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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc index d7c67cbb07..04c038f035 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.54.0.adoc @@ -88,6 +88,37 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git repo structure" command learns to report maximum values on various aspects of objects it inspects. + * "git rebase" learns "--trailer" command to drive the + interpret-trailers machinery. + + * "git fast-import" learned to optionally replace signature on + commits whose signatures get invalidated due to replaying by + signing afresh. + + * "git history" learned the "split" subcommand. + + * The reference-transaction hook was taught to be triggered before + taking locks on references in the "preparing" phase. + + * "git apply" now reports the name of the input file along with the + line number when it encounters a corrupt patch, and correctly + resets the line counter when processing multiple patch files. + + * The HTTP transport learned to react to "429 Too Many Requests". + + * "git repo info -h" and "git repo structure -h" limit their help output + to the part that is specific to the subcommand. + + * "git format-patch --cover-letter" learns to use a simpler format + instead of the traditional shortlog format to list its commits with + a new --commit-list-format option and format.commitListFormat + configuration variable. + + * `git backfill` learned to accept revision and pathspec arguments. + + * "git replay" (experimental) learns, in addition to "pick" and + "replay", a new operating mode "revert". + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -101,7 +132,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Improve set-up time of a perf test. - * ISO C23 redefines strchr and friends that tradiotionally took + * ISO C23 redefines strchr and friends that traditionally took a const pointer and returned a non-const pointer derived from it to preserve constness (i.e., if you ask for a substring in a const string, you get a const pointer to the substring). Update code @@ -193,6 +224,65 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Reduce dependence on the global the_hash_algo and the_repository variables of wt-status code path. + * The way combined list-object filter options are parsed has been + revamped. + + * Editorconfig filename patterns were specified incorrectly, making + many source files inside subdirectories unaffected, which has been + corrected. + + * The run_command() API lost its implicit dependency on the singleton + `the_repository` instance. + + * The unit test helper function was taught to use backslash + + mnemonic notation for certain control characters like "\t", instead + of octal notation like "\011". + + * Adjust test-lint to allow "sed -E" to use ERE in the patterns. + + * Clar (unit testing framework) update from the upstream. + + * Reduce system overhead "git upload-pack" spends on relaying "git + pack-objects" output to the "git fetch" running on the other end of + the connection. + + * Add a coccinelle rule to break the build when "struct strbuf" gets + passed by value. + + * Further work on incremental repacking using MIDX/bitmap + + * The logic to count objects has been cleaned up. + + * Tweak the build infrastructure by moving tools around. + + * Uses of prio_queue as a LIFO stack of commits have been written + with commit_stack. + + * The cleanup of remaining bitmaps in "ahead_behind()" has been + simplified. + + * split-index.c has been updated to not use the global the_repository + and the_hash_algo variables. + + * The unsigned integer that is used as an bitset to specify the kind + of branches interpret_branch_name() function has been changed to + use a dedicated enum type. + + * Various updates to contrib/diff-highlight, including documentation + updates, test improvements, and color configuration handling. + + * Code paths that loop over another array to push each element into a + strvec have been rewritten to use strvec_pushv() instead. + + * In case homebrew breaks REG_ENHANCED again, leave a in-code comment + to suggest use of our replacement regex as a workaround. + + * MinGW build updates. + + * The way dash 0.5.13 handles non-ASCII contents in here-doc + is buggy and breaks our existing tests, which unfortunately + have been rewritten to avoid triggering the bug. + Fixes since v2.53 ----------------- @@ -323,6 +413,54 @@ Fixes since v2.53 * Plug a few leaks where mmap'ed memory regions are not unmapped. (merge a8a69bbb64 jk/unleak-mmap later to maint). + * A test now uses the symbolic constant $ZERO_OID instead of 40 "0" to + work better with SHA-256 as well as SHA-1. + (merge 30310f3cc4 ss/t3200-test-zero-oid later to maint). + + * Instead of hardcoded 'origin', use the configured default remote + when fetching from submodules. + (merge 3b5fb32da8 ng/submodule-default-remote later to maint). + + * The code in "git help" that shows configuration items in sorted + order was awkwardly organized and prone to bugs. + + * "imap-send" used to use functions whose use is going to be removed + with OpenSSL 4.0; rewrite them using public API that has been + available since OpenSSL 1.1 since 2016 or so. + (merge 6392a0b75d bb/imap-send-openssl-4.0-prep later to maint). + + * Fix an example in the user-manual. + (merge 5514f14617 gj/user-manual-fix-grep-example later to maint). + + * The final clean-up phase of the diff output could turn the result of + histogram diff algorithm suboptimal, which has been corrected. + (merge e417277ae9 yc/histogram-hunk-shift-fix later to maint). + + * "git diff -U<num>" was too lenient in its command line parsing and + took an empty string as a valid <num>. + (merge 4f6a803aba ty/doc-diff-u-wo-number later to maint). + + * The handling of the incomplete lines at the end by "git + diff-highlight" has been fixed. + + * merge-file --object-id used to trigger a BUG when run in a linked + worktree, which has been fixed. + (merge 57246b7c62 mr/merge-file-object-id-worktree-fix later to maint). + + * "git apply -p<n>" parses <n> more carefully now. + (merge d05d84c5f5 mf/apply-p-no-atoi later to maint). + + * A test to run a .bat file with whitespaces in the name with arguments + with whitespaces in them was flaky in that sometimes it got killed + before it produced expected side effects, which has been rewritten to + make it more robust. + (merge 3ad4921838 jk/t0061-bat-test-update later to maint). + + * "git ls-remote '+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' https://..." run outside a + repository would dereference a NULL while trying to see if the given + refspec is a single-object refspec, which has been corrected. + (merge 4e5dc601dd kj/refspec-parsing-outside-repository later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge d79fff4a11 jk/remote-tracking-ref-leakfix later to maint). (merge 7a747f972d dd/t5403-modernise later to maint). @@ -362,3 +500,15 @@ Fixes since v2.53 (merge 63c00a677b ss/t9123-setup-inside-test-expect-success later to maint). (merge beca0ca4be os/doc-git-custom-commands later to maint). (merge 4c223571be ty/patch-ids-document-lazy-eval later to maint). + (merge 476365ac85 jc/doc-wholesale-replace-before-next later to maint). + (merge 35f220b639 ss/submodule--helper-use-xmalloc later to maint). + (merge 02cbae61df cf/constness-fixes later to maint). + (merge 69efd53c81 ms/t7605-test-path-is-helpers later to maint). + (merge d39cef3a1a ss/t0410-delete-object-cleanup later to maint). + (merge 2f05039717 rj/pack-refs-tests-path-is-helpers later to maint). + (merge 2594747ad1 jk/transport-color-leakfix later to maint). + (merge 48430e44ac mf/t0008-cleanup later to maint). + (merge fc8a4f15e7 gi/doc-boolean-config-typofix later to maint). + (merge 37182267a0 kh/doc-interpret-trailers-1 later to maint). + (merge f64c50e768 jc/rerere-modern-strbuf-handling later to maint). + (merge 699248d89e th/t8003-unhide-git-failures later to maint). |