* "upload-pack" allows a custom "git pack-objects" replacement when
responding to "fetch/clone" via the uploadpack.packObjectsHook.
- (merge 20b20a2 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint).
+ (merge b738396 jk/upload-pack-hook later to maint).
* Teach format-patch and mailsplit (hence "am") how a line that
happens to begin with "From " in the e-mail message is quoted with
command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.
(merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint).
- * A couple of "git svn" updates.
-
* More markings of messages for i18n, with updates to various tests
to pass GETTEXT_POISON tests.
* "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and
commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR
format.
- (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+ (merge 560b0e8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+
* A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
+ * "git worktree prune" protected worktrees that are marked as
+ "locked" by creating a file in a known location. "git worktree"
+ command learned a dedicated command pair to create and remove such
+ a file, so that the users do not have to do this with editor.
+
+ * A handful of "git svn" updates.
+
+ * "git push" learned to accept and pass extra options to the
+ receiving end so that hooks can read and react to them.
+
+ * "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
+ merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
+ conflicted rebase.
+
+ * "git jump" script (in contrib/) has been updated a bit.
+ (merge a91e692 jk/git-jump later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" and "git clone" learned to give better progress meters
+ to the end user who is waiting on the terminal.
+
+ * An entry "git log --decorate" for the tip of the current branch is
+ shown as "HEAD -> name" (where "name" is the name of the branch);
+ the arrow is now painted in the same color as "HEAD", not in the
+ color for commits.
+
+ * "git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
+ specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
+
+ * "git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
+ to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
+ subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.
+
+ * The command line completion scripts (in contrib/) now knows about
+ "git branch --delete/--move [--remote]".
+ (merge 2703c22 vs/completion-branch-fully-spelled-d-m-r later to maint).
+
+ * "git rev-parse --git-path hooks/<hook>" learned to take
+ core.hooksPath configuration variable (introduced during 2.9 cycle)
+ into account.
+ (merge 9445b49 ab/hooks later to maint).
+
+ * "git log --show-signature" and other commands that display the
+ verification status of PGP signature now shows the longer key-id,
+ as 32-bit key-id is so last century.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* "git upload-pack" command has been updated to use the parse-options
API.
- * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; this is the
- first step to move many state variables into a structure that can
- be explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
- than once.
+ * The "git apply" standalone program is being libified; the first
+ step to move many state variables into a structure that can be
+ explicitly (re)initialized to make the machinery callable more
+ than once has been merged.
* HTTP transport gained an option to produce more detailed debugging
trace.
(merge 73e57aa ep/http-curl-trace later to maint).
- * Instead of taking advantage of a struct string_list that is
- allocated with all NULs happens to be STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP kind,
- initialize them explicitly as such, to document their behaviour
- better.
+ * Instead of taking advantage of the fact that a struct string_list
+ that is allocated with all NULs happens to be the INIT_NODUP kind,
+ the users of string_list structures are taught to initialize them
+ explicitly as such, to document their behaviour better.
(merge 2721ce2 jk/string-list-static-init later to maint).
* HTTPd tests learned to show the server error log to help diagnosing
the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
- The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
+ * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
(merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
* Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
each ref that was fetched.
- (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint).
* The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
- (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
* Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
- (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
* When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
* Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
- (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
* Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
* The API to iterate over all the refs (i.e. for_each_ref(), etc.)
has been revamped.
+ * The handling of the "text=auto" attribute has been corrected.
+ $ echo "* text=auto eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
+ used to have the same effect as
+ $ echo "* text eol=crlf" >.gitattributes
+ i.e. declaring all files are text (ignoring "auto"). The
+ combination has been fixed to be equivalent to doing
+ $ git config core.autocrlf true
+
+ * Documentation has been updated to show better example usage
+ of the updated "text=auto" attribute.
+
+ * A few tests that specifically target "git rebase -i" have been
+ added.
+
+ * Dumb http transport on the client side has been optimized.
+ (merge ecba195 ew/http-walker later to maint).
+
+ * Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
+ extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
+ to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
+ code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
+ the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
+
+ * "git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
+ and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
+ back to enlarge the window size linearly. The "smart http"
+ transport, being an half-duplex protocol, outgrows the preset limit
+ too quickly and becomes inefficient when interacting with a large
+ repository. The internal mechanism learned to grow the window size
+ more aggressively when working with the "smart http" transport.
