a string as key has been + introduced. Hopefully it will see wider use over time. + + * "git bisect start/next" in a large span of history spends a lot of + time trying to come up with exactly the half-way point; this can be + optimized by stopping when we see a commit that is close enough to + the half-way point. + + * A lazily defined test prerequisite can now be defined in terms of + another lazily defined test prerequisite. + + * Expectation for the original contributor after responding to a + review comment to use the explanation in a patch update has been + described. + + * Multiple "credential-store" backends can race to lock the same + file, causing everybody else but one to fail---reattempt locking + with some timeout to reduce the rate of the failure. + + * "git-parse-remote" shell script library outlived its usefulness. + + * Like die() and error(), a call to warning() will also trigger a + trace2 event. + + * Use of non-reentrant localtime() has been removed. + + * Non-reentrant time-related library functions and ctime/asctime with + awkward calling interfaces are banned from the codebase. + + +Fixes since v2.29 +----------------- + + * In 2.29, "--committer-date-is-author-date" option of "rebase" and + "am" subcommands lost the e-mail address by mistake, which has been + corrected. + (merge 5f35edd9d7 jk/committer-date-is-author-date-fix later to maint). + + * "git checkout -p A...B [-- <path>]" did not work, even though the + same command without "-p" correctly used the merge-base between + commits A and B. + (merge 35166b1fb5 dl/checkout-p-merge-base later to maint). + + * The side-band status report can be sent at the same time as the + primary payload multiplexed, but the demultiplexer on the receiving + end incorrectly split a single status report into two, which has + been corrected. + (merge 712b0377db js/avoid-split-sideband-message later to maint). + + * "git fast-import" wasted a lot of memory when many marks were in use. + (merge 3f018ec716 jk/fast-import-marks-alloc-fix later to maint). + + * A test helper "test_cmp A B" was taught to diagnose missing files A + or B as a bug in test, but some tests legitimately wanted to notice + a failure to even create file B as an error, in addition to leaving + the expected result in it, and were misdiagnosed as a bug. This + has been corrected. + (merge 262d5ad5a5 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint). + + * When "git commit-graph" detects the same commit recorded more than + once while it is merging the layers, it used to die. The code now + ignores all but one of them and continues. + (merge 85102ac71b ds/commit-graph-merging-fix later to maint). + + * The meaning of a Signed-off-by trailer can vary from project to + project; this and also what it means to this project has been + clarified in the documentation. + (merge 3abd4a67d9 bk/sob-dco later to maint). + + * "git credential' didn't honor the core.askPass configuration + variable (among other things), which has been corrected. + (merge 567ad2c0f9 tk/credential-config later to maint). + + * Dev support to catch a tentative definition of a variable in our C + code as an error. + (merge 5539183622 jk/no-common later to maint). + + * "git rebase --rebase-merges" did not correctly pass --gpg-sign + command line option to underlying "git merge" when replaying a merge + using non-default merge strategy or when replaying an octopus merge + (because replaying a two-head merge with the default strategy was + done in a separate codepath, the problem did not trigger for most + users), which has been corrected. + (merge 43ad4f2eca sc/sequencer-gpg-octopus later to maint). + + * "git apply -R" did not handle patches that touch the same path + twice correctly, which has been corrected. This is most relevant + in a patch that changes a path from a regular file to a symbolic + link (and vice versa). + (merge b0f266de11 jt/apply-reverse-twice later to maint). + + * A recent oid->hash conversion missed one spot, breaking "git svn". + (merge 03bb366de4 bc/svn-hash-oid-fix later to maint). + + * The documentation on the "--abbrev=<n>" option did not say the + output may be longer than "<n>" hexdigits, which has been + clarified. + (merge cda34e0d0c jc/abbrev-doc later to maint). + + * "git p4" now honors init.defaultBranch configuration. + (merge 1b09d1917f js/p4-default-branch later to maint). + + * Recently the format of an internal state file "rebase -i" uses has + been tightened up for consistency, which would hurt those who start + "rebase -i" with old git and then continue with new git. Loosen + the reader side a bit (which we may want to tighten again in a year + or so). + (merge c779386182 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint). + + * The code to see if "git stash drop" can safely remove refs/stash + has been made more careful. + (merge 4f44c5659b rs/empty-reflog-check-fix later to maint). + + * "git log -L<range>:<path>" is documented to take no pathspec, but + this was not enforced by the command line option parser, which has + been corrected. + (merge 39664cb0ac jc/line-log-takes-no-pathspec later to maint). + + * "git format-patch --output=there" did not work as expected and + instead crashed. The option is now supported. + (merge dc1672dd10 jk/format-patch-output later to maint). + + * Define ARM64 compiled with MSVC to be little-endian. + (merge 0c038fc65a dg/bswap-msvc later to maint). + + * "git rebase -i" did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly. + (merge 8843302307 pw/rebase-i-orig-head later to maint). + + * "git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for + which a userdiff driver is defined. + + * "make DEVELOPER=1 sparse" used to run sparse and let it emit + warnings; now such warnings will cause an error. + (merge 521dc56270 jc/sparse-error-for-developer-build later to maint). + + * "git blame --ignore-revs-file=<file>" learned to ignore a + non-existent object name in the input, instead of complaining. + (merge c714d05875 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint). + + * Running "git diff" while allowing external diff in a state with + unmerged paths used to segfault, which has been corrected. + (merge d66851806f jk/diff-release-filespec-fix later to maint). + + * Build configuration cleanup. + (merge b990f02fd8 ab/config-mak-uname-simplify later to maint). + + * Fix regression introduced when nvimdiff support in mergetool was added. + (merge 12026f46e7 pd/mergetool-nvimdiff later to maint). + + * The exchange between receive-pack and proc-receive hook did not + carefully check for errors. + + * The code was not prepared to deal with pack .idx file that is + larger than 4GB. + (merge 81c4c5cf2e jk/4gb-idx later to maint). + + * Since jgit does not yet work with SHA-256 repositories, mark the + tests that use it not to run unless we are testing with ShA-1 + repositories. + (merge ea699b4adc sg/t5310-jgit-wants-sha1 later to maint). + + * Config parser fix for "git notes". + (merge 45fef1599a na/notes-displayref-is-not-boolean later to maint). + + * Move a definition of compatibility wrapper from cache.h to + git-compat-util.h + (merge a76b138daa hn/sleep-millisec-decl later to maint). + + * Error message fix. + (merge eaf5341538 km/stash-error-message-fix later to maint). + + * "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" checked for local changes + in a wrong range and failed to run correctly when it should. + (merge 5176f20ffe pb/pull-rebase-recurse-submodules later to maint). + + * "git push" that is killed may leave a pack-objects process behind, + still computing to find a good compression, wasting cycles. This + has been corrected. + (merge 8b59935114 jk/stop-pack-objects-when-push-is-killed later to maint). + + * "git fetch" that is killed may leave a pack-objects process behind, + still computing to find a good compression, wasting cycles. This + has been corrected. + (merge 309a4028e7 jk/stop-pack-objects-when-fetch-is-killed later to maint). + + * "git add -i" failed to honor custom colors configured to show + patches, which has been corrected. + (merge 96386faa03 js/add-i-color-fix later to maint). + + * Processes that access packdata while the .idx file gets removed + (e.g. while repacking) did not fail or fall back gracefully as they + could. + (merge 506ec2fbda tb/idx-midx-race-fix later to maint). + + * "git apply" adjusted the permission bits of working-tree files and + directories according to core.sharedRepository setting by mistake and + for a long time, which has been corrected. + (merge eb3c027e17 mt/do-not-use-scld-in-working-tree later to maint). + + * "fetch-pack" could pass NULL pointer to unlink(2) when it sees an + invalid filename; the error checking has been tightened to make + this impossible. + (merge 6031af387e rs/fetch-pack-invalid-lockfile later to maint). + + * "git maintenance run/start/stop" needed to be run in a repository + to hold the lockfile they use, but didn't make sure they are + actually in a repository, which has been corrected. + + * The glossary described a branch as an "active" line of development, + which is misleading---a stale and non-moving branch is still a + branch. + (merge eef1ceabd8 so/glossary-branch-is-not-necessarily-active later to maint). + + * Newer versions of xsltproc can assign IDs in HTML documents it + generates in a consistent manner. Use the feature to help format + HTML version of the user manual reproducibly. + (merge 3569e11d69 ae/doc-reproducible-html later to maint). + + * Tighten error checking in the codepath that responds to "git fetch". + (merge d43a21bdbb jk/check-config-parsing-error-in-upload-pack later to maint). + + * "git pack-redundant" when there is only one packfile used to crash, + which has been corrected. + (merge 0696232390 jx/pack-redundant-on-single-pack later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 3e0a5dc9af cc/doc-filter-branch-typofix later to maint). + (merge 32c83afc2c cw/ci-ghwf-check-ws-errors later to maint). + (merge 5eb2ed691b rs/tighten-callers-of-deref-tag later to maint). + (merge 6db29ab213 jk/fast-import-marks-cleanup later to maint). + (merge e5cf6d3df4 nk/dir-c-comment-update later to maint). + (merge 5710dcce74 jk/report-fn-typedef later to maint). + (merge 9a82db1056 en/sequencer-rollback-lock-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 4e1bee9a99 js/t7006-cleanup later to maint). + (merge f5bcde6c58 es/tutorial-mention-asciidoc-early later to maint). + (merge 714d491af0 so/format-patch-doc-on-default-diff-format later to maint). + (merge 0795df4b9b rs/clear-commit-marks-in-repo later to maint). + (merge 9542d56379 sd/prompt-local-variable later to maint). + (merge 06d43fad18 rs/pack-write-hashwrite-simplify later to maint). + (merge b7e20b4373 mc/typofix later to maint). + (merge f6bcd9a8a4 js/test-whitespace-fixes later to maint). + (merge 53b67a801b js/test-file-size later to maint). + (merge 970909c2a7 rs/hashwrite-be64 later to maint). + (merge 5a923bb1f0 ma/list-object-filter-opt-msgfix later to maint). + (merge 1c3e412916 rs/archive-plug-leak-refname later to maint). + (merge d44e5267ea rs/plug-diff-cache-leak later to maint). + (merge 793c1464d3 ab/gc-keep-base-option later to maint). + (merge b86339b12b mt/worktree-error-message-fix later to maint). + (merge e01ae2a4a7 js/pull-rebase-use-advise later to maint). + (merge e63d774242 sn/config-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 08e9df2395 jk/multi-line-indent-style-fix later to maint). + (merge e66590348a da/vs-build-iconv-fix later to maint). + (merge 7fe07275be js/cmake-extra-built-ins-fix later to maint). + (merge 633eebe142 jb/midx-doc-update later to maint). + (merge 5885367e8f jh/index-v2-doc-on-fsmn later to maint). + (merge 14639a4779 jc/compat-util-setitimer-fix later to maint). + (merge 56f56ac50b ab/unreachable-break later to maint). + (merge 731d578b4f rb/nonstop-config-mak-uname-update later to maint). + (merge f4698738f9 es/perf-export-fix later to maint). + (merge 773c694142 nk/refspecs-negative-fix later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..249ef14 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Git v2.30.1 Release Notes +========================= + +This release is primarily to merge fixes accumulated on the 'master' +front to prepare for 2.31 release that are still relevant to 2.30.x +maintenance track. + +Fixes since v2.30 +----------------- + + * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" failed to update a submodule + when it has an uninitialized (hence of no interest to the user) + sub-submodule, which has been corrected. + + * Command line error of "git rebase" are diagnosed earlier. + + * "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working + tree. + + * Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for + group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent + directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test + failures. + + * "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for + any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined + even once. + + * "git mergetool --tool-help" was broken in 2.29 and failed to list + all the available tools. + + * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac. + + * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are + now forbidden. + + * When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one + side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a + commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it + does. + + * Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become + incorrect. + + * Doc for packfile URI feature has been clarified. + + * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD + display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up. + + * Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up + once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow + other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can + find more failures in a single run. + +Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.2.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bada398 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +Git v2.30.2 Release Notes +========================= + +This release merges up the fixes that appear in v2.17.6, v2.18.5, +v2.19.6, v2.20.5, v2.21.4, v2.22.5, v2.23.4, v2.24.4, v2.25.5, +v2.26.3, v2.27.1, v2.28.1 and v2.29.3 to address the security +issue CVE-2021-21300; see the release notes for these versions +for details. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cf0c7d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,365 @@ +Git 2.31 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.30 +------------------- + +Backward incompatible and other important changes + + * The "pack-redundant" command, which has been left stale with almost + unusable performance issues, now warns loudly when it gets used, as + we no longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d" + instead). + + * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to + update from v1.4 that we have been using. + + * The support for deprecated PCRE1 library has been dropped. + + * Fixes for CVE-2021-21300 in Git 2.30.2 (and earlier) is included. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it + easier to design output for machine consumption. + + * When a user does not tell "git pull" to use rebase or merge, the + command gives a loud message telling a user to choose between + rebase or merge but creates a merge anyway, forcing users who would + want to rebase to redo the operation. Fix an early part of this + problem by tightening the condition to give the message---there is + no reason to stop or force the user to choose between rebase or + merge if the history fast-forwards. + + * The configuration variable 'core.abbrev' can be set to 'no' to + force no abbreviation regardless of the hash algorithm. + + * "git rev-parse" can be explicitly told to give output as absolute + or relative path with the `--path-format=(absolute|relative)` option. + + * Bash completion (in contrib/) update to make it easier for + end-users to add completion for their custom "git" subcommands. + + * "git maintenance" learned to drive scheduled maintenance on + platforms whose native scheduling methods are not 'cron'. + + * After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for + the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and + @{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1} + + * "git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the + standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point + at the same object. + + * "git log" learned a new "--diff-merges=<how>" option. + + * "git ls-files" can and does show multiple entries when the index is + unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in + use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced. + + * `git worktree list` now annotates worktrees as prunable, shows + locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained + a --verbose option. + + * "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by + HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol + did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an + empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so. + + * There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a + "commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git + range-diff" did not understand them. + + * The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option + to show only one side of the compared range. + + * "git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of + a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally + prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved. + + * The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a + working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read + by accident, which has been corrected. + + * "git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task. + + * The error message given when a configuration variable that is + expected to have a boolean value has been improved. + + * Signed commits and tags now allow verification of objects, whose + two object names (one in SHA-1, the other in SHA-256) are both + signed. + + * "git rev-list" command learned "--disk-usage" option. + + * "git {diff,log} --{skip,rotate}-to=<path>" allows the user to + discard diff output for early paths or move them to the end of the + output. + + * "git difftool" learned "--skip-to=<path>" option to restart an + interrupted session from an arbitrary path. + + * "git grep" has been tweaked to be limited to the sparse checkout + paths. + + * "git rebase --[no-]fork-point" gained a configuration variable + rebase.forkPoint so that users do not have to keep specifying a + non-default setting. