From dda7228a83e2e9ff584bf6adbf55910565b41e14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:55:59 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] A bit more of remaining topics before -rc1 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt index 01617baa98..5d9bd8c295 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.38.0.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative pathspec. - * "git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are + * "git push" sometimes performs poorly when reachability bitmaps are used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push". @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but this was done only for some requests but not others. - * Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that + * Introduce a safe.barerepository configuration variable that allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories. * Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been @@ -79,12 +79,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git format-patch --from=" can be told to add an in-body "From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given - with "--force-in-body-from"option. + with "--force-in-body-from" option. * The built-in fsmonitor refuses to work on a network mounted repositories; a configuration knob for users to override this has been introduced. + * The "scalar" addition from Microsoft is now part of the core Git + installation. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -127,7 +130,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved. - * A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY + * A Coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY macro has been improved. * API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser. @@ -172,6 +175,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git " in "git help " with the text from "git help config". + * "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to + move a path from a directory that is "in cone" to another directory + that is "out of cone". Handling of such a case has been improved. + + * The chainlint script for our tests has been revamped. + Fixes since v2.37 ----------------- @@ -297,7 +306,7 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been - corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects + corrected, but to help existing projects with broken tree objects that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this code detects has been demoted to "info" for now. @@ -306,12 +315,10 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * An earlier optimization discarded a tree-object buffer that is still in use, which has been corrected. - (merge 1490d7d82d jk/is-promisor-object-keep-tree-in-use later to maint). * Fix deadlocks between main Git process and subprocess spawned via the pipe_command() API, that can kill "git add -p" that was reimplemented in C recently. - (merge 716c1f649e jk/pipe-command-nonblock later to maint). * The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by mistake, which has been corrected. @@ -319,20 +326,16 @@ Fixes since v2.37 * xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the array", and "size of a single element", in this order. A call that does not follow this ordering has been corrected. - (merge c4bbd9bb8f sg/xcalloc-cocci-fix later to maint). * The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to multiple threads, which were left leaked. - (merge 23578904da ad/preload-plug-memleak later to maint). * Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04 to 22.04. - (merge ef46584831 ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu later to maint). * The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash" was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which has been corrected. - (merge d3a9295ada en/merge-unstash-only-on-clean-merge later to maint). * Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.