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  1 # Category track History
  2 
  3 See `CONTRIBUTING.rst` for details of **required** info/format for each entry,
  4 which **must** added in reverse chronological order (newest at the top).
  5 It must **not** be used as a substitute for writing good git commit messages!
  6 
  7 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  8 
  9 ## 2024-06-01 Makoto Asai (track-V11-02-03)
 10 - Add optional copy of touchables when copy constructing G4Track to support
 11   subevent parallelism
 12   - Co-working with event-V11-02-04, run-V11-02-06.
 13 
 14 ## 2024-05-03 Ben Morgan (track-V11-02-02)
 15 - Remove use of no longer supported TiMemory.
 16 
 17 ## 2024-04-21 Gabriele Cosmo (track-V11-02-01)
 18 - Fixed compilation error in G4VParticleChange on Windows VC++ with
 19   C++20 Standard enabled.
 20   Based on [GitHub PR#69](https://github.com/Geant4/geant4/pull/69).
 21 
 22 ## 2024-04-12 Vladimir Ivanchenko (track-V11-02-00)
 23 - G4Track, G4Step, G4StepPoint - added keyword "inline" to all inline method
 24     declaration, improve comments
 25 - G4Step - move methods to compute delta energy and momentum to inline removing
 26     G4Exception but improving comments to these methods, removed G4ThreadLocal
 27     variable from this container
 28 - G4VParticleChange - improve layout of variables
 29 - G4ParticleChangeForGamma, G4ParticleChangeForLoss - reserve vector of
 30     secondaries
 31 - This MR provides identical results, the main purpose - more easy reading of
 32   class headers, expected CPU speed-up likely tiny.
 33 
 34 ## 2023-09-12 Makoto Asai (track-V11-01-01)
 35 - Adding fSuspendAndWait to G4TrackStatus.
 36 - G4TrackStatus is mutable in G4Track so that it may be modified in stacking.
 37 
 38 ## 2022-12-12 Ben Morgan (track-V11-01-00)
 39 - Remove obsolete GNUmakefile scripts
 40 
 41 ## 2022-11-16 Gabriele Cosmo (track-V11-00-11)
 42 - Fixed compilation warnings for implicit type conversions on macOS/XCode 14.1.
 43 
 44 ## 2022-10-31 Vladimir Ivanchenko (track-V11-00-10)
 45 - G4ParticleChangeForMSC - fixed crash in "/tracking/verbose 6"
 46 
 47 ## 2022-09-13 Vladimir Ivanchenko (track-V11-00-09)
 48 - 2nd round of particle change classes cleanup: improved diagnostic for 
 49     problems with primary track parameters or with secondary tracks; ensure
 50     kinetic energy to be positive after a step; improved comments
 51 
 52 ## 2022-09-08 Makoto Asai (track-V11-00-08)
 53 - G4Step.hh, G4Step.icc - Adding ResetPre/PostStepPoint methods to replace
 54   StepPoint object without deleting the previous object.
 55 
 56 ## 2022-09-02 Vladimir Ivanchenko (track-V11-00-07)
 57 - G4ParticleChangeForMSC - substitute virtual initialisation by inline
 58     method
 59 
 60 ## 2022-08-24 Vladimir Ivanchenko (track-V11-00-06)
 61 - General clean-up of all ParticleChange classes:
 62    1) delete copy constructors and operators
 63    2) removed unused methods
 64    3) removed tracking cut 1 eV implemented inside G4ParticleChangeForLoss
 65    4) make more effective handling of secondary tracks
 66    5) substitute G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay by G4ParticleChangeForDecay
 67    6) make all derived classes/methods final
 68    7) removed commented code and useless or incorrect comments, added
 69       improved comments
 70    8) removed duplicated code
 71 
 72 ## 2022-06-24 Ben Morgan (track-V11-00-05)
 73 - Initial `clang-tidy` fixes and minor simplifications
 74 
 75 ## 2022-05-25 Alberto Ribon (track-V11-00-04)
 76 - `G4Track`: add methods to get/set information on (short-lived) parent resonance
 77 
 78 ## 2022-04-19 Jonas Hahnfeld (track-V11-00-03)
 79 - `G4ParticleChangeForTransport`:
 80   * Apply proposed step length
 81   * Further simplify `UpdateStepForAlongStep` method, assuming that
 82     transportation is always the first process
 83 
 84 ## 2022-01-28 Ben Morgan (track-V11-00-02)
 85 - Replace `geant4_global_library_target` with direct file inclusion and
 86   call to `geant4_add_category` to define library build from source modules.
 87 - Make DLL export symbol a CMake module-level compile definition to aid
 88   future modularization
 89 
 90 ## 2021-12-13 Jonas Hahnfeld (track-V11-00-01)
 91 - Simplify `G4ParticleChangeForTransport::UpdateStepForAlongStep`, assuming
 92   that transportation is always the first process
 93 
 94 ## 2021-12-10 Ben Morgan (track-V11-00-00)
 95 - Change to new Markdown History format
 96 
 97 ---
 98 
 99 # History entries prior to 11.0
100 
101 - September 28, 2021 J. Hahnfeld (track-V10-07-06)
102 - G4ParticleChangeForMSC, G4ParticleChangeForTransport: Disable debugFlag
103 
104 - September 22, 2021 G. Amadio (track-V10-07-05)
105 - G4Step: avoid accessing G4Track data via long pointer chains.
106      
107 - September 8, 2021 D. Sawkey (track-V10-07-04)
108 - G4Track: get material property using int (enum) rather than string
109 
110 - August 4, 2021 A. Ribon (track-V10-07-03)
111   G4Track : migrated to the new version of G4PhysicsModelCatalog.
112 
113 - April 28, 2021 M. Maire (track-V10-07-02)
114   G4VParticleChange::DumpInfo(), G4ParticleChange::DumpInfo():
115     adjust printout format
116 
117 - April 1, 2021 B. Morgan (track-V10-07-01)
118 - Migrate build to modular CMake API
119 
120 - February 8, 2021 G.Cosmo (track-V10-07-00)
121 - Correction to G4Track::operator=() to copy also touchable-handles.
122   This fixes a crash originate when running importance sampling in the
123   G4EventManager when the track got assigned the origin touchable handler
124   from its own touchable handle; the touchable handler was sometimes not set.
125   Based on report by M.Dressel.
126 
127 - November 12, 2020 J.Madsen (track-V10-06-06)
128 - Added G4Profiler support.
129 
130 - July 24, 2020 G.Cosmo (track-V10-06-05)
131 - Fixed case of non-initialised values in G4Step.
132 
133 - July 16, 2020 G.Cosmo (track-V10-06-04)
134 - Minor c++11 review; code formatting and cleanup.
135 
136 - March 11, 2020 V.Ivanchenko (track-V10-06-03)
137 - G4Track - do not use Velocity table, instead use GetBeta() method
138     from G4DynamicParticle; expected minor speed-up
139 
140 - February 10, 2020 V.Ivanchenko (track-V10-06-02)
141 - G4Track - use G4OpticalPhoton pdg code; removed static thread local
142     variables; slightly simplified velocity computation; removed
143     commented code left from previous tag
144 
145 - January 29, 2020 V.Ivanchenko (track-V10-06-01)
146 - G4Track - fixed Coverity reports connected with unnecessary checks
147   for valid pointers to G4Step and G4DynamicParticle
148 
149 - December 9, 2019 B. Morgan (track-V10-06-00)
150 - Cleanup CMake build, removing obsolete granular library option and
151   explicit include_directories.
152 
153 - November 15, 2019 G.Cosmo (track-V10-05-01)
154 - Fixed implicit type conversions from size_t to G4int in G4Step.
155 
156 - May 24, 2019 V.Ivanchenko (track-V10-05-00)
157   G4Track.hh added forward declaration for G4VProcess
158 
159 - Nov. 5, 2018 H.Kurashige(track-V10-04-02)
160 - Add protection for nullptr access in G4Track.icc
161   Addressing problem report #2097.
162 
163 - Aug. 15, 2018 H.Kurashige(track-V10-04-01)
164 - fix possible memory leaks
165    in assignment operator and copy ctr of G4Step and G4Track
166 - clean up codes
167 
168 - May 17, 2018 J.Madsen (track-V10-04-00)
169 - updated "thread-local-static-var" model to
170   "function-returning-thread-local-static-reference" model
171   which fixes Windows DLL + MT
172 
173 - November 25, 2017 V.Ivanchenko (track-V10-03-00)
174 - G4VelocityTable - use G4ThreadLocalSingletone patern in order
175     to provide correct deletion of these objects end of run;
176     use only G4Log and G4Exp instead of std::log10 which is not
177     needed
178 
179 - May 4, 2016 H.Kurashige(track-V10-02-01)
180 - Use G4Log in G4VelocityTable::Value()
181 
182 - January 12, 2016 M.Asai (track-V10-02-00)
183 - Chnage G4VUserTrackInformation pointer in G4Track to mutable
184   and set-method to be const-method. This allows the user to
185   set his/her G4VUserTrackInformation pointer without casting
186   G4Track const pointer.
187 
188 - September 29, 2015 H.Kurashige (track-V10-01-10)
189 - Add GetNumberOfSecondariesInCurrrentStep method to G4Step
190 
191 - September 25, 2015 H.Kurashige (track-V10-01-09)
192 - Fix G4ParticleChange::UpdateStepForPostStep.
193 
194 - September 15, 2015 M.Asai (track-V10-01-08)
195 - Roll back to track-V10-01-06 due to performance overhead.
196 
197 - August 01, 2015 M.Asai (track-V10-01-07)
198 - Add verbosity to G4VParticleChange and G4ParticleChange for the case
199   of event abortion.
200 
201 - June 22, 2015 M.Asai (track-V10-01-05 and -06)
202 - Remove data members of G4VAuxiliaryTrackInformation abstract base class
203   for memory reduction.
204 
205 - June 3, 2015 M.Asai (track-V10-01-04)
206 - Fix incorrect copy constructor of G4Track in the previous tag.
207 
208 - June 3, 2015 M.Asai (track-V10-01-02 and -03)
209 - Introducing G4VAuxiliaryTrackInformation class to be associated to G4Track.
210 
211 - January 15, 2015 J.Apostolakis (track-V10-01-01)
212 - Fixed FieldTrackUpdator to pass magnetic moment and PDG spin
213   Is part of corrections needed for Bugzilla issue 1696.
214 
215 - December 16, 2014 J.Apostolakis (track-V10-01-00)
216 - Improve G4ParticleChangeForTransport, by adding update for FirstStep in volume.
