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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt index c394ec7..335b0e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt @@ -30,6 +30,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories. + * Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been + tweaked. + + * "git rebase -i" learns to update branches whose tip appear in the + rebased range with "--update-refs" option. + + * "git ls-files" learns the "--format" option to tweak its output. + + * "git cat-file" learned an option to use the mailmap when showing + commit and tag objects. + + * When "git merge" finds that it cannot perform a merge, it should + restore the working tree to the state before the command was + initiated, but in some corner cases it didn't. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -75,6 +90,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY macro has been improved. + * API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser. + + * Omit fsync-related trace2 entries when their values are all zero. + + * The codepath to write multi-pack index has been taught to release a + large chunk of memory that holds an array of objects in the packs, + as soon as it is done with the array, to reduce memory consumption. + + * Add a level of redirection to array allocation API in xdiff part, + to make it easier to share with the libgit2 project. + Fixes since v2.37 ----------------- @@ -84,37 +110,29 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature. - (merge cfb19ae05f rs/combine-diff-with-incompatible-options later to maint). * Adjust technical/bitmap-format to be formatted by AsciiDoc, and add some missing information to the documentation. - (merge ac7667bd44 ac/bitmap-format-doc later to maint). * Fixes for tests when the source directory has unusual characters in its path, e.g. whitespaces, double-quotes, etc. - (merge eb1cd60290 ab/test-quoting-fix later to maint). * "git mktree --missing" lazily fetched objects that are missing from the local object store, which was totally unnecessary for the purpose of creating the tree object(s) from its input. - (merge 817b0f6027 ro/mktree-allow-missing-fix later to maint). * Give _() markings to fatal/warning/usage: labels that are shown in front of these messages. - (merge a1fd2cf8cd dr/i18n-die-warn-error-usage later to maint). * References to commands-to-be-typed-literally in "git rebase" documentation mark-up have been corrected. - (merge 54e51e559e ds/git-rebase-doc-markup later to maint). * In a non-bare repository, the behavior of Git when the core.worktree configuration variable points at a directory that has a repository as its subdirectory, regressed in Git 2.27 days. - (merge d6c9a71755 gg/worktree-from-the-above later to maint). * Recent update to vimdiff layout code has been made more robust against different end-user vim settings. - (merge f3d7623a13 fr/vimdiff-layout-fix later to maint). * Plug various memory leaks. (merge ece3974ba6 ab/leakfix later to maint). @@ -124,7 +142,6 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * Fixes a long-standing corner case bug around directory renames in the merge-ort strategy. - (merge 751e165424 en/merge-dual-dir-renames-fix later to maint). * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against GC, which has been corrected. @@ -141,28 +158,59 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to at a bogus place, which as been corrected. - (merge 04393ae7f7 jk/diff-files-cleanup-fix later to maint). * Variable quoting fix in the vimdiff driver of "git mergetool" - (merge ccc7b5148b js/vimdiff-quotepath-fix later to maint). * "git shortlog -n" relied on the underlying qsort() to be stable, which shouldn't have. Fixed. - (merge df534dcbaa js/shortlog-sort-stably later to maint). * A fix for a regression in test framework. - (merge 7253f7ca9f js/ci-github-workflow-markup later to maint). * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved. (merge ae25974de3 rs/mingw-tighten-mkstemp later to maint). + * Add missing documentation for "include" and "includeIf" features in + "git config" file format, which incidentally teaches the command + line completion to include them in its offerings. + (merge 07aed58017 mb/config-document-include later to maint). + + * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments. + (merge f5adaa5cc3 ds/doc-wo-whitelist later to maint). + + * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in + osx-keychain (in contrib/). + (merge f2fc531585 ld/osx-keychain-usage-fix later to maint). + + * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning. + (merge b4f52f09ae ds/win-syslog-compiler-fix later to maint). + + * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement + CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected. + (merge 4d35f74421 mb/p4-utf16-crlf later to maint). + + * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been + corrected. + (merge d205483695 kk/p4-client-name-encoding-fix later to maint). + + * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign + while recreating the throw-away merges. + (merge cc391fc886 cl/rerere-train-with-no-sign later to maint). + + * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been + corrected. + (merge 611c7785e8 mt/checkout-count-fix later to maint). + + * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a + non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37. + (merge 4447d4129d tk/untracked-cache-with-uall later to maint). + + * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information + in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected. + (merge 9550f6c16a tb/commit-graph-genv2-upgrade-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (merge 5fd9d1738e jk/revisions-doc-markup-fix later to maint). - (merge 1971510c35 pb/diff-doc-raw-format later to maint). - (merge a3ba4fa715 cr/setup-bug-typo later to maint). - (merge 85845580d9 ds/vscode-settings later to maint). - (merge ec2f6c0cca en/t6429-test-must-be-empty-fix later to maint). - (merge 14deb585fb tb/pack-objects-remove-pahole-comment later to maint). - (merge 2ffb7d13ee ds/t5510-brokequote later to maint). - (merge 18337d406f ll/ls-files-tests-update later to maint). - (merge 8cdab69d96 tk/rev-parse-doc-clarify-at-u later to maint). + (merge a700395eaf ma/t4200-update later to maint). + (merge ae436f283c ma/sparse-checkout-cone-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge a10f6e2bda sg/index-format-doc-update later to maint). + (merge ce5f07983d mt/pkt-line-comment-tweak later to maint). + (merge 1e11fab59c jc/string-list-cleanup later to maint). |