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-Git ???? Release Notes
-======================
-
-Updates since v2.3
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-
-Ports
-
- * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some
- platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2)
- failures.
-
- * We did not check the curl library version before using
- CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist.
-
-
-UI, Workflows & Features
-
- * The command usage info strings given by "git cmd -h" and in
- documentation have been tweaked for consistency.
-
- * The "sync" subcommand of "git p4" now allows users to exclude
- subdirectories like its "clone" subcommand does.
-
- * "git log --invert-grep --grep=WIP" will show only commits that do
- not have the string "WIP" in their messages.
-
- * "git push" has been taught a "--atomic" option that makes push to
- update more than one ref an "all-or-none" affair.
-
- * Extending the "push to deploy" added in 2.3, the behaviour of "git
- push" when updating the branch that is checked out can now be
- tweaked by push-to-checkout hook.
-
- * Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
- HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
-
- * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an
- answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without
- questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks
- too short to be a valid encoding name.
-
- * When "git apply --whitespace=fix" fixed whitespace errors in the
- common context lines, the command reports that it did so.
-
-
-Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
-
- * Implementation of N_() macro has been updated slightly to help us
- detect mistakes.
-
- * Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the
- reflogs better with the recently updated ref API.
-
- * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as
- verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based
- helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them
- the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better.
-
- * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
- running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
- is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
- a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
- heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
- check what they really require.
- (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint).
-
- * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
- the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
- can check only one place for all necessary information.
-
- * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
- the API manual.
-
- * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a
- project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we
- (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first
- place.
-
- * Typofix in comments.
- (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint).
-
- * Code clean-up.
- (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint).
- (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint).
-
- * Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be
- pointing at this object" is specified.
-
-
-Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
-
-
-Fixes since v2.3
-----------------
-
-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.3 in the maintenance
-track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
-notes for details).
-
- * "git blame HEAD -- missing" failed to correctly say "HEAD" when it
- tried to say "No such path 'missing' in HEAD".
- (merge a46442f jk/blame-commit-label later to maint).
-
- * "git rerere" (invoked internally from many mergy operations) did
- not correctly signal errors when told to update the working tree
- files and failed to do so for whatever reason.
- (merge 89ea903 jn/rerere-fail-on-auto-update-failure later to maint).
-
- * Setting diff.submodule to 'log' made "git format-patch" produce
- broken patches.
- (merge 339de50 dk/format-patch-ignore-diff-submodule later to maint).
-
- * After attempting and failing a password-less authentication
- (e.g. kerberos), libcURL refuses to fall back to password based
- Basic authentication without a bit of help/encouragement.
- (merge 4dbe664 bc/http-fallback-to-password-after-krb-fails later to maint).
-
- * The "git push" documentation made the "--repo=<there>" option
- easily misunderstood.
- (merge 57b92a7 mg/push-repo-option-doc later to maint).
-
- * Code to read branch name from various files in .git/ directory
- would have misbehaved if the code to write them left an empty file.
- (merge 66ec904 jk/status-read-branch-name-fix later to maint).
-
- * A misspelled conditional that is always true has been fixed.
- (merge 94ee8e2 jk/remote-curl-an-array-in-struct-cannot-be-null later to maint).
-
- * The documentation incorrectly said that C(opy) and R(ename) are the
- only ones that can be followed by the score number in the output in
- the --raw format.
- (merge ac1c2d9 jc/diff-format-doc later to maint).
-
- * A broken pack .idx file in the receiving repository prevented the
- dumb http transport from fetching a good copy of it from the other
- side.
- (merge 8b9c2dd jk/dumb-http-idx-fetch-fix later to maint).
-
- * The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author
- name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been
- reworded to avoid misunderstanding.
- (merge 1044b1f mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message later to maint).
-
- * "git log --help" used to show rev-list options that are irrelevant
- to the "log" command.
- (merge 3cab02d jc/doc-log-rev-list-options later to maint).
-
- * "git apply --whitespace=fix" used to under-allocate the memory when
- the fix resulted in a longer text than the original patch.
- (merge 407a792 jc/apply-ws-fix-expands later to maint).
-
- * The interactive "show a list and let the user choose from it"
- interface "add -i" used showed and prompted to the user even when
- the candidate list was empty, against which the only "choice" the
- user could have made was to choose nothing.
- (merge a9c4641 ak/add-i-empty-candidates later to maint).
-
- * The insn sheet "git rebase -i" creates did not fully honor
- core.abbrev settings.
- (merge edb72d5 ks/rebase-i-abbrev later to maint).
-
- * "git fetch" over a remote-helper that cannot respond to "list"
- command could not fetch from a symbolic reference e.g. HEAD.
- (merge 33cae54 mh/deref-symref-over-helper-transport later to maint).
-
- * "git push --signed" gave an incorrectly worded error message when
- the other side did not support the capability.
- (merge 45917f0 jc/push-cert later to maint).
-
- * We didn't format an integer that wouldn't fit in "int" but in
- "uintmax_t" correctly.
- (merge d306f3d jk/decimal-width-for-uintmax later to maint).
