@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ Git 2.31 Release Notes
44Updates since v2.30
55-------------------
66
7+ Backward incompatible and other important changes
8+
9+ * The "pack-redundant" command, which has been left stale with almost
10+ unusable performance issues, now warns loudly when it gets used, as
11+ we no longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d"
12+ instead).
13+
14+ * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to
15+ update from v1.4 that we have been using.
16+
17+
718UI, Workflows & Features
819
920 * The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it
@@ -29,6 +40,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
2940 * "git maintenance" learned to drive scheduled maintenance on
3041 platforms whose native scheduling methods are not 'cron'.
3142
43+ * After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for
44+ the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and
45+ @{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1}
46+
47+ * "git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the
48+ standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point
49+ at the same object.
3250
3351Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
3452
@@ -39,6 +57,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
3957
4058 * The topological walk codepath is covered by new trace2 stats.
4159
60+ * Update the Code-of-conduct to version 2.0 from the upstream (we've
61+ been using version 1.4).
62+
63+ * "git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing
64+ a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git
65+ fsck".
66+
67+ * Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via
68+ environment variables have been introduced, and the way
69+ GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked
70+ to make it more robust.
71+
72+ * Tests have been updated so that they do not to get affected by the
73+ name of the default branch "git init" creates.
74+
75+ * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none
76+ fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option.
77+
4278
4379Fixes since v2.30
4480-----------------
@@ -71,6 +107,26 @@ Fixes since v2.30
71107 * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac.
72108 (merge 3831132ace jc/macos-install-dependencies-fix later to maint).
73109
110+ * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD
111+ display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.
112+ (merge 4045f659bd ab/branch-sort later to maint).
113+
114+ * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are
115+ now forbidden.
116+ (merge 6aed56736b jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url later to maint).
117+
118+ * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as
119+ "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is
120+ that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty",
121+ which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree
122+ as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed.
123+
124+ * When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one
125+ side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a
126+ commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it
127+ does.
128+ (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint).
129+
74130 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
75131 (merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint).
76132 (merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint).
@@ -89,3 +145,4 @@ Fixes since v2.30
89145 (merge 52fc4f195c dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion later to maint).
90146 (merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint).
91147 (merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint).
148+ (merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint).
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