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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.48.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.48.0.txt index 33c11e742f..eff93be37a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.48.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.48.0.txt @@ -47,15 +47,15 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The way AsciiDoc is used for SYNOPSIS part of the manual pages has been revamped. The sources, at least for the simple cases, got - vastly pleasant to work with. + vastly more pleasant to work with. * The reftable library is now prepared to expect that the memory allocation function given to it may fail to allocate and to deal with such an error. * An extra worktree attached to a repository points at each other to - allow finding the repository from the worktree and vice versa - possible. Turn this linkage to relative paths. + allow finding the repository from the worktree (and vice versa) + possible. Use relative paths for this linkage. * Enable Windows-based CI in GitLab. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Update the project's CodingGuidelines to discourage naming functions with a "_1()" suffix. - * Updates the '.clang-format' to match project conventions. + * Update '.clang-format' to match project conventions. * Centralize documentation for repository extensions into a single place. @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The migration procedure between two ref backends has been optimized. * "git fsck" learned to issue warnings on "curiously formatted" ref - contents that have always been taken valid but something Git + contents that have always been treated as valid but that Git wouldn't have written itself (e.g., missing terminating end-of-line after the full object name). @@ -127,13 +127,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Drop support for ancient environments in various CI jobs. - * Isolates the reftable subsystem from the rest of Git's codebase by + * Isolate the reftable subsystem from the rest of Git's codebase by using fewer pieces of Git's infrastructure. * Optimize reading random references out of the reftable backend by allowing reuse of iterator objects. - * Backport oss-fuzz tests for us to our codebase. + * Backport oss-fuzz tests to our codebase. * Introduce a new repository extension to prevent older Git versions from mis-interpreting worktrees created with relative paths. @@ -161,18 +161,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * "git refs migrate" learned to also migrate the reflog data across backends. + * The developer documentation has been updated to give the latest + info on gitk and git-gui maintainer. + + + * CI jobs that run threaded programs under LSan has been giving false + positives from time to time, which has been worked around. + Fixes since v2.47 ----------------- * Doc update to clarify how periodical maintenance are scheduled, - spread across time to avoid thundering hurds. + spread across time to avoid thundering herds. * Use after free and double freeing at the end in "git log -L... -p" had been identified and fixed. * On macOS, fsmonitor can fall into a race condition that results in - a client waiting forever to be notified for an event that have + a client waiting forever to be notified about an event that has already happened. This problem has been corrected. * "git maintenance start" crashed due to an uninitialized variable @@ -196,7 +203,7 @@ Fixes since v2.47 * The dumb-http code regressed when the result of re-indexing a pack yielded an *.idx file that differs in content from the *.idx file it downloaded from the remote. This has been corrected by no longer - relying on: the *.idx file we got from the remote. + relying on the *.idx file we got from the remote. * When called with '--left-right' and '--use-bitmap-index', 'rev-list' will produce output without any left/right markers, which has been @@ -220,7 +227,7 @@ Fixes since v2.47 * "git gc" discards any objects that are outside promisor packs that are referred to by an object in a promisor pack, and we do not refetch them from the promisor at runtime, resulting an unusable - repository. Work it around by including these objects in the + repository. Work around it by including these objects in the referring promisor pack at the receiving end of the fetch. * Avoid build/test breakage on a system without working malloc debug @@ -275,9 +282,8 @@ Fixes since v2.47 on the path, which was not documented, which has been corrected. (merge bc1a980759 kk/doc-ancestry-path later to maint). - * "git tag" has been taught to refuse to create refs/tags/HEAD - as such a tag will be confusing in the context of UI provided by + since such a tag will be confusing in the context of the UI provided by the Git Porcelain commands. (merge bbd445d5ef jc/forbid-head-as-tagname later to maint). @@ -307,6 +313,12 @@ Fixes since v2.47 to avoid race condition even when multiple packs are involved. (merge 62b3ec8a3f tb/bitmap-fix-pack-reuse later to maint). + * An earlier "csum-file checksum does not have to be computed with + sha1dc" topic had a few code paths that had initialized an + implementation of a hash function to be used by an unmatching hash + by mistake, which have been corrected. + (merge 599a63409b ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 77af53f56f aa/t7300-modernize later to maint). (merge dcd590a39d bf/t-readme-mention-reftable later to maint). |