| Git 2.28 Release Notes |
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| Updates since v2.27 |
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| Backward compatibility notes |
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| * "feature.experimental" configuration variable is to let volunteers |
| easily opt into a set of newer features, which use of the v2 |
| transport protocol is now a part of. |
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| UI, Workflows & Features |
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| * The commands in the "diff" family learned to honor "diff.relative" |
| configuration variable. |
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| * The check in "git fsck" to ensure that the tree objects are sorted |
| still had corner cases it missed unsorted entries. |
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| Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. |
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| * Code optimization for a common case. |
| (merge 8777616e4d an/merge-single-strategy-optim later to maint). |
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| * We've adopted a convention that any on-stack structure can be |
| initialized to have zero values in all fields with "= { 0 }", |
| even when the first field happens to be a pointer, but sparse |
| complained that a null pointer should be spelled NULL for a long |
| time. Start using -Wno-universal-initializer option to squelch |
| it (the latest sparse has it on by default). |
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| * "git log -L..." now takes advantage of the "which paths are touched |
| by this commit?" info stored in the commit-graph system. |
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| * As FreeBSD is not the only platform whose regexp library reports |
| a REG_ILLSEQ error when fed invalid UTF-8, add logic to detect that |
| automatically and skip the affected tests. |
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| * "git bugreport" learns to report what shell is in use. |
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| * Support for GIT_CURL_VERBOSE has been rewritten in terms of |
| GIT_TRACE_CURL. |
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| * Preliminary clean-ups around refs API, plus file format |
| specification documentation for the reftable backend. |
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| * Workaround breakage in MSVC build, where "curl-config --cflags" |
| gives settings appropriate for GCC build. |
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| Fixes since v2.27 |
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| * The "--prepare-p4-only" option of "git p4" is supposed to stop |
| after replaying one changeset, but kept going (by mistake?) |
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| * The error message from "git checkout -b foo -t bar baz" was |
| confusing. |
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| * Some repositories in the wild have commits that record nonsense |
| committer timezone (e.g. rails.git); "git fast-import" learned an |
| option to pass these nonsense timestamps intact to allow recreating |
| existing repositories as-is. |
| (merge d42a2fb72f en/fast-import-looser-date later to maint). |
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| * The command line completion script (in contrib/) tried to complete |
| "git stash -p" as if it were "git stash push -p", but it was too |
| aggressive and also affected "git stash show -p", which has been |
| corrected. |
| (merge fffd0cf520 vs/complete-stash-show-p-fix later to maint). |
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| * On-the-wire protocol v2 easily falls into a deadlock between the |
| remote-curl helper and the fetch-pack process when the server side |
| prematurely throws an error and disconnects. The communication has |
| been updated to make it more robust. |
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| * "git checkout -p" did not handle a newly added path at all. |
| (merge 2c8bd8471a js/checkout-p-new-file later to maint). |
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| * The code to parse "git bisect start" command line was lax in |
| validating the arguments. |
| (merge 4d9005ff5d cb/bisect-helper-parser-fix later to maint). |
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| * Reduce memory usage during "diff --quiet" in a worktree with too |
| many stat-unmatched paths. |
| (merge d2d7fbe129 jk/diff-memuse-optim-with-stat-unmatch later to maint). |
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| * The reflog entries for "git clone" and "git fetch" did not |
| anonymize the URL they operated on. |
| (merge 46da295a77 js/reflog-anonymize-for-clone-and-fetch later to maint). |
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| * The behaviour of "sparse-checkout" in the state "git clone |
| --no-checkout" left was changed accidentally in 2.27, which has |
| been corrected. |
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| * Use of negative pathspec, while collecting paths including |
| untracked ones in the working tree, was broken. |
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| * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. |
| (merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint). |
| (merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint). |
| (merge 788db145c7 dl/t-readme-spell-git-correctly later to maint). |
| (merge 45a87a83bb dl/python-2.7-is-the-floor-version later to maint). |
| (merge b75a219904 es/advertise-contribution-doc later to maint). |