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1 Git v2.39 Release Notes
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4 UI, Workflows & Features
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7 * "git grep" learned to expand the sparse-index more lazily and on
8 demand in a sparse checkout.
10 * By default, use of fsmonitor on a repository on networked
11 filesystem is disabled. Add knobs to make it workable on macOS.
13 * After checking out a "branch" that is a symbolic-ref that points at
14 another branch, "git symbolic-ref HEAD" reports the underlying
15 branch, not the symbolic-ref the user gave checkout as argument.
16 The command learned the "--no-recurse" option to stop after
17 dereferencing a symbolic-ref only once.
19 * "git branch --edit-description @{-1}" is now a way to edit branch
20 description of the branch you were on before switching to the
21 current branch.
23 * "git merge-tree --stdin" is a new way to request a series of merges
24 and report the merge results.
26 * "git shortlog" learned to group by the "format" string.
28 * A new "--include-whitespace" option is added to "git patch-id", and
29 existing bugs in the internal patch-id logic that did not match
30 what "git patch-id" produces have been corrected.
32 * Enable gc.cruftpacks by default for those who opt into
33 feature.experimental setting.
35 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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38 * With a bit of header twiddling, use the native regexp library on
39 macOS instead of the compat/ one.
41 * Prepare for GNU [ef]grep that throw warning of their uses.
43 * Sources related to fuzz testing have been moved down to their own
44 directory.
46 * Most credential helpers ignored unknown entries in a credential
47 description, but a few died upon seeing them. The latter were
48 taught to ignore them, too
50 * "scalar unregister" in a repository that is already been
51 unregistered reported an error.
53 * Remove error detection from a function that fetches from promisor
54 remotes, and make it die when such a fetch fails to bring all the
55 requested objects, to give an early failure to various operations.
57 * Update CodingGuidelines to clarify what features to use and avoid
58 in C99.
60 * Avoid false-positive from LSan whose assumption may be broken with
61 higher optimization levels.
63 * Enable address and undefined sanitizer tasks at GitHub Actions CI.
65 * More UNUSED annotation to help using -Wunused option with the
66 compiler.
67 (merge 4b992f0a24 jk/unused-anno-more later to maint).
69 * Rewrite a deep recursion in the skipping negotiator to use a loop
70 with on-heap prio queue to avoid stack wastage.
72 * Add documentation for message IDs in fsck error messages.
74 * Define the logical elements of a "bundle list", data structure to
75 store them in-core, format to transfer them, and code to parse
76 them.
78 * The role the security mailing list plays in an embargoed release
79 has been documented.
81 * Two new facilities, "timer" and "counter", are introduced to the
82 trace2 API.
84 * Code simplification by using strvec_pushf() instead of building an
85 argument in a separate strbuf.
87 * Make sure generated dependency file is stably sorted to help
88 developers debugging their build issues.
90 * The glossary entries for "commit-graph file" and "reachability
91 bitmap" have been added.
93 * Various tests exercising the transfer.credentialsInUrl
94 configuration are taught to avoid making requests which require
95 resolving localhost to reduce CI-flakiness.
97 * A redundant diagnostic message is dropped from test_path_is_missing().
99 * Simplify the run-command API.
101 Fixes since v2.38
102 -----------------
104 * The codepath that reads from the index v4 had unaligned memory
105 accesses, which has been corrected.
107 * Fix messages incorrectly marked for translation.
109 * "git fsck" failed to release contents of tree objects already used
110 from the memory, which has been fixed.
112 * "git clone" did not like to see the "--bare" and the "--origin"
113 options used together without a good reason.
115 * "git remote rename" failed to rename a remote without fetch
116 refspec, which has been corrected.
118 * Documentation on various Boolean GIT_* environment variables have
119 been clarified.
121 * "git rebase -i" can mistakenly attempt to apply a fixup to a commit
122 itself, which has been corrected.
124 * "git multi-pack-index repack/expire" used to repack unreachable
125 cruft into a new pack, which have been corrected.
127 * In read-only repositories, "git merge-tree" tried to come up with a
128 merge result tree object, which it failed (which is not wrong) and
129 led to a segfault (which is bad), which has been corrected.
131 * Force C locale while running tests around httpd to make sure we can
132 find expected error messages in the log.
134 * Fix a logic in "mailinfo -b" that miscomputed the length of a
135 substring, which lead to an out-of-bounds access.