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * A 3-year old test that was not testing anything useful has been + corrected. + + * Retire more names with "sha1" in it. + + * The topological walk codepath is covered by new trace2 stats. + + * Update the Code-of-conduct to version 2.0 from the upstream (we've + been using version 1.4). + + * "git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing + a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git + fsck". + + * Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via + environment variables have been introduced, and the way + GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked + to make it more robust. + + * Tests have been updated so that they do not to get affected by the + name of the default branch "git init" creates. + + * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none + fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option. + + * The peel_ref() API has been replaced with peel_iterated_oid(). + + * The .use_shell flag in struct child_process that is passed to + run_command() API has been clarified with a bit more documentation. + + * Document, clean-up and optimize the code around the cache-tree + extension in the index. + + * The ls-refs protocol operation has been optimized to narrow the + sub-hierarchy of refs/ it walks to produce response. + + * When removing many branches and tags, the code used to do so one + ref at a time. There is another API it can use to delete multiple + refs, and it makes quite a lot of performance difference when the + refs are packed. + + * The "pack-objects" command needs to iterate over all the tags when + automatic tag following is enabled, but it actually iterated over + all refs and then discarded everything outside "refs/tags/" + hierarchy, which was quite wasteful. + + * A perf script was made more portable. + + * Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up + once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow + other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can + find more failures in a single run. + + * We've carried compatibility codepaths for compilers without + variadic macros for quite some time, but the world may be ready for + them to be removed. Force compilation failure on exotic platforms + where variadic macros are not available to find out who screams in + such a way that we can easily revert if it turns out that the world + is not yet ready. + + * Code clean-up to ensure our use of hashtables using object names as + keys use the "struct object_id" objects, not the raw hash values. + + * Lose the debugging aid that may have been useful in the past, but + no longer is, in the "grep" codepaths. + + * Some pretty-format specifiers do not need the data in commit object + (e.g. "%H"), but we were over-eager to load and parse it, which has + been made even lazier. + + * Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may + not be controversial. + + * Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which + traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core. + + * The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of + the generation number to help topological revision traversal. + + * Piecemeal of rewrite of "git bisect" in C continues. + + * When a pager spawned by us exited, the trace log did not record its + exit status correctly, which has been corrected. + + * Removal of GIT_TEST_GETTEXT_POISON continues. + + * The code to implement "git merge-base --independent" was poorly + done and was kept from the very beginning of the feature. + + * Preliminary changes to fsmonitor integration. + + * Performance improvements for rename detection. + + * The common code to deal with "chunked file format" that is shared + by the multi-pack-index and commit-graph files have been factored + out, to help codepaths for both filetypes to become more robust. + + * The approach to "fsck" the incoming objects in "index-pack" is + attractive for performance reasons (we have them already in core, + inflated and ready to be inspected), but fundamentally cannot be + applied fully when we receive more than one pack stream, as a tree + object in one pack may refer to a blob object in another pack as + ".gitmodules", when we want to inspect blobs that are used as + ".gitmodules" file, for example. Teach "index-pack" to emit + objects that must be inspected later and check them in the calling + "fetch-pack" process. + + * The logic to handle "trailer" related placeholders in the + "--format=" mechanisms in the "log" family and "for-each-ref" + family is getting unified. + + * Raise the buffer size used when writing the index file out from + (obviously too small) 8kB to (clearly sufficiently large) 128kB. + + * It is reported that open() on some platforms (e.g. macOS Big Sur) + can return EINTR even though our timers are set up with SA_RESTART. + A workaround has been implemented and enabled for macOS to rerun + open() transparently from the caller when this happens. + + +Fixes since v2.30 +----------------- + + * Diagnose command line error of "git rebase" early. + + * Clean up option descriptions in "git cmd --help". + + * "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working + tree. + + * Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for + group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent + directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test + failures. + + * "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for + any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined + even once. + + * Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list + all the available tools. + + * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac. + + * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD + display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up. + + * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are + now forbidden. + + * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as + "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is + that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty", + which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree + as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed. + + * When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one + side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a + commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it + does. + + * Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become + incorrect. + + * Doc fix for packfile URI feature. + + * When "git rebase -i" processes "fixup" insn, there is no reason to + clean up the commit log message, but we did the usual stripspace + processing. This has been corrected. + (merge f7d42ceec5 js/rebase-i-commit-cleanup-fix later to maint). + + * Fix in passing custom args from "git clone" to "upload-pack" on the + other side. + (merge ad6b5fefbd jv/upload-pack-filter-spec-quotefix later to maint). + + * The command line completion (in contrib/) completed "git branch -d" + with branch names, but "git branch -D" offered tagnames in addition, + which has been corrected. "git branch -M" had the same problem. + (merge 27dc071b9a jk/complete-branch-force-delete later to maint). + + * When commands are started from a subdirectory, they may have to + compare the path to the subdirectory (called prefix and found out + from $(pwd)) with the tracked paths. On macOS, $(pwd) and + readdir() yield decomposed path, while the tracked paths are + usually normalized to the precomposed form, causing mismatch. This + has been fixed by taking the same approach used to normalize the + command line arguments. + (merge 5c327502db tb/precompose-prefix-too later to maint). + + * Even though invocations of "die()" were logged to the trace2 + system, "BUG()"s were not, which has been corrected. + (merge 0a9dde4a04 jt/trace2-BUG later to maint). + + * "git grep --untracked" is meant to be "let's ALSO find in these + files on the filesystem" when looking for matches in the working + tree files, and does not make any sense if the primary search is + done against the index, or the tree objects. The "--cached" and + "--untracked" options have been marked as mutually incompatible. + (merge 0c5d83b248 mt/grep-cached-untracked later to maint). + + * Fix "git fsck --name-objects" which apparently has not been used by + anybody who is motivated enough to report breakage. + (merge e89f89361c js/fsck-name-objects-fix later to maint). + + * Avoid individual tests in t5411 from getting affected by each other + by forcing them to use separate output files during the test. + (merge 822ee894f6 jx/t5411-unique-filenames later to maint). + + * Test to make sure "git rev-parse one-thing one-thing" gives + the same thing twice (when one-thing is --since=X). + (merge a5cdca4520 ew/rev-parse-since-test later to maint). + + * When certain features (e.g. grafts) used in the repository are + incompatible with the use of the commit-graph, we used to silently + turned commit-graph off; we now tell the user what we are doing. + (merge c85eec7fc3 js/commit-graph-warning later to maint). + + * Objects that lost references