+
+ * Tests for "git svn" have been taught to reuse the lib-httpd test
+ infrastructure when testing the subversion integration that
+ interacts with subversion repositories served over the http://
+ protocol.
+ (merge a8a5d25 ew/git-svn-http-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git pack-objects" has a few options that tell it not to pack
+ objects found in certain packfiles, which require it to scan .idx
+ files of all available packs. The codepaths involved in these
+ operations have been optimized for a common case of not having any
+ non-local pack and/or any .kept pack.
+
+ * The t3700 test about "add --chmod=-x" have been made a bit more
+ robust and generally cleaned up.
+ (merge 766cdc4 ib/t3700-add-chmod-x-updates later to maint).
+
+ * The build procedure learned PAGER_ENV knob that lists what default
+ environment variable settings to export for popular pagers. This
+ mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
+ (merge 995bc22 ew/build-time-pager-tweaks later to maint).
+
+ * The http-backend (the server-side component of smart-http
+ transport) used to trickle the HTTP header one at a time. Now
+ these write(2)s are batched.
+ (merge b36045c ew/http-backend-batch-headers later to maint).
+
+ * When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated
+ upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these
+ changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by
+ lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be
+ compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths.
+ (merge ba67504 kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint).
+
+ * A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have
+ been fixed.
+
+ * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much
+ refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has
+ been reduced to help translators.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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.
- (merge bab7483 jk/tzoffset-fix later to maint).
* One among four invocations of readlink(1) in our test suite has
been rewritten so that the test can run on systems without the
finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank
lines to match.
- (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint).
* For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our
colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on
Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years.
- (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint).
* "gc.autoPackLimit" when set to 1 should not trigger a repacking
when there is only one pack, but the code counted poorly and did
so.
- (merge 5f4e3bf ew/gc-auto-pack-limit-fix later to maint).
* Add a test to specify the desired behaviour that currently is not
available in "git rebase -Xsubtree=...".
- (merge 5f35900 dg/subtree-rebase-test later to maint).
* More mark-up updates to typeset strings that are expected to
literally typed by the end user in fixed-width font.
- (merge 661c3e9 mm/doc-tt later to maint).
* "git commit --amend --allow-empty-message -S" for a commit without
any message body could have misidentified where the header of the
commit object ends.
- (merge 3324dd8 js/sign-empty-commit-fix later to maint).
* "git rebase -i --autostash" did not restore the auto-stashed change
when the operation was aborted.
- (merge 33ba9c6 ps/rebase-i-auto-unstash-upon-abort later to maint).
* Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a
path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not
show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that
logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working
tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
- (merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint).
* "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
- (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint).
* Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
case condition.
- (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint).
* "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
correctly.
- (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint).
* A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
is not necessarily available everywhere.
- (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
* There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
* The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
- (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint).
* General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
single-liner to a file.
which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
contrast to "ours".
- (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint).
* "git blame file" allowed the lineage of lines in the uncommitted,
unadded contents of "file" to be inspected, but it refused when
"file" did not appear in the current commit. When "file" was
created by renaming an existing file (but the change has not been
committed), this restriction was unnecessarily tight.
- (merge c66b470 mh/blame-worktree later to maint).
* "git add -N dir/file && git write-tree" produced an incorrect tree
when there are other paths in the same directory that sorts after
"file".
- (merge 6d6a782 nd/cache-tree-ita later to maint).
* "git fetch http://user:pass@host/repo..." scrubbed the userinfo
part, but "git push" didn't.
- (merge 68f3c07 jk/push-scrub-url later to maint).
* "git merge" with renormalization did not work well with
merge-recursive, due to "safer crlf" conversion kicking in when it
* The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
suboptimal, which has been fixed.
- (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
* An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
misbehave has been fixed.
- (merge 044fb19 js/ignore-space-at-eol later to maint).
+
+ * "git notes merge" had a code to see if a path exists (and fails if
+ it does) and then open the path for writing (when it doesn't).
+ Replace it with open with O_EXCL.
+
+ * "git pack-objects" and "git index-pack" mostly operate with off_t
+ when talking about the offset of objects in a packfile, but there
+ were a handful of places that used "unsigned long" to hold that
+ value, leading to an unintended truncation.
