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New and Noteworthy 5.7
- The repository layout for reftable format was improved. Previously,
the list of tables was in
.git/refs. This makes repository detection fail in older clients, which is undesirable. This proposal was discussed and approved on the git@vger list at [1]. For backward compatibility, JGit could detect a file under.git/refsand use it as a reftable list.
The new layout addresses the following problems:
- old git clients will not recognize reftable-based repositories, and look at encompassing directories.
- Poorly written tools might write directly into
.git/refs/heads/BRANCH.
Since we consider JGit reftable as experimental (git-core doesn't support it yet), we have no backward compatibility. If you created a repository with reftable between mid-Nov 2019 and now, you can do the following to convert:
mv .git/refs .git/reftable/tables.list
git config core.repositoryformatversion 1
git config extensions.refStorage reftable
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAFQ2z_PvKiz==GyS6J1H1uG0FRPL86JvDj+LjX1We4-yCSVQ+g@mail.gmail.com
The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.
The following 22 developers worked on this release:
Alex Blewitt, Alex Jitianu, Alex Spradlin, Andre Bossert, Andrey Loskutov, Carsten Hammer, David Pursehouse, Demetr Starshov, Emmanuel Hugonnet, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Jonathan Nieder, Jonathan Tan, Joshua Redstone, Lajos Olah, Lars Vogel, Masaya Suzuki, Matthias Sohn, Michael Dardis, Michael Keppler, Terry Parker, Thomas Wolf, Yunjie Li