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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt | 41 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt | 69 |
2 files changed, 94 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt index d4acf9e..d82b29e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.37.2.txt @@ -44,4 +44,45 @@ Fixes since v2.37.1 * Certain diff options are currently ignored when combined-diff is shown; mark them as incompatible with the feature. + * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn + did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which + has been corrected. + + * mkstemp() emulation on Windows has been improved. + + * 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. + + * Avoid "white/black-list" in documentation and code comments. + + * Workaround for a compiler warning against use of die() in + osx-keychain (in contrib/). + + * Workaround for a false positive compiler warning. + + * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against + GC, which has been corrected. + + * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor + remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected. + + * "git p4" working on UTF-16 files on Windows did not implement + CRLF-to-LF conversion correctly, which has been corrected. + + * "git p4" did not handle non-ASCII client name well, which has been + corrected. + + * "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) used to honor commit.gpgSign + while recreating the throw-away merges. + + * "git checkout" miscounted the paths it updated, which has been + corrected. + + * Fix for a bug that makes write-tree to fail to write out a + non-existent index as a tree, introduced in 2.37. + + * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information + in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt index 66e278b..9a435dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt @@ -36,6 +36,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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. + + * Operating modes like "--batch" of "git cat-file" command learned to + take NUL-terminated input, instead of one-item-per-line. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -85,6 +97,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * 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. + + * "git fetch" client logs the partial clone filter used in the trace2 + output. + Fixes since v2.37 ----------------- @@ -129,16 +151,13 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * The resolve-undo information in the index was not protected against GC, which has been corrected. - (merge e0ad13977a jc/resolve-undo later to maint). * A corner case bug where lazily fetching objects from a promisor remote resulted in infinite recursion has been corrected. - (merge cb88b37cb9 hx/lookup-commit-in-graph-fix later to maint). * "git clone" from a repository with some ref whose HEAD is unborn did not set the HEAD in the resulting repository correctly, which has been corrected. - (merge daf7898abb jk/clone-unborn-confusion later to maint). * An earlier attempt to plug leaks placed a clean-up label to jump to at a bogus place, which as been corrected. @@ -151,41 +170,59 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * A fix for a regression in test framework. * 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. + + * There was a bug in the codepath to upgrade generation information + in commit-graph from v1 to v2 format, which has been corrected. + + * Gitweb had legacy URL shortener that is specific to the way + projects hosted on kernel.org used to (but no longer) work, which + has been removed. + (merge 75707da4fa jr/gitweb-title-shortening later to maint). + + * Fix build procedure for Windows that uses CMake so that it can pick + up the shell interpreter from local installation location. + (merge 476e54b1c6 ca/unignore-local-installation-on-windows later to maint). + + * Conditionally allow building Python interpreter on Windows + (merge 2f0623aaa7 js/mingw-with-python later to maint). + + * Fix to lstat() emulation on Windows. + (merge 82ba1191ff js/lstat-mingw-enotdir-fix later to maint). + + * Older gcc with -Wall complains about the universal zero initializer + "struct s = { 0 };" idiom, which makes developers' lives + inconvenient (as -Werror is enabled by DEVELOPER=YesPlease). The + build procedure has been tweaked to help these compilers. + (merge b53a5f2416 jk/struct-zero-init-with-older-gcc later to maint). + + * Plug memory leaks in the failure code path in the "merge-ort" merge + strategy backend. + (merge 1250dff32b js/ort-clean-up-after-failed-merge later to maint). * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. - (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). |