-
- * Reading configuration from a blob object, when it ends with a lone
- CR, use to confuse the configuration parser.
- (merge 1d0655c jk/config-no-ungetc-eof later to maint).
-
- * The pack bitmap support did not build with older versions of GCC.
- (merge bd4e882 jk/pack-bitmap later to maint).
-
- * The documentation wasn't clear that "remote.<nick>.pushURL" and
- "remote.<nick>.URL" are there to name the same repository accessed
- via different transports, not two separate repositories.
- (merge 697f652 jc/remote-set-url-doc later to maint).
-
- * Older GnuPG implementations may not correctly import the keyring
- material we prepare for the tests to use.
- (merge 1f985d6 ch/new-gpg-drops-rfc-1991 later to maint).
-
- * The credential helper for Windows (in contrib/) used to mishandle
- a user name with an at-sign in it.
- (merge 13d261e av/wincred-with-at-in-username-fix later to maint).
-
- * Longstanding configuration variable naming rules has been added to
- the documentation.
- (merge 35840a3 jc/conf-var-doc later to maint).
-
- * An earlier workaround to squelch unhelpful deprecation warnings
- from the complier on Mac OSX unnecessarily set minimum required
- version of the OS, which the user might want to raise (or lower)
- for other reasons.
- (merge 88c03eb es/squelch-openssl-warnings-on-macosx later to maint).
-
- * Certain older vintages of cURL give irregular output from
- "curl-config --vernum", which confused our build system.
- (merge 3af6792 tc/curl-vernum-output-broken-in-7.11 later to maint).
-
- * In v2.2.0, we broke "git prune" that runs in a repository that
- borrows from an alternate object store.
- (merge b0a4264 jk/prune-mtime later to maint).
-
- * "git submodule add" failed to squash "path/to/././submodule" to
- "path/to/submodule".
- (merge 8196e72 ps/submodule-sanitize-path-upon-add later to maint).
-
- * "git merge-file" did not work correctly in a subdirectory.
- (merge 204a8ff ab/merge-file-prefix later to maint).
-
- * "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory.
- (merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and
- conclude the resulting packfile cleanly.
- (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint).
-
- * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be
- refreshed for whatever reason.
- (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint).
-
- * The "interpolated-path" option of "git daemon" inserted any string
- client declared on the "host=" capability request without checking.
- Sanitize and limit %H and %CH to a saner and a valid DNS name.
- (merge b485373 jk/daemon-interpolate later to maint).
-
- * "git daemon" looked up the hostname even when "%CH" and "%IP"
- interpolations are not requested, which was unnecessary.
- (merge dc8edc8 rs/daemon-interpolate later to maint).
-
- * Even though we officially haven't dropped Perl 5.8 support, the
- Getopt::Long package that came with it does not support "--no-"
- prefix to negate a boolean option; manually add support to help
- people with older Getopt::Long package.
- (merge f471494 km/send-email-getopt-long-workarounds later to maint).
-
- * "git apply" was not very careful about reading from, removing,
- updating and creating paths outside the working tree (under
- --index/--cached) or the current directory (when used as a
- replacement for GNU patch).
- (merge e0d201b jc/apply-beyond-symlink later to maint).
-
- * A breakage to git-svn around v2.2 era that triggers premature
- closing of FileHandle has been corrected.
- (merge e426311 ew/svn-maint-fixes later to maint).
-
- * We did not parse username followed by literal IPv6 address in SSH
- transport URLs, e.g. ssh://user@[2001:db8::1]:22/repo.git
- correctly.
- (merge 3f55cca tb/connect-ipv6-parse-fix later to maint).
-
- * The configuration variable 'mailinfo.scissors' was hard to
- discover in the documentation.
- (merge afb5de7 mm/am-c-doc later to maint).
-
- * The interaction between "git submodule update" and the
- submodule.*.update configuration was not clearly documented.
- (merge 5c31acf ms/submodule-update-config-doc later to maint).
-
- * "git diff --shortstat --dirstat=changes" showed a dirstat based on
- lines that was never asked by the end user in addition to the
- dirstat that the user asked for.
- (merge ab27389 mk/diff-shortstat-dirstat-fix later to maint).
-
- * "git remote add" mentioned "--tags" and "--no-tags" and was not
- clear that fetch from the remote in the future will use the default
- behaviour when neither is given to override it.
- (merge aaba0ab mg/doc-remote-tags-or-not later to maint).
-
- * Description given by "grep -h" for its --exclude-standard option
- was phrased poorly.
- (merge 77fdb8a nd/grep-exclude-standard-help-fix later to maint).
-
- * The borrowed code in kwset API did not follow our usual convention
- to use "unsigned char" to store values that range from 0-255.
- (merge 189c860 bw/kwset-use-unsigned later to maint).
-
- * Code cleanups and documentaiton updates.
- (merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint).
- (merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint).
- (merge 817d03e jc/diff-test-updates later to maint).
- (merge eb32c66 ak/t5516-typofix later to maint).
- (merge bcd57cb mr/doc-clean-f-f later to maint).