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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 27320b6a9f37..000000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,439 +0,0 @@ -Git 2.8 Release Notes -===================== - -Backward compatibility note ---------------------------- - -The rsync:// transport has been removed. - - -Updates since v2.7 ------------------- - -UI, Workflows & Features - - * It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when - the source repository has packed references for a long time, and - nobody noticed nor complained about it. - - * "push" learned that its "--delete" option can be shortened to - "-d", just like "branch --delete" and "branch -d" are the same - thing. - - * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes - too much time before emitting the first line of the result. - - * "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) - how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files. - - * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should - be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes - tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must - be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only - when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must - have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref). - - * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index" - behavior outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the - user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a - new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this - cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be - disabled. - - * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking - "rebase -i". - - * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed. - - * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory - configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be - omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in - your workflow. - - * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in - place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output. - - * Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text - that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control - their behavior (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated - to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they - used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR, - which is usually not what the users expect). - - * "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree - to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting - when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote - repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g. - refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch). - - * "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose - end-of-line problems. - - * "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote - repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at. - - * New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to - specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around - proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when - CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication - has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication - material in user's keyrings. - - * Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from - "git update-index" to "git config". - - * There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in - the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose - option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never - passed the verbose option down to that codepath. - - * Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower - precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by - setting the variable to an empty string. - - * A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a - commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the - given <pattern>. - - * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable can be used to - force the user to always set user.email & user.name configuration - variables, serving as a reminder for those who work on multiple - projects and do not want to put these in their $HOME/.gitconfig. - - * "git fetch" and friends that make network connections can now be - told to only use ipv4 (or ipv6). - - * Some authentication methods do not need username or password, but - libcurl needs some hint that it needs to perform authentication. - Supplying an empty username and password string is a valid way to - do so, but you can set the http.[<url>.]emptyAuth configuration - variable to achieve the same, if you find it cleaner. - - * You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned - public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL. - - * The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a - bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages. - "git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where - the values come from. - - * The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever - directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the - filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process - chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup. - - * When "git submodule update" did not result in fetching the commit - object in the submodule that is referenced by the superproject, the - command learned to retry another fetch, specifically asking for - that commit that may not be connected to the refs it usually - fetches. - - * "git merge-recursive" learned "--no-renames" option to disable its - rename detection logic. - - * Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to - get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting - push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn because the - transition was completed a long time ago. - - * README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked - slightly to make it easier on the eyes. - - -Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. - - * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use - it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. - - * A slight update to the Makefile to mark ".PHONY" targets as such - correctly. - - * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets - you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. - - * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like - $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias - handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to - affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which - resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init". - Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment - and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias. - - * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has - been updated to share more code with the code that deals with - normal references. - - * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier - to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should - allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to - help users on DOSsy systems. - - * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information - regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It - has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected - (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing - only the number of changes). - - * "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same - underlying machinery) has been optimized. - - * Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by - persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing - tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total - wallclock time. - - * Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not - portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones - with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows. - - * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static - analyzers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the - number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few - calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of programs that are already safe - has been rewritten to avoid false warnings. - - * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct - the full path out of a series of path components while walking a - tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path - needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that - is already flat. The API has been removed and its users have been - rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity. - - * Help those who debug http(s) part of the system. - (merge 0054045 sp/remote-curl-ssl-strerror later to maint). - - * The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration - variables has been streamlined. - - * The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in - preparation for "branch --format" and friends. - - * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the - contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their - filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree" - subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become - harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed - to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them. - (merge 5549029 