Latter half of the second batch for 1.8.0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 29, 2012 at 15:00 UTC
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.12
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
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+ the logged-in user has been added.
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* "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare
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temporary copy of the working tree when available.
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@@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ Foreign Interface
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* "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly
@@ -51,6 +53,33 @@ 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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+ * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up.
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+ (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint).
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+ * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing
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+ example.
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+ (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint).
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+ * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the
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+ submodule was misspelt.
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+ (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint).
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+ * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack
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+ did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been
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+ fixed not to do so.
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+ * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were
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+ inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name).
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+ (merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint).
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+ * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that
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+ rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..."
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+ start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration.
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+ (merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint).
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+ * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary
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+ files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation).
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+ (merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint).
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* When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a
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message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to