Final batch before 2.10-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 12, 2016 at 10:01 UTC
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@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ * The command line completion scripts (in contrib/) now knows about
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+ "git branch --delete/--move [--remote]".
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+ (merge 2703c22 vs/completion-branch-fully-spelled-d-m-r later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -274,6 +278,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
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(merge 995bc22 ew/build-time-pager-tweaks later to maint).
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+ * The http-backend (the server-side component of smart-http
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+ transport) used to trickle the HTTP header one at a time. Now
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+ these write(2)s are batched.
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+ (merge b36045c ew/http-backend-batch-headers later to maint).
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+ * When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated
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+ upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these
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+ changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by
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+ lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be
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+ compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths.
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+ (merge b3dfeeb kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -520,7 +536,6 @@ notes for details).
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* "git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
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interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
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fixed.
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- (merge 32b8c58 jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint).
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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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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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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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+ * The mechanism to limit the pack window memory size, when packing is
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+ done using multiple threads (which is the default), is per-thread,
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+ but this was not documented clearly.
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+ (merge 954176c ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread later to maint).
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+ * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
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+ hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
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+ corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
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+ shared with.
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+ (merge 04e0869 js/import-tars-hardlinks later to maint).
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+ * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
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+ the same way as existing mainstream platforms. The code now moves
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+ "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
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+ that strips the trailing slash of '/'.
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+ (merge 189d035 js/mv-dir-to-new-directory later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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+ (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
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+ (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
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+ (merge 1eb47f1 rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev later to maint).