The fourth batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 7, 2012 at 11:25 UTC
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@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that
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reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced.
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+ * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when
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+ we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted
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+ from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree".
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+ * Messages given by "git <subcommand> -h" from many subcommands have
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+ been marked for translation.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -67,6 +74,51 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
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maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
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to them for details).
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+ * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used
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+ together, misdetected branches.
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+ (merge 21ef5df pw/p4-use-client-spec-branch-detection later to maint).
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+ * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be
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+ localized, but the code to align it along with the names of
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+ branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns.
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+ (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint).
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+ * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort
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+ option.
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+ (merge 3b51222 kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort later to maint).
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+ * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having
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+ the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is
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+ configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication
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+ for POST.
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+ (merge b81401c jk/maint-http-half-auth-push later to maint).
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+ * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read
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+ them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing
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+ files that we cannot read.
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+ * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
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+ branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
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+ option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
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+ documentation misleading. There may be room in documentation pages
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+ of other commands for similar improvements (hint, hint).
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+ (merge 45aaf03 jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name later to maint).
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+ * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path
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+ when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.
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+ Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such
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+ a case.
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+ (merge 003c84f jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line
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+ correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other
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+ places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that
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+ does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode
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+ changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places
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+ in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from
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+ this problem.
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+ (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint).
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* The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while
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being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the
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documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a