1Git 2.24 Release Notes 2====================== 3 4Updates since v2.23 5------------------- 6 7Backward compatibility note 8 9 * (no entry yet so far) 10 11 12UI, Workflows & Features 13 14 * We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of 15 the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering. 16 17 * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the 18 standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options 19 first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user 20 input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but 21 that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter 22 between revs and pathspec. 23 24 * A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of 25 configuration variables is introduced. 26 27 * "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first 28 clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true 29 upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it. 30 31 * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns. 32 (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint). 33 34 * "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge 35 strategies and pass strategy specific options to them. 36 37 * A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced. 38 39 * Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been 40 added. 41 42 * The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more 43 than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading 44 missing objects on demand. 45 46 * The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone) 47 learned to take a combined filter specification. 48 49 50Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 51 52 * The code to write commit-graph over given commit object names has 53 been made a bit more robust. 54 55 * The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries 56 the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs. 57 58 * Further clean-up of the initialization code. 59 60 * xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address 61 space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation 62 failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex 63 and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource 64 users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms. 65 It has been simplified away. 66 67 * Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been 68 optimized away. 69 70 * The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports 71 learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been 72 corrected. 73 74 75Fixes since v2.23 76----------------- 77 78 * "git grep --recurse-submodules" that looks at the working tree 79 files looked at the contents in the index in submodules, instead of 80 files in the working tree. 81 (merge 6a289d45c0 mt/grep-submodules-working-tree later to maint). 82 83 * Codepaths to walk tree objects have been audited for integer 84 overflows and hardened. 85 (merge 5aa02f9868 jk/tree-walk-overflow later to maint). 86 87 * "git pack-refs" can lose refs that are created while running, which 88 is getting corrected. 89 (merge a613d4f817 sc/pack-refs-deletion-racefix later to maint). 90 91 * "git checkout" and "git restore" to re-populate the index from a 92 tree-ish (typically HEAD) did not work correctly for a path that 93 was removed and then added again with the intent-to-add bit, when 94 the corresponding working tree file was empty. This has been 95 corrected. 96 97 * Compilation fix. 98 (merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint). 99 100 * "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting. 101 (merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint). 102 103 * We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split 104 diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but 105 some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has 106 been corrected. 107 (merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint). 108 109 * Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe. 110 (merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint). 111 112 * "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in 113 some corner cases, which has been corrected. 114 (merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint). 115 116 * On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch 117 commits from submodule projects, while still working in the 118 superproject, which has been corrected. 119 (merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint). 120 121 * Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe. 122 (merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint). 123 124 * "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves 125 against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to 126 show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected. 127 (merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint). 128 129 * The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of 130 updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying 131 subsequent steps. 132 (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint). 133 134 * Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the 135 xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency. 136 (merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint). 137 138 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. 139 (merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint). 140 (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint). 141 (merge 415b770b88 ds/midx-expire-repack later to maint). 142 (merge 19800bdc3f nd/diff-parseopt later to maint). 143 (merge 58166c2e9d tg/t0021-racefix later to maint).