The ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 17, 2021 at 16:39 UTC
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locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained
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a --verbose option.
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+ * "git clone" tries to locally check out the branch pointed at by
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+ HEAD of the remote repository after it is done, but the protocol
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+ did not convey the information necessary to do so when copying an
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+ empty repository. The protocol v2 learned how to do so.
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+ * There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a
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+ "commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git
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+ range-diff" did not understand them.
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+ * The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option
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+ to show only one side of the compared range.
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+ * "git mergetool" feeds three versions (base, local and remote) of
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+ a conflicted path unmodified. The command learned to optionally
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+ prepare these files with unconflicted parts already resolved.
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+ * The .mailmap is documented to be read only from the root level of a
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+ working tree, but a stray file in a bare repository also was read
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+ by accident, which has been corrected.
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+ * "git maintenance" tool learned a new "pack-refs" maintenance task.
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+ * The error message given when a configuration variable that is
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+ expected to have a boolean value has been improved.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Introduce an on-disk file to record revindex for packdata, which
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traditionally was always created on the fly and only in-core.
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+ * The commit-graph learned to use corrected commit dates instead of
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+ the generation number to help topological revision traversal.
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+ * Piecemeal of rewrite of "git bisect" in C continues.
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Fixes since v2.30
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command line arguments.
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(merge 5c327502db tb/precompose-prefix-too later to maint).
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+ * Even though invocations of "die()" were logged to the trace2
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+ system, "BUG()"s were not, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 0a9dde4a04 jt/trace2-BUG later to maint).
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+ * "git grep --untracked" is meant to be "let's ALSO find in these
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+ files on the filesystem" when looking for matches in the working
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+ tree files, and does not make any sense if the primary search is
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+ done against the index, or the tree objects. The "--cached" and
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+ "--untracked" options have been marked as mutually incompatible.
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+ (merge 0c5d83b248 mt/grep-cached-untracked later to maint).
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+ * Fix "git fsck --name-objects" which apparently has not been used by
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+ anybody who is motivated enough to report breakage.
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+ (merge e89f89361c js/fsck-name-objects-fix later to maint).
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+ * Avoid individual tests in t5411 from getting affected by each other
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+ by forcing them to use separate output files during the test.
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+ (merge 822ee894f6 jx/t5411-unique-filenames later to maint).
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+ * Test to make sure "git rev-parse one-thing one-thing" gives
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+ the same thing twice (when one-thing is --since=X).
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+ (merge a5cdca4520 ew/rev-parse-since-test later to maint).
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+ * When certain features (e.g. grafts) used in the repository are
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+ incompatible with the use of the commit-graph, we used to silently
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+ turned commit-graph off; we now tell the user what we are doing.
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+ (merge c85eec7fc3 js/commit-graph-warning later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint).