Twelfth batch for 2.10

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

Junio C Hamano committed Aug 10, 2016 at 12:35 UTC 27b0ea4038f5976bee9d183ccbc868e9fcd9825e
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.10.0.txt
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@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
97 * "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
98 merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
99 conflicted rebase.
100 - (merge b0a61ab mm/status-suggest-merge-abort later to maint).
100
101 * "git jump" script (in contrib/) has been updated a bit.
102 (merge a91e692 jk/git-jump later to maint).
@@ -110,6 +109,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
109 paint the arrow in the same color as "HEAD", not in the color for
110 commits.
111
112 + * "git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
113 + specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
114 +
115 + * "git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
116 + to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
117 + subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.
118 +
119
120 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
121
@@ -185,7 +191,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
191
192 * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
193 that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
188 - (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
194
195 * Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
196 feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
@@ -198,7 +203,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
203 library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
204 recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
205 mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
201 - (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
206
207 * When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
208 a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
@@ -207,7 +211,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
211 the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
212
213 * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
210 - (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
214
215 * Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
216 want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
@@ -241,7 +244,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
244 to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
245 code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
246 the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
244 - (merge 023ff39 jk/parse-options-concat later to maint).
247
248 * "git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
249 and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
@@ -457,7 +459,6 @@ notes for details).
459
460 * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
461 suboptimal, which has been fixed.
460 - (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
462
463 * An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
464 misbehave has been fixed.
@@ -483,19 +484,16 @@ notes for details).
484 * "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
485 pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
486 commit-msg hook.
486 - (merge def480f os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too later to maint).
487
488 * "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
489 lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
490 the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
491 "git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
492 option to override the default.
493 - (merge 0f12c7d da/subtree-2.9-regression later to maint).
493
494 * The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
495 has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
496 of Go.
498 - (merge accb613 pm/build-persistent-https-with-recent-go later to maint).
497
498 * There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
499 an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
@@ -506,16 +504,13 @@ notes for details).
504 conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
505 point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
506 the conversion is necessary.
509 - (merge 06dec43 jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning later to maint).
507
508 * "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
509 because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
510 designed well.
514 - (merge 8465541 jc/grep-commandline-vs-configuration later to maint).
511
512 * Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
513 inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
518 - (merge 54956df js/t4130-rename-without-ino later to maint).
514
515 * The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
516 --date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
@@ -529,16 +524,13 @@ notes for details).
524
525 * The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
526 "gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
532 - (merge 77947bb ab/gitweb-link-html-escape later to maint).
527
528 * FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
529 untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
530 caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
531 behaviour of the fast-path.
538 - (merge 6b7728d nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime later to maint).
532
533 * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
541 - (merge c6c9e18 js/nedmalloc-gcc6-warnings later to maint).
534
535 * A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
536 has been plugged.
@@ -546,10 +538,19 @@ notes for details).
538 * The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
539 can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
540 that it is safe to do so.
549 - (merge 54ba5a1 jc/hashmap-doc-init later to maint).
541 +
542 + * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
543 + calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
544 + that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
545 + resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
546 + the same.
547 + (merge 4d9c7e6 jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit later to maint).
548 +
549 + * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
550 + ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
551 + receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
552 + discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
553 + to the users. It does so now.
554 + (merge 9eed4f3 jk/push-force-with-lease-creation later to maint).
555
556 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
552 - (merge 9d1ca1d jk/t4205-cleanup later to maint).
553 - (merge 5f072e0 cp/completion-clone-recurse-submodules later to maint).
554 - (merge bc57b9c rs/use-strbuf-addstr later to maint).
555 - (merge 52db4b0 jh/clean-smudge-f-doc later to maint).