Eighth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 17, 2020 at 17:01 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
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@@ -19,6 +19,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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configurable to selectively allow or reject object filtering
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specification used for partial cloning.
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+ * Stop when "sendmail.*" configuration variables are defined, which
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+ could be a mistaken attempt to define "sendemail.*" variables.
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+ * The existing backends for "git mergetool" based on variants of vim
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+ have been refactored and then support for "nvim" has been added.
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+ * "git bisect" learns the "--first-parent" option to find the first
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+ breakage along the first-parent chain.
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+ * "git log --first-parent -p" showed patches only for single-parent
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+ commits on the first-parent chain; the "--first-parent" option has
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+ been made to imply "-m". Use "--no-diff-merges" to restore the
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+ previous behaviour to omit patches for merge commits.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -60,6 +74,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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easier to mark object existence checks that do and don't want to
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trigger lazy fetches, and a few such checks are converted using it.
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+ * A no-op replacement function implemented as a C preprocessor macro
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+ does not perform as good a job as one implemented as a "static
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+ inline" function in catching errors in parameters; replace the
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+ former with the latter in <git-compat-util.h> header.
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+ * Test framework update.
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+ (merge d572f52a64 es/test-cmp-typocatcher later to maint).
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Fixes since v2.28
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@@ -110,6 +132,19 @@ Fixes since v2.28
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it is.
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(merge 11bc12ae1e rp/blame-first-parent-doc later to maint).
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+ * The logic to find the ref transaction hook script attempted to
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+ cache the path to the found hook without realizing that it needed
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+ to keep a copied value, as the API it used returned a transitory
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+ buffer space. This has been corrected.
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+ (merge 09b2aa30c9 ps/ref-transaction-hook later to maint).
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+ * Recent versions of "git diff-files" shows a diff between the index
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+ and the working tree for "intent-to-add" paths as a "new file"
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+ patch; "git apply --cached" should be able to take "git diff-files"
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+ and should act as an equivalent to "git add" for the path, but the
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+ command failed to do so for such a path.
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+ (merge 4c025c667e rp/apply-cached-with-i-t-a later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
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(merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).
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(merge de20baf2c9 ny/notes-doc-sample-update later to maint).
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(merge f649aaaf82 so/rev-parser-errormessage-fix later to maint).
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(merge 6103d58b7f bc/sha-256-cvs-svn-updates later to maint).
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+ (merge ac900fddb7 ma/stop-progress-null-fix later to maint).