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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 6c8a0e97c1a7..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,583 +0,0 @@ -Git 2.18 Release Notes -====================== - -Updates since v2.17 -------------------- - -UI, Workflows & Features - - * Rename detection logic that is used in "merge" and "cherry-pick" has - learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a, - z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also - want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory - 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename - to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this - work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the - working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what - our side originally had. - - * "git filter-branch" learned to use a different exit code to allow - the callers to tell the case where there was no new commits to - rewrite from other error cases. - - * When built with more recent cURL, GIT_SSL_VERSION can now specify - "tlsv1.3" as its value. - - * "git gui" learned that "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub" and - "~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub" are also possible SSH key files. - (merge 2e2f0288ef bb/git-gui-ssh-key-files later to maint). - - * "git gui" performs commit upon CTRL/CMD+ENTER but the - CTRL/CMD+KP_ENTER (i.e. enter key on the numpad) did not have the - same key binding. It now does. - (merge 28a1d94a06 bp/git-gui-bind-kp-enter later to maint). - - * "git gui" has been taught to work with old versions of tk (like - 8.5.7) that do not support "ttk::style theme use" as a way to query - the current theme. - (merge 4891961105 cb/git-gui-ttk-style later to maint). - - * "git rebase" has learned to honor "--signoff" option when using - backends other than "am" (but not "--preserve-merges"). - - * "git branch --list" during an interrupted "rebase -i" now lets - users distinguish the case where a detached HEAD is being rebased - and a normal branch is being rebased. - - * "git mergetools" learned talking to guiffy. - - * The scripts in contrib/emacs/ have outlived their usefulness and - have been replaced with a stub that errors out and tells the user - there are replacements. - - * The new "working-tree-encoding" attribute can ask Git to convert the - contents to the specified encoding when checking out to the working - tree (and the other way around when checking in). - - * The "git config" command uses separate options e.g. "--int", - "--bool", etc. to specify what type the caller wants the value to - be interpreted as. A new "--type=<typename>" option has been - introduced, which would make it cleaner to define new types. - - * "git config --get" learned the "--default" option, to help the - calling script. Building on top of the above changes, the - "git config" learns "--type=color" type. Taken together, you can - do things like "git config --get foo.color --default blue" and get - the ANSI color sequence for the color given to foo.color variable, - or "blue" if the variable does not exist. - - * "git ls-remote" learned an option to allow sorting its output based - on the refnames being shown. - - * The command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught that "git - stash save" has been deprecated ("git stash push" is the preferred - spelling in the new world) and does not offer it as a possible - completion candidate when "git stash push" can be. - - * "git gc --prune=nonsense" spent long time repacking and then - silently failed when underlying "git prune --expire=nonsense" - failed to parse its command line. This has been corrected. - - * Error messages from "git push" can be painted for more visibility. - - * "git http-fetch" (deprecated) had an optional and experimental - "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used. - This has been removed. - - * The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by - the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal - code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up - in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism. - - * "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch. - - * "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter - option. Now it does as "-P". - (merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint). - - * "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole - topology of commit graph elsewhere. - - * "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff - configuration variables such as diff.renames. - - * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load - custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a - custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using - newer version of bash-completion. - - * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this - email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action - 'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice. - - * With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge - strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed - paths and merge them accordingly. - - * "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to - skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to - do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the - "git diff" command. - - * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames - for various commands better. - - * "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the - originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one, - and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of - the commit. - - * Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone. - - * When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there - are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their - names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message. - These object names are now sorted according to their types for - easier eyeballing. - - * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take - advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended - so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured - refspec. - - * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding - from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise - and negotiate the best one. - - * "git p4" learned to "unshelve" shelved commit from P4. - (merge 123f631761 ld/p4-unshelve later to maint). - - -Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - - * A "git fetch" from a repository with insane number of refs into a - repository that is already up-to-date still wasted too many cycles - making many lstat(2) calls to see if these objects at the tips - exist as loose objects locally. These lstat(2) calls are optimized - away by enumerating all loose objects beforehand. - It is unknown if the new strategy negatively affects existing use - cases, fetching into a repository with many loose objects from a - repository with small number of refs. - - * Git can be built to use either v1 or v2 of the PCRE library, and so - far, the build-time configuration USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease instructed - the build procedure to use v1, but now it means v2. USE_LIBPCRE1 - and USE_LIBPCRE2 can be used to explicitly choose which version to - use, as before. - - * The build procedure learned to optionally use symbolic links - (instead of hardlinks and copies) to install "git-foo" for built-in - commands, whose binaries are all identical. - - * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. - - * The way "git worktree prune" worked internally has been simplified, - by assuming how "git worktree move" moves an existing worktree to a - different place. - - * Code clean-up for the "repository" abstraction. - (merge 00a3da2a13 nd/remove-ignore-env-field later to maint). - - * Code to find the length to uniquely abbreviate object names based - on packfile content, which is a relatively recent addition, has been - optimized to use the same fan-out table. - - * The mechanism to use parse-options API to automate the command line - completion continues to get extended and polished. - - * Copies of old scripted Porcelain commands in contrib/examples/ have - been removed. - - * Some tests that rely on the exact hardcoded values of object names - have been updated in preparation for hash function migration. - - * Perf-test update. - - * Test helper update. - - * The effort continues to refactor the internal global data structure - to make it possible to open multiple repositories, work with and - then close them, - - * Small test-helper programs have been consolidated into a single - binary. - - * API clean-up around ref-filter code. - - * Shell completion (in contrib) that gives list of paths have been - optimized somewhat. - - * The index file is updated to record the fsmonitor section after a - full scan was made, to avoid wasting the effort that has already - spent. - - * Performance measuring framework in t/perf learned to help bisecting - performance regressions. - - * Some multi-word source filenames are being renamed to separate - words with dashes instead of underscores. - - * An reusable "memory pool" implementation has been extracted from - fast-import.c, which in turn has become the first user of the - mem-pool API. - - * A build-time option has been added to allow Git to be told to refer - to its associated files relative to the main binary, in the same - way that has been possible on Windows for quite some time, for - Linux, BSDs and Darwin. - - * Precompute and store information necessary for ancestry traversal - in a separate file to optimize graph walking. - - * The effort to pass the repository in-core structure throughout the - API continues. This round deals with the code that implements the - refs/replace/ mechanism. - - * The build procedure "make DEVELOPER=YesPlease" learned to enable a - bit more warning options depending on the compiler used to help - developers more. There also is "make DEVOPTS=tokens" knob - available now, for those who want to help fixing warnings we - usually ignore, for example. - - * A new version of the transport protocol is being worked on. - - * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make - it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later. - - * The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored - in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit - to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense - to do so. - - * "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers - to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has - been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is - marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in - other packs and loose ones are repacked. - - * The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further. - - * The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the - repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store - the objects are to be located). - - * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry" - while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance - quite a bit. - - * The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use - the sequencer machinery more. - - * Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to - mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly. - - * Developer support. Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at - TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed. - - * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues. - - * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive, - informational messages from the codepath are now given using the - same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity - configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages - when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side - records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side. - - * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier. - (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint). - - * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once - we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against - exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded - constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated - to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the - actual object names. - - * The list of commands with their various attributes were spread - across a few places in the build procedure, but it now is getting a - bit more consolidated to allow more automation. - - * Quite a many tests assumed that newly created refs are made as - loose refs using the files backend, which have been updated to use - proper plumbing like rev-parse and update-ref, to avoid breakage - once we start using different ref backends. - - -Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. - - -Fixes since v2.17 ------------------ - - * "git shortlog cruft" aborted with a BUG message when run outside a - Git repository. The command has been taught to complain about - extra and unwanted arguments on its command line instead in such a - case. - (merge 4aa0161e83 ma/shortlog-revparse later to maint). - - * "git stash push -u -- <pathspec>" gave an unnecessary and confusing - error message when there was no tracked files that match the - <pathspec>, which has been fixed. - (merge 353278687e tg/stash-untracked-with-pathspec-fix later to maint). - - * "git tag --contains no-such-commit" gave a full list of options - after giving an error message. - (merge 3bb0923f06 ps/contains-id-error-message later to maint). - - * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) learned to understand "git log - --graph" output better. - (merge 4551fbba14 jk/diff-highlight-graph-fix later to maint). - - * when refs that do not point at committish are given, "git - filter-branch" gave a misleading error messages. This has been - corrected. - (merge f78ab355e7 yk/filter-branch-non-committish-refs later to maint). - - * "git submodule status" misbehaved on a submodule that has been - removed from the working tree. - (merge 74b6bda32f rs/status-with-removed-submodule later to maint). - - * When credential helper exits very quickly without reading its - input, it used to cause Git to die with SIGPIPE, which has been - fixed. - (merge a0d51e8d0e eb/cred-helper-ignore-sigpipe later to maint). - - * "git rebase --keep-empty" still removed an empty commit if the - other side contained an empty commit (due to the "does an - equivalent patch exist already?" check), which has been corrected. - (merge 3d946165e1 pw/rebase-keep-empty-fixes later to maint). - - * Some codepaths, including the refs API, get and keep relative - paths, that go out of sync when the process does chdir(2). The - chdir-notify API is introduced to let these codepaths adjust these - cached paths to the new current directory. - (merge fb9c2d2703 jk/relative-directory-fix later to maint). - - * "cd sub/dir && git commit ../path" ought to record the changes to - the file "sub/path", but this regressed long time ago. - (merge 86238e07ef bw/commit-partial-from-subdirectory-fix later to maint). - - * Recent introduction of "--log-destination" option to "git daemon" - did not work well when the daemon was run under "--inetd" mode. - (merge e67d906d73 lw/daemon-log-destination later to maint). - - * Small fix to the autoconf build procedure. - (merge 249482daf0 es/fread-reads-dir-autoconf-fix later to maint). - - * Fix an unexploitable (because the oversized contents are not under - attacker's control) buffer overflow. - (merge d8579accfa bp/fsmonitor-bufsize-fix later to maint). - - * Recent simplification of build procedure forgot a bit of tweak to - the build procedure of contrib/mw-to-git/ - (merge d8698987f3 ab/simplify-perl-makefile later to maint). - - * Moving a submodule that itself has submodule in it with "git mv" - forgot to make necessary adjustment to the nested sub-submodules; - now the codepath learned to recurse into the submodules. - - * "git config --unset a.b", when "a.b" is the last variable in an - otherwise empty section "a", left an empty section "a" behind, and - worse yet, a subsequent "git config a.c value" did not reuse that - empty shell and instead created a new one. These have been - (partially) corrected. - (merge c71d8bb38a js/empty-config-section-fix later to maint). - - * "git worktree remove" learned that "-f" is a shorthand for - "--force" option, just like for "git worktree add". - (merge d228eea514 sb/worktree-remove-opt-force later to maint). - - * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to clear cached list of - command line options upon dot-sourcing it again in a more efficient - way. - (merge 94408dc71c sg/completion-clear-cached later to maint). - - * "git svn" had a minor thinko/typo which has been fixed. - (merge 51db271587 ab/git-svn-get-record-typofix later to maint). - - * During a "rebase -i" session, the code could give older timestamp - to commits created by later "pick" than an earlier "reword", which - has been corrected. - (merge 12f7babd6b js/ident-date-fix later to maint). - - * "git submodule status" did not check the symbolic revision name it - computed for the submodule HEAD is not the NULL, and threw it at - printf routines, which has been corrected. - (merge 0b5e2ea7cf nd/submodule-status-fix later to maint). - - * When fed input that already has In-Reply-To: and/or References: - headers and told to add the same information, "git send-email" - added these headers separately, instead of appending to an existing - one, which is a violation of the RFC. This has been corrected. - (merge 256be1d3f0 sa/send-email-dedup-some-headers later to maint). - - * "git fast-export" had a regression in v2.15.0 era where it skipped - some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected. - (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint). - - * The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via - COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused - trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row" - tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width. - (merge b5d5a567fb nd/term-columns later to maint). - - * We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions - are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are - better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers. - (merge 7818b619e2 ab/perl-python-attrs later to maint). - - * "git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a - combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption - inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which - has been fixed. - (merge 15ef69314d js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue later to maint). - - * A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been - updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a - path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice - versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS. - (merge 742ae10e35 tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization later to maint). - - * "git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart - message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the - cover letter as plain text file. - (merge 50cd54ef4e bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach later to maint). - - * The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in - certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed. - (merge 7db118303a en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix later to maint). - - * Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not - render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with - HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs. - (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint). - - * Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that - allows lockfile instances kept on the stack. - (merge 0fa5a2ed8d ma/lockfile-cleanup later to maint). - - * the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but - repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has - been corrected. - (merge 74373b5f10 nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index later to maint). - - * Code clean-up to avoid non-standard-conformant pointer arithmetic. - (merge c112084af9 rs/no-null-ptr-arith-in-fast-export later to maint). - - * Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a - semi-corrupt repository. - (merge 8702b30fd7 jk/unavailable-can-be-missing later to maint). - - * "git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet - exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly - for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD. - - * "git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the - "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local - repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent - invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught - to take the "--progress" option. - (merge a0ef29341a cf/submodule-progress-dissociate later to maint). - - * Update credential-netrc helper (in contrib/) to allow customizing - the GPG used to decrypt the encrypted .netrc file. - (merge 786ef50a23 lm/credential-netrc later to maint). - - * "git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch" - against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the - submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind - (i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one - (i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective. - This has been corrected. - (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint). - - * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was - inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has - been corrected to error out early. - (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint). - - * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths, - which have been corrected. - (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint). - - * The import-tars script (in contrib/) has been taught to handle - tarballs with overly long paths that use PAX extended headers. - (merge 12ecea46e3 pa/import-tars-long-names later to maint). - - * "git rev-parse Y..." etc. misbehaved when given endpoints were - not committishes. - (merge 0ed556d38f en/rev-parse-invalid-range later to maint). - - * "git pull --recurse-submodules --rebase", when the submodule - repository's history did not have anything common between ours and - the upstream's, failed to execute. We need to fetch from them to - continue even in such a case. - (merge 4d36f88be7 jt/submodule-pull-recurse-rebase later to maint). - - * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a - nickname for remote groups, but only one of them was documented. - (merge a97447a42a nd/remote-update-doc later to maint). - - * "index-pack --strict" has been taught to make sure that it runs the - final object integrity checks after making the freshly indexed - packfile available to itself. - (merge 3737746120 jk/index-pack-maint later to maint). - - * Make zlib inflate codepath more robust against versions of zlib - that clobber unused portion of outbuf. - (merge b611396e97 jl/zlib-restore-nul-termination later to maint). - - * Fix old merge glitch in Documentation during v2.13-rc0 era. - (merge 28cb06020b mw/doc-merge-enumfix later to maint). - - * The code to read compressed bitmap was not careful to avoid reading - past the end of the file, which has been corrected. - (merge 1140bf01ec jk/ewah-bounds-check later to maint). - - * "make NO_ICONV=NoThanks" did not override NEEDS_LIBICONV - (i.e. linkage of -lintl, -liconv, etc. that are platform-specific - tweaks), which has been corrected. - (merge fdb1fbbc7d es/make-no-iconv later to maint). - - * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups. - (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint). - (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint). - (merge 5988eb631a ab/doc-hash-brokenness later to maint). - (merge a4d4e32a70 pk/test-avoid-pipe-hiding-exit-status later to maint). - (merge 05e293c1ac jk/flockfile-stdio later to maint). - (merge e9184b0789 jk/t5561-missing-curl later to maint). - (merge b1801b85a3 nd/worktree-move later to maint). - (merge bbd374dd20 ak/bisect-doc-typofix later to maint). - (merge 4855f06fb3 mn/send-email-credential-doc later to maint). - (merge 8523b1e355 en/doc-typoes later to maint). - (merge 43b44ccfe7 js/t5404-path-fix later to maint). - (merge decf711fc1 ps/test-chmtime-get later to maint). - (merge 22d11a6e8e es/worktree-docs later to maint). - (merge 92a5dbbc22 tg/use-git-contacts later to maint). - (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint). - (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint). - (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint). - (merge cd1e606bad bc/mailmap-self later to maint). - (merge f7997e3682 ao/config-api-doc later to maint). - (merge ee930754d8 jk/apply-p-doc later to maint). - (merge 011b648646 nd/pack-format-doc later to maint). - (merge 87a6bb701a sg/t5310-jgit-bitmap-test later to maint). - (merge f6b82970aa sg/t5516-fixes later to maint). - (merge 4362da078e sg/t7005-spaces-in-filenames-cleanup later to maint). - (merge 7d0ee47c11 js/test-unset-prereq later to maint). - (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint). - (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint). - (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint). - (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint). - (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint). - (merge 590551ca2c rd/tag-doc-lightweight later to maint). - (merge 44f560fc16 rd/init-typo later to maint). - (merge f156a0934a rd/p4-doc-markup-env later to maint). - (merge 2a00502b14 tg/doc-sec-list later to maint). - (merge 47cc91310a jk/submodule-fsck-loose-fixup later to maint). - (merge efde7b725c rd/comment-typofix-in-sha1-file later to maint). - (merge 7eedad15df rd/diff-options-typofix later to maint). - (merge 58ebd936cc km/doc-workflows-typofix later to maint). - (merge 30aa96cdf8 rd/doc-remote-tracking-with-hyphen later to maint). - (merge cf317877e3 ks/branch-set-upstream later to maint). - (merge 8de19d6be8 sg/t7406-chain-fix later to maint). |