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.
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.
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.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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..
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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.
+ (merge da769d2986 jk/describe-omit-some-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "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.
+ (merge cc0ea7c9e5 jk/diff-blob later to maint).
+
+ * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did
+ not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has
+ been fixed.
+ (merge 9c03caca2c ik/userdiff-html-h-element-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "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.
+ (merge c8cf423eab rs/mailinfo-qp-decode-fix later to maint).
+
+ * 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.
+ (merge c25d98b2a7 jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix later to maint).
+
+ * "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.
+ (merge e66d7c37a5 ar/request-pull-phrasofix later to maint).
+
+ * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind.
+ (merge 2944a94c6b tg/memfixes later to maint).
+
+ * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation
+ from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop.
+ (merge 61b2a1acaa rb/compat-poll-fix later to maint).
+
+ * 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. Fix this regression by redefining
+ 'always' to mean the same thing as 'auto'.
+ (merge 6be4595edb jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint later to maint).
+
+ * 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.
+ (merge bea4dbeafd tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
(merge f7a32dd97f kd/doc-for-each-ref later to maint).
(merge be94568bc7 ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix later to maint).
(merge 01e4be6c3d ks/test-readme-phrasofix later to maint).
+ (merge 217bb56d4f hn/typofix later to maint).
+ (merge c08fd6388c jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
+ (merge c3342b362e ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name later to maint).
+ (merge 0bca165fdb jk/validate-headref-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 93dbefb389 mr/doc-negative-pathspec later to maint).
+ (merge 5e633326e4 ad/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 9ca356fa8b rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params later to maint).
+ (merge 7099153e8d rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 0e187d758c rs/run-command-use-alloc-array later to maint).
+ (merge e0222159fa jn/strbuf-doc-re-reuse later to maint).
+ (merge 97487ea11a rs/qsort-s later to maint).
+ (merge a9155c50bd sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release 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).