Eleventh batch for 2.11
There still are a few topics that need to go in before -rc0 which would make the shape of the upcoming release clearer, but here is the final batch before it happens. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git 2.11 Release Notes
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======================
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+Backward compatibility notes.
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+ * An empty string used as a pathspec element has always meant
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+ 'everything matches', but it is too easy to write a script that
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+ finds a path to remove in $path and run 'git rm "$paht"', which
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+ ends up removing everything. This release starts warning about the
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+ use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' and
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+ asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that instead.
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+ The hope is that existing users will not mind this change, and
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+ eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading
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+ the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature.
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+ * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
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+ has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
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+ next release (not this one).
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Updates since v2.10
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * Comes with new version of git-gui, now at its 0.21.0 tag.
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* "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch
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with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1]
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and [PATCH 1/1] by default.
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* "git mergetool" learned to honor "-O<orderfile>" to control the
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order of paths to present to the end user.
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+ * "git diff/log --ws-error-highlight=<kind>" lacked the corresponding
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+ configuration variable to set it by default.
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+ * "git ls-files" learned "--recurse-submodules" option that can be
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+ used to get a listing of tracked files across submodules (i.e. this
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+ only works with "--cached" option, not for listing untracked or
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+ ignored files). This would be a useful tool to sit on the upstream
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+ side of a pipe that is read with xargs to work on all working tree
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+ files from the top-level superproject.
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+ * A new credential helper that talks via "libsecret" with
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+ implementations of XDG Secret Service API has been added to
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+ contrib/credential/.
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+ * The GPG verification status shown in "%G?" pretty format specifier
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+ was not rich enough to differentiate a signature made by an expired
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+ key, a signature made by a revoked key, etc. New output letters
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+ have been assigned to express them.
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+ * In addition to purely abbreviated commit object names, "gitweb"
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+ learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787)
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+ into clickable links in its output.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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decide if we accept the check, and once we decide, either migrate
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them to the repository or purge them immediately.
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+ * The require_clean_work_tree() helper was recreated in C when "git
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+ pull" was rewritten from shell; the helper is now made available to
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+ other callers in preparation for upcoming "rebase -i" work.
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+ * "git upload-pack" had its code cleaned-up and performance improved
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+ by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was
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+ replaced with a priority queue.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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each other as if both belong to .git/config. This has been fixed.
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(merge 72710165c9 sb/submodule-config-doc-drop-path later to maint).
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+ * In a worktree connected to a repository elsewhere, created via "git
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+ worktree", "git checkout" attempts to protect users from confusion
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+ by refusing to check out a branch that is already checked out in
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+ another worktree. However, this also prevented checking out a
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+ branch, which is designated as the primary branch of a bare
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+ reopsitory, in a worktree that is connected to the bare
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+ repository. The check has been corrected to allow it.
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+ (merge 171c646f8c dk/worktree-dup-checkout-with-bare-is-ok later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase" immediately after "git clone" failed to find the fork
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+ point from the upstream.
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+ (merge 4f21454b55 jk/merge-base-fork-point-without-reflog later to maint).
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+ * When fetching from a remote that has many tags that are irrelevant
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+ to branches we are following, we used to waste way too many cycles
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+ when checking if the object pointed at by a tag (that we are not
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+ going to fetch!) exists in our repository too carefully.
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+ (merge 5827a03545 jk/fetch-quick-tag-following later to maint).
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+ * Protect our code from over-eager compilers.
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+ (merge 0ac52a38e8 jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
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+ * Recent git allows submodule.<name>.branch to use a special token
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+ "." instead of the branch name; the documentation has been updated
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+ to describe it.
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+ (merge 15ef78008a bw/submodule-branch-dot-doc later to maint).
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+ * A hot-fix for a test added by a recent topic that went to both
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+ 'master' and 'maint' already.
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+ (merge 76e368c378 tg/add-chmod+x-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git send-email" attempts to pick up valid e-mails from the
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+ trailers, but people in real world write non-addresses there, like
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+ "Cc: Stable <add@re.ss> # 4.8+", which broke the output depending
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+ on the availability and vintage of Mail::Address perl module.
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+ (merge dcfafc5214 mm/send-email-cc-cruft-after-address later to maint).
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+ * The Travis CI configuration we ship ran the tests with --verbose
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+ option but this risks non-TAP output that happens to be "ok" to be
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+ misinterpreted as TAP signalling a test that passed. This resulted
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+ in unnecessary failure. This has been corrected by introducing a
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+ new mode to run our tests in the test harness to send the verbose
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+ output separately to the log file.
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+ (merge 614fe01521 jk/tap-verbose-fix later to maint).
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+ * Some AsciiDoc formatter mishandles a displayed illustration with
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+ tabs in it. Adjust a few of them in merge-base documentation to
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+ work around them.
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+ (merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint).
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(merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint).
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(merge 30cfe72d37 rs/pretty-format-color-doc-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge d709f1fb9d jc/diff-unique-abbrev-comments later to maint).
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+ (merge 13092a916d jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null later to maint).
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+ (merge 86009f32bb pb/test-parse-options-expect later to maint).
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+ (merge 749a2279a4 yk/git-tag-remove-mention-of-old-layout-in-doc later to maint).