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Update to 2.22.0
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Git 2.22 Release Notes
======================
Updates since v2.21
-------------------
Backward compatibility note
* The filter specification "--filter=sparse:path=<path>" used to
create a lazy/partial clone has been removed. Using a blob that is
part of the project as sparse specification is still supported with
the "--filter=sparse:oid=<blob>" option.
UI, Workflows & Features
* "git checkout --no-overlay" can be used to trigger a new mode of
checking out paths out of the tree-ish, that allows paths that
match the pathspec that are in the current index and working tree
and are not in the tree-ish.
* The %(trailers) formatter in "git log --format=..." now allows to
optionally pick trailers selectively by keyword, show only values,
etc.
* Four new configuration variables {author,committer}.{name,email}
have been introduced to override user.{name,email} in more specific
cases.
* Command-line completion (in contrib/) learned to tab-complete the
"git submodule absorbgitdirs" subcommand.
* "git branch" learned a new subcommand "--show-current".
* Output from "diff --cc" did not show the original paths when the
merge involved renames. A new option adds the paths in the
original trees to the output.
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught to
complete more subcommand parameters.
* The final report from "git bisect" used to show the suspected
culprit using a raw "diff-tree", with which there is no output for
a merge commit. This has been updated to use a more modern and
human readable output that still is concise enough.
* "git rebase --rebase-merges" replaces its old \
"--preserve-merges"
option; the latter is now marked as deprecated.
* Error message given while cloning with --recurse-submodules has
been updated.
* The completion helper code now pays attention to repository-local
configuration (when available), which allows --list-cmds to honour
a repository specific setting of completion.commands, for example.
* "git mergetool" learned to offer Sublime Merge (smerge) as one of
its backends.
* A new hook "post-index-change" is called when the on-disk index
file changes, which can help e.g. a virtualized working tree
implementation.
* "git difftool" can now run outside a repository.
* "git checkout -m <other>" was about carrying the differences
between HEAD and the working-tree files forward while checking out
another branch, and ignored the differences between HEAD and the
index. The command has been taught to abort when the index and the
HEAD are different.
* A progress indicator has been added to the "index-pack" step, which
often makes users wait for completion during "git clone".
* "git submodule" learns "set-branch" subcommand that allows the
submodule.*.branch settings to be modified.
* "git merge-recursive" backend recently learned a new heuristics to
infer file movement based on how other files in the same directory
moved. As this is inherently less robust heuristics than the one
based on the content similarity of the file itself (rather than
based on what its neighbours are doing), it sometimes gives an
outcome unexpected by the end users. This has been toned down to
leave the renamed paths in higher/conflicted stages in the index so
that the user can examine and confirm the result.
* "git tag" learned to give an advice suggesting it might be a
mistake when creating an annotated or signed tag that points at
another tag.
* The "git pack-objects" command learned to report the number of
objects it packed via the trace2 mechanism.
* The list of conflicted paths shown in the editor while concluding a
conflicted merge was shown above the scissors line when the
clean-up mode is set to "scissors", even though it was commented
out just like the list of updated paths and other information to
help the user explain the merge better.
* The trace2 tracing facility learned to auto-generate a filename
when told to log to a directory.
* "git clone" learned a new --server-option option when talking over
the protocol version 2.
* The connectivity bitmaps are created by default in bare
repositories now; also the pathname hash-cache is created by
default to avoid making crappy deltas when repacking.
* "git branch new A...B" and "git checkout -b new A...B" \
have been
taught that in their contexts, the notation A...B means "the merge
base between these two commits", just like "git checkout A...B"
detaches HEAD at that commit.
* Update "git difftool" and "git mergetool" so that the \
combinations
of {diff,merge}.{tool,guitool} configuration variables serve as
fallback settings of each other in a sensible order.
* The "--dir-diff" mode of "git difftool" is not useful in \
"--no-index"
mode; they are now explicitly marked as mutually incompatible.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The diff machinery, one of the oldest parts of the system, which
long predates the parse-options API, uses fairly long and complex
handcrafted option parser. This is being rewritten to use the
parse-options API.
* The implementation of pack-redundant has been updated for
performance in a repository with many packfiles.
* A more structured way to obtain execution trace has been added.
* "git prune" has been taught to take advantage of reachability
bitmap when able.
* The command line parser of "git commit-tree" has been rewritten to
use the parse-options API.
* Suggest GitGitGadget instead of submitGit as a way to submit
patches based on GitHub PR to us.
* The test framework has been updated to help developers by making it
easier to run most of the tests under different versions of
over-the-wire protocols.
* Dev support update to make it easier to compare two formatted
results from our documentation.
* The scripted "git rebase" implementation has been retired.
* "git multi-pack-index verify" did not scale well with the number of
packfiles, which is being improved.
* "git stash" has been rewritten in C.
* The "check-docs" Makefile target to support developers has been
updated.
* The tests have been updated not to rely on the abbreviated option
names the parse-options API offers, to protect us from an
abbreviated form of an option that used to be unique within the
command getting non-unique when a new option that share the same
prefix is added.
* The scripted version of "git rebase -i" wrote and rewrote the todo
list many times during a single step of its operation, and the
recent C-rewrite made a faithful conversion of the logic to C. The
implementation has been updated to carry necessary information
around in-core to avoid rewriting the same file over and over
unnecessarily.
* Test framework update to more robustly clean up leftover files and
processes after tests are done.
* Conversion from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
* While running "git diff" in a lazy clone, we can upfront know which
missing blobs we will need, instead of waiting for the on-demand
machinery to discover them one by one. The code learned to aim to
achieve better performance by batching the request for these
promised blobs.
* During an initial "git clone --depth=..." partial clone, it is
pointless to spend cycles for a large portion of the connectivity
check that enumerates and skips promisor objects (which by
definition is all objects fetched from the other side). This has
been optimized out.
* Mechanically and systematically drop "extern" from function
declaration.
* The script to aggregate perf result unconditionally depended on
libjson-perl even though it did not have to, which has been
corrected.
* The internal implementation of "git rebase -i" has been updated to
avoid forking a separate "rebase--interactive" process.
* Allow DEP and ASLR for Windows build to for security hardening.
* Performance test framework has been broken and measured the version
of Git that happens to be on $PATH, not the specified one to
measure, for a while, which has been corrected.
* Optionally "make coccicheck" can feed multiple source files to
spatch, gaining performance while spending more memory.
* Attempt to use an abbreviated option in "git clone --recurs" is
responded by a request to disambiguate between --recursive and
--recurse-submodules, which is bad because these two are synonyms.
The parse-options API has been extended to define such synonyms
more easily and not produce an unnecessary failure.
* A pair of private functions in http.c that had names similar to
fread/fwrite did not return the number of elements, which was found
to be confusing.
* Update collision-detecting SHA-1 code to build properly on HP-UX.
Fixes since v2.21
-----------------
* "git prune-packed" did not notice and complain against excess
arguments given from the command line, which now it does.
(merge 9b0bd87ed2 rj/prune-packed-excess-args later to maint).
* Split-index fix.
(merge 6e37c8ed3c nd/split-index-null-base-fix later to maint).
* "git diff --no-index" may still want to access Git goodies like
--ext-diff and --textconv, but so far these have been ignored,
which has been corrected.
(merge 287ab28bfa jk/diff-no-index-initialize later to maint).
* Unify RPC code for smart http in protocol v0/v1 and v2, which fixes
a bug in the latter (lack of authentication retry) and generally
improves the code base.
(merge a97d00799a jt/http-auth-proto-v2-fix later to maint).
* The include file compat/bswap.h has been updated so that it is safe
to (accidentally) include it more than once.
(merge 33aa579a55 jk/guard-bswap-header later to maint).
* The set of header files used by "make hdr-check" unconditionally
included sha256/gcrypt.h, even when it is not used, causing the
make target to fail. We now skip it when GCRYPT_SHA256 is not in
use.
(merge f23aa18e7f rj/hdr-check-gcrypt-fix later to maint).
* The Makefile uses 'find' utility to enumerate all the *.h header
files, which is expensive on platforms with slow filesystems; it
now optionally uses "ls-files" if working within a repository,
which is a trick similar to how all sources are enumerated to run
ETAGS on.
(merge 92b88eba9f js/find-lib-h-with-ls-files-when-possible later to maint).
* "git rebase" that was reimplemented in C did not set ORIG_HEAD
correctly, which has been corrected.
(merge cbd29ead92 js/rebase-orig-head-fix later to maint).
* Dev support.
