Fourth batch for 2.14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 30, 2017 at 11:20 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
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@@ -44,6 +44,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
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to pack-objects.
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+ * "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
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+ and reject a message before sending it out.
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+ (merge 6489660b4b jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).
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+ * There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
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+ when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
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+ even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
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+
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+ * The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
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+ mechansim has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
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+ The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
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+ a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
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+ a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
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+ current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
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+ should be included.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -75,6 +91,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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+ * Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
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+ default in-core index.
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+ (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint).
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+ * Add perf-test for wildmatch.
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+ (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint).
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+ * Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
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+ extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
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+ (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint).
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+ * When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
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+ index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
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+ discarded from the original state, as it is usually not the case
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+ that they are kept up-to-date and in-sync with the operation on the
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+ main index. The untracked cache extension is copied across these
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+ operations now, which would speed up "git status" (as long as the
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+ cache is properly invalidated).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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should silently be ignored instead)
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(merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint).
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+ * "git describe --contains" penalized light-weight tags so much that
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+ they were almost never considered. Instead, give them about the
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+ same chance to be considered as an annotated tag that is the same
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+ age as the underlying commit would.
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+ (merge ef1e74065c jc/name-rev-lw-tag later to maint).
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+ * The "run-command" API implementation has been made more robust
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+ against dead-locking in a threaded environment.
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+ (merge e3f43ce765 bw/forking-and-threading later to maint).
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+ * A recent update to t5545-push-options.sh started skipping all the
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+ tests in the script when a web server testing is disabled or
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+ unavailable, not just the ones that require a web server. Non HTTP
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+ tests have been salvaged to always run in this script.
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+ (merge 2e397e4ddf jc/skip-test-in-the-middle later to maint).
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+ * "git send-email" now uses Net::SMTP::SSL, which is obsolete, only
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+ when needed. Recent versions of Net::SMTP can do TLS natively.
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+ (merge 0ead000c3a dk/send-email-avoid-net-smtp-ssl-when-able later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
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(merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
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(merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).
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(merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).
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(merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge c5a9157393 jh/memihash-opt later to maint).