GIT 1.6.1-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 30, 2008 at 23:01 UTC
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* Various gitweb updates from repo.or.cz installation.
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+* Updates to emacs bindings.
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(portability)
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* A few test scripts used nonportable "grep" that did not work well on
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(performance)
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+* Many operations that are lstat(3) heavy can be told to pre-execute
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+ necessary lstat(3) in parallel before their main operations, which
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+ potentially gives much improved performance for cold-cache cases or in
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+ environments with weak metadata caching (e.g. NFS).
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* The underlying diff machinery to produce textual output has been
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optimized, which would result in faster "git blame" processing.
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* "git merge -s $strategy" can use a custom built strategy if you have a
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command "git-merge-$strategy" on your $PATH.
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+* "git pull" (and "git fetch") can be told to operate "-v"erbosely or
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+ "-q"uietly.
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* "git push" can be told to reject deletion of refs with receive.denyDeletes
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configuration.
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* when giving up resolving a conflicted merge, "git reset --hard" failed
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to remove new paths from the working tree. [cherry-pick to 'maint'?]
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+* "git send-email" can be given revision range instead of files and
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+ maildirs on the command line, and automatically runs format-patch to
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+ generate patches for the given revision range.
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* "git submodule foreach" subcommand allows you to iterate over checked
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out submodules.
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timestamp part, exposing internal implementation detail. Also these did
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not work with --fixed-strings match at all.
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-* "git tag" did not complain about incompatible combination of options
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- e.g. "tag -l -d" (fix scheduled to be further downmerged to maint).
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* Internal diff machinery had a corner case performance bug that choked on a
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large file with many repeated contents (fix scheduled to be further cherry-
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picked to maint).
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--
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exec >/var/tmp/1
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-O=v1.6.0.4-697-g168d5bd
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+O=v1.6.0.4-854-gaaab7ea
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echo O=$(git describe master)
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git shortlog --no-merges $O..master ^maint