RelNotes/2.0.0.txt: Fix several grammar issues, notably a lack of hyphens, double quotes, or articles
Signed-off-by: Jason St. John <jstjohn@purdue.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ with "git diff-files --diff-filter=d").
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The default prefix for "git svn" has changed in Git 2.0. For a long
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time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
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refs/remotes, but it now places them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
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-it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
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+it is told otherwise with its "--prefix" option.
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Updates since v1.9 series
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* The "multi-mail" post-receive hook (in contrib/) has been updated
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- to a more recent version from the upstream.
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+ to a more recent version from upstream.
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* The "remote-hg/bzr" remote-helper interfaces (in contrib/) are
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now maintained separately as a third-party plug-in.
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single strand-of-pearls is broken in its output.
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* The "rev-parse --parseopt" mechanism used by scripted Porcelains to
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- parse command line options and to give help text learned to take
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+ parse command-line options and to give help text learned to take
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the argv-help (the placeholder string for an option parameter,
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e.g. "key-id" in "--gpg-sign=<key-id>").
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* The pattern to find where the function begins in C/C++ used in
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- "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to help C++ source better.
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+ "diff" and "grep -p" has been updated to improve viewing C++
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+ sources.
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* "git rebase" learned to interpret a lone "-" as "@{-1}", the
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branch that we were previously on.
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"--sort=version:refname".
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* Discard the accumulated "heuristics" to guess from which branch the
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- result wants to be pulled from and make sure what the end user
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+ result wants to be pulled from and make sure that what the end user
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specified is not second-guessed by "git request-pull", to avoid
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mistakes. When you pushed out your 'master' branch to your public
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repository as 'for-linus', use the new "master:for-linus" syntax to
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* The progress indicators from various time-consuming commands have
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been marked for i18n/l10n.
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- * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses an attempt to use an object that
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- is not a blob as an error.
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+ * "git notes -C <blob>" diagnoses as an error an attempt to use an
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+ object that is not a blob.
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* "git config" learned to read from the standard input when "-" is
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given as the value to its "--file" parameter (attempting an
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- operation to update the configuration in the standard input of
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- course is rejected).
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+ operation to update the configuration in the standard input is
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+ rejected, of course).
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* Trailing whitespaces in .gitignore files, unless they are quoted
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for fnmatch(3), e.g. "path\ ", are warned and ignored. Strictly
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- speaking, this is a backward incompatible change, but very unlikely
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+ speaking, this is a backward-incompatible change, but very unlikely
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to bite any sane user and adjusting should be obvious and easy.
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- * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull", "rebase",
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- learned to take the --gpg-sign option on the command line.
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+ * Many commands that create commits, e.g. "pull" and "rebase",
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+ learned to take the "--gpg-sign" option on the command line.
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* "git commit" can be told to always GPG sign the resulting commit
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- by setting "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to true (the
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- command line option --no-gpg-sign should override it).
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+ by setting the "commit.gpgsign" configuration variable to "true"
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+ (the command-line option "--no-gpg-sign" should override it).
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* "git pull" can be told to only accept fast-forward by setting the
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- new "pull.ff" configuration.
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+ new "pull.ff" configuration variable.
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* "git reset" learned the "-N" option, which does not reset the index
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fully for paths the index knows about but the tree-ish the command
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* Uses of curl's "multi" interface and "easy" interface do not mix
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well when we attempt to reuse outgoing connections. Teach the RPC
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- over http code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
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+ over HTTP code, used in the smart HTTP transport, not to use the
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"easy" interface.
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* The bitmap-index feature from JGit has been ported, which should
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* The remote-helper interface to fast-import/fast-export via the
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transport-helper has been tightened to avoid leaving the import
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- marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out of
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- sync with the reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
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+ marks file from a failed/crashed run, as such a file that is out-of-
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+ sync with reality confuses a later invocation of itself.
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- * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD /bin/sh does not
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+ * "git rebase" used a POSIX shell construct FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not
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work well with.
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(merge 8cd6596 km/avoid-non-function-return-in-rebase later to maint).
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* zsh prompt (in contrib/) leaked unnecessary error messages.
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- * bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
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+ * Bash completion (in contrib/) did not complete the refs and remotes
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correctly given "git pu<TAB>" when "pu" is aliased to "push".
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- * Some more Unicode codepoints defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
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- width have been taught to our display column counting logic.
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+ * Some more Unicode code points, defined in Unicode 6.3 as having zero
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+ width, have been taught to our display column counting logic.
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(merge d813ab9 tb/unicode-6.3-zero-width later to maint).
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* Some tests used shell constructs that did not work well on FreeBSD
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* "git diff --no-index -Mq a b" fell into an infinite loop.
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(merge ad1c3fb jc/fix-diff-no-index-diff-opt-parse later to maint).
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- * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand-side of multiple fetch
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+ * "git fetch --prune", when the right-hand side of multiple fetch
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refspecs overlap (e.g. storing "refs/heads/*" to
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"refs/remotes/origin/*", while storing "refs/frotz/*" to
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"refs/remotes/origin/fr/*"), aggressively thought that lack of
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* Serving objects from a shallow repository needs to write a
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- new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries but it was not
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+ new file to hold the temporary shallow boundaries, but it was not
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cleaned when we exit due to die() or a signal.
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(merge 7839632 jk/shallow-update-fix later to maint).
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".git" tells us where it is.
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(merge fcfec8b da/difftool-git-files later to maint).
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- * "git push" did not pay attention to branch.*.pushremote if it is
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- defined earlier than remote.pushdefault; the order of these two
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+ * "git push" did not pay attention to "branch.*.pushremote" if it is
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+ defined earlier than "remote.pushdefault"; the order of these two
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variables in the configuration file should not matter, but it did
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by mistake.
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(merge 98b406f jk/remote-pushremote-config-reading later to maint).
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- * Codepaths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
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+ * Code paths that parse timestamps in commit objects have been
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tightened.
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(merge f80d1f9 jk/commit-dates-parsing-fix later to maint).
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* "git diff --external-diff" incorrectly fed the submodule directory
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- in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew it is
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- the same as one of the versions being compared.
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+ in the working tree to the external diff driver when it knew that it
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+ is the same as one of the versions being compared.
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* "git reset" needs to refresh the index when working in a working
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* "git check-attr" when working on a repository with a working tree
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+ "--work-tree" (and obviously with "--git-dir") option.
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* "merge-recursive" was broken in 1.7.7 era and stopped working in
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- * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command line arguments
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+ * "git rev-parse" was loose in rejecting command-line arguments
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that do not make sense, e.g. "--default" without the required
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value for that option.
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- * include.path variable (or any variable that expects a path that
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+ * "include.path" variable (or any variable that expects a path that
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can use ~username expansion) in the configuration file is not a
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boolean, but the code failed to check it.
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(merge 67beb60 jk/config-path-include-fix later to maint.)
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* "git diff --quiet -- pathspec1 pathspec2" sometimes did not return
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* Attempting to deepen a shallow repository by fetching over smart
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- HTTP transport failed in the protocol exchange, when no-done
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extension was used. The fetching side waited for the list of
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it.
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(merge 0232852 nd/http-fetch-shallow-fix later to maint.)
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* Allow "git cmd path/", when the 'path' is where a submodule is
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bound to the top-level working tree, to match 'path', despite the
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extra and unnecessary trailing slash (such a slash is often
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* Documentation and in-code comments had many instances of mistaken