The sixth batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 14, 2012 at 12:34 UTC
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@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
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been added.
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+ * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
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+ defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
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+ appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
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+ The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis
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+ when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a
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+ good name for a branch).
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* Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
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if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
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full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
@@ -102,6 +109,12 @@ 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 fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
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+ "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
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+ issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
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+ much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
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+ (merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint).
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* The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
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"rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
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(merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).