Thirteenth batch for 2.9

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

Junio C Hamano committed May 17, 2016 at 14:47 UTC 1f66975deb8402131fbf7c14330d0c7cdebaeaa2
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
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@@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
124 more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
125 contents before and after it belong to a logically separate unit.
126
127 + * A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
128 + where the hook directory is.
129 +
130 + * An earlier addition of "sanitize_submodule_env" with 14111fc4 (git:
131 + submodule honor -c credential.* from command line, 2016-02-29)
132 + turned out to be a convoluted no-op; implement what it wanted to do
133 + correctly, and stop filtering settings given via "git -c var=val".
134 +
135
136 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
137
@@ -165,12 +173,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
173 have been moved to t/helper/ subdirectory to reduce clutter at the
174 top level of the tree.
175
168 - Note that this can break your tests if you check out revisions
169 - across the merge boundary of this topic, e0b58519 (Merge branch
170 - 'nd/test-helpers', 2016-04-29), as bin-wrappers/test-* are not
171 - rebuilt to point the underlying executables. For now, "make
172 - distclean" is your friend.
173 -
176 * Unify internal logic between "git tag -v" and "git verify-tag"
177 commands by making one directly call into the other.
178 (merge bef234b st/verify-tag later to maint).
@@ -188,6 +190,21 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
190
191 * Move from unsigned char[20] to struct object_id continues.
192
193 + * Update of "git submodule" to move pieces of logic to C continues.
194 +
195 + * The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
196 + error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.
197 + (merge 1da045f nd/error-errno later to maint).
198 +
199 + * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
200 + executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
201 + that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
202 + said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
203 + our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
204 + to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
205 + being tested intact.
206 + (merge d88785e jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere later to maint).
207 +
208
209 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
210
@@ -379,6 +396,51 @@ notes for details).
396 "git stash".
397 (merge 6694856 jc/commit-tree-ignore-commit-gpgsign later to maint).
398
399 + * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
400 + but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
401 + (merge e5a39ad bn/http-cookiefile-config later to maint).
402 +
403 + * Consolidate description of tilde-expansion that is done to
404 + configuration variables that take pathname to a single place.
405 + (merge dca83ab jc/config-pathname-type later to maint).
406 +
407 + * Correct faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit ." when
408 + de-initialising all submodules, which would result in a strange
409 + error message in a pathological corner case.
410 + (merge f6a5279 sb/submodule-deinit-all later to maint).
411 +
412 + * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
413 + which are all fixed with this.
414 + (merge 1cca17d jc/linkgit-fix later to maint).
415 +
416 + * "git rerere" can get confused by conflict markers deliberately left
417 + by the inner merge step, because they are indistinguishable from
418 + the real conflict markers left by the outermost merge which are
419 + what the end user and "rerere" need to look at. This was fixed by
420 + making the conflict markers left by the inner merges a bit longer.
421 + (merge 0f9fd5c jc/ll-merge-internal later to maint).
422 +
423 + * CI test was taught to build documentation pages.
424 + (merge b98712b ls/travis-build-doc later to maint).
425 +
426 + * "git fsck" learned to catch NUL byte in a commit object as
427 + potential error and warn.
428 + (merge 6d2d780 jc/fsck-nul-in-commit later to maint).
429 +
430 + * Portability enhancement for "rebase -i" to help platforms whose
431 + shell does not like "for i in <empty>" (which is not POSIX-kosher).
432 + (merge 8e98b35 jk/rebase-interative-eval-fix later to maint).
433 +
434 + * On Windows, .git and optionally any files whose name starts with a
435 + dot are now marked as hidden, with a core.hideDotFiles knob to
436 + customize this behaviour.
437 + (merge ebf31e7 js/windows-dotgit later to maint).
438 +
439 + * Documentation for "git merge --verify-signatures" has been updated
440 + to clarify that the signature of only the commit at the tip is
441 + verified. Also the phrasing used for signature and key validity is
442 + adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
443 + (merge 05a5869 kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc later to maint).
444
445 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
446 (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint).
@@ -393,3 +455,13 @@ notes for details).
455 (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint).
456 (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint).
457 (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint).
458 + (merge 832c0e5 lp/typofixes later to maint).
459 + (merge f5ee54a sb/z-is-gnutar-ism later to maint).
460 + (merge 2e3926b va/i18n-misc-updates later to maint).
461 + (merge f212dcc bn/config-doc-tt-varnames later to maint).
462 + (merge f54bea4 nd/remote-plural-ours-plus-theirs later to maint).
463 + (merge 2bb0518 ak/t4151-ls-files-could-be-empty later to maint).
464 + (merge 4df4313 jc/test-seq later to maint).
465 + (merge a75a308 tb/t5601-sed-fix later to maint).
466 + (merge 6c1fbe1 va/i18n-remote-comment-to-align later to maint).
467 + (merge dee2303 va/mailinfo-doc-typofix later to maint).