217 
218 - August 19, 2014 K. Genser (track-V10-00-04)
219 - Removed non cost requirement when using G4PhysicsModelCatalog getters and moved
220    implementations to icc file (requires global-V10-00-31)
221 
222 - May  21,  2014 J.Apostolakis (track-V10-00-03)
223 - Fix G4FieldTrackUpdator to energy/momentum passed to field integration:
224    first set rest mass, then update kinetic energy. Problem affects
225    propagation in multiple geometries.
226 
227 - Mar. 07,  2014 H.Kurashige (track-V10-00-02)
228 - Fix memory leak in G4Step::SetPre/PostStepPoint
229  (Bug # 1583)
230 
231 - Jan. 04, 2014 H.Kurashige (track-V10-00-00)
232 - modify message from CheckIt for G4VParticleChange and G4ParticleChangeForDecay
233 
234 - Nov. 21, 2013 H.Kurashige (track-V09-06-04)
235 - Fix Coverity deficts in G4Track constructors
236 
237 - September 26, 2013 M.Asai (track-V09-06-03)
238 - Fix compilation warning caused by the previous tag.
239 
240 - September 26, 2013 M.Asai (track-V09-06-02)
241 - Introduce CreatorModelIndex to G4Track and its access methods.
242 
243 - April 10, 2013 G.Cosmo (track-V09-06-01)
244 - Cleanup of automatic changes for MT in classes in G4Track.
245 - Moved constructor and destructor of G4VelocityTable singleton to private.
246 
247 - April 4, 2013 V.Ivanchenko (track-V09-06-00)
248 - G4ParticleChange - fixed bug #1451 - neutron do not change velocity
249     after elastic scattering; little clean up useful for MT
250 - G4ParticleChangeForEloss, G4ParticleChangeForGamma - clean up
251     computation of velocity (a little performance improvement expected)
252 
253 - November 8, 2012 I.Hrivnacova (track-V09-05-20)
254 - Fixed G4Track: added initialisation of useGivenVelocity where missing
255 
256 - Sep. 23, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-19)
257 - Add UseGivenVelocity methods to skip CalculateVelocity
258 
259 - August 27, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-18)
260 - Fix a bug in copy constructor of G4VUUserTrackInformation (Problem #1346)
261 
262 - August 11, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-17)
263 - Fix a bug in G4VParticleChange::CheckSecondary
264   theParentGlobalTime is set to time at the pre-step point
265 
266 - August 9, 2012 V.Ivanchenko (track-V09-05-16)
267   (should be accompned by a new EM tag of emutils-V09-05-31)
268 - G4ParticleChangeForMSC - allowed modification of position and
269     direction AlongStep
270 
271 - June 26, 2012 G.Cosmo (track-V09-05-13)
272 - Additional protection for parameter not used in G4VParticleChange when
273   G4_NO_VERBOSE is set.
274 
275 - June 20, 2012 G.Cosmo (track-V09-05-12)
276 - Protect variable used for verbosity within G4VERBOSE in G4ParticleChange
277   and G4VParticleChange. Fixes compilation warnings when G4_NO_VERBOSE is
278   set.
279 
280 - June 13, 2012 G.Cosmo (track-V09-05-11)
281 - Explicitly use inclusion of headers for system of units and physical
282   constants, in plan to remove implicit inclusion from globals.hh.
283 
284 - June 09, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-10)
285 - Fixed G4VelocityTable::Interpolation()
286 
287 - May 23, 2012 G.Cosmo (track-V09-05-09)
288 - Fixed trivial cases of variable shadowing.
289 
290 - May 15, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-08)
291 - Modify way of handling parent weight in AlongStep
292   in accumulated way (same manner for other prperties)
293 
294 - May 1st, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-07)
295 - Add global time check for secondaries in G4VParticleChange
296 - Modify output messages for CheckIt and CheckSecondary
297 - Add G4Exception in G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay:: AddSecondary
298 
299 - April 30, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-06)
300 - Fixed the bug in G4ParticleChange::AddSecondary.
301   (Problem#1305 The local time of the parent was set before)
302 
303 - April 29, 2012 H.Kurashige (track-V09-05-05)
304 - Fix treatment of weights in ParticleChange
305   (Problem#1283)
306 
307 - February 3rd, 2012 J.Apostolakis  (track-V09-05-04)
308 - G4FieldTrackUpdator::Update method must reset the RestMass,
309    because it is used to Initialise each track by ParallelWorldScoringProcess,
310    (as well as update during stepping a track.)
311     Requires tag  'field-V09-05-03' of geometry/magneticfield
312 
313 - January 21st, 2012 H.Kurashige    (track-V09-05-03)
314 - G4Track::CalculateVelocityForOpticalPhoton() has been reverted
315   Modification of Optical process solves Problem #1275
316 
317 - January 9th, 2012 H.Kurashige  (track-V09-05-02)
318 - Use GetNextMaterial instead of GetMaterial
319   in G4Track::CalculateVelocityForOpticalPhoton()
320    (Problem #1275)
321 
322 - December 22nd, 2011 H.Kurashige  (track-V09-05-01)
323 - Set 'false' to SecondaryWeightByProcess in default
324   (Problem #1273)
325 
326 - December 9th, 2011 H.Kurashige  (track-V09-05-00)
327 - Fix Coverity defects
328   (Modify copy constructor/assignment operator for G4VParticleChange and derived classes)
329   (Add copy constructor/assignment operator for G4VUserTrackInformation)
330 
331 - November 9th, 2011 H.Kurashige  (track-V09-04-13)
332 - Fix Coverity defects
333   (copy constructor/assignment operator for G4Step/G4StepPoint)
334 
335 - October 21th, 2011 G.Folger     (track-V09-04-12)
336 -  retag all of track, track-V09-04-11 was in src only.
