Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.22.1

[Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>]

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Thanks, a bunch Junio :)

On 12:40 Mon 12 Aug 2019, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>A maintenance release Git v2.22.1 is now available at the usual
>places.  This backports many of the fixes that appeared already
>on the 'master' front in preparation for the upcoming v2.23 release
>of Git.
>
>The tarballs are found at:
>
>    https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
>
>The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.22.1'
>tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:
>
>  url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
>  url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
>  url = https://github.com/gitster/git
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Git 2.22.1 Release Notes
>========================
>
>Fixes since v2.22
>-----------------
>
> * A relative pathname given to "git init --template=<path> <repo>"
>   ought to be relative to the directory "git init" gets invoked in,
>   but it instead was made relative to the repository, which has been
>   corrected.
>
> * "git worktree add" used to fail when another worktree connected to
>   the same repository was corrupt, which has been corrected.
>
> * The ownership rule for the file descriptor to fast-import remote
>   backend was mixed up, leading to unrelated file descriptor getting
>   closed, which has been fixed.
>
> * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
>   output, which has been corrected.
>
> * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
>   value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
>   use, which has been corrected.
>
> * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
>   if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
>
> * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
>   the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
>   in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
>
> * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
>   index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
>   by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
>   when both options are given.
>
> * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
>   the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
>   has been corrected.
>
> * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
>
> * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
>   "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
>   broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
>
> * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
>   from in the local repository and in the published repository are
>   different.
>
> * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
>   recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
>   hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
>   to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
>
> * "git fetch" into a lazy clone forgot to fetch base objects that are
>   necessary to complete delta in a thin packfile, which has been
>   corrected.
>
> * The filter_data used in the list-objects-filter (which manages a
>   lazily sparse clone repository) did not use the dynamic array API
>   correctly---'nr' is supposed to point at one past the last element
>   of the array in use.  This has been corrected.
>
> * The description about slashes in gitignore patterns (used to
>   indicate things like "anchored to this level only" and "only
>   matches directories") has been revamped.
>
> * The URL decoding code has been updated to avoid going past the end
>   of the string while parsing %-<hex>-<hex> sequence.
>
> * The list of for-each like macros used by clang-format has been
>   updated.
>
> * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely,
>   the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when
>   it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without
>   having to consult the other end, which has been corrected.
>
> * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now
>   it gives a warning.
>
> * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read
>   past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed.
>
> * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message
>   "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was
>   confusing.  This has been corrected.
>
> * The "git clone" documentation refers to command line options in its
>   description in the short form; they have been replaced with long
>   forms to make them more recognisable.
>
> * The configuration variable rebase.rescheduleFailedExec should be
>   effective only while running an interactive rebase and should not
>   affect anything when running a non-interactive one, which was not
>   the case.  This has been corrected.
>
> * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed
>   to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the
>   "--recursive" option was in use.
>
> * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor
>   support to clear cruft in the progress output.
>
> * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output
>   without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been
>   fixed.
>
> * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has
>   been made more robust and also easier to follow.
>
> * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line
>   completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires
>   a repository outside one), which has been corrected.
>
> * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding
>   "git rebase -r", which has been corrected.
>
> * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting
>   rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected.
>
> * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment
>   character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been
>   corrected.
>
> * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer overlaps during binary search.
>
> * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse,
>   which did not work well.
>
> * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
>   may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
>   closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
>   an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
>   new instance to replace it.
>
> * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via
>   "import" based transports.
>
> * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
>   coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
>   a blanket ban against them.
>
> * The internal diff machinery can be made to read out of bounds while
>   looking for --funcion-context line in a corner case, which has been
>   corrected.
>
>Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Changes since v2.22.0 are as follows:
>
>Beat Bolli (1):
>      unicode: update the width tables to Unicode 12.1
>
>Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón (5):
>      fsmonitor: avoid signed integer overflow / infinite loop
>      wrapper: avoid undefined behaviour in macOS
>      xdiff: drop system includes in xutils.c
>      xdiff: remove duplicate headers from xhistogram.c
>      xdiff: remove duplicate headers from xpatience.c
>
>Chris Mayo (1):
>      send-email: update documentation of required Perl modules
>
>Denton Liu (2):
>      config/alias.txt: change " and ' to `
>      config/alias.txt: document alias accepting non-command first word
>
>Derrick Stolee (15):
>      commit-graph: fix the_repository reference
>      sha1-file: split OBJECT_INFO_FOR_PREFETCH
>      commit-graph: return with errors during write
>      commit-graph: collapse parameters into flags
>      commit-graph: remove Future Work section
>      commit-graph: create write_commit_graph_context
>      commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_packs()
>      commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_commit_hex()
>      commit-graph: extract fill_oids_from_all_packs()
>      commit-graph: extract count_distinct_commits()
>      commit-graph: extract copy_oids_to_commits()
>      commit-graph: extract write_commit_graph_file()
>      commit-graph: use raw_object_store when closing
>      packfile: close commit-graph in close_all_packs
>      packfile: rename close_all_packs to close_object_store
>
>Doug Ilijev (1):
>      README: fix rendering of text in angle brackets
>
>Dr. Adam Nielsen (1):
>      gitignore.txt: make slash-rules more readable
>
>Emily Shaffer (3):
>      grep: fail if call could output and name is null
>      doc: hint about GIT_DEBUGGER in CodingGuidelines
>      transport-helper: enforce atomic in push_refs_with_push
>
>Eric Wong (1):
>      server-info: do not list unlinked packs
>
>Felipe Contreras (5):
>      t5801 (remote-helpers): cleanup refspec stuff
>      t5801 (remote-helpers): add test to fetch tags
>      fetch: trivial cleanup
>      fetch: make the code more understandable
>      fetch: fix regression with transport helpers
>
>Jakub Wilk (1):
>      doc: don't use git.kernel.org as example gitweb URL
>
>Jeff King (10):
>      upload-pack: strip namespace from symref data
>      am: simplify prompt response handling
>      am: read interactive input from stdin
>      am: drop tty requirement for --interactive
>      am: fix --interactive HEAD tree resolution
>      interpret-trailers: load default config
>      verify-tag: drop signal.h include
>      wt-status.h: drop stdio.h include
>      delta-islands: respect progress flag
>      xdiff: clamp function context indices in post-image
>
>Johannes Schindelin (14):
>      bisect--helper: verify HEAD could be parsed before continuing
>      fill_stat_cache_info(): prepare for an fsmonitor fix
>      mark_fsmonitor_valid(): mark the index as changed if needed
>      bundle verify: error out if called without an object database
>      poll (mingw): allow compiling with GCC 8 and DEVELOPER=1
>      kwset: allow building with GCC 8
>      winansi: simplify loading the GetCurrentConsoleFontEx() function
>      config: avoid calling `labs()` on too-large data type
>      t3404: fix a typo
>      t0001: fix on case-insensitive filesystems
>      rebase --am: ignore rebase.rescheduleFailedExec
>      diff: munmap() file contents before running external diff
>      mingw: support spawning programs containing spaces in their names
>      clean: show an error message when the path is too long
>
>Jonathan Tan (5):
>      t5616: refactor packfile replacement
>      index-pack: prefetch missing REF_DELTA bases
>      t5616: use correct flag to check object is missing
>      t5616: cover case of client having delta base
>      t5551: test usage of chunked encoding explicitly
>
>Josh Steadmon (1):
>      trace2: correct trace2 field name documentation
>
>Junio C Hamano (6):
>      transport-helper: avoid var decl in for () loop control
>      rm: resolving by removal is not a warning-worthy event
>      CodingGuidelines: spell out post-C89 rules
>      Flush fixes up to the third batch post 2.22.0
>      Merge fixes made on the 'master' front
>      Git 2.22.1
>
>Martin Ågren (1):
>      RelNotes/2.21.1: typofix
>
>Matthew DeVore (3):
>      list-objects-filter: correct usage of ALLOC_GROW
>      url: do not read past end of buffer
>      url: do not allow %00 to represent NUL in URLs
>
>Miguel Ojeda (1):
>      clang-format: use git grep to generate the ForEachMacros list
>
>Mike Hommey (2):
>      dup() the input fd for fast-import used for remote helpers
>      Use xmmap_gently instead of xmmap in use_pack
>
>Mike Mueller (1):
>      p4 unshelve: fix "Not a valid object name HEAD0" on Windows
>
>Morian Sonnet (1):
>      submodule foreach: fix recursion of options
>
>Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy (3):
>      init: make --template path relative to $CWD
>      worktree add: be tolerant of corrupt worktrees
>      completion: do not cache if --git-completion-helper fails
>
>Paolo Bonzini (2):
>      request-pull: quote regex metacharacters in local ref
>      request-pull: warn if the remote object is not the same as the local one
>
>Philip Oakley (2):
>      doc branch: provide examples for listing remote tracking branches
>      .mailmap: update email address of Philip Oakley
>
>Phillip Wood (5):
>      rebase: fix a memory leak
>      rebase: warn if state directory cannot be removed
>      sequencer: return errors from sequencer_remove_state()
>      rebase --abort/--quit: cleanup refs/rewritten
>      add -p: fix checkout -p with pathological context
>
>Quentin Nerden (2):
>      docs: git-clone: refer to long form of options
>      docs: git-clone: list short form of options first
>
>René Scharfe (6):
>      cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary search, part 2
>      coccinelle: use COPY_ARRAY for copying arrays
>      use COPY_ARRAY for copying arrays
>      config: use unsigned_mult_overflows to check for overflows
>      config: don't multiply in parse_unit_factor()
>      config: simplify parsing of unit factors
>
>Robert Morgan (1):
>      gpg(docs): use correct --verify syntax
>
>SZEDER Gábor (11):
>      t3404: modernize here doc style
>      t3404: make the 'rebase.missingCommitsCheck=ignore' test more focused
>      pager: add a helper function to clear the last line in the terminal
>      t5551: use 'test_i18ngrep' to check translated output
>      rebase: fix garbled progress display with '-x'
>      progress: use term_clear_line()
>      Document that 'git -C ""' works and doesn't change directory
>      ci: don't update Homebrew
>      ci: disable Homebrew's auto cleanup
>      ci/lib.sh: update a comment about installed P4 and Git-LFS versions
>      Documentation/git-fsck.txt: include fsck.* config variables
>
>Simon Williams (1):
>      git-p4: allow unshelving of branched files
>
>Steven Roberts (1):
>      gpg-interface: do not scan past the end of buffer
>
>Thomas Gummerer (1):
>      stash: fix show referencing stash index
>
>Varun Naik (1):
>      read-cache.c: do not die if mmap fails
>
>Vishal Verma (1):
>      merge: refuse --commit with --squash
>
>Xin Li (1):
>      clone: respect user supplied origin name when setting up partial clone
>
>Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (1):
>      hash-object doc: stop mentioning git-cvsimport
>

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