Ninth batch for 2.14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
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@@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
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configuration.
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+ * The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
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+ --options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
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+ disambiguator and then finally pathspecs. When "--" is not there,
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+ we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
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+ look like paths) and later ones are the other way around. A
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+ pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
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+ the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
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+ are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
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+ required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
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+ learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
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+ looks like so.
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+ (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint).
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+ * Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
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+ and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
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errors if they are not due to missing files.
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+ * When an existing repository is used for t/perf testing, we first
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+ create bit-for-bit copy of it, which may grab a transient state of
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+ the repository and freeze it into the repository used for testing,
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+ which then may cause Git operations to fail. Single out "the index
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+ being locked" case and forcibly drop the lock from the copy.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -309,5 +331,12 @@ notes for details).
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* A flaky test has been corrected.
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(merge 7c2115aa07 jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint).
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+ * "git $cmd -h" for builtin commands calls the implementation of the
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+ command (i.e. cmd_$cmd() function) without doing any repository
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+ set-up, and the commands that expect RUN_SETUP is done by the Git
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+ potty needs to be prepared to show the help text without barfing.
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+ (merge d691551192 jk/consistent-h later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
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+ (merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).