(merge f545737144 js/stress-test-ui-tweak later to maint).
* CFLAGS now can be tweaked when invoking Make while using
DEVELOPER=YesPlease; this did not work well before.
(merge 6d5d4b4e93 ab/makefile-help-devs-more later to maint).
* "git fsck --connectivity-only" omits computation necessary to sift
the objects that are not reachable from any of the refs into
unreachable and dangling. This is now enabled when dangling
objects are requested (which is done by default, but can be
overridden with the "--no-dangling" option).
(merge 8d8c2a5aef jk/fsck-doc later to maint).
* On platforms where "git fetch" is killed with SIGPIPE (e.g. OSX),
the upload-pack that runs on the other end that hangs up after
detecting an error could cause "git fetch" to die with a signal,
which led to a flaky test. "git fetch" now ignores SIGPIPE during
the network portion of its operation (this is not a problem as we
check the return status from our write(2)s).
(merge 143588949c jk/no-sigpipe-during-network-transport later to maint).
* A recent update broke "is this object available to us?" check for
well-known objects like an empty tree (which should yield "yes",
even when there is no on-disk object for an empty tree), which has
been corrected.
(merge f06ab027ef jk/virtual-objects-do-exist later to maint).
* The setup code has been cleaned up to avoid leaks around the
repository_format structure.
(merge e8805af1c3 ma/clear-repository-format later to maint).
* "git config --type=color ..." is meant to replace "git config \
--get-color"
but there is a slight difference that wasn't documented, which is
now fixed.
(merge cd8e7593b9 jk/config-type-color-ends-with-lf later to maint).
* When the "clean" filter can reduce the size of a huge file in the
working tree down to a small "token" (a la Git LFS), there is no
point in allocating a huge scratch area upfront, but the buffer is
sized based on the original file size. The convert mechanism now
allocates very minimum and reallocates as it receives the output
from the clean filter process.
(merge 02156ab031 jh/resize-convert-scratch-buffer later to maint).
* "git rebase" uses the refs/rewritten/ hierarchy to store its
intermediate states, which inherently makes the hierarchy per
worktree, but it didn't quite work well.
(merge b9317d55a3 nd/rewritten-ref-is-per-worktree later to maint).
* "git log -L<from>,<to>:<path>" with \
"-s" did not suppress the patch
output as it should. This has been corrected.
(merge 05314efaea jk/line-log-with-patch later to maint).
* "git worktree add" used to do a "find an available name with stat
and then mkdir", which is race-prone. This has been fixed by using
mkdir and reacting to EEXIST in a loop.
(merge 7af01f2367 ms/worktree-add-atomic-mkdir later to maint).
* Build update for SHA-1 with collision detection.
(merge 07a20f569b jk/sha1dc later to maint).
* Build procedure has been fixed around use of asciidoctor instead of
asciidoc.
(merge 185f9a0ea0 ma/asciidoctor-fixes later to maint).
* remote-http transport did not anonymize URLs reported in its error
messages at places.
(merge c1284b21f2 js/anonymize-remote-curl-diag later to maint).
* Error messages given from the http transport have been updated so
that they can be localized.
(merge ed8b4132c8 js/remote-curl-i18n later to maint).
* "git init" forgot to read platform-specific repository
configuration, which made Windows port to ignore settings of
core.hidedotfiles, for example.
* A corner-case object name ambiguity while the sequencer machinery
is working (e.g. "rebase -i -x") has been fixed.
* "git format-patch" did not diagnose an error while opening the
output file for the cover-letter, which has been corrected.
(merge 2fe95f494c jc/format-patch-error-check later to maint).
* "git checkout -f <branch>" while the index has an unmerged path
incorrectly left some paths in an unmerged state, which has been
corrected.
* A corner case bug in the refs API has been corrected.
(merge d3322eb28b jk/refs-double-abort later to maint).
* Unicode update.
(merge 584b62c37b bb/unicode-12 later to maint).
* dumb-http walker has been updated to share more error recovery
strategy with the normal codepath.
* A buglet in configuration parser has been fixed.
(merge 19e7fdaa58 nd/include-if-wildmatch later to maint).
* The documentation for "git read-tree --reset -u" has been updated.
(merge b5a0bd694c nd/read-tree-reset-doc later to maint).
* Code clean-up around a much-less-important-than-it-used-to-be
update_server_info() function.
(merge b3223761c8 jk/server-info-rabbit-hole later to maint).
* The message given when "git commit -a <paths>" errors out has been
updated.
(merge 5a1dbd48bc nd/commit-a-with-paths-msg-update later to maint).
* "git cherry-pick --options A..B", after giving control back to the
user to ask help resolving a conflicted step, did not honor the
options it originally received, which has been corrected.
* Various glitches in "git gc" around reflog handling have been fixed.
* The code to read from commit-graph file has been cleanup with more
careful error checking before using data read from it.
* Performance fix around "git fetch" that grabs many refs.
(merge b764300912 jt/fetch-pack-wanted-refs-optim later to maint).
* Protocol v2 support in "git fetch-pack" of shallow clones has been
corrected.
* Performance fix around "git blame", especially in a linear history
(which is the norm we should optimize for).
(merge f892014943 dk/blame-keep-origin-blob later to maint).
* Performance fix for "rev-list --parents -- pathspec".
(merge 8320b1dbe7 jk/revision-rewritten-parents-in-prio-queue later to maint).
* Updating the display with progress message has been cleaned up to
deal better with overlong messages.
(merge 545dc345eb sg/overlong-progress-fix later to maint).
* "git blame -- path" in a non-bare repository starts blaming from
the working tree, and the same command in a bare repository errors
out because there is no working tree by definition. The command
has been taught to instead start blaming from the commit at HEAD,
which is more useful.
(merge a544fb08f8 sg/blame-in-bare-start-at-head later to maint).
* An underallocation in the code to read the untracked cache
extension has been corrected.
(merge 3a7b45a623 js/untracked-cache-allocfix later to maint).
* The code is updated to check the result of memory allocation before
it is used in more places, by using xmalloc and/or xcalloc calls.
(merge 999b951b28 jk/xmalloc later to maint).
* The GETTEXT_POISON test option has been quite broken ever since it
was made runtime-tunable, which has been fixed.
(merge f88b9cb603 jc/gettext-test-fix later to maint).
* Test fix on APFS that is incapable of store paths in Latin-1.
(merge 3889149619 js/iso8895-test-on-apfs later to maint).
* "git submodule foreach <command> --quiet" did not pass the option
down correctly, which has been corrected.
(merge a282f5a906 nd/submodule-foreach-quiet later to maint).
* "git send-email" has been taught to use quoted-printable when the
payload contains carriage-return. The use of the mechanism is in
line with the design originally added the codepath that chooses QP
when the payload has overly long lines.
(merge 74d76a1701 bc/send-email-qp-cr later to maint).
* The recently added feature to add addresses that are on
anything-by: trailers in 'git send-email' was found to be way too
eager and considered nonsense strings as if they can be legitimate
beginning of *-by: trailer. This has been tightened.
* Builds with gettext broke on recent macOS w/ Homebrew, which
seems to have stopped including from /usr/local/include; this
has been corrected.
(merge 92a1377a2a js/macos-gettext-build later to maint).
* Running "git add" on a repository created inside the current
repository is an explicit indication that the user wants to add it
as a submodule, but when the HEAD of the inner repository is on an
unborn branch, it cannot be added as a submodule. Worse, the files
in its working tree can be added as if they are a part of the outer
repository, which is not what the user wants. These problems are
being addressed.
(merge f937bc2f86 km/empty-repo-is-still-a-repo later to maint).
* "git cherry-pick" run with the "-x" or the \
"--signoff" option used
to (and more importantly, ought to) clean up the commit log message
with the --cleanup=space option by default, but this has been
broken since late 2017. This has been fixed.
* When given a tag that points at a commit-ish, "git replace --graft"
failed to peel the tag before writing a replace ref, which did not
make sense because the old graft mechanism the feature wants to
mimic only allowed to replace one commit object with another.
This has been fixed.
(merge ee521ec4cb cc/replace-graft-peel-tags later to maint).
* Code tightening against a "wrong" object appearing where an object
of a different type is expected, instead of blindly assuming that
the connection between objects are correctly made.
(merge 97dd512af7 tb/unexpected later to maint).
* An earlier update for MinGW and Cygwin accidentally broke MSVC build,
which has been fixed.
(merge 22c3634c0f ss/msvc-path-utils-fix later to maint).
* %(push:track) token used in the --format option to "git
for-each-ref" and friends was not showing the right branch, which
has been fixed.
(merge c646d0934e dr/ref-filter-push-track-fix later to maint).
* "make check-docs", "git help -a", etc. did not account \
for cases
where a particular build may deliberately omit some subcommands,
which has been corrected.
* The logic to tell if a Git repository has a working tree protects
"git branch -D" from removing the branch that is currently checked
out by mistake. The implementation of this logic was broken for
repositories with unusual name, which unfortunately is the norm for
submodules these days. This has been fixed.
(merge f3534c98e4 jt/submodule-repo-is-with-worktree later to maint).
* AIX shared the same build issues with other BSDs around fileno(fp),
which has been corrected.
(merge ee662bf5c6 cc/aix-has-fileno-as-a-macro later to maint).
* The autoconf generated configure script failed to use the right
gettext() implementations from -libintl by ignoring useless stub
implementations shipped in some C library, which has been
corrected.
(merge b71e56a683 vk/autoconf-gettext later to maint).
* Fix index-pack perf test so that the repeated invocations always
run in an empty repository, which emulates the initial clone
situation better.
(merge 775c71e16d jk/p5302-avoid-collision-check-cost later to maint).
* A "ls-files" that emulates "find" to enumerate files in \
the working
tree resulted in duplicated Makefile rules that caused the build to
issue an unnecessary warning during a trial build after merge
conflicts are resolved in working tree *.h files but before the
resolved results are added to the index. This has been corrected.
* "git cherry-pick" (and "revert" that shares the same \
runtime engine)
that deals with multiple commits got confused when the final step
gets stopped with a conflict and the user concluded the sequence
with "git commit". Attempt to fix it by cleaning up the state
files used by these commands in such a situation.
(merge 4a72486de9 pw/clean-sequencer-state-upon-final-commit later to maint).
* On a filesystem like HFS+, the names of the refs stored as filesystem
entities may become different from what the end-user expects, just
like files in the working tree get "renamed". Work around the
mismatch by paying attention to the core.precomposeUnicode
configuration.
(merge 8e712ef6fc en/unicode-in-refnames later to maint).
* The code to generate the multi-pack idx file was not prepared to
see too many packfiles and ran out of open file descriptor, which
has been corrected.
* To run tests for Git SVN, our scripts for CI used to install the
git-svn package (in the hope that it would bring in the right
dependencies). This has been updated to install the more direct
dependency, namely, libsvn-perl.
(merge db864306cf sg/ci-libsvn-perl later to maint).
* "git cvsexportcommit" running on msys did not expect cvsnt showed
"cvs status" output with CRLF line endings.
* The fsmonitor interface got out of sync after the in-core index
file gets discarded, which has been corrected.
(merge 398a3b0899 js/fsmonitor-refresh-after-discarding-index later to maint).
* "git status" did not know that the "label" instruction in the
todo-list "rebase -i -r" uses should not be shown as a hex object
name.
* A prerequisite check in the test suite to see if a working jgit is
available was made more robust.
(merge abd0f28983 tz/test-lib-check-working-jgit later to maint).
* The codepath to parse :<path> that obtains the object name for an
indexed object has been made more robust.
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 11f470aee7 jc/test-yes-doc later to maint).
(merge 90503a240b js/doc-symref-in-proto-v1 later to maint).
(merge 5c326d1252 jk/unused-params later to maint).
(merge 68cabbfda3 dl/doc-submodule-wo-subcommand later to maint).
(merge 9903623761 ab/receive-pack-use-after-free-fix later to maint).
(merge 1ede45e44b en/merge-options-doc later to maint).
(merge 3e14dd2c8e rd/doc-hook-used-in-sample later to maint).
(merge c271dc28fd nd/no-more-check-racy later to maint).
(merge e6e15194a8 yb/utf-16le-bom-spellfix later to maint).
(merge bb101aaf0c rd/attr.c-comment-typofix later to maint).
(merge 716a5af812 rd/gc-prune-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge 50b206371d js/untravis-windows later to maint).
(merge dbf47215e3 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint).
(merge 56cb2d30f8 dl/reset-doc-no-wrt-abbrev later to maint).
(merge 64eca306a2 ja/dir-rename-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge af91b0230c dl/ignore-docs later to maint).
(merge 59a06e947b ra/t3600-test-path-funcs later to maint).
(merge e041d0781b ar/t4150-remove-cruft later to maint).
(merge 8d75a1d183 ma/asciidoctor-fixes-more later to maint).
(merge 74cc547b0f mh/pack-protocol-doc-fix later to maint).
(merge ed31851fa6 ab/doc-misc-typofixes later to maint).
(merge a7256debd4 nd/checkout-m-doc-update later to maint).
(merge 3a9e1ad78d jt/t5551-protocol-v2-does-not-have-half-auth later to maint).
(merge 0b918b75af sg/t5318-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 68ed71b53c cb/doco-mono later to maint).
(merge a34dca2451 nd/interpret-trailers-docfix later to maint).
(merge cf7b857a77 en/fast-import-parsing-fix later to maint).
(merge fe61ccbc35 po/rerere-doc-fmt later to maint).
(merge ffea0248bf po/describe-not-necessarily-7 later to maint).
(merge 7cb7283adb tg/ls-files-debug-format-fix later to maint).
(merge f64a21bd82 tz/doc-apostrophe-no-longer-needed later to maint).
(merge dbe7b41019 js/t3301-unbreak-notes-test later to maint).
(merge d8083e4180 km/t3000-retitle later to maint).
(merge 9e4cbccbd7 tz/git-svn-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge da9ca955a7 jk/ls-files-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 6804ba3a58 cw/diff-highlight later to maint).
(merge 1a8787144d nd/submodule-helper-incomplete-line-fix later to maint).
(merge d9ef573837 jk/apache-lsan later to maint).
(merge c871fbee2b js/t6500-use-windows-pid-on-mingw later to maint).
(merge ce4c7bfc90 bl/t4253-exit-code-from-format-patch later to maint).
(merge 397a46db78 js/t5580-unc-alternate-test later to maint).
(merge d4907720a2 cm/notes-comment-fix later to maint).
(merge 9dde06de13 cb/http-push-null-in-message-fix later to maint).
(merge 4c785c0edc js/rebase-config-bitfix later to maint).
(merge 8e9fe16c87 es/doc-gitsubmodules-markup later to maint).
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| 2018-12-09 21:29:13 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (4) | |
Log message:
git: updated to 2.20.0
Git 2.20 Release Notes
======================
Backward Compatibility Notes
----------------------------
* "git branch -l <foo>" used to be a way to ask a reflog to be
created while creating a new branch, but that is no longer the
case. It is a short-hand for "git branch --list <foo>" now.
* "git push" into refs/tags/* hierarchy is rejected without getting
forced, but "git fetch" (misguidedly) used the "fast \
forwarding"
rule used for the refs/heads/* hierarchy; this has been corrected,
which means some fetches of tags that did not fail with older
version of Git will fail without "--force" with this version.
* "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help \
-av").
Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..
* "git cpn --help", when "cpn" is an alias to, say, \
"cherry-pick -n",
reported only the alias expansion of "cpn" in earlier versions of
Git. It now runs "git cherry-pick --help" to show the manual page
of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard
error stream.
* "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible
change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or
setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by",
can be used to disable this behaviour.
Updates since v2.19
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* Running "git clone" against a project that contain two files with
pathnames that differ only in cases on a case insensitive
filesystem would result in one of the files lost because the
underlying filesystem is incapable of holding both at the same
time. An attempt is made to detect such a case and warn.
* "git checkout -b newbranch [HEAD]" should not have to do as much as
checking out a commit different from HEAD. An attempt is made to
optimize this special case.
* "git rev-list --stdin </dev/null" used to be an error; it now shows
no output without an error. "git rev-list --stdin --default HEAD"
still falls back to the given default when nothing is given on the
standard input.
* Lift code from GitHub to restrict delta computation so that an
object that exists in one fork is not made into a delta against
another object that does not appear in the same forked repository.
* "git format-patch" learned new "--interdiff" and \
"--range-diff"
options to explain the difference between this version and the
previous attempt in the cover letter (or after the three-dashes as
a comment).
* "git mailinfo" used in "git am" learned to make a best-effort
recovery of a patch corrupted by MUA that sends text/plain with
format=flawed option.
(merge 3aa4d81f88 rs/mailinfo-format-flowed later to maint).