337 
338 - October 14th, 2011 P.Gumplinger (track-V09-04-11)
339 - modify G4Track.cc to work with materials-V09-04-15 (and 14)
340 
341 - September 21st,  2011  H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-10)
342 - Re-Activate SetParentWeightByTracK() method because Adjoint Process relays on it
343 - ProposeParenetWeight method affects seconday trackes if SecondaryTrackWeightByProcess flag
344   is set true even wheen SetParentWeightByTracK is set to false
345 
346 -September 17, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-09)
347 - Fix problems related to treatments of weight in ParticleChange (see problem #1243)
348 -- always set the parent track's weight to the value set by ProposeParentWeight() and  ProposeWeight()
349    methods for all particle change classes.
350 -- remove fSetParentWeightByProcess and all related code.
351 -- SetSecondaryWeightByProcess() flag is set to true in default.
352 
353 -September 11, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-08)
354 - Modify ParticleChangeForTransport to fix a bug of wrong velocity
355   in PostStepPoint after Along/PostStepDoIt
356 
357 -August 22, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-07)
358 - G4VelocityTable is modified and it is not derived from G4PhysicsVector
359   (in order to avoid from creation of PhysicsVector as static objects)
360 
361 August 17, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-05)
362 - Add G4VelocityTable as singleton to avoid creation of G4PhysicsVector in event loop
363 - Modify G4Step::InitializeStep to set correct velocity for the optical photon
364 
365 July 6, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-04)
366 - Modify ParticleChanges (forDecay, for Transportation and G4ParticleChange)
367   to handle local time change rather than global time
368   (see problem #1224)
369 - Modify CalculateVelocityForOpticalPhoton() for Coverity report.
370 
371 May. 20, 2011, B.Morgan (track-V09-04-03)
372 - CMakeLists.txt : Added G4TRACK_ALLOC_EXPORT compiler definition via
373   add_definitions so it's applied to all sources in this module.
374 
375 Apr. 29, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-02)
376 - Fix memory leak in G4Step
377 - Rename GetVelocity to CalculateVelocity
378 - Add fVelocity (and Set/Get methods for it) in G4Track
379 - Set velocity of trak in UpdateStep in ParticleChange
380 
381 Apr. 2, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-01)
382 - Set maxT for Velocity Table to 1000
383 - Add SetVelocityTableProperties
384 
385 Mar. 16, 2011, H.Kurashige (track-V09-04-00)
386 - Fix problems reported by Coverity
387 - Add  GetSecondaryInCurrentStep method in G4Step.
388 
389 Nov. 10, 2010, H.Kurashige (track-V09-03-11)
390 - Remove  GetSecondaryInCurrentStep method in G4Step.
391   (revert chages in track-V09-03-07)
392 
393 Nov. 08, 2010, M.Asai (track-V09-03-10)
394 - Adding touchable history of the origin to G4Track.
395 
396 Oct. 30, 2010, H.Kurashige (track-V09-03-09)
397 - Fix minor bugs reported by Coverity
398 
399 Oct. 27, 2010, G.Cosmo (track-V09-03-08)
400 - Restored DLL setup as originally. Withdrawn changes in last tag.
401 
402 Oct. 19, 2010  G.Cosmo (track-V09-03-07)
403 - Replaced G4TRACK_ALLOC_EXPORT flag with G4ALLOC_EXPORT for DLL exported
404   symbols.
405 
406 Oct. 18, 2010  Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-06)
407 - Add  GetSecondaryInCurrentStep method in G4Step.
408   It gives secondaries in the current step.
409 
410 Oct. 6, 2010  Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-05)
411 - G4Step::GetSecondary() gives back const G4TrackVector*
412   and G4Step::GetfSecondary() gives back non-const pointer
413 
414 Sep 21, 2010  Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-04)
415 - Fill the last bin contents in G4Track::PrepareVelocityTable()
416    to fix the bug in calculation of GetVelocity
417 
418 Aug 12, 2010 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-03)
419 - Add G4Track::GetParticleDefinition giving 'const' pointer
420 
421 July 21, 2010 Gabriele Cosmo (track-V09-03-02)
422 - Added protection against possible null pointer in G4Track::GetVelocity().
423 - Removed extra inclusion of G4Step.hh in G4Track header.
424 - Fixed cases of restoring cout/cerr precision formatting in classes:
425   G4ParticleChange, G4ParticleChangeForDecay, G4ParticleChangeForGamma,
426   G4ParticleChangeForLoss, G4ParticleChangeForMSC, G4ParticleChangeForTransport,
427   G4VParticleChange.
428 - Added dummy initialisation to data members in constructors in classes:
429   G4ParticleChange, G4ParticleChangeForDecay, G4ParticleChangeForGamma,
430   G4ParticleChangeForLoss, G4ParticleChangeForTransport, G4Step, G4StepPoint,
431   G4Track, G4VParticleChange.
432 
433 July 2, 2010 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-01)
434 - Use PhysicsVector for calculation of GetVelocity
435 - Add Exception(Warning) if GetDeltaEnergy/Momentum methods are invoked. These methds are planed to be removed
436 
437 Mar. 9, 2010 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-03-00)
438 - Change G4String to a pointer of G4String
439   for prooperty to indicate type of UserTrackInformation
440 - Change G4VUserTrackInformation::Print() to a simple virtual method
441   form pure-virtual
442 
443 Oct. 19, 2009 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-02-04)
444 -added a string prooperty to indicate type of UserTrackInformation
445 
446 
447 Jun. 18, 2009 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-02-03)
448 -added SetLowEnergyLimit method (Vladimir)
449 
450 
451 May.  27, 2009 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-02-02)
452 - Add lowEnergyLimit = 1 eV in lowEnergyLimit = 1 eV (Vladimir)
453 
454 Apr.  2, 2009 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-02-01)
455 - Add protection for the case mass==0 and T==0 in GetVelocity
456 
457 Apr.  2, 2009 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-02-00)
458 - Modify GetVelocity to improve performance
459 
460 Oct. 24, 2008 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-01-02)
461 - change fpCreatorProcess and fpLCAtVertex in G4Track to  'const' pointer
462 - change fpProcessDefinedStep in G4StepPoint to  'const' pointer
463 
464 
465 Feb. 5, 2008 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-01-01)
466 - reset non-ionizing energy loss in G4Step::ResetTotalEnergyDeposit
467   in order to initialize NIEL in each step
468 
469 Jan. 12, 2008 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-01-00)
470 - add non-ionizing energy loss to EM physics (V.Ivanchenko)
471 
472 Oct. 02, 2007 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-00-02)
473 - Add protection in G4Track::GetVolume to avoid core dump
474 
475 Aug. 07, 2007 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V09-00-01)
476 - Add  get method for non-ionizing energy deposit in G4Step
477 
478 
479 Mar. 30, 07 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V08-02-02)
480 - Fix weight treatment in G4ParticleChange
481 
482 Mar. 26, 07 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V08-02-01)
483 - Added Non-Ionizing Energy Deposit in G4Step and G4VParticleChange
484 
485 Mar. 11, 07 Hisaya Kurashige (track-V08-02-00)
486 - Added magnetic moment in G4DynamicParticle (co-work with particles-V08-02-00)
487 - Fixed treatment of parent's weight in G4ParticleChange
488 
489 Nov.  3, 06 J.Apostolakis (track-V08-01-04)
490 - New methods first/lastStepInVolume flag in G4Step, G4VParticleChange  by Hisaya
491 - Revised UpdateStepForPostStep by John Apostolakis
492 
493 Oct. 31, 06 G.Cosmo (track-V08-01-03)
494 - Made operator=() inline.
495 
496 Aug. 29, 06 H.Kurashige (track-V08-01-02)
497 - Add methods for setting polarization and modifying weight
498     for G4ParticleChangeFoeGamma and  G4ParticleChangeForLoss
499           (V.Ivanchenko)
500 
501 Jul. 17, 06 M.Asai (track-V08-01-01)
502 - Re-tagged for G4Step and G4TrackVector only.
503 
504 Jun. 09, 06 M.Asai (track-V08-01-00)
505 - tagged for G4FieldTrackUpdator, G4Step and G4TrackVector.
506 
507 Jun. 09, 06 T.Sasaki
508 - G4Step now has secondary vector
509 - G4TrackVector was moved from tracking category
510 
511 Jun. 09, 06 M.Asai
512 - Introducing G4FieldTrackUpdator class.
513 - GNUmakefile now includes geometry/magneticfield
514 
515 Jun. 07, 06 V.Ivanchenko (track-V08-00-03)
516 -  G4ParticleChangeForLoss - remove momentum change AlongStep
517 
518 Mar. 29, 06 H.Kurashige (track-V08-00-02)
519 -  Improve G4Track::GetVelocity for optical photon
520 
521 Feb. 08, 06 H.Kurashige (track-V08-00-01)
522 -  add ProposeMomentumDirection AlongStep and ProposeWeight PostStep in
523     G4ParticleChangeForLoss (V.Ivantchenko)
524 
525 Dec. 20, 05 .Kurashige (track-V08-00-00)
526 -  G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay is now derived from G4ParticleChangeForDecay
527 
528 Dec. 05, 05 mma (track-V07-01-02)
529 - G4ParticleChangeForGamma : apply UpdateStepForPostStep in any case
530 
531 Nov. 26, 05 H.Kurashige (track-V07-01-01)
532 - Fix GetVelocity : use the material pointer in PreStepPoint
533 
534 May 30, 05 V.Ivantchenko (track-V07-00-02)
535 - Fix in G4ParticleChangeForGamma : add UpdateStepForAtRest method
536 
537 May 12, 05 P.Gumplinger (track-V07-00-01)
538 - Fix GetVelocity (bug report #741) courtesy of  Horton-Smith
539 
540 Apr. 15, 05 V.Ivantchenko (track-V07-00-00)
541 - Add a new class of G4ParticleChangeForGamma
542 - Modify 4ParticleChangeForLoss
543 
544 Dec. 02, 04 H.Kurashige (track-V06-02-04)
545 - migration to cmath
546 
547 Nov. 25, 04 M.Asai (track-V06-02-03)
548 - Fix destructor of G4VUserTrackInformation.
549 
550 Oct. 19, 04 H.Kurashige (track-V06-02-02)
551 - Remove obsolete methods from G4ParticleChange
552 
553 Sep. 17, 04 P.Gumplinger (track-V06-02-01)
554 - Modified G4ParticleChangeForDecay (add thePolarizationChange and methods)
555 
556 Aug. 27, 04 M.Asai (track-V06-02-00)
557 - A pointer to sensitive detector is added in G4StepPoint and
558   G4ParticleChangeForTransport.
559 - G4Step is taking care of setting the above pointer.
