| Git 2.32 Release Notes |
| ====================== |
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| Backward compatibility notes |
| ---------------------------- |
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| * ".gitattributes", ".gitignore", and ".mailmap" files that are |
| symbolic links are ignored. |
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| Updates since v2.31 |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * It does not make sense to make ".gitattributes", ".gitignore" and |
| ".mailmap" symlinks, as they are supposed to be usable from the |
| object store (think: bare repositories where HEAD:.mailmap etc. are |
| used). When these files are symbolic links, we used to read the |
| contents of the files pointed by them by mistake, which has been |
| corrected. |
| |
| * "git stash show" learned to optionally show untracked part of the |
| stash. |
| |
| * "git log --format='...'" learned "%(describe)" placeholder. |
| |
| * "git repack" so far has been only capable of repacking everything |
| under the sun into a single pack (or split by size). A cleverer |
| strategy to reduce the cost of repacking a repository has been |
| introduced. |
| |
| * The http codepath learned to let the credential layer to cache the |
| password used to unlock a certificate that has successfully been |
| used. |
| |
| * "git commit --fixup=<commit>", which was to tweak the changes made |
| to the contents while keeping the original log message intact, |
| learned "--fixup=(amend|reword):<commit>", that can be used to |
| tweak both the message and the contents, and only the message, |
| respectively. |
| |
| * When accessing a server with a URL like https://user:pass@site/, we |
| did not to fall back to the basic authentication with the |
| credential material embedded in the URL after the "Negotiate" |
| authentication failed. Now we do. |
| |
| * "git send-email" learned to honor the core.hooksPath configuration. |
| |
| * "git format-patch -v<n>" learned to allow a reroll count that is |
| not an integer. |
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| * "git commit" learned "--trailer <key>[=<value>]" option; together |
| with the interpret-trailers command, this will make it easier to |
| support custom trailers. |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
| |
| * Rename detection rework continues. |
| |
| * GIT_TEST_FAIL_PREREQS is a mechanism to skip test pieces with |
| prerequisites to catch broken tests that depend on the side effects |
| of optional pieces, but did not work at all when negative |
| prerequisites were involved. |
| (merge 27d578d904 jk/fail-prereq-testfix later to maint). |
| |
| * "git diff-index" codepath has been taught to trust fsmonitor status |
| to reduce number of lstat() calls. |
| (merge 7e5aa13d2c nk/diff-index-fsmonitor later to maint). |
| |
| * Reorganize Makefile to allow building git.o and other essential |
| objects without extra stuff needed only for testing. |
| |
| * Preparatory API changes for parallel checkout. |
| |
| * A simple IPC interface gets introduced to build services like |
| fsmonitor on top. |
| |
| * Fsck API clean-up. |
| |
| * SECURITY.md that is facing individual contributors and end users |
| has been introduced. Also a procedure to follow when preparing |
| embargoed releases has been spelled out. |
| (merge 09420b7648 js/security-md later to maint). |
| |
| * Optimize "rev-list --use-bitmap-index --objects" corner case that |
| uses negative tags as the stopping points. |
| |
| * CMake update for vsbuild. |
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| Fixes since v2.31 |
| ----------------- |
| |
| * The fsmonitor interface read from its input without making sure |
| there is something to read from. This bug is new in 2.31 |
| timeframe. |
| |
| * The data structure used by fsmonitor interface was not properly |
| duplicated during an in-core merge, leading to use-after-free etc. |
| |
| * "git bisect" reimplemented more in C during 2.30 timeframe did not |
| take an annotated tag as a good/bad endpoint well. This regression |
| has been corrected. |
| |
| * Fix macros that can silently inject unintended null-statements. |
| |
| * CALLOC_ARRAY() macro replaces many uses of xcalloc(). |
| |
| * Update insn in Makefile comments to run fuzz-all target. |
| |
| * Fix a corner case bug in "git mv" on case insensitive systems, |
| which was introduced in 2.29 timeframe. |
| |
| * We had a code to diagnose and die cleanly when a required |
| clean/smudge filter is missing, but an assert before that |
| unnecessarily fired, hiding the end-user facing die() message. |
| (merge 6fab35f748 mt/cleanly-die-upon-missing-required-filter later to maint). |
| |
| * Update C code that sets a few configuration variables when a remote |
| is configured so that it spells configuration variable names in the |
| canonical camelCase. |
| (merge 0f1da600e6 ab/remote-write-config-in-camel-case later to maint). |
| |
| * A new configuration variable has been introduced to allow choosing |
| which version of the generation number gets used in the |
| commit-graph file. |
| (merge 702110aac6 ds/commit-graph-generation-config later to maint). |
| |
| * Perf test update to work better in secondary worktrees. |
| (merge 36e834abc1 jk/perf-in-worktrees later to maint). |
| |
| * Updates to memory allocation code around the use of pcre2 library. |
| (merge c1760352e0 ab/grep-pcre2-allocfix later to maint). |
| |
| * "git -c core.bare=false clone --bare ..." would have segfaulted, |
| which has been corrected. |
| (merge 75555676ad bc/clone-bare-with-conflicting-config later to maint). |
| |
| * When "git checkout" removes a path that does not exist in the |
| commit it is checking out, it wasn't careful enough not to follow |
| symbolic links, which has been corrected. |
| (merge fab78a0c3d mt/checkout-remove-nofollow later to maint). |
| |
| * A few option description strings started with capital letters, |
| which were corrected. |
| (merge 5ee90326dc cc/downcase-opt-help later to maint). |
| |
| * Plug or annotate remaining leaks that trigger while running the |
| very basic set of tests. |
| (merge 68ffe095a2 ah/plugleaks later to maint). |
| |
| * The hashwrite() API uses a buffering mechanism to avoid calling |
| write(2) too frequently. This logic has been refactored to be |
| easier to understand. |
| (merge ddaf1f62e3 ds/clarify-hashwrite later to maint). |
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| * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
| (merge f451960708 dl/cat-file-doc-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge 12604a8d0c sv/t9801-test-path-is-file-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge ea7e63921c jr/doc-ignore-typofix later to maint). |
| (merge 23c781f173 ps/update-ref-trans-hook-doc later to maint). |
| (merge 42efa1231a jk/filter-branch-sha256 later to maint). |
| (merge 4c8e3dca6e tb/push-simple-uses-branch-merge-config later to maint). |
| (merge 6534d436a2 bs/asciidoctor-installation-hints later to maint). |
| (merge 47957485b3 ab/read-tree later to maint). |
| (merge 2be927f3d1 ab/diff-no-index-tests later to maint). |
| (merge 76593c09bb ab/detox-gettext-tests later to maint). |
| (merge 28e29ee38b jc/doc-format-patch-clarify later to maint). |