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 now scheduled to happen in the upcoming
- release.
+ this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16,
+ the next major release after this one.
* 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").
+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to 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.
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
Updates since v2.14
-------------------
* The "rerere-train" script (in contrib/) learned the "--overwrite"
option to allow overwriting existing recorded resolutions.
- (merge ad53bf79aa rg/rerere-train-overwrite later to maint).
* "git contacts" (in contrib/) now lists the address on the
"Reported-by:" trailer to its output, in addition to those on
S-o-b: and other trailers, to make it easier to notify (and thank)
the original bug reporter.
- (merge 09ac673788 eb/contacts-reported-by later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase", especially when it is run by mistake and ends up
+ trying to replay many changes, spent long time in silence. The
+ command has been taught to show progress report when it spends
+ long time preparing these many changes to replay (which would give
+ the user a chance to abort with ^C).
+
+ * "git merge" learned a "--signoff" option to add the Signed-off-by:
+ trailer with the committer's name.
+
+ * "git diff" learned to optionally paint new lines that are the same
+ as deleted lines elsewhere differently from genuinely new lines.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" learned to take the trailer specifications
+ from the command line that overrides the configured values.
+
+ * "git interpret-trailers" has been taught a "--parse" and a few
+ other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
+ trailer lines from a commit log message.
+
+ * The "--format=%(trailers)" option "git log" and its friends take
+ learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its
+ output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)".
+
+ * "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the
+ history overview page.
+
+ * "[gc] rerereResolved = 5.days" used to be invalid, as the variable
+ is defined to take an integer counting the number of days. It now
+ is allowed.
+
+ * The code to acquire a lock on a reference (e.g. while accepting a
+ push from a client) used to immediately fail when the reference is
+ already locked---now it waits for a very short while and retries,
+ which can make it succeed if the lock holder was holding it during
+ a read-only operation.
+
+ * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
+ finally been retired.
+
+ * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean
+ operation learned to show the progress meter.
+
+ * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be
+ used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and
+ friends.
+
+ * "git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
+ the "--all" option.
+
+ * "git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
+ existing one.
+
+ * Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
+ update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
+ operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
+ option can be passed to Git to disable them.
+
+ * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a new format element,
+ %(trailers), to show only the commit log trailer part of the log
+ message.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Because recent Git for Windows do come with a real msgfmt, the
build procedure for git-gui has been updated to use it instead of a
hand-rolled substitute.
- (merge 90dbf226ba js/git-gui-msgfmt-on-windows later to maint).
* "git grep --recurse-submodules" has been reworked to give a more
consistent output across submodule boundary (and do its thing
* A helper function to read a single whole line into strbuf
mistakenly triggered OOM error at EOF under certain conditions,
which has been fixed.
- (merge 642956cf45 rs/strbuf-getwholeline-fix later to maint).
* The "ref-store" code reorganization continues.
+ * "git commit" used to discard the index and re-read from the filesystem
+ just in case the pre-commit hook has updated it in the middle; this
+ has been optimized out when we know we do not run the pre-commit hook.
+ (merge 680ee550d7 kw/commit-keep-index-when-pre-commit-is-not-run later to maint).
+
+ * Updates to the HTTP layer we made recently unconditionally used
+ features of libCurl without checking the existence of them, causing
+ compilation errors, which has been fixed. Also migrate the code to
+ check feature macros, not version numbers, to cope better with
+ libCurl that vendor ships with backported features.
+
+ * The API to start showing progress meter after a short delay has
+ been simplified.
+ (merge 8aade107dd jc/simplify-progress later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up to avoid mixing values read from the .gitmodules file
+ and values read from the .git/config file.
+
+ * We used to spend more than necessary cycles allocating and freeing
+ piece of memory while writing each index entry out. This has been
+ optimized.
+
+ * Platforms that ship with a separate sha1 with collision detection
+ library can link to it instead of using the copy we ship as part of
+ our source tree.
+
+ * Code around "notes" have been cleaned up.
+ (merge 3964281524 mh/notes-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * The long-standing rule that an in-core lockfile instance, once it
+ is used, must not be freed, has been lifted and the lockfile and
+ tempfile APIs have been updated to reduce the chance of programming
+ errors.
