Git 2.5.0-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 13, 2015 at 14:03 UTC
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@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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rely on symbolic links and make sharing of objects and refs safer
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by making the borrowee and borrowers aware of each other.
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- Consider this as still an experimental feature; the UI will likely
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- to change.
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+ Consider this as still an experimental feature; its UI is still
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+ likely to change.
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* Tweak the sample "store" backend of the credential helper to honor
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XDG configuration file locations when specified.
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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underlying "git fetch" and then learned to use parse-options
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parser.
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+ * Clarify in the Makefile a guideline to decide use of USE_NSEC.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -487,6 +489,45 @@ notes for details).
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* A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count".
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(merge c8a70d3 jk/rev-list-no-bitmap-while-pruning later to maint).
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+ * "git config" failed to update the configuration file when the
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+ underlying filesystem is incapable of renaming a file that is still
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+ open.
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+ (merge 7a64592 kb/config-unmap-before-renaming later to maint).
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+ * Avoid possible ssize_t to int truncation.
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+ (merge 6c8afe4 mh/strbuf-read-file-returns-ssize-t later to maint).
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+ * When you say "!<ENTER>" while running say "git log", you'd confuse
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+ yourself in the resulting shell, that may look as if you took
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+ control back to the original shell you spawned "git log" from but
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+ that isn't what is happening. To that new shell, we leaked
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+ GIT_PAGER_IN_USE environment variable that was meant as a local
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+ communication between the original "Git" and subprocesses that was
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+ spawned by it after we launched the pager, which caused many
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+ "interesting" things to happen, e.g. "git diff | cat" still paints
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+ its output in color by default.
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+ Stop leaking that environment variable to the pager's half of the
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+ fork; we only need it on "Git" side when we spawn the pager.
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+ (merge 124b519 jc/unexport-git-pager-in-use-in-pager later to maint).
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+
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+ * Abandoning an already applied change in "git rebase -i" with
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+ "--continue" left CHERRY_PICK_HEAD and confused later steps.
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+ (merge 0e0aff4 js/rebase-i-clean-up-upon-continue-to-skip later to maint).
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+ * We used to ask libCURL to use the most secure authentication method
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+ available when talking to an HTTP proxy only when we were told to
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+ talk to one via configuration variables. We now ask libCURL to
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+ always use the most secure authentication method, because the user
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+ can tell libCURL to use an HTTP proxy via an environment variable
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+ without using configuration variables.
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+ (merge 5841520 et/http-proxyauth later to maint).
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+ * A fix to a minor regression to "git fsck" in v2.2 era that started
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+ complaining about a body-less tag object when it lacks a separator
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+ empty line after its header to separate it with a non-existent body.
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+ (merge 84d18c0 jc/fsck-retire-require-eoh later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
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(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
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(merge 5330e6e sb/p5310-and-chain later to maint).
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(merge c4ac525 tb/checkout-doc later to maint).
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(merge e479c5f jk/pretty-encoding-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 7e837c6 ss/clone-guess-dir-name-simplify later to maint).
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