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1 Git 2.28 Release Notes
2 ======================
4 Updates since v2.27
5 -------------------
7 Backward compatibility notes
9 * "feature.experimental" configuration variable is to let volunteers
10 easily opt into a set of newer features, which use of the v2
11 transport protocol is now a part of.
14 UI, Workflows & Features
16 * The commands in the "diff" family learned to honor "diff.relative"
17 configuration variable.
19 * The check in "git fsck" to ensure that the tree objects are sorted
20 still had corner cases it missed unsorted entries.
23 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
25 * Code optimization for a common case.
26 (merge 8777616e4d an/merge-single-strategy-optim later to maint).
28 * We've adopted a convention that any on-stack structure can be
29 initialized to have zero values in all fields with "= { 0 }",
30 even when the first field happens to be a pointer, but sparse
31 complained that a null pointer should be spelled NULL for a long
32 time. Start using -Wno-universal-initializer option to squelch
33 it (the latest sparse has it on by default).
35 * "git log -L..." now takes advantage of the "which paths are touched
36 by this commit?" info stored in the commit-graph system.
38 * As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library reports
39 a REG_ILLSEQ error when fed invalid UTF-8, add logic to detect that
40 automatically and skip the affected tests.
42 * "git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use.
44 * Support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE has been rewritten in terms of
45 GIT_TRACE_CURL.
48 Fixes since v2.27
49 -----------------
51 * The "--prepare-p4-only" option of "git p4" is supposed to stop
52 after replaying one changeset, but kept going (by mistake?)
54 * The error message from "git checkout -b foo -t bar baz" was
55 confusing.
57 * Some repositories in the wild have commits that record nonsense
58 committer timezone (e.g. rails.git); "git fast-import" learned an
59 option to pass these nonsense timestamps intact to allow recreating
60 existing repositories as-is.
61 (merge d42a2fb72f en/fast-import-looser-date later to maint).
63 * The command line completion script (in contrib/) tried to complete
64 "git stash -p" as if it were "git stash push -p", but it was too
65 aggressive and also affected "git stash show -p", which has been
66 corrected.
67 (merge fffd0cf520 vs/complete-stash-show-p-fix later to maint).
69 * On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the
70 remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side
71 prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has
72 been updated to make it more robust.
74 * "git checkout -p" did not handle a newly added path at all.
75 (merge 2c8bd8471a js/checkout-p-new-file later to maint).
77 * The code to parse "git bisect start" command line was lax in
78 validating the arguments.
79 (merge 4d9005ff5d cb/bisect-helper-parser-fix later to maint).
81 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
82 (merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint).
83 (merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint).