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
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* "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
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merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
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conflicted rebase.
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- (merge b0a61ab mm/status-suggest-merge-abort later to maint).
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* "git jump" script (in contrib/) has been updated a bit.
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(merge a91e692 jk/git-jump later to maint).
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paint the arrow in the same color as "HEAD", not in the color for
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commits.
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+ * "git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
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+ specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
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+ * "git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
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+ to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
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+ subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -185,7 +191,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
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that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
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- (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
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* Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
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feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
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library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
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recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
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mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
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- (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
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* When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
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a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
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the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
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* Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
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- (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
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* Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
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want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
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to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
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code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
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the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
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- (merge 023ff39 jk/parse-options-concat later to maint).
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* "git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
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and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
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* The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
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suboptimal, which has been fixed.
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- (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
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* An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
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misbehave has been fixed.
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* "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
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pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
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commit-msg hook.
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- (merge def480f os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too later to maint).
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* "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
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lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
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the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
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"git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
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option to override the default.
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- (merge 0f12c7d da/subtree-2.9-regression later to maint).
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* The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
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has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
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of Go.
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- (merge accb613 pm/build-persistent-https-with-recent-go later to maint).
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* There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
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an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
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conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
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point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
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the conversion is necessary.
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- (merge 06dec43 jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning later to maint).
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* "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
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because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
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designed well.
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- (merge 8465541 jc/grep-commandline-vs-configuration later to maint).
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* Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
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inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
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- (merge 54956df js/t4130-rename-without-ino later to maint).
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* The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
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--date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
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* The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
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"gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
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* FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
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untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
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caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
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behaviour of the fast-path.
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- (merge 6b7728d nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime later to maint).
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* Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
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* A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
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* The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
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can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
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that it is safe to do so.
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+ * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
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+ calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
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+ that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
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+ resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
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+ the same.
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+ (merge 4d9c7e6 jk/reset-ident-time-per-commit later to maint).
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+ * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
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+ ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
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+ receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
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+ discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
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+ to the users. It does so now.
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+ (merge 9eed4f3 jk/push-force-with-lease-creation later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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- (merge 9d1ca1d jk/t4205-cleanup later to maint).
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- (merge 5f072e0 cp/completion-clone-recurse-submodules later to maint).
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- (merge bc57b9c rs/use-strbuf-addstr later to maint).
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- (merge 52db4b0 jh/clean-smudge-f-doc later to maint).