2016-04-03 17:55:36 +00:00
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Git 2.9 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility note
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The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and
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"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use
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"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
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Updates since v2.8
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
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now enables the rename detection by default.
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* The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and
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there is no good way to override it from the command line. As
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a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves
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as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.
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* A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to
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customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.
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2016-04-06 18:44:24 +00:00
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* "git p4" now allows P4 author names to be mapped to Git author
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names.
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* "git rebase -x" can be used without passing "-i" option.
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* "git -c credential.<var>=<value> submodule" can now be used to
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propagate configuration variables related to credential helper
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down to the submodules.
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* "git tag" can create an annotated tag without explicitly given an
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"-a" (or "-s") option (i.e. when a tag message is given). A new
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configuration variable, tag.forceSignAnnotated, can be used to tell
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the command to create signed tag in such a situation.
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2016-04-03 17:55:36 +00:00
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build
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the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate
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array of strings.
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(merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint).
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* A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can
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easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG.
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* The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a
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repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git
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subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch
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references when we are not in a repository.
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(merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint).
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2016-04-06 18:44:24 +00:00
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* The command line argument parser for "receive-pack" has been
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rewritten to use parse-options.
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* A major part of "git submodule update" has been ported to C to take
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advantage of the recently added framework to run download tasks in
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parallel.
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* Rename bunch of tests on "git clone" for better organization.
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(merge 8fbb03a sb/clone-t57-t56 later to maint).
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* The tests that involve running httpd leaked the system-wide
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configuration in /etc/gitconfig to the tested environment.
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(merge 1fad503 jk/test-httpd-config-nosystem later to maint).
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2016-04-03 17:55:36 +00:00
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v2.8
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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* "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git
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config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status
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when there was no matching configuration.
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(merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint).
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* The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git
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rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's
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option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era.
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(merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint).
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* "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work.
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(merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint).
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* Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't
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work across remote-curl transport.
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(merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint).
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* A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff
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code.
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(merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint).
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* strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain
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corner cases in its error codepath.
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(merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint).
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2016-04-06 18:44:24 +00:00
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* "git mergetool" did not work well with conflicts that both sides
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deleted.
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(merge a298604 da/mergetool-delete-delete-conflict later to maint).
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* "git send-email" had trouble parsing alias file in mailrc format
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when lines in it had trailing whitespaces on them.
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(merge a277d1e jk/send-email-rtrim-mailrc-alias later to maint).
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* When "git merge --squash" stopped due to conflict, the concluding
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"git commit" failed to read in the SQUASH_MSG that shows the log
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messages from all the squashed commits.
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(merge b64c1e0 ss/commit-squash-msg later to maint).
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* "git merge FETCH_HEAD" dereferenced NULL pointer when merging
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nothing into an unborn history (which is arguably unusual usage,
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which perhaps was the reason why nobody noticed it).
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(merge b84e65d jv/merge-nothing-into-void later to maint).
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2016-04-03 17:55:36 +00:00
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
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(merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
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2016-04-06 18:44:24 +00:00
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(merge f870899 ss/exc-flag-is-a-collection-of-bits later to maint).
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(merge dde7891 pb/t7502-drop-dup later to maint).
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(merge 3bd1b51 cc/doc-recommend-performance-trace-to-file later to maint).
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(merge 7d5e9c9 jk/credential-cache-comment-exit later to maint).
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