The ninth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 25, 2017 at 15:28 UTC
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@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean
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operation learned to show the progress meter.
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+ * "git rev-parse" learned "--is-shallow-repository", that is to be
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+ used in a way similar to existing "--is-bare-repository" and
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+ friends.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -167,6 +171,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Many leaks of strbuf have been fixed.
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+ * "git imap-send" has our own implementation of the protocol and also
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+ can use more recent libCurl with the imap protocol support. Update
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+ the latter so that it can use the credential subsystem, and then
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+ make it the default option to use, so that we can eventually
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+ deprecate and remove the former.
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+ * "make style" runs git-clang-format to help developers by pointing
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+ out coding style issues.
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+ * A test to demonstrate "git mv" failing to adjust nested submodules
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+ has been added.
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+ (merge c514167df2 hv/mv-nested-submodules-test later to maint).
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+ * On Cygwin, "ulimit -s" does not report failure but it does not work
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+ at all, which causes an unexpected success of some tests that
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+ expect failures under a limited stack situation. This has been
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+ fixed.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -296,6 +318,47 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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to match the behaviour of the former.
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(merge c818e74332 rk/commit-tree-make-F-verbatim later to maint).
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+ * Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks
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+ go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function,
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+ which have been corrected.
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+ (merge f48ecd38cb jk/write-in-full-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git help co" now says "co is aliased to ...", not "git co is".
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+ (merge b3a8076e0d ks/help-alias-label later to maint).
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+ * "git archive", especially when used with pathspec, stored an empty
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+ directory in its output, even though Git itself never does so.
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+ This has been fixed.
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+ (merge 4318094047 rs/archive-excluded-directory later to maint).
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+ * API error-proofing which happens to also squelch warnings from GCC.
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+ (merge c788c54cde tg/refs-allowed-flags later to maint).
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+ * The explanation of the cut-line in the commit log editor has been
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+ slightly tweaked.
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+ (merge 8c4b1a3593 ks/commit-do-not-touch-cut-line later to maint).
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+ * "git gc" tries to avoid running two instances at the same time by
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+ reading and writing pid/host from and to a lock file; it used to
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+ use an incorrect fscanf() format when reading, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge afe2fab72c aw/gc-lockfile-fscanf-fix later to maint).
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+ * The scripts to drive TravisCI has been reorganized and then an
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+ optimization to avoid spending cycles on a branch whose tip is
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+ tagged has been implemented.
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+ (merge 8376eb4a8f ls/travis-scriptify later to maint).
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+ * The test linter has been taught that we do not like "echo -e".
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+ (merge 1a6d46895d tb/test-lint-echo-e later to maint).
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+ * Code cmp.std.c nitpick.
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+ (merge ac7da78ede mh/for-each-string-list-item-empty-fix later to maint).
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+ * A regression fix for 2.11 that made the code to read the list of
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+ alternate object stores overrun the end of the string.
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+ (merge f0f7bebef7 jk/info-alternates-fix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
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(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
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(merge 276d0e35c0 ma/split-symref-update-fix later to maint).
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(merge 3bc4b8f7c7 bb/doc-eol-dirty later to maint).
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(merge c1bb33c99c jk/system-path-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge ab46e6fc72 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint).
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+ (merge f7a32dd97f kd/doc-for-each-ref later to maint).
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+ (merge be94568bc7 ez/doc-duplicated-words-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 01e4be6c3d ks/test-readme-phrasofix later to maint).