* The rules used by "git push" and "git fetch" to determine \
if a ref
can or cannot be updated were inconsistent; specifically, fetching
to update existing tags were allowed even though tags are supposed
to be unmoving anchoring points. "git fetch" was taught to forbid
updates to existing tags without the "--force" option.
* "git multi-pack-index" learned to detect corruption in the .midx
file it uses, and this feature has been integrated into "git fsck".
* Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
output.
* The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port of Git is
now set to Vista.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of
options "git stash list" command takes.
* The completion script (in contrib/) learned that "git fetch
--multiple" only takes remote names as arguments and no refspecs.
* "git status" learns to show progress bar when refreshing the index
takes a long time.
(merge ae9af12287 nd/status-refresh-progress later to maint).
* "git help -a" and "git help -av" give different pieces of
information, and generally the "verbose" version is more friendly
to the new users. "git help -a" by default now uses the more
verbose output (with "--no-verbose", you can go back to the
original). Also "git help -av" now lists aliases and external
commands, which it did not used to.
* Unlike "grep", "git grep" by default recurses to the \
whole tree.
The command learned "git grep --recursive" option, so that "git
grep --no-recursive" can serve as a synonym to setting the
max-depth to 0.
* When pushing into a repository that borrows its objects from an
alternate object store, "git receive-pack" that responds to the
push request on the other side lists the tips of refs in the
alternate to reduce the amount of objects transferred. This
sometimes is detrimental when the number of refs in the alternate
is absurdly large, in which case the bandwidth saved in potentially
fewer objects transferred is wasted in excessively large ref
advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now
configurable with a pair of configuration variables.
* "git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say \
"cmd is
aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream
and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the
alias expansion.
* The documentation of "git gc" has been updated to mention that it
is no longer limited to "pruning away crufts" but also updates
ancillary files like commit-graph as a part of repository
optimization.
* "git p4 unshelve" improvements.
* The logic to select the default user name and e-mail on Windows has
been improved.
(merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint).
* The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via
"tree:0" filter.
* "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the
command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
* "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, \
just like
"git difftool" does.
* "git rebase -i" learned a new insn, 'break', that the user can
insert in the to-do list. Upon hitting it, the command returns
control back to the user.
* New "--pretty=format:" placeholders %GF and %GP that show the GPG
key fingerprints have been invented.
* On platforms with recent cURL library, http.sslBackend configuration
variable can be used to choose a different SSL backend at runtime.
The Windows port uses this mechanism to switch between OpenSSL and
Secure Channel while talking over the HTTPS protocol.
* "git send-email" learned to disable SMTP authentication via the
"--smtp-auth=none" option, even when the smtp username is given
(which turns the authentication on by default).
* A fourth class of configuration files (in addition to the
traditional "system wide", "per user in the $HOME \
directory" and
"per repository in the $GIT_DIR/config") has been introduced so
that different worktrees that share the same repository (hence the
same $GIT_DIR/config file) can use different customization.
* A pattern with '**' that does not have a slash on either side used
to be an invalid one, but the code now treats such double-asterisks
the same way as two normal asterisks that happen to be adjacent to
each other.
(merge e5bbe09e88 nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk later to maint).
* The "--no-patch" option, which can be used to get a high-level
overview without the actual line-by-line patch difference shown, of
the "range-diff" command was earlier broken, which has been
corrected.
* The recently merged "rebase in C" has an escape hatch to use the
scripted version when necessary, but it hasn't been documented,
which has been corrected.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Developer builds now use -Wunused-function compilation option.
* One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
* When there are too many packfiles in a repository (which is not
recommended), looking up an object in these would require
consulting many pack .idx files; a new mechanism to have a single
file that consolidates all of these .idx files is introduced.
* "git submodule update" is getting rewritten piece-by-piece into C.
* The code for computing history reachability has been shuffled,
obtained a bunch of new tests to cover them, and then being
improved.
* The unpack_trees() API used in checking out a branch and merging
walks one or more trees along with the index. When the cache-tree
in the index tells us that we are walking a tree whose flattened
contents is known (i.e. matches a span in the index), as linearly
scanning a span in the index is much more efficient than having to
open tree objects recursively and listing their entries, the walk
can be optimized, which has been done.
* When creating a thin pack, which allows objects to be made into a
delta against another object that is not in the resulting pack but
is known to be present on the receiving end, the code learned to
take advantage of the reachability bitmap; this allows the server
to send a delta against a base beyond the "boundary" commit.
* spatch transformation to replace boolean uses of !hashcmp() to
newly introduced oideq() is added, and applied, to regain
performance lost due to support of multiple hash algorithms.
* Fix a bug in which the same path could be registered under multiple
worktree entries if the path was missing (for instance, was removed
manually). Also, as a convenience, expand the number of cases in
which --force is applicable.
* Split Documentation/config.txt for easier maintenance.
(merge 6014363f0b nd/config-split later to maint).
* Test helper binaries clean-up.
(merge c9a1f4161f nd/test-tool later to maint).
* Various tests have been updated to make it easier to swap the
hash function used for object identification.
(merge ae0c89d41b bc/hash-independent-tests later to maint).
* Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation.
(merge 371a655074 ab/fsck-skiplist later to maint).
* An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden,
but now it is allowed to create such an alias.
* Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct
handling of exit status of various commands.
* "gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when
daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
failure in such a case.
* Various codepaths in the core-ish part learned to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".
(merge b3c7eef9b0 nd/the-index later to maint).
* Code clean-up in the internal machinery used by "git status" and
"git commit --dry-run".
(merge 73ba5d78b4 ss/wt-status-committable later to maint).
* Some environment variables that control the runtime options of Git
used during tests are getting renamed for consistency.
(merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint).
* A pair of new extensions to the index file have been introduced.
They allow the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
* The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is
on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of
the khash API and gain performance.
* Over some transports, fetching objects with an exact commit object
name can be done without first seeing the ref advertisements. The
code has been optimized to exploit this.
* In a partial clone that will lazily be hydrated from the
originating repository, we generally want to avoid "does this
object exist (locally)?" on objects that we deliberately omitted
when we created the clone. The cache-tree codepath (which is used
to write a tree object out of the index) however insisted that the
object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial
checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check.
* To help developers, an EditorConfig file that attempts to follow
the project convention has been added.
(merge b548d698a0 bc/editorconfig later to maint).
* The result of coverage test can be combined with "git blame" to
check the test coverage of code introduced recently with a new
'coverage-diff' tool (in contrib/).
(merge 783faedd65 ds/coverage-diff later to maint).
* An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more
coverage to various areas.
* More codepaths are moving away from hardcoded hash sizes.
* The way the Windows port figures out the current directory has been
improved.
* The way DLLs are loaded on the Windows port has been improved.
* Some tests have been reorganized and renamed; "ls t/" now gives a
better overview of what is tested for these scripts than before.
* "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" have been reimplemented in C.
* Windows port learned to use nano-second resolution file timestamps.
* The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into
million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece
to be included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
* Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git
fetch" with hashmaps.
* Unify code to read the author-script used in "git am" and the
commands that use the sequencer machinery, e.g. "git rebase -i".
* In preparation to the day when we can deprecate and remove the
"rebase -p", make sure we can skip and later remove tests for
it.
* The history traversal used to implement the tag-following has been
optimized by introducing a new helper.
* The helper function to refresh the cached stat information in the
in-core index has learned to perform the lstat() part of the
operation in parallel on multi-core platforms.
* The code to traverse objects for reachability, used to decide what
objects are unreferenced and expendable, have been taught to also
consider per-worktree refs of other worktrees as starting points to
prevent data loss.
* "git add" needs to internally run "diff-files" \
equivalent, and the
codepath learned the same optimization as "diff-files" has to run
lstat(2) in parallel to find which paths have been updated in the
working tree.
* The procedure to install dependencies before testing at Travis CI
is getting revamped for both simplicity and flexibility, taking
advantage of the recent move to the vm-based environment.
* The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line
completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.
* The revision walker machinery learned to take advantage of the
commit generation numbers stored in the commit-graph file.
* The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS".
* The way -lcurl library gets linked has been simplified by taking
advantage of the fact that we can just ask curl-config command how.
* Various functions have been audited for "-Wunused-parameter" warnings
and bugs in them got fixed.
* A sanity check for start-up sequence has been added in the config
API codepath.
* The build procedure to link for fuzzing test has been made
customizable with a new Makefile variable.
* The way "git rebase" parses and forwards the command line options
meant for underlying "git am" has been revamped, which fixed for
options with parameters that were not passed correctly.
* Our testing framework uses a special i18n "poisoned localization"
feature to find messages that ought to stay constant but are
incorrectly marked to be translated. This feature has been made
into a runtime option (it used to be a compile-time option).
* "git push" used to check ambiguities between object-names and
refnames while processing the list of refs' old and new values,
which was unnecessary (as it knew that it is feeding raw object
names). This has been optimized out.
* The xcurl_off_t() helper function is used to cast size_t to
curl_off_t, but some compilers gave warnings against the code to
ensure the casting is done without wraparound, when size_t is
narrower than curl_off_t. This warning has been squelched.
* Code preparation to replace ulong vars with size_t vars where
appropriate continues.
* The "test installed Git" mode of our test suite has been updated to
work better.
* A coding convention around the Coccinelle semantic patches to have
two classes to ease code migration process has been proposed and
its support has been added to the Makefile.
* The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
file is getting prepared for the transition.
(merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
* Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
'--verbose-log' option.
(merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
* "git interpret-trailers" and its underlying machinery had a buggy
code that attempted to ignore patch text after commit log message,
which triggered in various codepaths that will always get the log
message alone and never get such an input.
(merge 66e83d9b41 jk/trailer-fixes later to maint).
* Malformed or crafted data in packstream can make our code attempt
to read or write past the allocated buffer and abort, instead of
reporting an error, which has been fixed.
* "git rebase -i" did not clear the state files correctly when a run
of "squash/fixup" is aborted and then the user manually amended the
commit instead, which has been corrected.
(merge 10d2f35436 js/rebase-i-autosquash-fix later to maint).
* When fsmonitor is in use, after operation on submodules updates
.gitmodules, we lost track of the fact that we did so and relied on
stale fsmonitor data.
(merge 43f1180814 bp/mv-submodules-with-fsmonitor later to maint).
* Fix for a long-standing bug that leaves the index file corrupt when
it shrinks during a partial commit.
(merge 6c003d6ffb jk/reopen-tempfile-truncate later to maint).
* Further fix for O_APPEND emulation on Windows
(merge eeaf7ddac7 js/mingw-o-append later to maint).
* A corner case bugfix in "git rerere" code.
(merge ad2bf0d9b4 en/rerere-multi-stage-1-fix later to maint).
* "git add ':(attr:foo)'" is not supported and is supposed to be
rejected while the command line arguments are parsed, but we fail
to reject such a command line upfront.
(merge 84d938b732 nd/attr-pathspec-fix later to maint).
* Recent update broke the reachability algorithm when refs (e.g.
tags) that point at objects that are not commit were involved,
which has been fixed.
* "git rebase" etc. in Git 2.19 fails to abort when given an empty
commit log message as result of editing, which has been corrected.
(merge a3ec9eaf38 en/sequencer-empty-edit-result-aborts later to maint).
* The code to backfill objects in lazily cloned repository did not
work correctly, which has been corrected.
(merge e68302011c jt/lazy-object-fetch-fix later to maint).
* Update error messages given by "git remote" and make them consistent.
(merge 5025425dff ms/remote-error-message-update later to maint).
* "git update-ref" learned to make both "--no-deref" and \
"--stdin"
work at the same time.
(merge d345e9fbe7 en/update-ref-no-deref-stdin later to maint).
* Recently added "range-diff" had a corner-case bug to cause it
segfault, which has been corrected.
(merge e467a90c7a tg/range-diff-corner-case-fix later to maint).
* The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
incompatible features are in use in the repository.
(merge 829a321569 ds/commit-graph-with-grafts later to maint).
* The mailmap file update.
(merge 255eb03edf jn/mailmap-update later to maint).
* The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
used for the first run, which has been corrected.
(merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to \
maint).
* "git fetch $repo $object" in a partial clone did not correctly
fetch the asked-for object that is referenced by an object in
promisor packfile, which has been fixed.
* A corner-case bugfix.
(merge c5cbb27cb5 sm/show-superproject-while-conflicted later to maint).
* Various fixes to "diff --color-moved-ws".
* A partial clone that is configured to lazily fetch missing objects
will on-demand issue a "git fetch" request to the originating
repository to fill not-yet-obtained objects. The request has been
optimized for requesting a tree object (and not the leaf blob
objects contained in it) by telling the originating repository that
no blobs are needed.
(merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint).
* The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
(merge 4c490f3d32 sg/split-index-racefix later to maint).
* "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
parent commits, which has been corrected.
(merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint).
* "git range-diff" did not work well when the compared ranges had
changes in submodules and the "--submodule=log" was used.
* The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
directory.
(merge f67b980771 jk/run-command-notdot later to maint).
* A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
(merge 34204c8166 js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix later to maint).
* Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
(merge ffd04e92e2 js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix later to maint).
* The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
has been corrected.
(merge b072a25fad jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix later to maint).
* The logic to determine the archive type "git archive" uses did not
correctly kick in for "git archive --remote", which has been
corrected.
* "git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
does not pass fsck.
(merge 5dcfbf564c js/shallow-and-fetch-prune later to maint).
* Some codepaths failed to form a proper URL when .gitmodules record
the URL to a submodule repository as relative to the repository of
superproject, which has been corrected.
(merge e0a862fdaf sb/submodule-url-to-absolute later to maint).
* "git fetch" over protocol v2 into a shallow repository failed to
fetch full history behind a new tip of history that was diverged
before the cut-off point of the history that was previously fetched
shallowly.
* The command line completion machinery (in contrib/) has been
updated to allow the completion script to tweak the list of options
that are reported by the parse-options machinery correctly.
(merge 276b49ff34 nd/completion-negation later to maint).
* Operations on promisor objects make sense in the context of only a
small subset of the commands that internally use the revisions
machinery, but the "--exclude-promisor-objects" option were taken
and led to nonsense results by commands like "log", to which it
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
(merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint).
* A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
loop while processing truncated loose objects.
(merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint).
* "git ls-remote $there foo" was broken by recent update for the
protocol v2 and stopped showing refs that match 'foo' that are not
refs/{heads,tags}/foo, which has been fixed.
(merge 6a139cdd74 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).
* Additional comment on a tricky piece of code to help developers.
(merge 0afbe3e806 jk/stream-pack-non-delta-clarification later to maint).
* A couple of tests used to leave the repository in a state that is
deliberately corrupt, which have been corrected.
(merge aa984dbe5e ab/pack-tests-cleanup later to maint).
* The submodule support has been updated to read from the blob at
HEAD:.gitmodules when the .gitmodules file is missing from the
working tree.
(merge 2b1257e463 ao/submodule-wo-gitmodules-checked-out later to maint).
* "git fetch" was a bit loose in parsing responses from the other side
when talking over the protocol v2.
* "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first
saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches"
and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time)
worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the
same way, which has been fixed.
(merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint).
* "git send-email --transfer-encoding=..." in recent versions of Git
sometimes produced an empty "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" header,
which has been corrected.
(merge 3c88e46f1a al/send-email-auto-cte-fixup later to maint).
* The interface into "xdiff" library used to discover the offset and
size of a generated patch hunk by first formatting it into the
textual hunk header "@@ -n,m +k,l @@" and then parsing the numbers
out. A new interface has been introduced to allow callers a more
direct access to them.
(merge 5eade0746e jk/xdiff-interface later to maint).
* Pathspec matching against a tree object were buggy when negative
pathspec elements were involved, which has been fixed.
(merge b7845cebc0 nd/tree-walk-path-exclusion later to maint).
* "git merge" and "git pull" that merges into an unborn \
branch used
to completely ignore "--verify-signatures", which has been
corrected.
(merge 01a31f3bca jk/verify-sig-merge-into-void later to maint).
* "git rebase --autostash" did not correctly re-attach the HEAD at times.
* "rev-parse --exclude=<pattern> --branches=<pattern>" \
etc. did not
quite work, which has been corrected.
(merge 9ab9b5df0e ra/rev-parse-exclude-glob later to maint).
* When editing a patch in a "git add -i" session, a hunk could be
made to no-op. The "git apply" program used to reject a patch with
such a no-op hunk to catch user mistakes, but it is now updated to
explicitly allow a no-op hunk in an edited patch.
(merge 22cb3835b9 js/apply-recount-allow-noop later to maint).
* The URL to an MSDN page in a comment has been updated.
(merge 2ef2ae2917 js/mingw-msdn-url later to maint).
* "git ls-remote --sort=<thing>" can feed an object that is not yet
available into the comparison machinery and segfault, which has
been corrected to check such a request upfront and reject it.
* When "git bundle" aborts due to an empty commit ranges
(i.e. resulting in an empty pack), it left a file descriptor to an
lockfile open, which resulted in leftover lockfile on Windows where
you cannot remove a file with an open file descriptor. This has
been corrected.
(merge 2c8ee1f53c jk/close-duped-fd-before-unlock-for-bundle later to maint).
* "git format-patch --stat=<width>" can be used to specify the width
used by the diffstat (shown in the cover letter).
(merge 284aeb7e60 nd/format-patch-cover-letter-stat-width later to maint).
* The way .git/index and .git/sharedindex* files were initially
created gave these files different perm bits until they were
adjusted for shared repository settings. This was made consistent.
(merge c9d6c78870 cc/shared-index-permbits later to maint).
* "git rebase --stat" to transplant a piece of history onto a totally
unrelated history were not working before and silently showed wrong
result. With the recent reimplementation in C, it started to instead
die with an error message, as the original logic was not prepared
to cope with this case. This has now been fixed.
* The advice message to tell the user to migrate an existing graft
file to the replace system when a graft file was read was shown
even when "git replace --convert-graft-file" command, which is the
way the message suggests to use, was running, which made little
sense.
(merge 8821e90a09 ab/replace-graft-with-replace-advice later to maint).
* "git diff --raw" lost ellipses to adjust the output columns for
some time now, but the documentation still showed them.
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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| 2018-09-13 12:56:42 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (7) | |
Log message: git: updated to 2.19.0 Git 2.19 Release Notes Updates since v2.18 ------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new files. They are now shown as new by default. "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit. * "git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not \ just the line number but the column number of the hit. * The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate \ short-hand for "--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when \ "-l" is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the future repurposing of the it when it is used. * The userdiff pattern for .php has been updated. * The content-transfer-encoding of the message "git send-email" sends out by default was 8bit, which can cause trouble when there is an overlong line to bust RFC 5322/2822 limit. A new option 'auto' to automatically switch to quoted-printable when there is such a line in the payload has been introduced and is made the default. * "git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that have tracking branches that share the same names. (merge 8d7b558bae ab/checkout-default-remote later to maint). * "git grep" learned the "--only-matching" option. * "git rebase --rebase-merges" mode now handles octopus merges as well. * Add a server-side knob to skip commits in exponential/fibbonacci stride in an attempt to cover wider swath of history with a smaller number of iterations, potentially accepting a larger packfile transfer, instead of going back one commit a time during common ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction. (merge 42cc7485a2 jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping later to maint). * A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added, primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the replace mechanism altogether. * Teach "git tag -s" etc. a few configuration variables (gpg.format that can be set to "openpgp" or "x509", and \ gpg.<format>.program that is used to specify what program to use to deal with the format) to allow x.509 certs with CMS via "gpgsm" to be used instead of openpgp via "gnupg". * Many more strings are prepared for l10n. * "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should continue with submitting. * The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent bad objects from entering repository can be customized via receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with fetch.fsck.* configuration variables. * "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a \ short-hand for "interactive". * "git instaweb" has been adjusted to run better with newer Apache on RedHat based distros. * "git range-diff" is a reimplementation of "git tbdiff" \ that lets us compare individual patches in two iterations of a topic. * The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end. * "git branch --list" learned to take the default sort order from the 'branch.sort' configuration variable, just like "git tag --list" pays attention to 'tag.sort'. * "git worktree" command learned "--quiet" option to make \ it less verbose. Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C. * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void \ *util" field, which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated. * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized. (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint). * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then \ "a_repository" throughout the object access API continues. * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the codebase to report the list of configuration variables subcommands care about to help complete them. * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" \ implementation to slim down the latter and make it easier to manage. * Make refspec parsing codepath more robust. * Some flaky tests have been fixed. * Continuing with the idea to programmatically enumerate various pieces of data required for command line completion, the codebase has been taught to enumerate options prefixed with "--no-" to negate them. * Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/) has been updated. * Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah bitmap subsystem. * Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3. * Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration files, to read random configuration items from it. * "git fast-import" has been updated to avoid attempting to create delta against a zero-byte-long string, which is pointless. * The codebase has been updated to compile cleanly with -pedantic option. (merge 2b647a05d7 bb/pedantic later to maint). * The character display width table has been updated to match the latest Unicode standard. (merge 570951eea2 bb/unicode-11-width later to maint). * test-lint now looks for broken use of "VAR=VAL shell_func" in test scripts. * Conversion from uchar[40] to struct object_id continues. * Recent "security fix" to pay attention to contents of \ ".gitmodules" while accepting "git push" was a bit overly strict than necessary, which has been adjusted. * "git fsck" learns to make sure the optional commit-graph file is in a sane state. * "git diff --color-moved" feature has further been tweaked. * Code restructuring and a small fix to transport protocol v2 during fetching. * Parsing of -L[<N>][,[<M>]] parameters "git blame" and \ "git log" take has been tweaked. * lookup_commit_reference() and friends have been updated to find in-core object for a specific in-core repository instance. * Various glitches in the heuristics of merge-recursive strategy have been documented in new tests. * "git fetch" learned a new option "--negotiation-tip" to \ limit the set of commits it tells the other end as "have", to reduce wasted bandwidth and cycles, which would be helpful when the receiving repository has a lot of refs that have little to do with the history at the remote it is fetching from. * For a large tree, the index needs to hold many cache entries allocated on heap. These cache entries are now allocated out of a dedicated memory pool to amortize malloc(3) overhead. * Tests to cover various conflicting cases have been added for merge-recursive. * Tests to cover conflict cases that involve submodules have been added for merge-recursive. * Look for broken "&&" chains that are hidden in subshell, many of which have been found and corrected. * The singleton commit-graph in-core instance is made per in-core repository instance. * "make DEVELOPER=1 DEVOPTS=pedantic" allows developers to compile with -pedantic option, which may catch more problematic program constructs and potential bugs. * Preparatory code to later add json output for telemetry data has been added. * Update the way we use Coccinelle to find out-of-style code that need to be modernised. * It is too easy to misuse system API functions such as strcat(); these selected functions are now forbidden in this codebase and will cause a compilation failure. * Add a script (in contrib/) to help users of VSCode work better with our codebase. * The Travis CI scripts were taught to ship back the test data from failed tests. (merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint). * The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair \ automatically without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and fixed. (merge 5f0df44cd7 rs/parse-opt-lithelp later to maint). * Noiseword "extern" has been removed from function decls in the header files. * A few atoms like %(objecttype) and %(objectsize) in the format specifier of "for-each-ref --format=<format>" can be filled \ without getting the full contents of the object, but just with the object header. These cases have been optimized by calling oid_object_info() API (instead of reading and inspecting the data). * The end result of documentation update has been made to be inspected more easily to help developers. * The API to iterate over all objects learned to optionally list objects in the order they appear in packfiles, which helps locality of access if the caller accesses these objects while as objects are enumerated. * Improve built-in facility to catch broken &&-chain in the tests. * The more library-ish parts of the codebase learned to work on the in-core index-state instance that is passed in by their callers, instead of always working on the singleton "the_index" instance. * A test prerequisite defined by various test scripts with slightly different semantics has been consolidated into a single copy and made into a lazily defined one. (merge 6ec633059a wc/make-funnynames-shared-lazy-prereq later to maint). * After a partial clone, repeated fetches from promisor remote would have accumulated many packfiles marked with .promisor bit without getting them coalesced into fewer packfiles, hurting performance. "git repack" now learned to repack them. * Partially revert the support for multiple hash functions to regain hash comparison performance; we'd think of a way to do this better in the next cycle. * "git help --config" (which is used in command line completion) missed the configuration variables not described in the main config.txt file but are described in another file that is included by it, which has been corrected. * The test linter code has learned that the end of here-doc mark "EOF" can be quoted in a double-quote pair, not just in a single-quote pair. |
| 2018-08-22 11:48:07 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (3558) |
Log message: Recursive bump for perl5-5.28.0 |
| 2018-06-22 10:57:17 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (6) | |
Log message:
git: updated to 2.18.0
2.18.0:
UI, Workflows & Features
* Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and \
"cherry-pick" has
learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,
z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also
want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory
'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename
to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this
work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the
working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what
our side originally had.
* "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow
the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to
rewrite from other error cases.
* When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify
"tlsv1.3" as its value.
* "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and
"~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files.
(merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint).
* "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the
CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the
same key binding. It now does.
(merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint).
* "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like
8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query
the current theme.
(merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint).
* "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when \
using
backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges").
* "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets
users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased
and a normal branch is being rebased.
* "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy.
* The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and
have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user
there are replacements.
* The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the
contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working
tree (and the other way around when checking in).
* The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int",
"--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to
be interpreted as. A new "--type=<typename>" option has been
introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types.
* "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the
calling script. Building on top of the above changes, the
"git config" learns "--type=color" type. Taken together, \
you can
do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get
the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable,
or "blue" if the variable does not exist.
* "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based
on the refnames being shown.
* The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git
stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred
spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible
completion candidate when "git stash push" can be.
* "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then
silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense"
failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected.
* Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility.
* "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental
"feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used.
This has been removed.
* The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by
the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal
code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up
in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.
* "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch.
* "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter
option. Now it does as "-P".
(merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint).
* "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole
topology of commit graph elsewhere.
* "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff
configuration variables such as diff.renames.
* The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load
custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a
custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using
newer version of bash-completion.
* "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this
email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action
'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice.
* With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge
strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed
paths and merge them accordingly.
* "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to
skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to
do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the
"git diff" command.
* Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames
for various commands better.
* "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the
originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one,
and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of
the commit.
* Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone.
* When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there
are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their
names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message.
These object names are now sorted according to their types for
easier eyeballing.
* "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take
advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended
so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured
refspec.
* Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding
from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
and negotiate the best one.
* "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4.
(merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint).
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| 2018-04-11 21:39:35 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (12) | |
Log message:
git: updated to 2.17.0
Git 2.17:
UI, Workflows & Features
* "diff" family of commands learned \
"--find-object=<object-id>" option
to limit the findings to changes that involve the named object.
* "git format-patch" learned to give 72-cols to diffstat, which is
consistent with other line length limits the subcommand uses for
its output meant for e-mails.
* The log from "git daemon" can be redirected with a new option; one
relevant use case is to send the log to standard error (instead of
syslog) when running it from inetd.
* "git rebase" learned to take "--allow-empty-message" option.
* "git am" has learned the "--quit" option, in addition to the
existing "--abort" option; having the pair mirrors a few other
commands like "rebase" and "cherry-pick".
* "git worktree add" learned to run the post-checkout hook, just like
"git clone" runs it upon the initial checkout.
* "git tag" learned an explicit "--edit" option that allows the
message given via "-m" and "-F" to be further edited.
* "git fetch --prune-tags" may be used as a handy short-hand for
getting rid of stale tags that are locally held.
* The new "--show-current-patch" option gives an end-user facing way
to get the diff being applied when "git rebase" (and "git am")
stops with a conflict.
* "git add -p" used to offer "/" (look for a matching hunk) as a
choice, even there was only one hunk, which has been corrected.
Also the single-key help is now given only for keys that are
enabled (e.g. help for '/' won't be shown when there is only one
hunk).
* Since Git 1.7.9, "git merge" defaulted to --no-ff (i.e. even when
the side branch being merged is a descendant of the current commit,
create a merge commit instead of fast-forwarding) when merging a
tag object. This was appropriate default for integrators who pull
signed tags from their downstream contributors, but caused an
unnecessary merges when used by downstream contributors who
habitually "catch up" their topic branches with tagged releases
from the upstream. Update "git merge" to default to --no-ff only
when merging a tag object that does *not* sit at its usual place in
refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to
mitigate the problem.
* "git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation
between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be
disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option.
* "git diff" and friends learned funcname patterns for Go language
source files.
* "git send-email" learned "--reply-to=<address>" option.
* Funcname pattern used for C# now recognizes "async" keyword.
* In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager
setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the
pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the
purpose of the operation is not to "show").
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* More perf tests for threaded grep
* "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server.
* The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.
* Perl 5.8 or greater has been required since Git 1.7.4 released in
2010, but we continued to assume some core modules may not exist and
used a conditional "eval { require <<module>> }"; we no \
longer do
this. Some platforms (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, for example) ship Perl
without all core modules by default (e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Temp,
File::Spec, Net::Domain, Net::SMTP). Users on such platforms may
need to install these additional modules.
* As a convenience, we install copies of Perl modules we require which
are not part of the core Perl distribution (e.g. Error and
Mail::Address). Users and packagers whose operating system provides
these modules can set NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS to avoid installing the
bundled modules.
* In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery
for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been
taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a
packfile specially marked as coming from trusted repository that
promises to make them available on-demand and lazily.
* The machinery to clone & fetch, which in turn involves packing and
unpacking objects, has been told how to omit certain objects using
the filtering mechanism introduced by another topic. It now knows
to mark the resulting pack as a promisor pack to tolerate missing
objects, laying foundation for "narrow" clones.
* The first step to getting rid of mru API and using the
doubly-linked list API directly instead.
* Retire mru API as it does not give enough abstraction over
underlying list API to be worth it.
* Rewrite two more "git submodule" subcommands in C.
* The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment
variables as well.
* Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, \
"%s", str)
* Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type.
* The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick",
"git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" \
when it
needs to create a commit. It has been taught to do so internally,
when able, by reusing the codepath "git commit" itself uses, which
gives performance boost for a few tens of percents in some sample
scenarios.
* Push the submodule version of collision-detecting SHA-1 hash
implementation a bit harder on builders.
* Avoid mmapping small files while using packed refs (especially ones
with zero size, which would cause later munmap() to fail).
* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* More tests for wildmatch functions.
* The code to binary search starting from a fan-out table (which is
how the packfile is indexed with object names) has been refactored
into a reusable helper.
* We now avoid using identifiers that clash with C++ keywords. Even
though it is not a goal to compile Git with C++ compilers, changes
like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our
codebase.
* The executable is now built in 'script' phase in Travis CI integration,
to follow the established practice, rather than during 'before_script'
phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures better ('failed'
is project's fault, 'errored' is build environment's).
* Writing out the index file when the only thing that changed in it
is the untracked cache information is often wasteful, and this has
been optimized out.
* Various pieces of Perl code we have have been cleaned up.
* Internal API clean-up to allow write_locked_index() optionally skip
writing the in-core index when it is not modified.
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| 2017-08-07 19:56:14 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (4) | |
Log message:
Git 2.14 Release Notes
======================
Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
* Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming
release (yet).
* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
greatly appreciated.
* The experiment to improve the hunk-boundary selection of textual
diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now
become the default.
* Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the
upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
Updates since v2.13
-------------------
UI, Workflows & Features
* The colors in which "git status --short --branch" showed the names
of the current branch and its remote-tracking branch are now
configurable.
* "git clone" learned the "--no-tags" option not to fetch \
all tags
initially, and also set up the tagopt not to follow any tags in
subsequent fetches.
* "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
* "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
* "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
* "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and \
pass it
to pack-objects.
* "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
and reject a message before sending it out.
* There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
* The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism \
introduced in
2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,
and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in
"~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to \
"/mnt/storage/work".
Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would
show. The include will happen if either one matches.
* The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The
diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"
for those who do not want it.
* Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
configuration.
* The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
--options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches \
p/a/t/h from
the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.
* Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
* "filter-branch" learned a pseudo filter "--setup" that \
can be used
to define common functions/variables that can be used by other
filters.
* Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
* "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there
are in its output.
* "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users.
Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status
(rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
line with the focus of "git commit").
* "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options
which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that
restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.
* An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it
has outlived its usefulness.
* "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the
branch in the submodules to an updated base.
* "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git \
grep"
already had such a synonym.
* "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with
--perl-regexp. This has been fixed.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The default packed-git limit value has been raised on larger
platforms to save "git fetch" from a (recoverable) failure while
"gc" is running in parallel.
* Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
* Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
remove the temporary directory used during the test.
* Travis CI gained a task to format the documentation with both
AsciiDoc and AsciiDoctor.
* Some platforms have ulong that is smaller than time_t, and our
historical use of ulong for timestamp would mean they cannot
represent some timestamp that the platform allows. Invent a
separate and dedicated timestamp_t (so that we can distingiuish
timestamps and a vanilla ulongs, which along is already a good
move), and then declare uintmax_t is the type to be used as the
timestamp_t.
* We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho &
Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now.
* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
* Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
default in-core index.
* Add perf-test for wildmatch.
* Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
* When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case
that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the
main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these
operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the
cache is properly invalidated).
* The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
* Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
multi-line comments.
* The implementation of "ref" API around the "packed refs" \
have been
cleaned up, in preparation for further changes.
* The internal logic used in "git blame" has been libified to make it
easier to use by cgit.
* Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its
contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure
to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to
report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O
error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open).
The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and
ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno
with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so.
* We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is
optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
errors if they are not due to missing files.
* When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
* Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
to one.
* "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
with other parts of the system.
* A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
(which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The
pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
with "wildmatch".
* The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured
for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'.
* A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
* Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it
from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a
threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may
be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may
end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful).
* Introduce a "repository" object to eventually make it easier to
work in multiple repositories (the primary focus is to work with
the superproject and its submodules) in a single process.
* Optimize "what are the object names already taken in an alternate
object database?" query that is used to derive the length of prefix
an object name is uniquely abbreviated to.
* The hashmap API has been updated so that data to customize the
behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a
hashmap is initialized.
* The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is
now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to
ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get
it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped
as part of the tree.
* A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while
compiling but supported only one sanitize option. Allow more than
one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar".
* Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly
to parse.
* We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and \
friends, as
a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not
play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot"
that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot
file. This is a possible workaround for that problem.
* It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that
returns failure when a directory is opened for reading.
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| 2017-02-25 09:32:57 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (6) | |
Log message: Git 2.12 Release Notes ====================== Backward compatibility notes. * Use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet). * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD \ <commit>..." has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a future release. * An ancient script "git relink" has been removed. Updates since v2.11 ------------------- UI, Workflows & Features * Various updates to "git p4". * "git p4" didn't interact with the internal of .git directory correctly in the modern "git-worktree"-enabled world. * "git branch --list" and friends learned "--ignore-case" \ option to optionally sort branches and tags case insensitively. * In addition to %(subject), %(body), "log --pretty=format:..." learned a new placeholder %(trailers). * "git rebase" learned "--quit" option, which allows a user to remove the metadata left by an earlier "git rebase" that was manually aborted without using "git rebase --abort". * "git clone --reference $there --recurse-submodules $super" has been taught to guess repositories usable as references for submodules of $super that are embedded in $there while making a clone of the superproject borrow objects from $there; extend the mechanism to also allow submodules of these submodules to borrow repositories embedded in these clones of the submodules embedded in the clone of the superproject. * Porcelain scripts written in Perl are getting internationalized. * "git merge --continue" has been added as a synonym to "git \ commit" to conclude a merge that has stopped due to conflicts. * Finer-grained control of what protocols are allowed for transports during clone/fetch/push have been enabled via a new configuration mechanism. * "git shortlog" learned "--committer" option to group \ commits by committer, instead of author. * GitLFS integration with "git p4" has been updated. * The isatty() emulation for Windows has been updated to eradicate the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC runtime. * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is more widely known when conversion fails from/to it. * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules. * "git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there will be no loss of local modifications, that is). * A recent updates to "git p4" was not usable for older p4 but it could be made to work with minimum changes. Do so. * "git diff" learned diff.interHunkContext configuration variable that gives the default value for its --inter-hunk-context option. * The prereleaseSuffix feature of version comparison that is used in "git tag -l" did not correctly when two or more prereleases for the same release were present (e.g. when 2.0, 2.0-beta1, and 2.0-beta2 are there and the code needs to compare 2.0-beta1 and 2.0-beta2). * "git submodule push" learned "--recurse-submodules=only option to push submodules out without pushing the top-level superproject. * "git tag" and "git verify-tag" learned to put GPG verification status in their "--format=<placeholders>" output format. * An ancient repository conversion tool left in contrib/ has been removed. * "git show-ref HEAD" used with "--verify" because the user \ is not interested in seeing refs/remotes/origin/HEAD, and used with "--head" because the user does not want HEAD to be filtered out, i.e. "git show-ref --head --verify HEAD", did not work as expected. * "git submodule add" used to be confused and refused to add a locally created repository; users can now use "--force" option to add them. (merge 619acfc78c sb/submodule-add-force later to maint). * Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph" rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has been introduced. * "git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option. * When a submodule "A", which has another submodule "B" \ nested within it, is "absorbed" into the top-level superproject, the inner submodule "B" used to be left in a strange state. The logic to adjust the .git pointers in these submodules has been corrected. * The user can specify a custom update method that is run when "submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the path in the superproject's index. * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git diff --submodule=" can take "diff" as a recently \ added option. * The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches, remote-tracking branches and notes). * Comes with more command line completion (in contrib/) for recently introduced options. |
| 2016-07-21 15:12:25 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (5) | |
Log message:
Update git to 2.9.2.
Fixes since v2.9.1
------------------
* A fix merged to v2.9.1 had a few tests that are not meant to be
run on platforms without 64-bit long, which caused unnecessary
test failures on them because we didn't detect the platform and
skip them. These tests are now skipped on platforms that they
are not applicable to.
Fixes since v2.9
----------------
* When "git daemon" is run without --[init-]timeout specified, a
connection from a client that silently goes offline can hang around
for a long time, wasting resources. The socket-level KEEPALIVE has
been enabled to allow the OS to notice such failed connections.
* The commands in `git log` family take %C(auto) in a custom format
string. This unconditionally turned the color on, ignoring
--no-color or with --color=auto when the output is not connected to
a tty; this was corrected to make the format truly behave as
"auto".
* "git rev-list --count" whose walk-length is limited with "-n"
option did not work well with the counting optimized to look at the
bitmap index.
* "git show -W" (extend hunks to cover the entire function, delimited
by lines that match the "funcname" pattern) used to show the entire
file when a change added an entire function at the end of the file,
which has been fixed.
* The documentation set has been updated so that literal commands,
configuration variables and environment variables are consistently
typeset in fixed-width font and bold in manpages.
* "git svn propset" subcommand that was added in 2.3 days is
documented now.
* The documentation tries to consistently spell "GPG"; when
referring to the specific program name, "gpg" is used.
* "git reflog" stopped upon seeing an entry that denotes a branch
creation event (aka "unborn"), which made it appear as if the
reflog was truncated.
* The git-prompt scriptlet (in contrib/) was not friendly with those
who uses "set -u", which has been fixed.
* A codepath that used alloca(3) to place an unbounded amount of data
on the stack has been updated to avoid doing so.
* "git update-index --add --chmod=+x file" may be usable as an escape
hatch, but not a friendly thing to force for people who do need to
use it regularly. "git add --chmod=+x file" can be used instead.
* Build improvements for gnome-keyring (in contrib/)
* "git status" used to say "working directory" when it \
meant "working
tree".
* Comments about misbehaving FreeBSD shells have been clarified with
the version number (9.x and before are broken, newer ones are OK).
* "git cherry-pick A" worked on an unborn branch, but "git
cherry-pick A..B" didn't.
* "git add -i/-p" learned to honor diff.compactionHeuristic
experimental knob, so that the user can work on the same hunk split
as "git diff" output.
* "log --graph --format=" learned that "%>|(N)" \
specifies the width
relative to the terminal's left edge, not relative to the area to
draw text that is to the right of the ancestry-graph section. It
also now accepts negative N that means the column limit is relative
to the right border.
* The ownership rule for the piece of memory that hold references to
be fetched in "git fetch" was screwy, which has been cleaned up.
* "git bisect" makes an internal call to "git diff-tree" when
bisection finds the culprit, but this call did not initialize the
data structure to pass to the diff-tree API correctly.
* Formats of the various data (and how to validate them) where we use
GPG signature have been documented.
* Fix an unintended regression in v2.9 that breaks "clone --depth"
that recurses down to submodules by forcing the submodules to also
be cloned shallowly, which many server instances that host upstream
of the submodules are not prepared for.
* Fix unnecessarily waste in the idiomatic use of ': ${VAR=default}'
to set the default value, without enclosing it in double quotes.
* Some platform-specific code had non-ANSI strict declarations of C
functions that do not take any parameters, which has been
corrected.
* The internal code used to show local timezone offset is not
prepared to handle timestamps beyond year 2100, and gave a
bogus offset value to the caller. Use a more benign looking
+0000 instead and let "git log" going in such a case, instead
of aborting.
* One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
command (others are in valgrind test framework and t9802).
* t/perf needs /usr/bin/time with GNU extension; the invocation of it
is updated to "gtime" on Darwin.
* A bug, which caused "git p4" while running under verbose mode to
report paths that are omitted due to branch prefix incorrectly, has
been fixed; the command said "Ignoring file outside of prefix" for
paths that are _inside_.
* The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
instead.
Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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| 2016-07-09 08:39:18 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1068) |
Log message: Bump PKGREVISION for perl-5.24.0 for everything mentioning perl. |
New packages: