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@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@ Updates since v2.23
Backward compatibility note
- * Although it is not officially deprecated, "filter-branch" is
- showing its age and alternatives are available. From this release,
- we started to discourage its uses and hint people about
- filter-repo.
+ * "filter-branch" is showing its age and alternatives are available.
+ From this release, we started to discourage its use and hint
+ people about filter-repo.
UI, Workflows & Features
@@ -68,6 +67,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* A configuration variable tells "git fetch" to write the commit
graph after finishing.
+ * "git add -i" has been taught to show the total number of hunks and
+ the hunks that has been processed so far when showing prompts.
+
+ * "git fetch --jobs=<n>" allowed <n> parallel jobs when fetching
+ submodules, but this did not apply to "git fetch --multiple" that
+ fetches from multiple remote repositories. It now does.
+
+ * The installation instruction for zsh completion script (in
+ contrib/) has been a bit improved.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -107,6 +116,35 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
things like sparse checkout specification that want to check if a
path is "included".
+ * "git stash" learned to write refreshed index back to disk.
+
+ * Coccinelle checks are done on more source files than before now.
+
+ * The cache-tree code has been taught to be less aggressive in
+ attempting to see if a tree object it computed already exists in
+ the repository.
+
+ * The code to parse and use the commit-graph file has been made more
+ robust against corrupted input.
+
+ * The hg-to-git script (in contrib/) has been updated to work with
+ Python 3.
+
+ * Update the way build artifacts in t/helper/ directory are ignored.
+
+ * Preparation for SHA-256 upgrade continues.
+
+ * "git log --graph" for an octopus merge is sometimes colored
+ incorrectly, which is demonstrated and documented but not yet
+ fixed.
+
+ * The trace2 output, when sending them to files in a designated
+ directory, can populate the directory with too many files; a
+ mechanism is introduced to set the maximum number of files and
+ discard further logs when the maximum is reached.
+
+ * We have adopted a Code-of-conduct document.
+ (merge 3f9ef874a7 jk/coc later to maint).
Fixes since v2.23
@@ -192,6 +230,119 @@ Fixes since v2.23
current branch, which has been corrected.
(merge bf1e28e0ad bw/rebase-autostash-keep-current-branch later to maint).
+ * Update support for Asciidoctor documentation toolchain.
+ (merge 83b0b8953e ma/asciidoctor-refmiscinfo later to maint).
+
+ * Start using DocBook 5 (instead of DocBook 4.5) as Asciidoctor 2.0
+ no longer works with the older one.
+ (merge f6461b82b9 bc/doc-use-docbook-5 later to maint).
+
+ * The markup used in user-manual has been updated to work better with
+ asciidoctor.
+ (merge c4d2f6143a ma/user-manual-markup-update later to maint).
+
+ * Make sure the grep machinery does not abort when seeing a payload
+ that is not UTF-8 even when JIT is not in use with PCRE1.
+ (merge ad7c543e3b cb/skip-utf8-check-with-pcre1 later to maint).
+
+ * The name of the blob object that stores the filter specification
+ for sparse cloning/fetching was interpreted in a wrong place in the
+ code, causing Git to abort.
+
+ * "git log --decorate-refs-exclude=<pattern>" was incorrectly
+ overruled when the "--simplify-by-decoration" option is used, which
+ has been corrected.
+ (merge 0cc7380d88 rs/simplify-by-deco-with-deco-refs-exclude later to maint).
+
+ * The "upload-pack" (the counterpart of "git fetch") needs to disable
+ commit-graph when responding to a shallow clone/fetch request, but
+ the way this was done made Git panic, which has been corrected.
+
+ * The object traversal machinery has been optimized not to load tree
+ objects when we are only interested in commit history.
+ (merge 72ed80c784 jk/list-objects-optim-wo-trees later to maint).
+
+ * The object name parser for "Nth parent" syntax has been made more
+ robust against integer overflows.
+ (merge 59fa5f5a25 rs/nth-parent-parse later to maint).
+
+ * The code used in following tags in "git fetch" has been optimized.
+ (merge b7e2d8bca5 ms/fetch-follow-tag-optim later to maint).
+
+ * Regression fix for progress output.
+ (merge 2bb74b53a4 sg/progress-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A bug in merge-recursive code that triggers when a branch with a
+ symbolic link is merged with a branch that replaces it with a
+ directory has been fixed.
+ (merge 83e3ad3b12 jt/merge-recursive-symlink-is-not-a-dir-in-way later to maint).
+
+ * The rename detection logic sorts a list of rename source candidates
+ by similarity to pick the best candidate, which means that a tie
+ between sources with the same similarity is broken by the original
+ location in the original candidate list (which is sorted by path).
+ Force the sorting by similarity done with a stable sort, which is
+ not promised by system supplied qsort(3), to ensure consistent
+ results across platforms.
+ (merge 2049b8dc65 js/diff-rename-force-stable-sort later to maint).
+
+ * The code to skip "UTF" and "UTF-" prefix, when computing an advice
+ message, did not work correctly when the prefix was "UTF", which
+ has been fixed.
+ (merge b181676ce9 rs/convert-fix-utf-without-dash later to maint).
+
+ * The author names taken from SVN repositories may have extra leading
+ or trailing whitespaces, which are now munged away.
+ (merge 4ddd4bddb1 tk/git-svn-trim-author-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" showed a wrong HEAD while "reword" open the editor.
+ (merge b0a3186140 pw/rebase-i-show-HEAD-to-reword later to maint).
+
+ * A few simplification and bugfixes to PCRE interface.
+ (merge c581e4a749 ab/pcre-jit-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * PCRE fixes.
+ (merge ff61681b46 cb/pcre1-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * "git range-diff" segfaulted when diff.noprefix configuration was
+ used, as it blindly expected the patch it internally generates to
+ have the standard a/ and b/ prefixes. The command now forces the
+ internal patch to be built without any prefix, not to be affected
+ by any end-user configuration.
+ (merge 937b76ed49 js/range-diff-noprefix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash apply" in a subdirectory of a secondary worktree failed
+ to access the worktree correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge dfd557c978 js/stash-apply-in-secondary-worktree later to maint).
+
+ * The merge-recursive machinery is one of the most complex parts of
+ the system that accumulated cruft over time. This large series
+ cleans up the implementation quite a bit.
+ (merge b657047719 en/merge-recursive-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Pretty-printed command line formatter (used in e.g. reporting the
+ command being run by the tracing API) had a bug that lost an
+ argument that is an empty string, which has been corrected.
+ (merge ce2d7ed2fd gs/sq-quote-buf-pretty later to maint).
+
+ * "git range-diff" failed to handle mode-only change, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 2b6a9b13ca tg/range-diff-output-update later to maint).
+
+ * Dev support update.
+ (merge 4f3c1dc5d6 dl/allow-running-cocci-verbosely later to maint).
+
+ * "git format-patch -o <outdir>" did an equivalent of "mkdir <outdir>"
+ not "mkdir -p <outdir>", which was corrected.
+
+ * "git stash save" lost local changes to submodules, which has been
+ corrected.
+ (merge 556895d0c8 jj/stash-reset-only-toplevel later to maint).
+
+ * The atomic push over smart HTTP transport did not work, which has
+ been corrected.
+ (merge 6f1194246a bc/smart-http-atomic-push later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
(merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).
@@ -208,3 +359,40 @@ Fixes since v2.23
(merge 0a8bc7068f dt/remote-helper-doc-re-lock-option later to maint).
(merge 27fd1e4ea7 en/merge-options-ff-and-friends later to maint).
(merge 502c386ff9 sg/clean-nested-repo-with-ignored later to maint).
+ (merge 26e3d1cbea am/mailmap-andrey-mazo later to maint).
+ (merge 47b27c96fa ss/get-time-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge dd2e50a84e jk/commit-graph-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 4fd39c76e6 cs/pretty-formats-doc-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge 40e747e89d dl/submodule-set-branch later to maint).
+ (merge 689a146c91 rs/commit-graph-use-list-count later to maint).
+ (merge 0eb7c37a8a js/doc-patch-text later to maint).
+ (merge 4b3aa170d1 rs/nth-switch-code-simplification later to maint).
+ (merge 0d4304c124 ah/doc-submodule-ignore-submodules later to maint).
+ (merge af78249463 cc/svn-fe-py-shebang later to maint).
+ (merge 7bd97d6dff rs/alias-use-copy-array later to maint).
+ (merge c46ebc2496 sg/travis-help-debug later to maint).
+ (merge 24c681794f ps/my-first-contribution-alphasort later to maint).
+ (merge 75b2c15435 cb/do-not-use-test-cmp-with-a later to maint).
+ (merge cda0d497e3 bw/submodule-helper-usage-fix later to maint).
+ (merge fe0ed5d5e9 am/visual-studio-config-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 2e09c01232 sg/name-rev-cutoff-underflow-fix later to maint).
+ (merge ddb3c856f3 as/shallow-slab-use-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 71f4960b91 js/mingw-spawn-with-spaces-in-path later to maint).
+ (merge 53d687bf5f ah/cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge f537485fa5 rs/test-remove-useless-debugging-cat later to maint).
+ (merge 11a3d3aadd dl/rev-list-doc-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge d928a8388a am/t0028-utf16-tests later to maint).
+ (merge b05b40930e dl/t0000-skip-test-test later to maint).
+ (merge 03d3b1297c js/xdiffi-comment-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 57d8f4b4c7 js/doc-stash-save later to maint).
+ (merge 8c1cfd58e3 ta/t1308-typofix later to maint).
+ (merge fa364ad790 bb/utf8-wcwidth-cleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 68b69211b2 bb/compat-util-comment-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 5cc6a4be11 rs/http-push-simplify later to maint).
+ (merge a81e42d235 rs/column-use-utf8-strnwidth later to maint).
+ (merge 062a309d36 rs/remote-curl-use-argv-array later to maint).
+ (merge 3b3c79f6c9 nr/diff-highlight-indent-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 3444ec2eb2 wb/fsmonitor-bitmap-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 10da030ab7 cb/pcre2-chartables-leakfix later to maint).
+ (merge 60e6569a12 js/mingw-needs-hiding-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 52bd3e4657 rl/gitweb-blame-prev-fix later to maint).