Fifth batch for 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 9, 2012 at 09:49 UTC
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@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ Updates since v1.7.11
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
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+ $HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
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+ * The value of core.attributesfile and core.excludesfile default to
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+ $HOME/.config/attributes and $HOME/.config/ignore respectively when
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+ these files exist.
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+ * Scripted Porcelain writers now have access to the credential API via
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+ the "git credential" plumbing command.
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* "git help" used to always default to "man" format even on platforms
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where "man" viewer is not widely available.
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@@ -27,6 +37,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
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distribution of clients.
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+ * "git help -w $cmd" can show HTML version of documentation for
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+ "git-$cmd" by setting help.htmlpath to somewhere other than the
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+ default location where the build procedure installs them locally;
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+ the variable can even point at a http:// URL.
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* "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
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each commit in the resulting history.
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@@ -71,6 +86,34 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
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+ filters out an empty commit in the original history.
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+ (merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).
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+ * "git fast-export" produced an input stream for fast-import without
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+ properly quoting pathnames when they contain SPs in them.
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+ (merge ff59f6d js/fast-export-paths-with-spaces later to maint).
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+ * "git checkout --detach", when you are still on an unborn branch,
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+ should be forbidden, but it wasn't.
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+ (merge 8ced1aa cw/no-detaching-an-unborn later to maint).
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+ * Some implementations of Perl terminates "lines" with CRLF even when
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+ the script is operating on just a sequence of bytes. Make sure to
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+ use "$PERL_PATH", the version of Perl the user told Git to use, in
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+ our tests to avoid unnecessary breakages in tests.
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+ (merge ad78585 vr/use-our-perl-in-tests later to maint).
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+ * "git blame" did not try to make sure that the abbreviated commit
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+ object names in its output are unique.
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+ (merge b31272f jc/maint-blame-unique-abbrev later to maint).
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+ * On Cygwin, the platform pread(2) is not thread safe, just like our
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+ own compat/ emulation, and cannot be used in the index-pack
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+ program. Makefile variable NO_THREAD_SAFE_PREAD can be defined to
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+ avoid use of this function in a threaded program.
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+ (merge c0f8654 rj/platform-pread-may-be-thread-unsafe later to maint).
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* "git clone --single-branch" to clone a single branch did not limit
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the cloning to the specified branch.
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(merge 0ec4b16 nd/clone-single-fix later to maint).