Third batch for 2.3 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 22, 2014 at 12:43 UTC
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@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Updates since v2.2
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Ports
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+ * Recent gcc toolchain on Cygwin started throwing compilation warning,
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+ which has been squelched.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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@@ -18,10 +20,61 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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note from the object but with --allow-empty we will store a
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(surprise!) note that is empty.
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+ * "git interpret-trailers" learned to properly handle the
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+ "Conflicts:" block at the end.
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+ * "git am" learned "--message-id" option to copy the message ID of
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+ the incoming e-mail to the log message of resulting commit.
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+ * "git send-email" learned "--transfer-encoding" option to force a
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+ non-fault Content-Transfer-Encoding header (e.g. base64).
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+ * "git push" into a repository with a working tree normally refuses
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+ to modify the branch that is checked out. The command learned to
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+ optionally do an equivalent of "git reset --hard" only when there
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+ is no change to the working tree and the index instead, which would
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+ be useful to "deploy" by pushing into a repository.
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+ * "git new-workdir" (in contrib/) can be used to populate an empty
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+ and existing directory now.
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+ * Credential helpers are asked in turn until one of them give
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+ positive response, which is cumbersome to turn off when you need to
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+ run Git in an automated setting. The credential helper interface
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+ learned to allow a helper to say "stop, don't ask other helpers."
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+ Also GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT environment can be set to false to disable
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+ our built-in prompt mechanism for passwords.
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+ * "git branch -d" (delete) and "git branch -m" (move) learned to
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+ honor "-f" (force) flag; unlike many other subcommands, the way to
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+ force these have been with separate "-D/-M" options, which was
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+ inconsistent.
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+ * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) allows its color output to be
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+ customized via configuration variables.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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+ * Some filesystems assign filemodes in a strange way, fooling then
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+ automatic "filemode trustability" check done during a new
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+ repository creation. The initialization codepath has been hardened
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+ against this issue.
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+ * The codepath in "git remote update --prune" to drop many refs has
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+ been optimized.
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+ * Long overdue departure from the assumption that S_IFMT is shared by
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+ everybody made in 2005, which was necessary to port to z/OS.
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+ * "git push" and "git fetch" did not communicate an overlong refname
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+ correctly. Now it uses 64kB sideband to accommodate longer ones.
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+ * Recent GPG changes the keyring format and drops support for RFC1991
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+ formatted signatures, breaking our existing tests.
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+ * "git-prompt" (in contrib/) used a variable from the global scope,
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+ possibly contaminating end-user's namespace.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -34,6 +87,44 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.2 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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+ * Recent update to "git commit" broke amending an existing commit
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+ with bogus author/committer lines without a valid e-mail address.
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+ (merge c83a509 jk/commit-date-approxidate later to maint).
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+ * Git did not correctly read an overlong refname from a packed refs
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+ file.
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+ (merge ea41783 jk/read-packed-refs-without-path-max later to maint).
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+ * "git apply" was described in the documentation to take --ignore-date
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+ option, which it does not.
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+ (merge 0cef4e7 rw/apply-does-not-take-ignore-date later to maint).
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+ * New tag object format validation added in 2.2 showed garbage after
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+ a tagname it reported in its error message.
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+ (merge a1e920a js/fsck-tag-validation later to maint).
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+ * The code that reads the reflog from the newer to the older entries
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+ did not handle an entry that crosses a boundary of block it uses to
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+ read them correctly.
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+ (merge 69216bf jk/for-each-reflog-ent-reverse later to maint).
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+ * "git ls-tree" does not support path selection based on negative
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+ pathspecs, but did not error out when negative pathspecs are given.
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+ (merge f1f6224 nd/ls-tree-pathspec later to maint).
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+ * The function sometimes returned a non-freeable memory and some
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+ other times returned a piece of memory that must be freed, leading
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+ to inevitable leaks.
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+ (merge 59362e5 jc/exec-cmd-system-path-leak-fix later to maint).
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+ * The code to abbreviate an object name to its short unique prefix
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+ has been optimized when no abbreviation was requested.
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+ (merge 61e704e mh/find-uniq-abbrev later to maint).
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+ * "git add --ignore-errors ..." did not ignore an error to
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+ give a file that did not exist.
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+ (merge 1d31e5a mg/add-ignore-errors later to maint).
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* "git checkout $treeish $path", when $path in the index and the
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working tree already matched what is in $treeish at the $path,
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still overwrote the $path unnecessarily.