Git 2.20-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 18, 2018 at 18:24 UTC
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@@ -173,6 +173,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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each other.
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(merge e5bbe09e88 nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk later to maint).
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+ * The "--no-patch" option, which can be used to get a high-level
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+ overview without the actual line-by-line patch difference shown, of
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+ the "range-diff" command was earlier broken, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ * The recently merged "rebase in C" has an escape hatch to use the
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+ scripted version when necessary, but it hasn't been documented,
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+ which has been corrected.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line
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completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.
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+ * The revision walker machinery learned to take advantage of the
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+ commit generation numbers stored in the commit-graph file.
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+ * The codebase has been cleaned up to reduce "#ifndef NO_PTHREADS".
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+ * The way -lcurl library gets linked has been simplified by taking
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+ advantage of the fact that we can just ask curl-config command how.
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+ * Various functions have been audited for "-Wunused-parameter" warnings
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+ and bugs in them got fixed.
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+ * A sanity check for start-up sequence has been added in the config
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+ API codepath.
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+ * The build procedure to link for fuzzing test has been made
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+ customizable with a new Makefile variable.
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+ * The way "git rebase" parses and forwards the command line options
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+ meant for underlying "git am" has been revamped, which fixed for
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+ options with parameters that were not passed correctly.
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Fixes since v2.19
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pathspec elements were involved, which has been fixed.
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(merge b7845cebc0 nd/tree-walk-path-exclusion later to maint).
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+ * "git merge" and "git pull" that merges into an unborn branch used
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+ to completely ignore "--verify-signatures", which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge 01a31f3bca jk/verify-sig-merge-into-void later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase --autostash" did not correctly re-attach the HEAD at times.
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+ * "rev-parse --exclude=<pattern> --branches=<pattern>" etc. did not
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+ quite work, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 9ab9b5df0e ra/rev-parse-exclude-glob later to maint).
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+ * When editing a patch in a "git add -i" session, a hunk could be
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+ made to no-op. The "git apply" program used to reject a patch with
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+ such a no-op hunk to catch user mistakes, but it is now updated to
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+ explicitly allow a no-op hunk in an edited patch.
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+ (merge 22cb3835b9 js/apply-recount-allow-noop later to maint).
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+ * The URL to an MSDN page in a comment has been updated.
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+ (merge 2ef2ae2917 js/mingw-msdn-url later to maint).
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+ * "git ls-remote --sort=<thing>" can feed an object that is not yet
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+ available into the comparison machinery and segfault, which has
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+ been corrected to check such a request upfront and reject it.
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+ * When "git bundle" aborts due to an empty commit ranges
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+ (i.e. resulting in an empty pack), it left a file descriptor to an
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+ lockfile open, which resulted in leftover lockfile on Windows where
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+ you cannot remove a file with an open file descriptor. This has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 2c8ee1f53c jk/close-duped-fd-before-unlock-for-bundle later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
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+ (merge 9a4cb8781e cb/notes-freeing-always-null-fix later to maint).
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