+
+ * Our hashmap implementation in hashmap.[ch] is not thread-safe when
+ adding a new item needs to expand the hashtable by rehashing; add
+ an API to disable the automatic rehashing to work it around.
+
+ * Many of our programs consider that it is OK to release dynamic
+ storage that is used throughout the life of the program by simply
+ exiting, but this makes it harder to leak detection tools to avoid
+ reporting false positives. Plug many existing leaks and introduce
+ a mechanism for developers to mark that the region of memory
+ pointed by a pointer is not lost/leaking to help these tools.
+
+ * As "git commit" to conclude a conflicted "git merge" honors the
+ commit-msg hook, "git merge" that records a merge commit that
+ cleanly auto-merges should, but it didn't.
+
+ * The codepath for "git merge-recursive" has been cleaned up.
+
+ * Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed.
+
+ * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also
+ can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update
+ the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then
+ make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually
+ deprecate and remove the former.
+
+ * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing
+ out coding style issues.
+
+ * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules
+ has been added.
+ (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint).
+
+ * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work
+ at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that
+ expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been
+ fixed.
+
+ * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough
+ warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene).
+
+ * Add a helper for DLL loading in anticipation for its need in a
+ future topic RSN.
+
+ * "git status --ignored", when noticing that a directory without any
+ tracked path is ignored, still enumerated all the ignored paths in
+ the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been
+ optimized to avoid this overhead.
+
+ * The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
+ the shell script to C has been merged.
+
+ * Operations that do not touch (majority of) packed refs have been
+ optimized by making accesses to packed-refs file lazy; we no longer
+ pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the
+ packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either.
+
+ * Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with
+ clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress.
+
+ * Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live
+ throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK
+ marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks..
+
+ * Plans for weaning us off of SHA-1 has been documented.
+
+ * A new "oidmap" API has been introduced and oidset API has been
+ rewritten to use it.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
color escape codes, which was an early design mistake. They now
honor the configuration (e.g. "color.ui = never") and also tty-ness
of the output medium.
- (merge 11b087adfd jk/ref-filter-colors later to maint).
* The http.{sslkey,sslCert} configuration variables are to be
interpreted as a pathname that honors "~[username]/" prefix, but
weren't, which has been fixed.
- (merge 8d1549643e jc/http-sslkey-and-ssl-cert-are-paths later to maint).
* Numerous bugs in walking of reflogs via "log -g" and friends have
been fixed.
- (merge de239446b6 jk/reflog-walk later to maint).
* "git commit" when seeing an totally empty message said "you did not
edit the message", which is clearly wrong. The message has been
corrected.
- (merge bc17f35f8c ks/commit-abort-on-empty-message-fix later to maint).
* When a directory is not readable, "gitweb" fails to build the
project list. Work this around by skipping such a directory.
- (merge 46a13857fc hb/gitweb-project-list later to maint).
* Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.
- (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint).
* A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
daemon is torn down were flaky. This was fixed by reacting to
ECONNRESET and behaving as if we got an EOF.
- (merge 1f180e5eb9 dl/credential-cache-socket-in-xdg-cache later to maint).
* "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
has been fixed---it now shows nothing.
- (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint).
* The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
- (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint).
* "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.
- (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint).
* Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
fixed.
- (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint).
* "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
option down to submodules.
- (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint).
* Test portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
- (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint).
* Portability fix for OBSD.
- (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint).
* "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.
- (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint).
* "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
current time, which has been corrected.
- (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint).
* Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged.
- (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint).
- (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the
+ ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the
+ file has local changes. The command has been taught to instead use
+ the locally modified contents.
+
+ * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
+ substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.
+
+ * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
+ codes; this has been corrected.
+
+ * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process
+ asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program
+ the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected.
+
+ * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a
+ taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line
+ endings. The root cause was because it misused convert_to_git()
+ that tried to do "safe-crlf" processing by looking at the index
+ entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply"
+ is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all.
+ This has been fixed.
+
+ * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left
+ the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD,
+ which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was
+ a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the
+ export-ignore attribute.
+
+ * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft"
+ was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it
+ needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer
+ section.
+
+ * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated
+ to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree
+ was in use. This has been fixed.
+ (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint).
+
+ * "git gc" and friends when multiple worktrees are used off of a
+ single repository did not consider the index and per-worktree refs
+ of other worktrees as the root for reachability traversal, making
+ objects that are in use only in other worktrees to be subject to
+ garbage collection.
+
+ * A regression to "gitk --bisect" by a recent update has been fixed.
+
+ * "git -c submodule.recurse=yes pull" did not work as if the
+ "--recurse-submodules" option was given from the command line.
+ This has been corrected.
+
+ * Unlike "git commit-tree < file", "git commit-tree -F file" did not
+ pass the contents of the file verbatim and instead completed an
+ incomplete line at the end, if exists. The latter has been updated
+ to match the behaviour of the former.
+
+ * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks
+ go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function,
+ which have been corrected.
+ (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is".
+ (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint).
+
+ * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty
+ directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so.
+ This has been fixed.
+
+ * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC.
+
+ * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been
+ slightly tweaked.
+ (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint).
+
+ * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by
+ reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to
+ use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been
+ corrected.
+
+ * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an
+ optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is
+ tagged has been implemented.
+ (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint).
+
+ * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e".
+
+ * Code cmp.std.c nitpick.
+
+ * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of
+ alternate object stores overrun the end of the string.
+ (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13
+ series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one
+ and did not work at all. This has been fixed.
+
+ * "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
+ the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
+ created. This has been corrected.
+ (merge b2c1ca6b4b ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger later to maint).
+
+ * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which
+ has been corrected.
+
+ * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did
+ not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has
+ been fixed.
+
+ * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced
+ garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not
+ hexadecimal. This has been fixed.
+
+ * The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the
+ sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by
+ storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is
+ fixed.
+
+ * The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at
+ offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the
+ generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not
+ overflow. This has been corrected.
+
+ * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
+ written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
+
+ * "git fast-export" with -M/-C option issued "copy" instruction on a
+ path that is simultaneously modified, which was incorrect.
+ (merge b3e8ca89cf jt/fast-export-copy-modify-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wsign-compare
+ warnings.
+ (merge 071bcaab64 rj/no-sign-compare later to maint).
+
+ * Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
+ (merge 4d01a7fa65 ma/leakplugs later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the
+ option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!)
+ correctly, which has been corrected.
+ (merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The checkpoint command "git fast-import" did not flush updates to
+ refs and marks unless at least one object was created since the
+ last checkpoint, which has been corrected, as these things can
+ happen without any new object getting created.
+ (merge 30e215a65c er/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint later to maint).
+
+ * Spell the name of our system as "Git" in the output from
+ request-pull script.
+
+ * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind.
+
+ * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation
+ from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop.
+
+ * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken
+ by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to
+ them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored
+ (heh) and made unusable. This has been fixed by reverting the
+ offending change.
+
+ * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and
+ its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)"
+ (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat
+ them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not
+ there.
+
+ * An ancient bug that made Git misbehave with creation/renaming of
+ refs has been fixed.
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge 5b114f3bb0 rs/bswap-ubsan-fix later to maint).
- (merge 168e63554c rs/move-array later to maint).
- (merge 268ba20110 rs/stat-data-unaligned-reads-fix later to maint).
- (merge 78e7b98f45 jt/fsck-code-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge c7b0780545 rs/pack-objects-pbase-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge c1e860f1dc js/run-process-parallel-api-fix later to maint).
- (merge 7a40a95eb4 cc/ref-is-hidden-microcleanup later to maint).
- (merge c0bb6d9cef ah/doc-wserrorhighlight later to maint).
- (merge edd64ef4f7 dc/fmt-merge-msg-microcleanup later to maint).
- (merge fa64a2fdbe jt/subprocess-handshake later to maint).
- (merge 0ba9c9a0fb jb/t8008-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge a7c28a2161 jt/t1450-fsck-corrupt-packfile later to maint).
- (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
- (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint).
- (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint).
- (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint).
- (merge f1068efefe jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
- (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint).
- (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint).
- (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint).
- (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint).
- (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint).
+ (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint).
+ (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint).
+ (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint).
+ (merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint).
+ (merge f777623514 ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args later to maint).
+ (merge 33f3c683ec ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak later to maint).
+ (merge 7cbbf9d6a2 ls/filter-process-delayed later to maint).