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1 Git 2.26 Release Notes
2 ======================
4 Updates since v2.25
5 -------------------
7 UI, Workflows & Features
9 * Sample credential helper for using .netrc has been updated to work
10 out of the box.
12 * gpg.minTrustLevel configuration variable has been introduced to
13 tell various signature verification codepaths the required minimum
14 trust level.
16 * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
17 subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
19 * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
20 tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
21 count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
23 * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
24 environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
25 option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
26 placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
27 get confused.
29 * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it
30 nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API.
32 * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to
33 avoid races.
35 * "git config" learned to show in which "scope", in addition to in
36 which file, each config setting comes from.
38 * The basic 7 colors learned the brighter counterparts
39 (e.g. "brightred").
42 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
44 * Tell .editorconfig that in this project, *.txt files are indented
45 with tabs.
47 * The test-lint machinery knew to check "VAR=VAL shell_function"
48 construct, but did not check "VAR= shell_funciton", which has been
49 corrected.
51 * Replace "git config --bool" calls with "git config --type=bool" in
52 sample templates.
54 * The effort to move "git-add--interactive" to C continues.
56 * Improve error message generation for "git submodule add".
58 * Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
59 use SHA-256 continues.
61 * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
62 to tentatively use in-core objects.
64 * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack
65 to generate its result has been improved.
67 * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one.
69 * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects
70 (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object
71 layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted.
73 * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the
74 tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected.
76 * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to
77 name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages
78 without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable.
80 * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when
81 fetching into it.
83 * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around
84 the cone mode, have been cleaned up.
86 * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the
87 diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before;
88 this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to
89 the end user.
91 * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to
92 work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its
93 callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat).
95 * Memory footprint and performance of "git name-rev" has been
96 improved.
98 * The object reachability bitmap machinery and the partial cloning
99 machinery were not prepared to work well together, because some
100 object-filtering criteria that partial clones use inherently rely
101 on object traversal, but the bitmap machinery is an optimization
102 to bypass that object traversal. There however are some cases
103 where they can work together, and they were taught about them.
105 * "git rebase" has learned to use the merge backend (i.e. the
106 machinery that drives "rebase -i") by default, while allowing
107 "--apply" option to use the "apply" backend (e.g. the moral
108 equivalent of "format-patch piped to am"). The rebase.backend
109 configuration variable can be set to customize.
112 Fixes since v2.25
113 -----------------
115 * "git commit" gives output similar to "git status" when there is
116 nothing to commit, but without honoring the advise.statusHints
117 configuration variable, which has been corrected.
119 * has_object_file() said "no" given an object registered to the
120 system via pretend_object_file(), making it inconsistent with
121 read_object_file(), causing lazy fetch to attempt fetching an
122 empty tree from promisor remotes.
124 * Complete an update to tutorial that encourages "git switch" over
125 "git checkout" that was done only half-way.
127 * C pedantry ;-) fix.
129 * The code that tries to skip over the entries for the paths in a
130 single directory using the cache-tree was not careful enough
131 against corrupt index file.
133 * Reduce unnecessary round-trip when running "ls-remote" over the
134 stateless RPC mechanism.
136 * "git restore --staged" did not correctly update the cache-tree
137 structure, resulting in bogus trees to be written afterwards, which
138 has been corrected.
140 * The code recently added to move to the entry beyond the ones in the
141 same directory in the index in the sparse-cone mode did not count
142 the number of entries to skip over incorrectly, which has been
143 corrected.
145 * Rendering by "git log --graph" of ancestry lines leading to a merge
146 commit were made suboptimal to waste vertical space a bit with a
147 recent update, which has been corrected.
149 * Work around test breakages caused by custom regex engine used in
150 libasan, when address sanitizer is used with more recent versions
151 of gcc and clang.
153 * Minor bugfixes to "git add -i" that has recently been rewritten in C.
154 (merge 849e43cc18 js/builtin-add-i-cmds later to maint).
156 * "git fetch --refmap=" option has got a better documentation.
158 * "git checkout X" did not correctly fail when X is not a local
159 branch but could name more than one remote-tracking branches
160 (i.e. to be dwimmed as the starting point to create a corresponding
161 local branch), which has been corrected.
162 (merge fa74180d08 am/checkout-file-and-ref-ref-ambiguity later to maint).
164 * Corner case bugs in "git clean" that stems from a (necessarily for
165 performance reasons) awkward calling convention in the directory
166 enumeration API has been corrected.
168 * A fetch that is told to recursively fetch updates in submodules
169 inevitably produces reams of output, and it becomes hard to spot
170 error messages. The command has been taught to enumerate
171 submodules that had errors at the end of the operation.
172 (merge 0222540827 es/fetch-show-failed-submodules-atend later to maint).
174 * The "--recurse-submodules" option of various subcommands did not
175 work well when run in an alternate worktree, which has been
176 corrected.
177 (merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint).
179 * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
180 detail.
182 * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
183 .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
184 (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint).
186 * C pedantry ;-) fix.
187 (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint).
189 * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
190 the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
191 the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
192 settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
194 * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
196 * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched.
198 * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with
199 their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it
200 goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity
201 in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were
202 not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been
203 corrected.
204 (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint).
206 * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when
207 "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure.
208 (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint).
210 * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet
211 populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a
212 part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has
213 been corrected.
214 (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint).
216 * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had
217 an off-by-one bug, which has been killed.
218 (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint).
220 * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that
221 records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the
222 code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an
223 input, but it is an input error.
224 (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint).
226 * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more
227 robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same
228 thing.
229 (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint).
231 * "git remote rename X Y" needs to adjust configuration variables
232 (e.g. branch.<name>.remote) whose value used to be X to Y.
233 branch.<name>.pushRemote is now also updated.
235 * Update to doc-diff.
236 (merge 2607d39da3 jk/doc-diff-parallel later to maint).
238 * Doc markup fix.
239 (merge 0aa6ce3094 jk/push-option-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
241 * "git check-ignore" did not work when the given path is explicitly
242 marked as not ignored with a negative entry in the .gitignore file.
243 (merge 7ec8125fba en/check-ignore later to maint).
245 * The merge-recursive machinery failed to refresh the cache entry for
246 a merge result in a couple of places, resulting in an unnecessary
247 merge failure, which has been fixed.
248 (merge fb1c18fc46 en/t3433-rebase-stat-dirty-failure later to maint).
250 * Fix for a bug revealed by a recent change to make the protocol v2
251 the default.
252 (merge 3e96c66805 ds/partial-clone-fixes later to maint).
254 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
255 (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint).
256 (merge d0d0a357a1 am/update-pathspec-f-f-tests later to maint).
257 (merge f94f7bd00d am/test-pathspec-f-f-error-cases later to maint).
258 (merge c513a958b6 ss/t6025-modernize later to maint).
259 (merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint).
260 (merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint).
261 (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint).
262 (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint).
263 (merge 7a9f8ca805 rs/parse-options-concat-dup later to maint).
264 (merge 517b60564e rs/strbuf-insertstr later to maint).
265 (merge f696a2b1c8 jk/mailinfo-cleanup later to maint).
266 (merge 076ee3e8a2 js/test-write-junit-xml-fix later to maint).
267 (merge de26f02db1 js/test-avoid-pipe later to maint).
268 (merge bfe2bbb47f js/test-unc-fetch later to maint).
269 (merge 08809c09aa js/mingw-open-in-gdb later to maint).
270 (merge cc4f2eb828 jk/doc-credential-helper later to maint).
271 (merge e0020b2f82 es/outside-repo-errmsg-hints later to maint).
272 (merge a2dc43414c es/doc-mentoring later to maint).
273 (merge 539052f42f jk/run-command-formatfix later to maint).
274 (merge 02bbbe9df9 es/worktree-cleanup later to maint).
275 (merge 2ce6d075fa rs/micro-cleanups later to maint).
276 (merge 27f182b3fc rs/blame-typefix-for-fingerprint later to maint).
277 (merge 3c29e21eb0 ma/test-cleanup later to maint).