From bca181109d6f054d525c71a84963bbdc1f0c40bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:01:07 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Getting ready for -rc0 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt index f052162eff..386c75d0b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt @@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags" option on by default for the "git push" command. + * "git log --graph --no-walk A B..." is a conflicting request that + asks nonsense; no-walk tells us show discrete points in the + history, while graph asks to draw connections between these + discrete points. Forbid the combination. + + * "git rev-list --bisect --first-parent" does not work (yet) and can + even cause SEGV; forbid it. "git log --bisect --first-parent" + would not be useful until "git bisect --first-parent" materializes, + so it is also forbidden for now. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -168,6 +178,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add new configuration bits. + * The run-command interface was easy to abuse and make a pipe for us + to read from the process, wait for the process to finish and then + attempt to read its output, which is a pattern that lead to a + deadlock. Fix such uses by introducing a helper to do this + correctly (i.e. we need to read first and then wait the process to + finish) and also add code to prevent such abuse in the run-command + helper. + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -400,6 +418,37 @@ notes for details). that are about listing in a wrong section. (merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint). + * "git prune" used to largely ignore broken refs when deciding which + objects are still being used, which could spread an existing small + damage and make it a larger one. + (merge ea56c4e jk/prune-with-corrupt-refs later to maint). + + * The split-index mode introduced at v2.3.0-rc0~41 was broken in the + codepath to protect us against a broken reimplementation of Git + that writes an invalid index with duplicated index entries, etc. + (merge 03f15a7 tg/fix-check-order-with-split-index later to maint). + + * "git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want + extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs. + (merge 32d0462 jk/fetch-pack later to maint). + + * An failure early in the "git clone" that started creating the + working tree and repository could have resulted in some directories + and files left without getting cleaned up. + (merge 16eff6c jk/cleanup-failed-clone later to maint). + + * Recommend format-patch and send-email for those who want to submit + patches to this project. + (merge b25c469 jc/submitting-patches-mention-send-email later to maint). + + * Even though "git grep --quiet" is run merely to ask for the exit + status, we spawned the pager regardless. Stop doing that. + (merge c2048f0 ws/grep-quiet-no-pager later to maint). + + * The prompt script (in contrib/) did not show the untracked sign + when working in a subdirectory without any untracked files. + (merge 9bdc517 ct/prompt-untracked-fix later to maint). + * Code cleanups and documentation updates. (merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint). (merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint). @@ -412,3 +461,6 @@ notes for details). (merge 9a6f128 rs/deflate-init-cleanup later to maint). (merge 6f75d45 rs/use-isxdigit later to maint). (merge 376e4b3 jk/test-annoyances later to maint). + (merge 7032054 nd/doc-git-index-version later to maint). + (merge e869c5e tg/test-index-v4 later to maint). + (merge 599d223 jk/simplify-csum-file-sha1fd-check later to maint). -- 2.11.4.GIT