Git 2.17-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 21, 2018 at 12:02 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt
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@@ -65,6 +65,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Funcname pattern used for C# now recognizes "async" keyword.
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+ * In a way similar to how "git tag" learned to honor the pager
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+ setting only in the list mode, "git config" learned to ignore the
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+ pager setting when it is used for setting values (i.e. when the
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+ purpose of the operation is not to "show").
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -154,6 +159,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Various pieces of Perl code we have have been cleaned up.
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+ * Internal API clean-up to allow write_locked_index() optionally skip
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+ writing the in-core index when it is not modified.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -326,6 +334,24 @@ Fixes since v2.16
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* Allow running a couple of tests with "sh -x".
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(merge c20bf94abc sg/cvs-tests-with-x later to maint).
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+ * The codepath to replace an existing entry in the index had a bug in
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+ updating the name hash structure, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 0e267b7a24 bp/refresh-cache-ent-rehash-fix later to maint).
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+ * The transfer.fsckobjects configuration tells "git fetch" to
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+ validate the data and connected-ness of objects in the received
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+ pack; the code to perform this check has been taught about the
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+ narrow clone's convention that missing objects that are reachable
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+ from objects in a pack that came from a promissor remote is OK.
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+ * There was an unused file-scope static variable left in http.c when
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+ building for versions of libCURL that is older than 7.19.4, which
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+ has been fixed.
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+ (merge b8fd6008ec rj/http-code-cleanup later to maint).
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+ * Shell script portability fix.
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+ (merge 206a6ae013 ml/filter-branch-portability-fix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint).
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(merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint).
@@ -364,3 +390,9 @@ Fixes since v2.16
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(merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint).
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(merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint).
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(merge 2caa7b8d27 ab/man-sec-list later to maint).
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+ (merge 40c17eb184 ks/t3200-typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge bd9958c358 dp/merge-strategy-doc-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 9ee0540a40 js/ming-strftime later to maint).
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+ (merge 1775e990f7 tz/complete-tag-delete-tagname later to maint).
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+ (merge 00a4b03501 rj/warning-uninitialized-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge b635ed97a0 jk/attributes-path-doc later to maint).
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