The latest maintenance release Git v2.43.1 is now available at
the usual places. This is only to flush the accumulated fixes
on the master front down to the maintenance track.
The tarballs are found at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.43.1'
tag and the 'maint' branch that the tag points at:
url = https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git
url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://github.com/gitster/git
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Git 2.43.1 Release Notes
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There is nothing exciting to see here. Relative to Git 2.43, this
release contains the fixes that have already been merged to the
'master' branch of the development towards the next major release.
Fixes since Git 2.43.0
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* The way CI testing used "prove" could lead to running the test
suite twice needlessly, which has been corrected.
* Newer versions of Getopt::Long started giving warnings against our
(ab)use of it in "git send-email". Bump the minimum version
requirement for Perl to 5.8.1 (from September 2002) to allow
simplifying our implementation.
* Earlier we stopped relying on commit-graph that (still) records
information about commits that are lost from the object store,
which has negative performance implications. The default has been
flipped to disable this pessimization.
* Stale URLs have been updated to their current counterparts (or
archive.org) and HTTP links are replaced with working HTTPS links.
* trace2 streams used to record the URLs that potentially embed
authentication material, which has been corrected.
* The sample pre-commit hook that tries to catch introduction of new
paths that use potentially non-portable characters did not notice
an existing path getting renamed to such a problematic path, when
rename detection was enabled.
* The command line parser for the "log" family of commands was too
loose when parsing certain numbers, e.g., silently ignoring the
extra 'q' in "git log -n 1q" without complaining, which has been
tightened up.
* "git $cmd --end-of-options --rev -- --path" for some $cmd failed
to interpret "--rev" as a rev, and "--path" as a path. This was
fixed for many programs like "reset" and "checkout".
* "git bisect reset" has been taught to clean up state files and refs
even when BISECT_START file is gone.
* Some codepaths did not correctly parse configuration variables
specified with valueless "true", which has been corrected.
* Code clean-up for sanity checking of command line options for "git
show-ref".
* The code to parse the From e-mail header has been updated to avoid
recursion.
* "git fetch --atomic" issued an unnecessary empty error message,
which has been corrected.
* Command line completion script (in contrib/) learned to work better
with the reftable backend.
* "git status" is taught to show both the branch being bisected and
being rebased when both are in effect at the same time.
cf. <xmqqil76kyov.fsf@gitster.g>
* "git archive --list extra garbage" silently ignored excess command
line parameters, which has been corrected.
* "git sparse-checkout set" added default patterns even when the
patterns are being fed from the standard input, which has been
corrected.
* Unlike other environment variables that took the usual
true/false/yes/no as well as 0/1, GIT_FLUSH only understood 0/1,
which has been corrected.
* Clearing in-core repository (happens during e.g., "git fetch
--recurse-submodules" with commit graph enabled) made in-core
commit object in an inconsistent state by discarding the necessary
data from commit-graph too early, which has been corrected.
Also contains various documentation updates, code clean-ups and minor fixups.
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Changes since v2.43.0 are as follows:
Chandra Pratap (2):
sideband.c: remove redundant 'NEEDSWORK' tag
write-or-die: make GIT_FLUSH a Boolean environment variable
Elijah Newren (12):
treewide: remove unnecessary includes from header files
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
archive.h: remove unnecessary include
blame.h: remove unnecessary includes
fsmonitor--daemon.h: remove unnecessary includes
http.h: remove unnecessary include
line-log.h: remove unnecessary include
pkt-line.h: remove unnecessary include
submodule-config.h: remove unnecessary include
trace2/tr2_tls.h: remove unnecessary include
treewide: add direct includes currently only pulled in transitively
treewide: remove unnecessary includes in source files
Eric Sunshine (1):
git-add.txt: add missing short option -A to synopsis
Illia Bobyr (1):
rebase: clarify --reschedule-failed-exec default
Jeff Hostetler (3):
trace2: fix signature of trace2_def_param() macro
t0211: test URL redacting in PERF format
t0212: test URL redacting in EVENT format
Jeff King (24):
parse-options: decouple "--end-of-options" and "--"
bisect: always clean on reset
config: handle NULL value when parsing non-bools
setup: handle NULL value when parsing extensions
trace2: handle NULL values in tr2_sysenv config callback
help: handle NULL value for alias.* config
submodule: handle NULL value when parsing submodule.*.branch
trailer: handle NULL value when parsing trailer-specific config
fsck: handle NULL value when parsing message config
config: reject bogus values for core.checkstat
git_xmerge_config(): prefer error() to die()
imap-send: don't use git_die_config() inside callback
config: use config_error_nonbool() instead of custom messages
diff: give more detailed messages for bogus diff.* config