can be pruned away, even when they + have notes attached to it (and these notes will become dangling, + which in turn can be pruned with "git notes prune"). This has been + clarified in the documentation. + (merge fa9ab027ba mz/doc-notes-are-not-anchors later to maint). + + * The error codepath around the "--temp/--prefix" feature of "git + checkout-index" has been improved. + (merge 3f7ba60350 mt/checkout-index-corner-cases later to maint). + + * The "git maintenance register" command had trouble registering bare + repositories, which had been corrected. + + * A handful of multi-word configuration variable names in + documentation that are spelled in all lowercase have been corrected + to use the more canonical camelCase. + (merge 7dd0eaa39c dl/doc-config-camelcase later to maint). + + * "git push $there --delete ''" should have been diagnosed as an + error, but instead turned into a matching push, which has been + corrected. + (merge 20e416409f jc/push-delete-nothing later to maint). + + * Test script modernization. + (merge 488acf15df sv/t7001-modernize later to maint). + + * An under-allocation for the untracked cache data has been corrected. + (merge 6347d649bc jh/untracked-cache-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint). + (merge 9d336655ba js/doc-proto-v2-response-end later to maint). + (merge 1b5b8cf072 jc/maint-column-doc-typofix later to maint). + (merge 3a837b58e3 cw/pack-config-doc later to maint). + (merge 01168a9d89 ug/doc-commit-approxidate later to maint). + (merge b865734760 js/params-vs-args later to maint). diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4515cab..0452db2 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ Submitting Patches == Guidelines -Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code -to this software. +Here are some guidelines for people who want to contribute their code to this +software. There is also a link:MyFirstContribution.html[step-by-step tutorial] +available which covers many of these same guidelines. [[base-branch]] === Decide what to base your work on. @@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ change is relevant to. base your work on the tip of the topic. * A new feature should be based on `master` in general. If the new - feature depends on a topic that is in `pu`, but not in `master`, + feature depends on a topic that is in `seen`, but not in `master`, base your work on the tip of that topic. * Corrections and enhancements to a topic not yet in `master` should @@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ change is relevant to. into the series. * In the exceptional case that a new feature depends on several topics - not in `master`, start working on `next` or `pu` privately and send + not in `master`, start working on `next` or `seen` privately and send out patches for discussion. Before the final merge, you may have to wait until some of the dependent topics graduate to `master`, and rebase your work. @@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ change is relevant to. these parts should be based on their trees. To find the tip of a topic branch, run `git log --first-parent -master..pu` and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this +master..seen` and look for the merge commit. The second parent of this commit is the tip of the topic branch. [[separate-commits]] @@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ send them as replies to either an additional "cover letter" message (see below), the first patch, or the respective preceding patch. If your log message (including your name on the -Signed-off-by line) is not writable in ASCII, make sure that +`Signed-off-by` trailer) is not writable in ASCII, make sure that you send off a message in the correct encoding. WARNING: Be wary of your MUAs word-wrap @@ -228,7 +229,7 @@ previously sent. The `git format-patch` command follows the best current practice to format the body of an e-mail message. At the beginning of the patch should come your commit message, ending with the -Signed-off-by: lines, and a line that consists of three dashes, +`Signed-off-by` trailers, and a line that consists of three dashes, followed by the diffstat information and the patch itself. If you are forwarding a patch from somebody else, optionally, at the beginning of the e-mail message just before the commit @@ -289,25 +290,24 @@ identify them), to solicit comments and reviews. :git-ml: footnote:[The mailing list: git@vger.kernel.org] After the list reached a consensus that it is a good idea to apply the -patch, re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer{current-maintainer} and "cc:" the -list{git-ml} for inclusion. +patch, re-send it with "To:" set to the maintainer{current-maintainer} +and "cc:" the list{git-ml} for inclusion. This is especially relevant +when the maintainer did not heavily participate in the discussion and +instead left the review to trusted others. Do not forget to add trailers such as `Acked-by:`, `Reviewed-by:` and `Tested-by:` lines as necessary to credit people who helped your -patch. +patch, and "cc:" them when sending such a final version for inclusion. [[sign-off]] -=== Certify your work by adding your "Signed-off-by: " line +=== Certify your work by adding your `Signed-off-by` trailer -To improve tracking of who did what, we've borrowed the -"sign-off" procedure from the Linux kernel project on patches -that are being emailed around. Although core Git is a lot -smaller project it is a good discipline to follow it. +To improve tracking of who did what, we ask you to certify that you +wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on under the same license +as ours, by "signing off" your patch. Without sign-off, we cannot +accept your patches. -The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for -the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have -the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are -pretty simple: if you can certify the below D-C-O: +If (and only if) you certify the below D-C-O: [[dco]] .Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 @@ -337,23 +337,29 @@ d. I understand and agree that this project and the contribution this project or the open source license(s) involved. ____ -then you just add a line saying +you add a "Signed-off-by" trailer to your commit, that looks like +this: .... Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org> .... -This line can be automatically added by Git if you run the git-commit -command with the -s option. +This line can be added by Git if you run the git-commit command with +the -s option. -Notice that you can place your own Signed-off-by: line when +Notice that you can place your own `Signed-off-by` trailer when forwarding somebody else's patch with the above rules for D-C-O. Indeed you are encouraged to do so. Do not forget to place an in-body "From: " line at the beginning to properly attribute the change to its true author (see (2) above). +This procedure originally came from the Linux kernel project, so our +rule is quite similar to theirs, but what exactly it means to sign-off +your patch differs from project to project, so it may be different +from that of the project you are accustomed to. + [[real-name]] -Also notice that a real name is used in the Signed-off-by: line. Please +Also notice that a real name is used in the `Signed-off-by` trailer. Please don't hide your real name. [[commit-trailers]] @@ -423,7 +429,7 @@ help you find out who they are. and cooked further and eventually graduates to `master`. In any time between the (2)-(3) cycle, the maintainer may pick it up -from the list and queue it to `pu`, in order to make it easier for +from the list and queue it to `seen`, in order to make it easier for people play with it without having to pick up and apply the patch to their trees themselves. @@ -434,7 +440,7 @@ their trees themselves. master. `git pull --rebase` will automatically skip already-applied patches, and will let you know. This works only if you rebase on top of the branch in which your patch has been merged (i.e. it will not - tell you if your patch is merged in pu if you rebase on top of + tell you if your patch is merged in `seen` if you rebase on top of master). * Read the Git mailing list, the maintainer regularly posts messages diff --git a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf index 8fc4b67..3e4c139 100644 --- a/Documentation/asciidoc.conf +++ b/Documentation/asciidoc.conf @@ -31,24 +31,6 @@ ifdef::backend-docbook[] endif::backend-docbook[] ifdef::backend-docbook[] -ifndef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[] -# "unbreak" docbook-xsl v1.68 for manpages. v1.69 works with or without this. -# v1.72 breaks with this because it replaces dots not in roff requests. -[listingblock] -<example><title>{title}</title> -<literallayout class="monospaced"> -ifdef::doctype-manpage[] - .ft C -endif::doctype-manpage[] -| -ifdef::doctype-manpage[] - .ft -endif::doctype-manpage[] -</literallayout> -{title#}</example> -endif::git-asciidoc-no-roff[] - -ifdef::git-asciidoc-no-roff[] ifdef::doctype-manpage[] # The following two small workarounds insert a simple paragraph after screen [listingblock] @@ -67,7 +49,6 @@ ifdef::doctype-manpage[] {title#}</para></formalpara> {title%}<simpara></simpara> endif::doctype-manpage[] -endif::git-asciidoc-no-roff[] endif::backend-docbook[] ifdef::doctype-manpage[] diff --git a/Documentation/blame-options.txt b/Documentation/blame-options.txt index 5d122db..117f4cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/blame-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/blame-options.txt @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -b:: Show blank SHA-1 for boundary commits. This can also - be controlled via the `blame.blankboundary` config option. + be controlled via the `blame.blankBoundary` config option. --root:: Do not treat root commits as boundaries. This can also be @@ -11,11 +11,12 @@ -L <start>,<end>:: -L :<funcname>:: - Annotate only the given line range. May be specified multiple times. - Overlapping ranges are allowed. + Annotate only the line range given by '<start>,<end>', + or by the function name regex '<funcname>'. + May be specified multiple times. Overlapping ranges are allowed. + -<start> and <end> are optional. ``-L <start>'' or ``-L <start>,'' spans from -<start> to end of file. ``-L ,<end>'' spans from start of file to <end>. +'<start>' and '<end>' are optional. `-L <start>` or `-L <start>,` spans from +'<start>' to end of file. `-L ,<end>` spans from start of file to '<end>'. + include::line-range-format.txt[] @@ -36,6 +37,12 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[] START. `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame --reverse START..HEAD` for convenience. +--first-parent:: + Follow only the first parent commit upon seeing a merge + commit. This option can be used to determine when a line + was introduced to a particular integration branch, rather + than when it was introduced to the history overall. + -p:: --porcelain:: Show in a format designed for machine consumption. diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl index 5aa73cf..af5da45 100755 --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl @@ -6,9 +6,14 @@ sub format_one { my ($out, $nameattr) = @_; my ($name, $attr) = @$nameattr; my ($state, $description); + my $mansection; $state = 0; open I, '<', "$name.txt" or die "No such file $name.txt"; while (<I>) { + if (/^git[a-z0-9-]*\(([0-9])\)$/) { + $mansection = $1; + next; + } if (/^NAME$/) { $state = 1; next; @@ -27,7 +32,7 @@ sub format_one { die "No description found in $name.txt"; } if (my ($verify_name, $text) = ($description =~ /^($name) - (.*)/)) { - print $out "linkgit:$name\[1\]::\n\t"; + print $out "linkgit:$name\[$mansection\]::\n\t"; if ($attr =~ / deprecated /) { print $out "(deprecated) "; } @@ -38,12 +43,15 @@ sub format_one { } } -while (<>) { +my ($input, @categories) = @ARGV; + +open IN, "<$input"; +while (<IN>) { last if /^### command list/; } my %cmds = (); -for (sort <>) { +for (sort <IN>) { next if /^#/; chomp; @@ -51,17 +59,10 @@ for (sort <>) { $attr = '' unless defined $attr; push @{$cmds{$cat}}, [$name, " $attr "]; } +close IN; -for my $cat (qw(ancillaryinterrogators - ancillarymanipulators - mainporcelain - plumbinginterrogators - plumbingmanipulators - synchingrepositories - foreignscminterface - purehelpers - synchelpers)) { - my $out = "cmds-$cat.txt"; +for my $out (@categories) { + my ($cat) = $out =~ /^cmds-(.*)\.txt$/; open O, '>', "$out+" or die "Cannot open output file $out+"; for (@{$cmds{$cat}}) { format_one(\*O, $_); diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 08b13ba..bf82766 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ CONFIGURATION FILE The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the Git commands' behavior. The files `.git/config` and optionally -`config.worktree` (see `extensions.worktreeConfig` below) in each -repository are used to store the configuration for that repository, and -`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as -fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` -can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. +`config.worktree` (see the "CONFIGURATION FILE" section of +linkgit:git-worktree[1]) in each repository are used to store the +configuration for that repository, and `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to +store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the `.git/config` +file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` can be used to store a system-wide +default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein @@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as -`t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines. +`t` and `\0` is read as `0`. Section headers cannot span multiple lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't need to. @@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by -ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are +ending it with a `\`; the backslash and the end-of-line are stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in @@ -220,12 +221,12 @@ Example ; affected by the condition [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] path = foo.inc ----- - ; include only if we are in a worktree where foo-branch is - ; currently checked out - [includeIf "onbranch:foo-branch"] - path = foo.inc +; include only if we are in a worktree where foo-branch is +; currently checked out +[includeIf "onbranch:foo-branch"] + path = foo.inc +---- Values ~~~~~~ @@ -264,7 +265,7 @@ color:: The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the foreground; the second is the background. All the basic colors except -`normal` have a bright variant that can be speficied by prefixing the +`normal` have a bright variant that can be specified by prefixing the color with `bright`, like `brightred`. + Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI @@ -333,12 +334,16 @@ include::config/checkout.txt[] include::config/clean.txt[] +include::config/clone.txt[] + include::config/color.txt[] include::config/column.txt[] include::config/commit.txt[] +include::config/commitgraph.txt[] + include::config/credential.txt[] include::config/completion.txt[] @@ -347,6 +352,8 @@ include::config/diff.txt[] include::config/difftool.txt[] +include::config/extensions.txt[] + include::config/fastimport.txt[] include::config/feature.txt[] @@ -391,10 +398,14 @@ include::config/interactive.txt[] include::config/log.txt[] +include::config/lsrefs.txt[] + include::config/mailinfo.txt[] include::config/mailmap.txt[] +include::config/maintenance.txt[] + include::config/man.txt[] include::config/merge.txt[] @@ -447,6 +458,8 @@ include::config/submodule.txt[] include::config/tag.txt[] +include::config/tar.txt[] + include::config/trace2.txt[] include::config/transfer.txt[] diff --git a/Documentation/config/advice.txt b/Documentation/config/advice.txt index bdd37c3..acbd0c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/advice.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/advice.txt @@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ advice.*:: that the check is disabled. pushUpdateRejected:: Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable - 'pushNonFFCurrent', - 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists', - 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce' + 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists', + 'pushFetchFirst', 'pushNeedsForce', and 'pushRefNeedsUpdate' simultaneously. pushNonFFCurrent:: Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a @@ -41,6 +40,10 @@ advice.*:: we can still suggest that the user push to either refs/heads/* or refs/tags/* based on the type of the source object. + pushRefNeedsUpdate:: + Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects a forced update of + a branch when its remote-tracking ref has updates that we + do not have locally. statusAheadBehind:: Shown when linkgit:git-status[1] computes the ahead/behind counts for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref, diff --git a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt index 6b64681..2cddf7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/checkout.txt @@ -1,18 +1,23 @@ checkout.defaultRemote:: - When you run 'git checkout <something>' - or 'git switch <something>' and only have one + When you run `git checkout <something>` + or `git switch <something>` and only have one remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and - tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon - as you have more than one remote with a '<something>' + tracking e.g. `origin/<something>`. This stops working as soon + as you have more than one remote with a `<something>` reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a preferred remote that should always win when it comes to disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to `origin`. + Currently this is used by linkgit:git-switch[1] and -linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout <something>' -or 'git switch <something>' -will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote, -and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a +linkgit:git-checkout[1] when `git checkout <something>` +or `git switch <something>` +will checkout the `<something>` branch on another remote, +and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when `git worktree add` refers to a remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like commands or functionality in the future. + +checkout.guess:: + Provides the default value for the `--guess` or `--no-guess` + option in `git checkout` and `git switch`. See + linkgit:git-switch[1] and linkgit:git-checkout[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/clone.txt b/Documentation/config/clone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..47de36a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/clone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +clone.defaultRemoteName:: + The name of the remote to create when cloning a repository. Defaults to + `origin`, and can be overridden by passing the `--origin` command-line + option to linkgit:git-clone[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/config/commitgraph.txt b/Documentation/config/commitgraph.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4582c39 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/commitgraph.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +commitGraph.maxNewFilters:: + Specifies the default value for the `--max-new-filters` option of `git + commit-graph write` (c.f., linkgit:git-commit-graph[1]). + +commitGraph.readChangedPaths:: + If true, then git will use the changed-path Bloom filters in the + commit-graph file (if it exists, and they are present). Defaults to + true. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1] for more information. diff --git a/Documentation/config/core.txt b/Documentation/config/core.txt index 74619a9..c04f62a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/core.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/core.txt @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: - Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects + Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching base objects that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base @@ -606,8 +606,8 @@ core.useReplaceRefs:: core.multiPackIndex:: Use the multi-pack-index file to track multiple packfiles using a - single index. See link:technical/multi-pack-index.html[the - multi-pack-index design document]. + single index. See linkgit:git-multi-pack-index[1] for more + information. Defaults to true. core.sparseCheckout:: Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See linkgit:git-sparse-checkout[1] @@ -625,4 +625,6 @@ core.abbrev:: computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. + If set to "no", no abbreviation is made and the object names + are shown in their full length. The minimum length is 4. diff --git a/Documentation/config/credential.txt b/Documentation/config/credential.txt index 60fb318..512f318 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/credential.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/credential.txt @@ -1,9 +1,13 @@ credential.helper:: Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper may consult external - storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note - that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] - for details. + storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. This is + normally the name of a credential helper with possible + arguments, but may also be an absolute path with arguments or, if + preceded by `!`, shell commands. ++ +Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] +for details and examples. credential.useHttpPath:: When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http @@ -24,3 +28,9 @@ credential.<url>.*:: credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP:: Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting. + +credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS:: + The length of time, in milliseconds, for git-credential-store to retry + when trying to lock the credentials file. Value 0 means not to retry at + all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for + 1s). diff --git a/Documentation/config/diff.txt b/Documentation/config/diff.txt index ff09f1c..2d3331f 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/diff.txt @@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ diff.ignoreSubmodules:: and 'git status' when `status.submoduleSummary` is set unless it is overridden by using the --ignore-submodules command-line option. The 'git submodule' commands are not affected by this setting. + By default this is set to untracked so that any untracked + submodules are ignored. diff.mnemonicPrefix:: If set, 'git diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the @@ -105,6 +107,10 @@ diff.mnemonicPrefix:: diff.noprefix:: If set, 'git diff' does not show any source or destination prefix. +diff.relative:: + If set to 'true', 'git diff' does not show changes outside of the directory + and show pathnames relative to the current directory. + diff.orderFile:: File indicating how to order files within a diff. See the '-O' option to linkgit:git-diff[1] for details. diff --git a/Documentation/config/extensions.txt b/Documentation/config/extensions.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4e23d73 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/extensions.txt @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +extensions.objectFormat:: + Specify the hash algorithm to use. The acceptable values are `sha1` and + `sha256`. If not specified, `sha1` is assumed. It is an error to specify + this key unless `core.repositoryFormatVersion` is 1. ++ +Note that this setting should only be set by linkgit:git-init[1] or +linkgit:git-clone[1]. Trying to change it after initialization will not +work and will produce hard-to-diagnose issues. diff --git a/Documentation/config/feature.txt b/Documentation/config/feature.txt index 875f8c8..cdecd04 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/feature.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/feature.txt @@ -12,19 +12,8 @@ feature.experimental:: setting if you are interested in providing feedback on experimental features. The new default values are: + -* `pack.useSparse=true` uses a new algorithm when constructing a pack-file -which can improve `git push` performance in repos with many files. -+ * `fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping` may improve fetch negotiation times by skipping more commits at a time, reducing the number of round trips. -+ -* `fetch.writeCommitGraph=true` writes a commit-graph after every `git fetch` -command that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the `--split` option, -most executions will create a very small commit-graph file on top of the -existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the -write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps performance -of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, `git push -f`, and -`git log --graph`. feature.manyFiles:: Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files in the diff --git a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt index f119402..6af6f5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fetch.txt @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ fetch.recurseSubmodules:: - This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. + This option controls whether `git fetch` (and the underlying fetch + in `git pull`) will recursively fetch into populated submodules. + This option can be set either to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to - unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not - recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default - value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule - when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's + recurse unconditionally into submodules when set to true or to not + recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand', fetch and + pull will only recurse into a populated submodule when its + superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's reference. + Defaults to 'on-demand', or to the value of 'submodule.recurse' if set. fetch.fsckObjects:: If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched @@ -57,7 +60,10 @@ fetch.negotiationAlgorithm:: sent when negotiating the contents of the packfile to be sent by the server. Set to "skipping" to use an algorithm that skips commits in an effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary - packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm + packfile; or set to "noop" to not send any information at all, which + will almost certainly result in a larger-than-necessary packfile, but + will skip the negotiation step. + The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one of its descendants). If `feature.experimental` is enabled, then this setting defaults to "skipping". @@ -87,5 +93,4 @@ fetch.writeCommitGraph:: the existing commit-graph file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the write may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps performance of many Git commands, including `git merge-base`, - `git push -f`, and `git log --graph`. Defaults to false, unless - `feature.experimental` is true. + `git push -f`, and `git log --graph`. Defaults to false. diff --git a/Documentation/config/fmt-merge-msg.txt b/Documentation/config/fmt-merge-msg.txt index c73cfa9..3fbf40e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/fmt-merge-msg.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/fmt-merge-msg.txt @@ -8,3 +8,15 @@ merge.log:: most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being merged. Defaults to false, and true is a synonym for 20. + +merge.suppressDest:: + By adding a glob that matches the names of integration + branches to this multi-valued configuration variable, the + default merge message computed for merges into these + integration branches will omit "into <branch name>" from + its title. ++ +An element with an empty value can be used to clear the list +of globs accumulated from previous configuration entries. +When there is no `merge.suppressDest` variable defined, the +default value of `master` is used for backward compatibility. diff --git a/Documentation/config/format.txt b/Documentation/config/format.txt index 45c7bd5..fdbc06a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/format.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/format.txt @@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ format.suffix:: `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to include the dot if you want it). +format.encodeEmailHeaders:: + Encode email headers that have non-ASCII characters with + "Q-encoding" (described in RFC 2047) for email transmission. + Defaults to true. + format.pretty:: The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], @@ -74,7 +79,7 @@ format.thread:: format.signOff:: A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of - format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a + format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the `Signed-off-by` trailer to a patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. @@ -89,9 +94,16 @@ format.outputDirectory:: Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the current working directory. All directory components will be created. +format.filenameMaxLength:: + The maximum length of the output filenames generated by the + `format-patch` command; defaults to 64. Can be overridden + by the `--filename-max-length=<n>` command line option. + format.useAutoBase:: A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of - format-patch by default. + format-patch by default. Can also be set to "whenAble" to allow + enabling `--base=auto` if a suitable base is available, but to skip + adding base info otherwise without the format dying. format.notes:: Provides the default value for the `--notes` option to diff --git a/Documentation/config/gc.txt b/Documentation/config/gc.txt index 00ea0a6..c834e07 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/gc.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/gc.txt @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ gc.autoDetach:: gc.bigPackThreshold:: If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when - `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack` + `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-largest-pack` except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not - just the base pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of + just the largest pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. + Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit, @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again. If the amount of memory estimated for `git repack` to run smoothly is not available and `gc.bigPackThreshold` is not set, the largest pack will also be excluded (this is the equivalent of running `git gc` with -`--keep-base-pack`). +`--keep-largest-pack`). gc.writeCommitGraph:: If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when diff --git a/Documentation/config/help.txt b/Documentation/config/help.txt index 224bbf5..783a90a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/help.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/help.txt @@ -8,13 +8,14 @@ help.format:: the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same. help.autoCorrect:: - Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after - waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more - than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing - will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, - the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the - value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. - This is the default. + If git detects typos and can identify exactly one valid command similar + to the error, git will automatically run the intended command after + waiting a duration of time defined by this configuration value in + deciseconds (0.1 sec). If this value is 0, the suggested corrections + will be shown, but not executed. If it is a negative integer, or + "immediate", the suggested command + is run immediately. If "never", suggestions are not shown at all. The + default value is zero. help.htmlPath:: Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths diff --git a/Documentation/config/http.txt b/Documentation/config/http.txt index e806033..7003661 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/http.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/http.txt @@ -29,6 +29,27 @@ http.proxyAuthMethod:: * `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`) -- +http.proxySSLCert:: + The pathname of a file that stores a client certificate to use to authenticate + with an HTTPS proxy. Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_SSL_CERT` environment + variable. + +http.proxySSLKey:: + The pathname of a file that stores a private key to use to authenticate with + an HTTPS proxy. Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_SSL_KEY` environment + variable. + +http.proxySSLCertPasswordProtected:: + Enable Git's password prompt for the proxy SSL certificate. Otherwise OpenSSL + will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the certificate or private key + is encrypted. Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` + environment variable. + +http.proxySSLCAInfo:: + Pathname to the file containing the certificate bundle that should be used to + verify the proxy with when using an HTTPS proxy. Can be overridden by the + `GIT_PROXY_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable. + http.emptyAuth:: Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying diff --git a/Documentation/config/init.txt b/Documentation/config/init.txt index 46fa8c6..79c79d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/init.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/init.txt @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ init.templateDir:: Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].) + +init.defaultBranch:: + Allows overriding the default branch name e.g. when initializing + a new repository. diff --git a/Documentation/config/log.txt b/Documentation/config/log.txt index e9e1e39..208d5fd 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/log.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/log.txt @@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ log.decorate:: names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option of the `git log`. +log.excludeDecoration:: + Exclude the specified patterns from the log decorations. This is + similar to the `--decorate-refs-exclude` command-line option, but + the config option can be overridden by the `--decorate-refs` + option. + log.follow:: If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`, diff --git a/Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt b/Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adeda0f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/lsrefs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +lsrefs.unborn:: + May be "advertise" (the default), "allow", or "ignore". If "advertise", + the server will respond to the client sending "unborn" (as described in + protocol-v2.txt) and will advertise support for this feature during the + protocol v2 capability advertisement. "allow" is the same as + "advertise" except that the server will not advertise support for this + feature; this is useful for load-balanced servers that cannot be + updated atomically (for example), since the administrator could + configure "allow", then after a delay, configure "advertise". diff --git a/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18f0562 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/config/maintenance.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +maintenance.auto:: + This boolean config option controls whether some commands run + `git maintenance run --auto` after doing their normal work. Defaults + to true. + +maintenance.strategy:: + This string config option provides a way to specify one of a few + recommended schedules for background maintenance. This only affects + which tasks are run during `git maintenance run --schedule=X` + commands, provided no `--task=<task>` arguments are provided. + Further, if a `maintenance.<task>.schedule` config value is set, + then that value is used instead of the one provided by + `maintenance.strategy`. The possible strategy strings are: ++ +* `none`: This default setting implies no task are run at any schedule. +* `incremental`: This setting optimizes for performing small maintenance + activities that do not delete any data. This does not schedule the `gc` + task, but runs the `prefetch` and `commit-graph` tasks hourly, the + `loose-objects` and `incremental-repack` tasks daily, and the `pack-refs` + task weekly. + +maintenance.