1Git 2.8 Release Notes 2===================== 3 4Updates since v2.7 5------------------ 6 7UI, Workflows & Features 8 9 * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. 10 (merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint). 11 12 * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes 13 too much time before emitting the first line of the result. 14 15 * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) 16 how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. 17 18 * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should 19 be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes 20 tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must 21 be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only 22 when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must 23 have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref). 24 25 * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index" 26 behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the 27 user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a 28 new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this 29 cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be 30 disabled. 31 32 * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking 33 "rebase -i". 34 35 * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed. 36 37 * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory 38 configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be 39 omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in 40 your workflow. 41 42 43Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 44 45 * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use 46 it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. 47 48 * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets 49 as such correctly. 50 51 * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets 52 you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. 53 54 * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like 55 $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias 56 handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to 57 affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which 58 resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init". 59 Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment 60 and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias. 61 62 * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has 63 been updated to share more code with the code that deals with 64 normal references. 65 (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint). 66 67Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 68 69 70Fixes since v2.7 71---------------- 72 73Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance 74track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 75notes for details). 76 77 * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by 78 exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, 79 interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without 80 setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. 81 (merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint). 82 83 * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of 84 fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot 85 to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed 86 array. 87 (merge 2653a8c nd/dir-exclude-cleanup later to maint). 88 89 * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not 90 quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they 91 already are in a harmful way. 92 (merge 4d55200 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint). 93 94 * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias 95 files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. 96 (merge 2c510f2 ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix later to maint). 97 98 * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler 99 and have been fixed. 100 (merge a0df2e5 jk/clang-pedantic later to maint). 101 102 * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between 103 the '--signoff' option and DCO. 104 (merge b2c150d dw/signoff-doc later to maint). 105 106 * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be 107 at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. 108 (merge aecad37 dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit later to maint). 109 110 * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file 111 listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change 112 that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. 113 (merge 8c72236 nd/exclusion-regression-fix later to maint). 114 115 * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR 116 (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is 117 done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to 118 be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous 119 user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling 120 unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. 121 (merge ea56518 js/fopen-harder later to maint). 122 123 * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server 124 log. 125 126 Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps? 127 IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log, 128 so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good. 129 (merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint). 130 131 * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not 132 ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". 133 (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint). 134 135 * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles 136 mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not 137 friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They 138 now close the packs before doing so. 139 (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint). 140 141 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates 142 (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint). 143 (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint). 144 (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint). 145 (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).