config: use git_config_string() for core.checkRoundTripEncoding
push: drop confusing configset/callback redundancy
gpg-interface: drop pointless config_error_nonbool() checks
sequencer: simplify away extra git_config_string() call
mailinfo: fix out-of-bounds memory reads in unquote_quoted_pair()
t5100: make rfc822 comment test more careful
mailinfo: avoid recursion when unquoting From headers
t1006: add tests for %(objectsize:disk)
commit-graph: retain commit slab when closing NULL commit_graph
index-pack: spawn threads atomically
Jiang Xin (5):
t5574: test porcelain output of atomic fetch
fetch: no redundant error message for atomic fetch
test-pkt-line: add option parser for unpack-sideband
pkt-line: memorize sideband fragment in reader
pkt-line: do not chomp newlines for sideband messages
Johannes Schindelin (3):
ci: avoid running the test suite _twice_
packfile.c: fix a typo in `each_file_in_pack_dir_fn()`'s declaration
trace2: redact passwords from https:// URLs by default
Josh Brobst (1):
builtin/reflog.c: fix dry-run option short name
Josh Soref (13):
doc: update links to current pages
doc: switch links to https
doc: update links for andre-simon.de
doc: refer to internet archive
CodingGuidelines: move period inside parentheses
CodingGuidelines: write punctuation marks
SubmittingPatches: drop ref to "What's in git.git"
SubmittingPatches: discourage new trailers
SubmittingPatches: update extra tags list
SubmittingPatches: provide tag naming advice
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub visual
SubmittingPatches: clarify GitHub artifact format
SubmittingPatches: hyphenate non-ASCII
Julian Prein (1):
hooks--pre-commit: detect non-ASCII when renaming
Junio C Hamano (13):
orphan/unborn: add to the glossary and use them consistently
orphan/unborn: fix use of 'orphan' in end-user facing messages
revision: parse integer arguments to --max-count, --skip, etc., more carefully
git.txt: HEAD is not that special
git-bisect.txt: BISECT_HEAD is not that special
refs.h: HEAD is not that special
docs: AUTO_MERGE is not that special
docs: MERGE_AUTOSTASH is not that special
doc: format.notes specify a ref under refs/notes/ hierarchy
remote.h: retire CAS_OPT_NAME
archive: "--list" does not take further options
sparse-checkout: use default patterns for 'set' only !stdin
Git 2.43.1
Linus Arver (3):
commit: ignore_non_trailer computes number of bytes to ignore
trailer: find the end of the log message
trailer: use offsets for trailer_start/trailer_end
Maarten van der Schrieck (1):
Documentation: fix statement about rebase.instructionFormat
Marcel Krause (1):
doc: make the gitfile syntax easier to discover
Michael Lohmann (2):
Documentation/git-merge.txt: fix reference to synopsis
Documentation/git-merge.txt: use backticks for command wrapping
Patrick Steinhardt (31):
ci: reorder definitions for grouping functions
ci: make grouping setup more generic
ci: group installation of Docker dependencies
ci: split out logic to set up failed test artifacts
ci: unify setup of some environment variables
ci: squelch warnings when testing with unusable Git repo
ci: install test dependencies for linux-musl
ci: add support for GitLab CI
commit-graph: disable GIT_COMMIT_GRAPH_PARANOIA by default
t0410: mark tests to require the reffiles backend
t1400: split up generic reflog tests from the reffile-specific ones
t1401: stop treating FETCH_HEAD as real reference
t1410: use test-tool to create empty reflog
t1417: make `reflog --updateref` tests backend agnostic
t3310: stop checking for reference existence via `test -f`
t4013: simplify magic parsing and drop "failure"
t5401: speed up creation of many branches
t5551: stop writing packed-refs directly
t6301: write invalid object ID via `test-tool ref-store`
reftable: wrap EXPECT macros in do/while
reftable: handle interrupted reads
reftable: handle interrupted writes
reftable/stack: verify that `reftable_stack_add()` uses auto-compaction
reftable/stack: perform auto-compaction with transactional interface
reftable/stack: reuse buffers when reloading stack
reftable/stack: fix stale lock when dying
reftable/stack: fix use of unseeded randomness
reftable/merged: reuse buffer to compute record keys
reftable/block: introduce macro to initialize `struct block_iter`
reftable/block: reuse buffer to compute record keys
tests: adjust whitespace in chainlint expectations
René Scharfe (14):
column: release strbuf and string_list after use
i18n: factorize even more 'incompatible options' messages
push: use die_for_incompatible_opt4() for - -delete/--tags/--all/--mirror
repack: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for -A/-k/--cruft
revision: use die_for_incompatible_opt3() for - -graph/--reverse/--walk-reflogs
revision, rev-parse: factorize incompatibility messages about - -exclude-hidden
clean: factorize incompatibility message
worktree: standardize incompatibility messages
worktree: simplify incompatibility message for --orphan and commit-ish
show-ref: use die_for_incompatible_opt3()
t6300: avoid hard-coding object sizes
rebase: use strvec_pushf() for format-patch revisions
fast-import: use mem_pool_calloc()
t1006: prefer shell loop to awk for packed object sizes
Rubén Justo (1):
status: fix branch shown when not only bisecting
Shreyansh Paliwal (1):
test-lib-functions.sh: fix test_grep fail message wording
Stan Hu (2):
completion: refactor existence checks for pseudorefs
completion: support pseudoref existence checks for reftables
Todd Zullinger (2):
perl: bump the required Perl version to 5.8.1 from 5.8.0
send-email: avoid duplicate specification warnings