560 
561 Jun. 15, 04 V.Ivanchenko (track-V06-01-05)
562 - G4ParticleChangeForLoss: fix initialization of ParentWeight
563 
564 Jun. 11, 04 G.Cosmo (track-V06-01-04)
565 - Use global flag G4TRACK_ALLOC_EXPORT to export extern symbols for DLLs.
566   Modified GNUmakefile and rearranged usage of extern symbols in G4Track.
567 
568 Jun. 09, 04 G.Cosmo (track-V06-01-03)
569 - Adopt G4DLLIMPORT/G4DLLEXPORT technique to handle extern simbols for
570   allowing support of DLLs on Windows.
571 - Coworks with "global-V06-01-02b".
572 
573 Jun. 07, 04 G.Cosmo (track-V06-01-02)
574 - Export extern symbols for allowing support of DLLs on Windows.
575   Modified G4Track.icc.
576 - GNUmakefile: added definition of GLOBLIBS for DLLs support on Windows.
577 - Coworks with "global-V06-01-02a".
578 
579 May. 11, 04 V.Ivanchenko (track-V06-01-01)
580 - G4ParticleChangeForLoss: rename variables according to 00 tag;
581   fix of minor energy non-conservation in case of more than 1
582   processes changing the energy
583 
584 May. 08, 04 H.Kurashige (track-V06-01-00)
585 - Add new methods of ProposeXXX (and corresponding GetXXX methods)
586   as replacements of old methods of SetXXXChange and GetXXXChange
587 
588 Jan. 20, 04 V.Ivanchenko (track-V06-00-01)
589 - Update G4ParticleChangeForLoss for utilisation in G4VEnergyLossProcess
590 - Minor update G4ParticleChangeForMSC for utilisation in model design of msc
591 - Change of volume in G4ParticleChangeForTransportation only if kinEnergy>0
592 
593 Dec. 12, 03 G.Cosmo (track-V06-00-00)
594 - G4VParticleChange[.hh.cc]: removed unnecessary 'const' qualifier to
595   return value in GetAccuracyForWarning() and GetAccuracyForException()
596   causing noisy warnings on Intel-icc compiler.
597 
598 Nov. 26, 03 H.Kurashige (track-V05-02-03)
599 - Fixed problem of setting  momentum direction for stoppped particle in G4ParticleChange (Vladimir)
600 
601 Oct. 4, 03 G.Cosmo (track-V05-02-02)
602 - Modified GNUmakefile:
603   o added dependency to new module "geometry/navigation".
604 - Coworks with "geometry-V05-02-00" and "digits_hits-V05-02-00".
605 
606 Jun. 11, 03 H.Kurashige (track-V05-02-01)
607 - Add ExceptionSeverity
608 - Add G4VParticleChange::CheckSecondary
609 - Remove inclusion of G4MaterialCutsCouple
610 
611 Jun. 03, 03  G.Cosmo (track-V05-01-03)
612 - Fixed warning in G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay.hh.
613 
614 Mar. 20, 03  M.Asai (track-V05-01-02)
615 - Fix copy operator of G4Track not to copy the pointer to user information
616 
617 Mar. 20, 03  H.Kurashige  (track-V05-01-01)
618 - Correct comments
619 - Fixed unused parameter in G4VParticleChange.cc
620 
621 Mar. 5, 02  H.Kurashige  (track-V05-00-02)
622 - Fix in G4Step::InitializeStep().
623   Added initialization of fCharge in StepPoint.
624 
625 Jan. 24, 02  G.Cosmo  (track-V05-00-01)
626 - Fix in G4ParticleChangeForTransport::UpdateStepForPostStep().
627   Added call for setting the material-cuts-couple for pPostStepPoint
628   (V.Ivantchenko).
629 
630 Dec. 16, 02  G.Cosmo  (track-V05-00-00)
631 - Merged branch "geant4-04-01-ref-02-cuts-branch" to HEAD.
632   Included development for 'cuts-by-region':
633   o Updated G4Track, G4Step, G4StepPoint and G4ParticleChangeForTransport
634     to properly handle new G4MaterialCutsCouple.
635 
636 Dec. 04, 02  T.Sasaki (track-V04-01-03)
637 - Initial value for fCharge is given in the constuctor
638   of G4StepPoint.
639 
640 Nov. 20, 02   G.Cosmo (track-V04-01-02)
641 - Patched access to public static data in G4VParticleChange.
642   Added accessors to be used in the kernel to allow porting on
643   Windows DLLs.
644 
645 Nov. 1, 02    J.Generowicz (track-V04-01-01)
646 - Added accessors to auxiliary point vector, in both
647   G4Step and G4ParticleChangeForTransport
648 
649 Oct. 31, 02    T.Sasaki (track-V04-01-00)
650 - Added StronglyForced flag to G4ForceCondition
651 - set fUndefined for the StepStatus in PostStepPoint after CopyPostToPre
652 
653 Feb. 09 ,02    H.Kurashige (track-V04-00-02)
654 - Modify G4Track::GetVelocity to get better performance for massless particles
655 
656 Dec. 24 ,01   H.Kurashige (track-V04-00-01)
657 - Remove event biasing mechanism from track category
658   ( it is moved to hadronic/models )
659 - Add G4Track::CopyTrackInfo
660 - Modified G4ParticleChange::AddSecondary to use touchable handle
661 - Fixed a bug of changing parent weight in G4ParticleChange::UpdateStepForAlongStep
662 
663 Dec. 12, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V04-00-00)
664 - Added initialization of fStepLength in constructors.
