Git 2.18-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 30, 2018 at 21:51 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.0.txt
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@@ -133,6 +133,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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These object names are now sorted according to their types for
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easier eyeballing.
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+ * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take
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+ advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended
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+ so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured
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+ refspec.
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+ * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding
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+ from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
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+ and negotiate the best one.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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+ * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive,
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+ informational messages from the codepath are now given using the
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+ same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity
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+ configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages
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+ when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side
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+ records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side.
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+ * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier.
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+ (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint).
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+ * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once
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+ we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against
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+ exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded
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+ constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated
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+ to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
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+ actual object names.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -461,6 +487,15 @@ Fixes since v2.17
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This has been corrected.
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(merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint).
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+ * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was
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+ inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has
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+ been corrected to error out early.
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+ (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint).
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+ * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths,
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+ which have been corrected.
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+ (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
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(merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
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(merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint).
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(merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).
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(merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint).
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+ (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint).
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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