<task>.enabled:: + This boolean config option controls whether the maintenance task + with name `<task>` is run when no `--task` option is specified to + `git maintenance run`. These config values are ignored if a + `--task` option exists. By default, only `maintenance.gc.enabled` + is true. + +maintenance.<task>.schedule:: + This config option controls whether or not the given `<task>` runs + during a `git maintenance run --schedule=<frequency>` command. The + value must be one of "hourly", "daily", or "weekly". + +maintenance.commit-graph.auto:: + This integer config option controls how often the `commit-graph` task + should be run as part of `git maintenance run --auto`. If zero, then + the `commit-graph` task will not run with the `--auto` option. A + negative value will force the task to run every time. Otherwise, a + positive value implies the command should run when the number of + reachable commits that are not in the commit-graph file is at least + the value of `maintenance.commit-graph.auto`. The default value is + 100. + +maintenance.loose-objects.auto:: + This integer config option controls how often the `loose-objects` task + should be run as part of `git maintenance run --auto`. If zero, then + the `loose-objects` task will not run with the `--auto` option. A + negative value will force the task to run every time. Otherwise, a + positive value implies the command should run when the number of + loose objects is at least the value of `maintenance.loose-objects.auto`. + The default value is 100. + +maintenance.incremental-repack.auto:: + This integer config option controls how often the `incremental-repack` + task should be run as part of `git maintenance run --auto`. If zero, + then the `incremental-repack` task will not run with the `--auto` + option. A negative value will force the task to run every time. + Otherwise, a positive value implies the command should run when the + number of pack-files not in the multi-pack-index is at least the value + of `maintenance.incremental-repack.auto`. The default value is 10. diff --git a/Documentation/config/merge.txt b/Documentation/config/merge.txt index 6a31393..cb2ed58 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/merge.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/merge.txt @@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ merge.stat:: Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result at the end of the merge. True by default. +merge.autoStash:: + When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash entry + before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation + ends. This means that you can run merge on a dirty worktree. + However, use with care: the final stash application after a + successful merge might result in non-trivial conflicts. + This option can be overridden by the `--no-autostash` and + `--autostash` options of linkgit:git-merge[1]. + Defaults to false. + merge.tool:: Controls which merge tool is used by linkgit:git-mergetool[1]. The list below shows the valid built-in values. diff --git a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt index 09ed31d..cafbbef 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/mergetool.txt @@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ mergetool.<tool>.cmd:: merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge tool should write the results of a successful merge. +mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved:: + Allows the user to override the global `mergetool.hideResolved` value + for a specific tool. See `mergetool.hideResolved` for the full + description. + mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode:: For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was @@ -30,6 +35,26 @@ mergetool.meld.hasOutput:: to `true` tells Git to unconditionally use the `--output` option, and `false` avoids using `--output`. +mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge:: + When the `--auto-merge` is given, meld will merge all non-conflicting + parts automatically, highlight the conflicting parts and wait for + user decision. Setting `mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge` to `true` tells + Git to unconditionally use the `--auto-merge` option with `meld`. + Setting this value to `auto` makes git detect whether `--auto-merge` + is supported and will only use `--auto-merge` when available. A + value of `false` avoids using `--auto-merge` altogether, and is the + default value. + +mergetool.hideResolved:: + During a merge Git will automatically resolve as many conflicts as + possible and write the 'MERGED' file containing conflict markers around + any conflicts that it cannot resolve; 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' normally + represent the versions of the file from before Git's conflict + resolution. This flag causes 'LOCAL' and 'REMOTE' to be overwriten so + that only the unresolved conflicts are presented to the merge tool. Can + be configured per-tool via the `mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved` + configuration variable. Defaults to `false`. + mergetool.keepBackup:: After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable diff --git a/Documentation/config/pack.txt b/Documentation/config/pack.txt index 0dac580..3da4ea9 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/pack.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/pack.txt @@ -119,8 +119,8 @@ pack.useSparse:: objects. This can have significant performance benefits when computing a pack to send a small change. However, it is possible that extra objects are added to the pack-file if the included - commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is `false` - unless `feature.experimental` is enabled. + commits contain certain types of direct renames. Default is + `true`. pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated):: This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`. @@ -133,3 +133,10 @@ pack.writeBitmapHashCache:: between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4 bytes per object of disk space. Defaults to true. + +pack.writeReverseIndex:: + When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see: + link:../technical/pack-format.html[Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt]) + for each new packfile that it writes in all places except for + linkgit:git-fast-import[1] and in the bulk checkin mechanism. + Defaults to false. diff --git a/Documentation/config/push.txt b/Documentation/config/push.txt index 0a7aa32..21b256e 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/push.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/push.txt @@ -112,3 +112,11 @@ push.recurseSubmodules:: is 'no' then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing is retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'. + If not set, 'no' is used by default, unless 'submodule.recurse' is + set (in which case a 'true' value means 'on-demand'). + +push.useForceIfIncludes:: + If set to "true", it is equivalent to specifying + `--force-if-includes` as an option to linkgit:git-push[1] + in the command line. Adding `--no-force-if-includes` at the + time of push overrides this configuration setting. diff --git a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt index 7f7a07d..214f31b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/rebase.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/rebase.txt @@ -68,3 +68,6 @@ rebase.rescheduleFailedExec:: Automatically reschedule `exec` commands that failed. This only makes sense in interactive mode (or when an `--exec` option was provided). This is the same as specifying the `--reschedule-failed-exec` option. + +rebase.forkPoint:: + If set to false set `--no-fork-point` option by default. diff --git a/Documentation/config/receive.txt b/Documentation/config/receive.txt index 65f78aa..85d5b5a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/receive.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/receive.txt @@ -114,6 +114,28 @@ receive.hideRefs:: An attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by `git push` is rejected. +receive.procReceiveRefs:: + This is a multi-valued variable that defines reference prefixes + to match the commands in `receive-pack`. Commands matching the + prefixes will be executed by an external hook "proc-receive", + instead of the internal `execute_commands` function. If this + variable is not defined, the "proc-receive" hook will never be + used, and all commands will be executed by the internal + `execute_commands` function. ++ +For example, if this variable is set to "refs/for", pushing to reference +such as "refs/for/master" will not create or update a reference named +"refs/for/master", but may create or update a pull request directly by +running the hook "proc-receive". ++ +Optional modifiers can be provided in the beginning of the value to filter +commands for specific actions: create (a), modify (m), delete (d). +A `!` can be included in the modifiers to negate the reference prefix entry. +E.g.: ++ + git config --system --add receive.procReceiveRefs ad:refs/heads + git config --system --add receive.procReceiveRefs !:refs/heads + receive.updateServerInfo:: If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. diff --git a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt b/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt index 0006faf..cbc5af4 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/sendemail.txt +++ b/ |