More topics from the second batch for 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant
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annotated tags when pushing branches out.
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-Foreign Interface
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+ * "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the
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+ order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually
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+ shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend
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+ expects.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
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repeatedly growing and rehashing.
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+ * The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was
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+ necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome
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+ to use correctly and also inefficient.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -121,7 +126,6 @@ details).
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* In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the
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correct objects.
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- (merge e8e92e0 jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix later to maint).
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* The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of
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files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the
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* Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the
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command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.
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- (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint).
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* The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family
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was described poorly.
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to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by
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CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the
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in-tree users use.
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- (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint).
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* "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing.
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* "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an
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informational message when the translated version of it was too
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long.
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- (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint).
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* 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when
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$msg already ended with one.
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* The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for
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Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS
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sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP.
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- (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint).
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* perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it
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out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do.
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- (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint).
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* "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line
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parameters and issue errors in many cases.
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- (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint).
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* Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C
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or en/US locale.
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most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the
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user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative
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spellings of UTF-8.
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- (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint).
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* When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect
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size of the file.
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- (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint).
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* "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort
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filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to
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sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting
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numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in
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alphabetical order.
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- (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint).
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* "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not
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acccumulate the prefix paths.
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- (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint).