@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Backward compatibility note
1010 prerequisite patches in an unstable way, which has been updated to
1111 compute in a way that is compatible with "git patch-id --stable".
1212
13+ * The "git log" command by default behaves as if the --mailmap option
14+ was given.
15+
1316
1417UI, Workflows & Features
1518
@@ -52,7 +55,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
5255
5356 * "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
5457 non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
55- The commands learned "--no-shown -forced-updates" option to disable
58+ The commands learned "--no-show -forced-updates" option to disable
5659 this safety feature.
5760
5861 * Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
@@ -68,7 +71,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
6871 * The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on
6972 the branch the HEAD currently is on.
7073
71- * "git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to
74+ * "git rev-list --objects" learned the "--no-object-names" option to
7275 squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for
7376 pack-objects.
7477
@@ -91,11 +94,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
9194 commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
9295 updated incrementally.
9396
94- * The "git log" command learns to issue a warning when log.mailmap
95- configuration is not set and --[no-]mailmap option is not used, to
96- prepare users for future versions of Git that uses the mailmap by
97- default.
98-
9997 * "git range-diff" output has been tweaked for easier identification
10098 of which part of what file the patch shown is about.
10199
@@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
106104 no longer be used.
107105
108106 * Developer support to emulate unsatisfied prerequisites in tests to
109- ensure that the remainer of the tests still succeeds when tests
107+ ensure that the remainder of the tests still succeeds when tests
110108 with prerequisites are skipped.
111109
112110 * "git update-server-info" learned not to rewrite the file with the
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
121119 * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
122120 on a range (A..B).
123121
124- * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
122+ * A new tutorial targeting specifically aspiring git-core
125123 developers has been added.
126124
127125 * Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked
@@ -163,7 +161,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
163161 * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
164162 coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
165163 a blanket ban against them.
166- (merge cc0c42975a jc/post-c89-rules-doc later to maint).
167164
168165 * A test helper has been introduced to optimize preparation of test
169166 repositories with many simple commits, and a handful of test
@@ -177,16 +174,13 @@ Fixes since v2.22
177174 ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
178175 but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
179176 corrected.
180- (merge e1df7fe43f nd/init-relative-template-fix later to maint).
181177
182178 * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
183179 the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
184- (merge 105df73e71 nd/corrupt-worktrees later to maint).
185180
186181 * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
187- backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting
182+ backend was mixed up, leading to an unrelated file descriptor getting
188183 closed, which has been fixed.
189- (merge 3203566a71 mh/import-transport-fd-fix later to maint).
190184
191185 * A "merge -c" instruction during "git rebase --rebase-merges" should
192186 give the user a chance to edit the log message, even when there is
@@ -195,82 +189,65 @@ Fixes since v2.22
195189 corrected.
196190
197191 * Code cleanup and futureproof.
198- (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint).
199192
200193 * More parameter validation.
201- (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint).
202194
203195 * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
204196 output, which has been corrected.
205- (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint).
206197
207198 * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
208199 value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
209200 use, which has been corrected.
210- (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint).
211201
212202 * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
213203 if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
214- (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint).
215204
216205 * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
217206 the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
218207 in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
219- (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint).
220208
221209 * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
222210 index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
223211 by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
224212 when both options are given.
225- (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint).
226213
227214 * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
228215 the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
229216 has been corrected.
230- (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint).
231217
232218 * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
233- (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint).
234219
235220 * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
236221 "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
237222 broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
238- (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint).
239223
240224 * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
241225 from in the local repository and in the published repository are
242226 different.
243- (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint).
244227
245228 * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
246229 recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
247230 hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
248231 to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
249- (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint).
250232
251233 * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are
252234 necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been
253235 corrected.
254- (merge 810e19322d jt/partial-clone-missing-ref-delta-base later to maint).
255236
256237 * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a
257238 lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API
258239 correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element
259240 of the array in use. This has been corrected.
260- (merge 7140600e2e md/list-objects-filter-memfix later to maint).
261241
262242 * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
263243 indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
264244 matches directories") has been revamped.
265- (merge 1a58bad014 an/ignore-doc-update later to maint).
266245
267246 * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end
268247 of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence.
269- (merge d37dc239a4 md/url-parse-harden later to maint).
270248
271249 * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been
272250 updated.
273- (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint).
274251
275252 * "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out
276253 in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with
@@ -280,48 +257,38 @@ Fixes since v2.22
280257
281258 * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via
282259 "import" based transports.
283- (merge f80d922355 fc/fetch-with-import-fix later to maint).
284260
285261 * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
286262 may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
287263 closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
288264 an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
289265 new instance to replace it.
290- (merge 2d511cfc0b ds/close-object-store later to maint).
291266
292267 * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse,
293268 which did not work well.
294- (merge 2bd69b9024 pw/add-p-recount later to maint).
295269
296270 * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search.
297- (merge 568a05c5ec rs/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation later to maint).
298271
299272 * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment
300273 character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been
301274 corrected.
302- (merge 29c83fc23f jk/trailers-use-config later to maint).
303275
304276 * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting
305277 rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected.
306- (merge 63b50c8ffe tg/stash-ref-by-index-fix later to maint).
307278
308279 * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding
309280 "git rebase -r", which has been corrected.
310- (merge d559f502c5 pw/rebase-abort-clean-rewritten later to maint).
311281
312282 * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line
313283 completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires
314284 a repository outside one), which has been corrected.
315- (merge 69702523af nd/completion-no-cache-failure later to maint).
316285
317286 * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has
318287 been made more robust and also easier to follow.
319- (merge 39c575c969 rs/config-unit-parsing later to maint).
320288
321289 * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output
322290 without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been
323291 fixed.
324- (merge bdbdf42f8a jk/delta-islands-progress-fix later to maint).
325292
326293 * Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated,
327294 but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been
@@ -330,23 +297,19 @@ Fixes since v2.22
330297
331298 * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor
332299 support to clear cruft in the progress output.
333- (merge 5b12e3123b sg/rebase-progress later to maint).
334300
335301 * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed
336302 to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the
337303 "--recursive" option was in use.
338- (merge 30db18b148 ms/submodule-foreach-fix later to maint).
339304
340305 * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be
341306 effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not
342- affect anything when running an non-interactive one, which was not
307+ affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not
343308 the case. This has been corrected.
344- (merge 906b63942a js/rebase-reschedule-applies-only-to-interactive later to maint).
345309
346310 * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
347311 description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
348312 forms to make them more recognisable.
349- (merge bfc8c84ed5 qn/clone-doc-use-long-form later to maint).
350313
351314 * Generation of pack bitmaps are now disabled when .keep files exist,
352315 as these are mutually exclusive features.
@@ -355,56 +318,31 @@ Fixes since v2.22
355318 * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message
356319 "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was
357320 confusing. This has been corrected.
358- (merge b2b1f615ce jc/denoise-rm-to-resolve later to maint).
359321
360322 * "git stash --keep-index" did not work correctly on paths that have
361323 been removed, which has been fixed.
362324 (merge b932f6a5e8 tg/stash-keep-index-with-removed-paths later to maint).
363325
364326 * Window 7 update ;-)
365- (merge eb7c786314 js/mingw-spawn-with-spaces-in-path later to maint).
366327
367328 * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read
368329 past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed.
369- (merge 64c45dc72e sr/gpg-interface-stop-at-the-end later to maint).
370330
371331 * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now
372332 it gives a warning.
373- (merge b09364c47a js/clean-report-too-long-a-path later to maint).
374333
375334 * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely,
376335 the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when
377336 it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without
378337 having to consult the other end, which has been corrected.
379- (merge 2581ea3d31 es/local-atomic-push-failure-with-http later to maint).
380338
381339 * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while
382- looking for --funcion -context line in a corner case, which has been
340+ looking for --function -context line in a corner case, which has been
383341 corrected.
384342 (merge b777f3fd61 jk/xdiff-clamp-funcname-context-index later to maint).
385343
386344 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
387- (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
388- (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
389- (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint).
390- (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint).
391- (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint).
392- (merge 1fde99cfc7 po/doc-branch later to maint).
393- (merge 459842e1c2 dl/config-alias-doc later to maint).
394- (merge 5d137fc2c7 cb/fsmonitor-intfix later to maint).
395- (merge 921d49be86 rs/copy-array later to maint).
396- (merge cc8d872e69 js/t3404-typofix later to maint).
397- (merge 729a9b558b cb/mkstemps-uint-type-fix later to maint).
398- (merge 9dae4fe79f js/gcc-8-and-9 later to maint).
399- (merge ed33bd8f30 js/t0001-case-insensitive later to maint).
400- (merge dfa880e336 jw/gitweb-sample-update later to maint).
401- (merge e532a90a9f sg/t5551-fetch-smart-error-is-translated later to maint).
402- (merge 8d45ad8c29 jt/t5551-test-chunked later to maint).
403- (merge 1a64e07d23 sg/git-C-empty-doc later to maint).
404- (merge 37a2e35395 sg/ci-brew-gcc-workaround later to maint).
405- (merge 24df0d49c4 js/trace2-signo-typofix later to maint).
406345 (merge fbec05c210 cc/test-oidmap later to maint).
407- (merge 7926cee904 di/readme-markup-fix later to maint).
408- (merge 02638d1e11 vn/xmmap-gently later to maint).
409- (merge f7bf24d4dd rm/gpg-program-doc-fix later to maint).
410- (merge 3aef54e8b8 js/unmap-before-ext-diff later to maint).
346+ (merge 7a06fb038c jk/no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint).
347+ (merge 81ed2b405c cb/xdiff-no-system-includes-in-dot-c later to maint).
348+ (merge d61e6ce1dd sg/fsck-config-in-doc later to maint).
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