+
+ * Recent update to "git daemon" tries to enable the socket-level
+ KEEPALIVE, but when it is spawned via inetd, the standard input
+ file descriptor may not necessarily be connected to a socket.
+ Suppress an ENOTSOCK error from setsockopt().
+
+ * Recent FreeBSD stopped making perl available at /usr/bin/perl;
+ switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
+ too ancient FreeBSD releases.
+
+ * "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
+ pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
+ commit-msg hook.
+
+ * "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
+ lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
+ the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
+ "git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
+ option to override the default.
+
+ * The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
+ has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
+ of Go.
+
+ * There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
+ an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
+ be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
+ such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
+ involves inflating and applying delta. This however kicked in even
+ when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
+ conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
+ point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
+ the conversion is necessary.
+
+ * "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
+ because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
+ designed well.
+
+ * Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
+ inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
+
+ * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
+ --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
+ has been added.
+ (merge 442f6fd jk/reflog-date later to maint).
+
+ * "git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
+ interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
+ fixed.
+
+ * The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
+ "gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
+
+ * FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
+ untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
+ caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
+ behaviour of the fast-path.
+
+ * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library.
+
+ * A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
+ has been plugged.
+
+ * The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
+ can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
+ that it is safe to do so.
+
+ * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
+ calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
+ that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
+ resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
+ the same.
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
+ ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
+ receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
+ discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
+ to the users. It does so now.
+ (merge 9eed4f3 jk/push-force-with-lease-creation later to maint).
+
+ * The mechanism to limit the pack window memory size, when packing is
+ done using multiple threads (which is the default), is per-thread,
+ but this was not documented clearly.
+ (merge 954176c ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread later to maint).
+
+ * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
+ hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
+ corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
+ shared with.
+ (merge 04e0869 js/import-tars-hardlinks later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
+ the same way as existing mainstream platforms. The code now moves
+ "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
+ that strips the trailing slash of '/'.
+ (merge 189d035 js/mv-dir-to-new-directory later to maint).
+
+ * The "t/" hierarchy is prone to get an unusual pathname; "make test"
+ has been taught to make sure they do not contain paths that cannot
+ be checked out on Windows (and the mechanism can be reusable to
+ catch pathnames that are not portable to other platforms as need
+ arises).
+ (merge c2cafd3 js/test-lint-pathname later to maint).
+
+ * When "git merge-recursive" works on history with many criss-cross
+ merges in "verbose" mode, the names the command assigns to the
+ virtual merge bases could have overwritten each other by unintended
+ reuse of the same piece of memory.
+ (merge 5447a76 rs/pull-signed-tag later to maint).
+
+ * "git checkout --detach <branch>" used to give the same advice
+ message as that is issued when "git checkout <tag>" (or anything
+ that is not a branch name) is given, but asking with "--detach" is
+ an explicit enough sign that the user knows what is going on. The
+ advice message has been squelched in this case.
+ (merge 779b88a sb/checkout-explit-detach-no-advice later to maint).
+
+ * "git difftool" by default ignores the error exit from the backend
+ commands it spawns, because often they signal that they found
+ differences by exiting with a non-zero status code just like "diff"
+ does; the exit status codes 126 and above however are special in
+ that they are used to signal that the command is not executable,
+ does not exist, or killed by a signal. "git difftool" has been
+ taught to notice these exit status codes.
+ (merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint).
+
+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
+ variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
+ git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
+ place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
+ override, and if so how?"
+ (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
+ a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
+ finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
+ removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a
+ subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
+ subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
+ made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
+ the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
+ to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
+ (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint).
+
+ * Correct an age-old calco (is that a typo-like word for calc)
+ in the documentation.
+ (merge 7841c48 ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
- (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
- (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).
- (merge fcf0fe9 lf/sideband-returns-void later to maint).
- (merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint).
- (merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint).
- (merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint).
- (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 31471ba rs/use-strbuf-addbuf later to maint).
- (merge 503e224 nd/test-helpers later to maint).
- (merge 16726cf jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude later to maint).
- (merge fd2e7da rs/worktree-use-strbuf-absolute-path later to maint).
+ (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
+ (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
+ (merge 1eb47f1 rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev later to maint).
+ (merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
+ (merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint).
+ (merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
+ (merge 4369523 hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint).