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Git 2.14 Release Notes
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- Backward compatibility notes.
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+ Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes .
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* Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
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'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
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diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now
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become the default.
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+ * Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
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+ library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
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+ in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the
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+ upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
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+ the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
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Updates since v2.13
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when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
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even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
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- * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
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- mechanism has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
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- The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
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- a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
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- a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
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- current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
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- should be included.
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+ * The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in
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+ 2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,
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+ and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in
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+ "~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work".
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+ Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would
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+ show. The include will happen if either one matches.
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- * Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics
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- configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.
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+ * The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The
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+ diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"
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+ for those who do not want it.
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* Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
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configuration.
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would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
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learned to give warnings when this happens.
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- * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
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- user has in its output.
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+ * "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there
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+ are in its output.
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* "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
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commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
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(rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
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line with the focus of "git commit").
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- * "git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation
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- that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single
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- session.
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+ * "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options
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+ which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that
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+ restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.
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* An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it
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has outlived its usefulness.
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* A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests
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that would have caught it and others have been added.
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- * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected.
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+ * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected.
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* Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.
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- * The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting
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+ * The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting
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correctly.
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* The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation
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learned to honour USE_ASCIIDOCTOR just like the main documentation
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set does.
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- * Update the sha1dc again to fix portability glitches.
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* Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading.
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(merge 2d105451c0 rs/apply-avoid-over-reading later to maint).
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Git with address sanitizer more easily.
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(merge 566cf0b3bd jk/build-with-asan later to maint).
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+ * On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
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+ ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
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+ locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
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+ (merge 496f256989 tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path later to maint).
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+ * The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had
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+ 0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead
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+ show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more
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+ (merge 0fae1e072a rs/progress-overall-throughput-at-the-end later to maint).
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+ * Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.
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+ (merge 8db1ae5740 jn/hooks-pre-rebase-sample-fix later to maint).
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+ * We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before
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+ daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background
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+ auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the
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+ early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the
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+ early part also under the GC lock.
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+ (merge c45af94dbc jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 3f9c637ec7 pw/unquote-path-in-git-pm later to maint).
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(merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).
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