mg/work-tree-tests later to maint). - - * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set(); - the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when - setting a configuration variable failed. - (merge 3d18064 ps/config-error later to maint). - - * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous - process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our - tests. - (merge 43f3afc jk/epipe-in-async later to maint). - - * There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning - options in the Makefile. - - * The way the test scripts configure the Apache web server has been - updated to work also for Apache 2.4 running on RedHat derived - distros. - - * Out of maintenance gcc on OSX 10.6 fails to compile the code in - 'master'; work it around by using clang by default on the platform. - - * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct - the full path out of a series of path components while walking a - tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path - needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that - is already flat, in many cases. The API has been removed and its - users have been rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity. - This incidentally also closes some heap-corruption holes. - - * Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a - file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we - expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our - scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data, - even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from - end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when - using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option. - - - -Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. - - -Fixes since v2.7 ----------------- - -Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance -track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' -notes for details). - - * An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by - exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree, - interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without - setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves. - - * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of - fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_pattern_list() forgot - to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed - array. - - * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not - quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they - already are in a harmful way. - - * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias - files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected. - - * A few non-portable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler - and have been fixed. - - * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between - the '--signoff' option and DCO. - - * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be - at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault. - - * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file - listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change - that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. - - * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR - (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is - done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to - be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous - user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling - unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM. - - * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server - log. - - Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps? - IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log, - so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good. - - * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not - ignore the exit code from "gc --auto". - - * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles - mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not - friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They - now close the packs before doing so. - - * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a - regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been - corrected. - - * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has - been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation. - - * "git tag" started listing a tag "foo" as "tags/foo" when a branch - named "foo" exists in the same repository; remove this unnecessary - disambiguation, which is a regression introduced in v2.7.0. - - * The way "git svn" uses auth parameter was broken by Subversion - 1.9.0 and later. - - * The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly - skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected. - - * A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was - run from a subdirectory. - - * The command line completion learned a handful of additional options - and command specific syntax. - - * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. - - * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands - has been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a - directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted - CPU cycles. - - * "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix - possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a - worktree to different places without telling Git (the original - repository needs to maintain back-pointers to its worktrees, - but "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact - will obviously not adjust them), which actually made things - worse when triggered. - - * The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line - termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that - are themselves CRLF line-terminated. - - * "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push - needed to force (or fast-forwarded). - - * The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been - tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output - that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would - not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE. - - * The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned - that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never - been the case. - - * The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange - and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of - majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign - buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based - on that order. - - * "git show 'HEAD:Foo[BAR]Baz'" did not interpret the argument as a - rev, i.e. the object named by the the pathname with wildcard - characters in a tree object. - (merge aac4fac nd/dwim-wildcards-as-pathspecs later to maint). - - * "git rev-parse --git-common-dir" used in the worktree feature - misbehaved when run from a subdirectory. - (merge 17f1365 nd/git-common-dir-fix later to maint). - - * "git worktree add -B <branchname>" did not work. - - * The "v(iew)" subcommand of the interactive "git am -i" command was - broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C. - (merge 708b8cc jc/am-i-v-fix later to maint). - - * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with - its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of - what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has - been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as - the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the - system. - (merge 907681e jk/no-diff-emit-common later to maint). - - * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit - tricky, has been documented a bit better. - (merge a64e6a4 jk/more-comments-on-textconv later to maint). - - * Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc(). - (merge 08c95df jk/tighten-alloc later to maint). - - * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is - now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is - not set. - (merge f6b1fb3 mm/push-simple-doc later to maint). - - * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains - arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the - tests to sidestep the problem. - (merge 3b1442d jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test later to maint). - - * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the - modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands - (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed. - (merge 2b56bb7 sb/submodule-module-list-fix later to maint). - - * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository - configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository, - but didn't say the reason correctly. - (merge 638fa62 js/config-set-in-non-repository later to maint). - - * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack - idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the - data in the idx. - (merge 7465feb jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint). - - * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates - (merge f459823 ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep later to maint). - (merge 63ca1c0 ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command later to maint). - (merge 4867f11 ps/plug-xdl-merge-leak later to maint). - (merge 4938686 dt/initial-ref-xn-commit-doc later to maint). - (merge 9537f21 ma/update-hooks-sample-typofix later to maint). |