665 - Fixed a bug that fStepLength is not copied in assginment operator
666 
667 Dec. 10, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-08)
668 - Modified assignment operator so that fCurrentStepNumber is set to 0
669 
670 Nov.27, 01  J. Apostolakis (track-V03-02-07)  for H. Kurashige
671 - Modified G4ParticleChange::AddSecondary to use touchable handle - by Hisaya
672    (only one of the AddSecondary methods has been modified - to date)
673 
674 Nov.10, 01 (track-V03-02-06)
675 - Fixed bugs in assignment operators in G4Track
676 - Added SetParentWeightByProcess
677 - Added SetSecondaryWeightByProcess
678 
679 Nov. 08, 01  G.Cosmo (track-V03-02-05)
680 - Merge changes included in "track-V03-02-02a".
681 
682 Oct. 22, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-04)
683 - Modify to intorduce TouchableHandle (Radovan)
684 
685 Oct. 20, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-03)
686 - Remove "static inline methods"
687 - Disable EventBiasingMechanism
688 
689 Oct. 26, 01  G.Cosmo (track-V03-02-02a)
690 - Added implementation to assignment operator in G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay.hh
691   (H.Kurasige)
692 
693 Sep. 20, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-02)
694 - Update to  G4Mars5GeVMechanism for STL migration of materials
695 
696 Sep. 20, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-01)
697 - Modify  G4Mars5GeVMechanism for STL migration of materials
698 
699 Aug. 16, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-02-00)
700 - Clean up codes
701 
702 Mar. 7, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-00-04)
703 - Add protection for the zero-momentum case
704   for UpdateStepForAlongStep in ParticleChange  (J.A)
705 
706 Feb. 17, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-00-03)
707 - Add Velocity and Setmethod in G4StepPoint
708 - Add SetVelocity in G4Step.::InitializeStep
709 - Modify G4StepPoint::GetVelocity to return correct velocity for optical photon
710 
711 Feb. 17, 01  H.Kurashige (track-V03-00-02)
712 - Fix G4Track::GetVelocity for Gamma
713 
714 Feb. 12, 01 H.Kurashige (track-V03-00-01)
715 - Remove thePolarizationChange from G4ParticleChangeForTransport.hh
716 
717 
718 Feb. 07, 01 H.Kurashige (track-V03-00-00)
719 - Add copy constructor to G4Track
720 
721 Oct. 19, 00 H.kurashige (track-V02-00-01)
722 - Bug fixes in copy constructor of G4ParticleChange
723 
724 Oct. 18, 00 H.Kurashige (track-V02-00-00)
725 - Add "const" to G4DynamicParticle pointer  of returned value of G4Track::GetDynamicParticle
726 
727 Jun. 2, 2000 M.Asai  (track-V01-01-02)
728 - Add G4VUserTrackInformation class and its pointer data member in G4Track
729 - Add "const" to pointer to G4Step in G4Track (Hisaya)
730 
731 Jun. 1 2000 H.Kurashige (track-V01-01-01a)
732 -  Removed "const" from the return value type of G4StepPoint::GetPhysicalVolume()
733 
734 May 16 2000 H.Kurashige (track-V01-01-01)
735 -  Added thePolarizationChange in G4ParticleChangeForTransportation
736 
737 May 12 2000 H.Kurashige (track-V01-01-00)
738 -  SetTouchable methods has been changed to get "const" pointer
739 
740 Feb. 16, 2000 H.Kurashige
741 -  Added cashing mechanism of pointer to material in G4StepPoint
742 -  Added theMaterialChange in G4ParticleChangeForTransportation
743 -  GetTouchable methods has been changed to give "const" pointer
744 
745 Feb. 13, 2000 H.Kurashige (track-V01-00-01)
746 -  Added G4ParticleChangeForRadDecay
747 -  Changed G4VParticleChange::AddSecondary to set secondary track weight equal to the primary's one
748 -  Removed printing pointers of ParticleChange object in CheckIt methods
749 
750 Jan. 18, 2000 H.Kurashige (track-V01-00-00)
751 -  Fixed bugs in treatment of secondary track weight
752 
753 Nov. 7, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-V00-01-01)
754 -  Added comments for "Software Reference Manual"
755 
756 Oct. 5, 1999 H,Kurashige (track-V00-01-00)
757 -  Added mass/charge change in G4ParticleChange
758 -  Modified G4ParticleChange::CheckIt
759 -  Separate implementation of inline functions to G4Track.icc and G4Step.icc
760 
761 Jul. 14 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-07)
762 -  Fixed bugs in G4Mars5GeVMechanism::CreatePion()
763 
764 May 6, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-06)
765 -  Modified CheckIt methods of G4VParticleChange and derived classes
766 
767 Apr. 28, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-05b)
768 -  Protect proton mass against glanular libraly for G4Mars5Gev...(Makoto)
769 -  Fixed error messages in G4ParticleChange::CheckIt (Hisaya)
770 -  Remove "include/G4VProcess.hh" from G4Step.cc (Hisaya)
771 
772 Apr. 13, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-04)
773 - Code polishing according to the messages by CodeWizard
774 - Added new virtual method of G4bool CheckIt(const G4Track&) in G4VParticleChange
775 
776 Feb. 17, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-03)
777 -  Removed G4Step::ShowStep() (Takashi)
778 -  Fixed bugs in G4ParticleChange.icc (Hisaya)
779 
780 Feb. 9, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-02)
781 -  Modified G4TrackFastVector (Hisaya)
782 -  Modified G4ParticleChange::CheckIt (Hisaya)
783 
784 Feb. 6, 1999 H.Kurashige (track-01-00-01)
785 -  Added Get/SetMomentumDirectionChange in G4ParticleChange (Hisaya)
786 -  Removed using G4ParticleMomentum (Hisaya)
787 
788 Dec. 15,  1998 H.Kurashige (track-00-04-05)
789 - G4ParticleChange::CheckIt is activated in VERBOSE mode (Hisaya)
790 
791 Dec. 12, 1998 H.Kurashige (track-00-04-04)
792 - Fixed bugs in G4Mars5GeVMechanism (Hisaya)
793 - Added SwOnAllEB/SwOffAllEB in G4ParticleChange (Hisaya)
794 - Added GetEBMechanis and IsEBActive in G4VParticleChange (Hisaya)
795 
796 Dec. 11, 1998 H.Kurashige (track-00-04-03)
797 - Fixed bugs in G4Mars5GeVMechanism (Hisaya)
798 
799 Dec. 9, 1998 L.Urban (track-00-04-02)
800 - Added G4ParticleChangeForLoss and G4ParticleChangeForMSC.
801 
802 Nov. 18, 98 H.Kurashige (track-00-04-01)A
803 - Added new member of weight in G4Track and removed G4BiasingTag
804 - Added Event Biasing based on MARS
805 - Modified argument type in G4Track
806   ( this tag requires particles-00-04-01 tag)
807 
808 Nov. 9, 98  H.Kurashige (track-00-03-05)
809 - Added Event Biasing Mechanism in G4VParticleChange
810 
811 Nov. 8, 98 H.Kurashige (track-00-03-04)
812 - Added G4BiasingTag as a member of G4Track
813 - Modified G4Step, and G4StepPoint for managing  G4BiasingTag
814 
815 Oct. 17, 98 H.Kurashige (track-00-03-03)
816 - Fixed bugs in G4VParticleChange and G4ParticleChange
817 
818 Oct. 14 19 H.Kurashige (track-00-03-01)
819 - Modified G4ParticleChangeForTransportation for new relocation algorism.
820   (J.Apost.)
821 
822 Aug. 31, 98 G.Cosmo (track-00-02-01)
823 - Added "global" phony target to GNUmakefile.
824 - Added comment to G4StepPoint.hh (J.Apostolakis).
825 
826 Jul. 20,98 H.Kurashige (track-00-01-05)
827 - Modified G4ParticleChangeForDecay
828 
829 Jul. 10, 98 P.Urban (track-00-01-02)
830 - Optimised G4ParticleChangeForTransport. Much less data
831   is copied -> increased performance.
832 
833 Jul. 1, 98 H.Kurashige (track-00-07-02)
834 - Moved UpdateStepForAlongStep into G4ParticleChangeForTransport.cc file
835 
836 Jun. 30, 98 P. Urban (track-00-07-01)
837 - Some more tracking optimisation results.
838 
839 Jun. 22, 98 P. Urban (track-00-06-04)
840 - Preliminary results of tracking optimisation merged into HEAD.
841 
842 Jun. 11, 98 G.Cosmo (track-00-06-03)
843 - Tagged track-00-06-03.
844 
845 Jun. 11, 98  J.Allison
846 - Added a missing inline keyword to G4Track.hh:341.
847 
848 Jun. 8, 98  H.Kurashige
849 - Add GoodForTracking and BelowThreshold flags in G4Track
850   for new COHERENT scheme for the Cuts
851 
852 May 12, 98 H.Kurashige
853 - Fix bugs in G4Step, G4ParticleChange
854   Add new class of G4ParticleChangeForTransport
855 
856 Apr. 12, 98 H.Kurashige
857 - Implement new scheme of 'Particle Change'. Please see
858   particle_change.asc in geant4alpha/documents/particles+matter/.
859 - Following files are modified (or added)
860     G4ParticleChange.hh, .icc, .cc
861     G4VParticleChange.hh, .icc, .cc
862     G4ParticleChangeForDecay.hh, .cc
863     G4Step.hh,  G4TrackFastVector.hh
864 
865 Apr. 9, 98 G.Cosmo
866 - Porting on DEC-cxx 6.0.
867   Removed meaningless usage of "const" qualifier from functions
868   return type for basic types by value. Modified files:
869   G4ParticleChange.hh, .icc,
870   G4Step.hh, G4StepPoint.hh, G4Track.hh
871 
872 Mar. 18, 1998 K.Amako
873 - Add following information to G4Track:
874      1.Momentum direction at the start point (vertex position) of the track
875      2.Kinetic energy at the start point (vertex position) of the track
876      3.Pointer to the process which created the current track
877 - Due to this, the following files have modififed and committed.
878      1.NewDesignDoc.txt
879      2.G4Track.hh, G4Track.cc
880      3.G4SteppingManager.cc
881 
882 Jan.  29, 97 K. Amako
883 - Following changes have been done and committed/tagged to cvs.
884   Tag# is track-00-03-01.
885     - G4Step.cc: Output format has been changed in showStep().
886 
887 Dec. 19, 97 G. Cosmo - (alpha03)
888 
889 - Created.