Update draft release notes to Git 2.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 13, 2014 at 14:01 UTC
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"quiet", has been removed (it told Git to ignore deletion, which
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you can do with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
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- * Many commands that creates commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
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+ * Server operators can loosen the "tips of refs only" restriction for
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+ the remote archive service with the uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
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+ configuration option.
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+ * The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
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+ been marked for i18n/l10n.
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+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
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+ is not a blob as an error.
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+ * "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
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+ given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
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+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
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+ course is rejected).
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+ * Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
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+ for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
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+ speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
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+ to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
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+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
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learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
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* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * We started using wildmatch() in place of fnmatch(3) a few releases
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+ ago; complete the process and stop using fnmatch(3).
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+ * Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
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+ well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
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+ over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
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+ "easy" interface.
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* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
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significantly improve performance when serving objects form a
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repository that uses it.
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suits your needs better when using the former.
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-Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Many
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+of them came from flurry of activities as GSoC candidate microproject
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+exercises.
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Fixes since v1.9 series
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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+ * "git difftool" misbehaved when the repository is bound to the
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+ working tree with the ".git file" mechanism, where a textual file
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+ ".git" tells us where it is.
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+ (merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
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+ * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
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+ defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
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+ variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
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+ by mistake.
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+ (merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
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+ * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
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+ tightened.
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+ (merge 3f419d4 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
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+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
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+ the same as one of the versions being compared.
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+ (merge aba4727 tr/diff-submodule-no-reuse-worktree later to maint).
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+ * "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
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+ tree (it can also be used to match the index to the HEAD in an
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+ otherwise bare repository), but it failed to set up the working
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+ tree properly, causing GIT_WORK_TREE to be ignored.
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+ (merge b7756d4 nd/reset-setup-worktree later to maint).
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+ * "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
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+ did not work well when the working tree was specified via the
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+ --work-tree (and obviously with --git-dir) option.
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+ (merge cdbf623 jc/check-attr-honor-working-tree later to maint).
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* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
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an empty (temporary) working tree, when there are renames
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involved. This has been corrected.
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
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-DEF_VER=v1.9.0
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+DEF_VER=v1.9.0.GIT
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LF='
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'