From e773545c7fe7eca21b134847f4fc2cbc9547fa14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 14:28:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] The second batch --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt index 120fac5b21..34b5ffedfd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.35.0.txt @@ -18,6 +18,24 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git stash" learned the "--staged" option to stash away what has been added to the index (and nothing else). + * "git var GIT_DEFAULT_BRANCH" is a way to see what name is used for + the newly created branch if "git init" is run. + + * Various operating modes of "git reset" have been made to work + better with the sparse index. + + * "git submodule deinit" for a submodule whose .git metadata + directory is embedded in its working tree refused to work, until + the submodule gets converted to use the "absorbed" form where the + metadata directory is stored in superproject, and a gitfile at the + top-level of the working tree of the submodule points at it. The + command is taught to convert such submodules to the absorbed form + as needed. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learns that the "--date" + option of commands from the "git log" family takes "human" and + "auto" as valid values. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -31,6 +49,21 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. tweaked to make it easier to keep it in sync with the command itself. + * Ensure that the sparseness of the in-core index matches the + index.sparse configuration specified by the repository immediately + after the on-disk index file is read. + + * Code clean-up to eventually allow information on remotes defined + for an arbitrary repository to be read. + + * Build optimization. + + * Tighten code for testing pack-bitmap. + + * Weather balloon to break people with compilers that do not support + C99. + + Fixes since v2.34 ----------------- @@ -63,3 +96,69 @@ Fixes since v2.34 * The clean/smudge conversion code path has been prepared to better work on platforms where ulong is narrower than size_t. (merge 596b5e77c9 mc/clean-smudge-with-llp64 later to maint). + + * Redact the path part of packfile URI that appears in the trace output. + (merge 0ba558ffb1 if/redact-packfile-uri later to maint). + + * CI has been taught to catch some Unicode directional formatting + sequence that can be used in certain mischief. + (merge 0e7696c64d js/ci-no-directional-formatting later to maint). + + * The "--date=format:" gained a workaround for the lack of + system support for a non-local timezone to handle "%s" placeholder. + (merge 9b591b9403 jk/strbuf-addftime-seconds-since-epoch later to maint). + + * The "merge" subcommand of "git jump" (in contrib/) silently ignored + pathspec and other parameters. + (merge 67ba13e5a4 jk/jump-merge-with-pathspec later to maint). + + * The code to decode the length of packed object size has been + corrected. + (merge 34de5b8eac jt/pack-header-lshift-overflow later to maint). + + * The advice message given by "git pull" when the user hasn't made a + choice between merge and rebase still said that the merge is the + default, which no longer is the case. This has been corrected. + (merge 71076d0edd ah/advice-pull-has-no-preference-between-rebase-and-merge later to maint). + + * "git fetch", when received a bad packfile, can fail with SIGPIPE. + This wasn't wrong per-se, but we now detect the situation and fail + in a more predictable way. + (merge 2a4aed42ec jk/fetch-pack-avoid-sigpipe-to-index-pack later to maint). + + * The function to cull a child process and determine the exit status + had two separate code paths for normal callers and callers in a + signal handler, and the latter did not yield correct value when the + child has caught a signal. The handling of the exit status has + been unified for these two code paths. An existing test with + flakiness has also been corrected. + (merge 5263e22cba jk/t7006-sigpipe-tests-fix later to maint). + + * When a non-existent program is given as the pager, we tried to + reuse an uninitialized child_process structure and crashed, which + has been fixed. + (merge f917f57f40 em/missing-pager later to maint). + + * The single-key-input mode in "git add -p" had some code to handle + keys that generate a sequence of input via ReadKey(), which did not + handle end-of-file correctly, which has been fixed. + (merge fc8a8126df cb/add-p-single-key-fix later to maint). + + * "git rebase -x" added an unnecessary 'exec' instructions before + 'noop', which has been corrected. + (merge cc9dcdee61 en/rebase-x-fix later to maint). + + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. + (merge 74db416c9c cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge f9b2b6684d ja/doc-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 7d1b866778 jc/fix-first-object-walk later to maint). + (merge 538ac74604 js/trace2-avoid-recursive-errors later to maint). + (merge 152923b132 jk/t5319-midx-corruption-test-deflake later to maint). + (merge 9081a421a6 ab/checkout-branch-info-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 42c456ff81 rs/mergesort later to maint). + (merge ad506e6780 tl/midx-docfix later to maint). + (merge bf5b83fd8a hk/ci-checkwhitespace-commentfix later to maint). + (merge 49f1eb3b34 jk/refs-g11-workaround later to maint). + (merge 7d3fc7df70 jt/midx-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge 7b089120d9 hn/create-reflog-simplify later to maint). + (merge 9e12400da8 cb/mingw-gmtime-r later to maint). -- 2.11.4.GIT