137 * The codepath to sign learned to report errors when it fails to read
138 from "ssh-keygen".
140 * Code clean-up that results in plugging a leak.
142 * "GIT_EDITOR=: git branch --edit-description" resulted in failure,
143 which has been corrected.
145 * The code to clean temporary object directories (used for
146 quarantine) tried to remove them inside its signal handler, which
147 was a no-no.
149 * Update comment in the Makefile about the RUNTIME_PREFIX config knob.
151 * Clarify that "the sentence after <area>: prefix does not begin with
152 a capital letter" rule applies only to the commit title.
154 * "git branch --edit-description" on an unborh branch misleadingly
155 said that no such branch exists, which has been corrected.
157 * Work around older clang that warns against C99 zero initialization
158 syntax for struct.
160 * Giving "--invert-grep" and "--all-match" without "--grep" to the
161 "git log" command resulted in an attempt to access grep pattern
162 expression structure that has not been allocated, which has been
163 corrected.
164 (merge db84376f98 ab/grep-simplify-extended-expression later to maint).
166 * "git diff rev^!" did not show combined diff to go to the rev from
167 its parents.
168 (merge a79c6b6081 rs/diff-caret-bang-with-parents later to maint).
170 * Allow configuration files in "protected" scopes to include other
171 configuration files.
172 (merge ecec57b3c9 gc/bare-repo-discovery later to maint).
174 * Give a bit more diversity to macOS CI by using sha1dc in one of the
175 jobs (the other one tests Apple Common Crypto).
176 (merge 1ad5c3df35 jc/ci-osx-with-sha1dc later to maint).
178 * A bugfix with tracing support in midx codepath
179 (merge e9c3839944 tb/midx-bitmap-selection-fix later to maint).
181 * When geometric repacking feature is in use together with the
182 --pack-kept-objects option, we lost packs marked with .keep files.
183 (merge 197443e80a tb/save-keep-pack-during-geometric-repack later to maint).
185 * Move a global variable added as a hack during regression fixes to
186 its proper place in the API.
187 (merge 0b0ab95f17 ab/run-hook-api-cleanup later to maint).
189 * Update to build procedure with VS using CMake/CTest.
190 (merge c858750b41 js/cmake-updates later to maint).
192 * The short-help text shown by "git cmd -h" and the synopsis text
193 shown at the beginning of "git help cmd" have been made more
194 consistent.
196 * When creating a multi-pack bitmap, remove per-pack bitmap files
197 unconditionally as they will never be consulted.
198 (merge 55d902cd61 tb/remove-unused-pack-bitmap later to maint).
200 * Fix a longstanding syntax error in Git.pm error codepath.
202 * "git diff --stat" etc. were invented back when everything was ASCII
203 and strlen() was a way to measure the display width of a string;
204 adjust them to compute the display width assuming UTF-8 pathnames.
205 (merge ce8529b2bb tb/diffstat-with-utf8-strwidth later to maint).
207 * "git branch --edit-description" can exit with status -1 which is
208 not a good practice; it learned to use 1 as everybody else instead.
210 * "git apply" limits its input to a bit less than 1 GiB.
212 * Merging a branch with directory renames into a branch that changes
213 the directory to a symlink was mishandled by the ort merge
214 strategy, which has been corrected.
216 * A bugfix to "git subtree" in its split and merge features.
218 * Fix some bugs in the reflog messages when rebasing and changes the
219 reflog messages of "rebase --apply" to match "rebase --merge" with
220 the aim of making the reflog easier to parse.
222 * "git rebase --keep-base" used to discard the commits that are
223 already cherry-picked to the upstream, even when "keep-base" meant
224 that the base, on top of which the history is being rebuilt, does
225 not yet include these cherry-picked commits. The --keep-base
226 option now implies --reapply-cherry-picks and --no-fork-point
227 options.
229 * The way "git repack" creared temporary files when it received a
230 signal was prone to deadlocking, which has been corrected.
232 * Various tests exercising the transfer.credentialsInUrl
233 configuration are taught to avoid making requests which require
234 resolving localhost to reduce CI-flakiness.
236 * The adjust_shared_perm() helper function learned to refrain from
237 setting the "g+s" bit on directories when it is not necessary.
239 * "git archive" mistakenly complained twice about a missing
240 executable, which has been corrected.
242 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
243 (merge 413bc6d20a ds/cmd-main-reorder later to maint).
244 (merge 8d2863e4ed nw/t1002-cleanup later to maint).