Sixth batch of topics for 2.10

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Jul 19, 2016 at 13:26 UTC 08bb3500a2a718c3c78b0547c68601cafa7a8fd9
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@@ -81,6 +81,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
81 format.
82 (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
83
84 + * A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
85 + specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
86 +
87
88 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
89
@@ -141,6 +144,31 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
144 * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent
145 version of Git even when testing an older installed version.
146
147 + * The commands in the "log/diff" family have had an FILE* pointer in the
148 + data structure they pass around for a long time, but some codepaths
149 + used to always write to the standard output. As a preparatory step
150 + to make "git format-patch" available to the internal callers, these
151 + codepaths have been updated to consistently write into that FILE*
152 + instead.
153 +
154 + * Conversion from unsigned char sha1[20] to struct object_id
155 + continues.
156 +
157 + * Improve the look of the way "git fetch" reports what happened to
158 + each ref that was fetched.
159 + (merge bc437d1 nd/fetch-ref-summary later to maint).
160 +
161 + * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
162 + that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
163 + (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
164 +
165 + * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
166 + feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
167 + helper function.
168 +
169 + * "git p4" used a location outside $GIT_DIR/refs/ to place its
170 + temporary branches, which has been moved to refs/git-p4-tmp/.
171 +
172
173 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
174
@@ -280,6 +308,47 @@ notes for details).
308 tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.
309 (merge b8e47d1 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint).
310
311 + * "git blame -M" missed a single line that was moved within the file.
312 + (merge 17a07e2 dk/blame-move-no-reason-for-1-line-context later to maint).
313 +
314 + * Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
315 + submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
316 + could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
317 + case condition.
318 + (merge d751dd1 sb/submodule-parallel-fetch later to maint).
319 +
320 + * "git grep -i" has been taught to fold case in non-ascii locales
321 + correctly.
322 + (merge 695f95b nd/icase later to maint).
323 +
324 + * A test that unconditionally used "mktemp" learned that the command
325 + is not necessarily available everywhere.
326 + (merge c578a09 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
327 +
328 + * There are certain house-keeping tasks that need to be performed at
329 + the very beginning of any Git program, and programs that are not
330 + built-in commands had to do them exactly the same way as "git"
331 + potty does. It was easy to make mistakes in one-off standalone
332 + programs (like test helpers). A common "main()" function that
333 + calls cmd_main() of individual program has been introduced to
334 + make it harder to make mistakes.
335 + (merge de61ceb jk/common-main later to maint).
336 +
337 + * The test framework learned a new helper test_match_signal to
338 + check an exit code from getting killed by an expected signal.
339 + (merge 03c39b3 jk/test-match-signal later to maint).
340 +
341 + * General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
342 + single-liner to a file.
343 + (merge 7eb6e10 jk/write-file later to maint).
344 +
345 + * One part of "git am" had an oddball helper function that called
346 + stuff from outside "his" as opposed to calling what we have "ours",
347 + which was not gender-neutral and also inconsistent with the rest of
348 + the system where outside stuff is usuall called "theirs" in
349 + contrast to "ours".
350 + (merge 715a51b js/am-call-theirs-theirs-in-fallback-3way later to maint).
351 +
352 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
353 (merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
354 (merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).
@@ -287,3 +356,4 @@ notes for details).
356 (merge c2691e2 ah/unpack-trees-advice-messages later to maint).
357 (merge 82f6178 nd/doc-new-command later to maint).
358 (merge fa90ab4 js/t3404-grammo-fix later to maint).
359 + (merge c61b2af lf/recv-sideband-cleanup later to maint).