The tenth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 28, 2017 at 14:51 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt
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@@ -189,6 +189,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been
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fixed.
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+ * Many codepaths have been updated to squelch -Wimplicit-fallthrough
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+ warnings from Gcc 7 (which is a good code hygiene).
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+ * Add a helper for DLL loading in anticipation for its need in a
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+ future topic RSN.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -359,6 +365,44 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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alternate object stores overrun the end of the string.
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(merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git describe --match" learned to take multiple patterns in v2.13
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+ series, but the feature ignored the patterns after the first one
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+ and did not work at all. This has been fixed.
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+ (merge da769d2986 jk/describe-omit-some-refs later to maint).
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+ * "git filter-branch" cannot reproduce a history with a tag without
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+ the tagger field, which only ancient versions of Git allowed to be
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+ created. This has been corrected.
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+ (merge b2c1ca6b4b ic/fix-filter-branch-to-handle-tag-without-tagger later to maint).
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+ * "git cat-file --textconv" started segfaulting recently, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge cc0ea7c9e5 jk/diff-blob later to maint).
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+ * The built-in pattern to detect the "function header" for HTML did
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+ not match <H1>..<H6> elements without any attributes, which has
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+ been fixed.
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+ (merge 9c03caca2c ik/userdiff-html-h-element-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git mailinfo" was loose in decoding quoted printable and produced
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+ garbage when the two letters after the equal sign are not
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+ hexadecimal. This has been fixed.
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+ (merge c8cf423eab rs/mailinfo-qp-decode-fix later to maint).
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+ * The machinery to create xdelta used in pack files received the
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+ sizes of the data in size_t, but lost the higher bits of them by
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+ storing them in "unsigned int" during the computation, which is
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+ fixed.
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+ * The delta format used in the packfile cannot reference data at
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+ offset larger than what can be expressed in 4-byte, but the
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+ generator for the data failed to make sure the offset does not
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+ overflow. This has been corrected.
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+ * The documentation for '-X<option>' for merges was misleadingly
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+ written to suggest that "-s theirs" exists, which is not the case.
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+ (merge c25d98b2a7 jc/merge-x-theirs-docfix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
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(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
@@ -376,3 +420,6 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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(merge f7a32dd97f kd/doc-for-each-ref later to maint).
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(merge be94568bc7 ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix later to maint).
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(merge 01e4be6c3d ks/test-readme-phrasofix later to maint).
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+ (merge 217bb56d4f hn/typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge c08fd6388c jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge c3342b362e ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name later to maint).