| Git v2.44 Release Notes |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * "git add" and "git stash" learned to support the ":(attr:...)" |
| magic pathspec. |
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| * "git rebase --autosquash" is now enabled for non-interactive rebase, |
| but it is still incompatible with the apply backend. |
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| * Introduce "git replay", a tool meant on the server side without |
| working tree to recreate a history. |
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| * "git merge-file" learned to take the "--diff-algorithm" option to |
| use algorithm different from the default "myers" diff. |
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| * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete path |
| arguments to the "add/set" subcommands of "git sparse-checkout" |
| better. |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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| * Process to add some form of low-level unit tests has started. |
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| * Add support for GitLab CI. |
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| * "git for-each-ref --no-sort" still sorted the refs alphabetically |
| which paid non-trivial cost. It has been redefined to show output |
| in an unspecified order, to allow certain optimizations to take |
| advantage of. |
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| * Simplify API implementation to delete references by eliminating |
| duplication. |
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| * Subject approxidate() and show_date() machinery to OSS-Fuzz. |
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| Fixes since v2.43 |
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| * The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test |
| suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected. |
| (merge e7e03ef995 js/ci-discard-prove-state later to maint). |
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| * Update ref-related tests. |
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| * "git format-patch --encode-email-headers" ignored the option when |
| preparing the cover letter, which has been corrected. |
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| * Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our |
| (ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version |
| requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow |
| simplifying our implementation. |
| (merge 6ff658cc78 tz/send-email-negatable-options later to maint). |
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| * Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records |
| information about commits that are lost from the object store, |
| which has negative performance implications. The default has been |
| flipped to disable this pessimization. |
| (merge b1df3b3867 ps/commit-graph-less-paranoid later to maint). |
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| * Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or |
| archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links. |
| (merge 62b4f7b9c6 js/update-urls-in-doc-and-comment later to maint). |
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| * trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed |
| authentication material, which has been corrected. |
| (merge 16fa3eebc0 jh/trace2-redact-auth later to maint). |
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| * The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new |
| paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice |
| an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when |
| rename detection was enabled. |
| (merge d9fd71fa2a jp/use-diff-index-in-pre-commit-sample later to maint). |
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| * The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too |
| loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the |
| extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been |
| tightened up. |
| (merge 71a1e94821 jc/revision-parse-int later to maint). |
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| * "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed |
| to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was |
| fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout". |
| (merge 9385174627 jk/end-of-options later to maint). |
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| * "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs |
| even when BISECT_START file is gone. |
| (merge daaa03e54c jk/bisect-reset-fix later to maint). |
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| * Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables |
| specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected. |
| (merge d49cb162fa jk/implicit-true later to maint). |
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| * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
| (merge 50f1abcff6 js/packfile-h-typofix later to maint). |
| (merge cbf498eb53 jb/reflog-expire-delete-dry-run-options later to maint). |
| (merge 7854bf4960 rs/i18n-cannot-be-used-together later to maint). |
| (merge cd3c28c53a rs/column-leakfix later to maint). |
| (merge 866a1b9026 ps/ref-tests-update-more later to maint). |
| (merge e4299d26d4 mk/doc-gitfile-more later to maint). |
| (merge 792b86283b rs/incompatible-options-messages later to maint). |
| (merge ea8f9494ab jk/config-cleanup later to maint). |