Git 2.9-rc0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed May 23, 2016 at 15:02 UTC 3a0f269e7c82aa3a87323cb7ae04ac5f129f036b
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
97 * "git rerere" can encounter two or more files with the same conflict
98 signature that have to be resolved in different ways, but there was
99 no way to record these separate resolutions.
100 - (merge 890fca8 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
100 + (merge d9d501b068 jc/rerere-multi later to maint).
101
102 * "git p4" learned to record P4 jobs in Git commit that imports from
103 the history in Perforce.
@@ -132,6 +132,25 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
132 turned out to be a convoluted no-op; implement what it wanted to do
133 correctly, and stop filtering settings given via "git -c var=val".
134
135 + * "git commit --dry-run" reported "No, no, you cannot commit." in one
136 + case where "git commit" would have allowed you to commit, and this
137 + improves it a little bit ("git commit --dry-run --short" still does
138 + not give you the correct answer, for example). This is a stop-gap
139 + measure in that "commit --short --dry-run" still gives an incorrect
140 + result.
141 +
142 + * The experimental "multiple worktree" feature gains more safety to
143 + forbid operations on a branch that is checked out or being actively
144 + worked on elsewhere, by noticing that e.g. it is being rebased.
145 +
146 + * "git format-patch" learned a new "--base" option to record what
147 + (public, well-known) commit the original series was built on in
148 + its output.
149 +
150 + * "git commit" learned to pay attention to "commit.verbose"
151 + configuration variable and act as if "--verbose" option was
152 + given from the command line.
153 +
154
155 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
156
@@ -183,7 +202,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
202 * The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation
203 itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system
204 where the installed version of Python is python 3.
186 - (merge 1fb3fb4 ld/p4-test-py3 later to maint).
205
206 * As nobody maintains our in-tree git.spec.in and distros use their
207 own spec file, we stopped pretending that we support "make rpm".
@@ -205,6 +223,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
223 being tested intact.
224 (merge d88785e jk/test-send-sh-x-trace-elsewhere later to maint).
225
226 + * t0040 had too many unnecessary repetitions in its test data. Teach
227 + test-parse-options program so that a caller can tell what it
228 + expects in its output, so that these repetitions can be cleaned up.
229 +
230 + * Add perf test for "rebase -i"
231 +
232 + * Common mistakes when writing gitlink: in our documentation are
233 + found by "make check-docs".
234 +
235 + * t9xxx series has been updated primarily for readability, while
236 + fixing small bugs in it. A few scripted Porcelains have also been
237 + updated to fix possible bugs around their use of "test -z" and
238 + "test -n".
239 +
240 + * CI test was taught to run git-svn tests.
241 +
242
243 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
244
@@ -294,7 +328,6 @@ notes for details).
328
329 * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
330 we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
297 - (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
331
332 * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
333 that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
@@ -324,7 +357,6 @@ notes for details).
357 * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command
358 recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run
359 from the root level of the superproject.
327 - (merge 2ab5660 sb/submodule-path-misc-bugs later to maint).
360
361 * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error
362 if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However,
@@ -333,32 +365,25 @@ notes for details).
365 system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user
366 experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without
367 relying on the auto-detection at all.
336 - (merge d3c06c1 da/user-useconfigonly later to maint).
368
369 * "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives
370 as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly.
340 - (merge a127331 sb/mv-submodule-fix later to maint).
371
372 * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration.
343 - (merge 36b1437 js/replace-edit-use-editor-configuration later to maint).
373
374 * "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large
375 number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices
376 for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread,
377 after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push
378 failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure.
350 - (merge f924b52a jk/push-client-deadlock-fix later to maint).
379
380 * mmap emulation on Windows has been optimized and work better without
381 consuming paging store when not needed.
354 - (merge d5425d1 js/win32-mmap later to maint).
382
383 * A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender
384 has been updated.
358 - (merge 0d6b21e jd/send-email-to-whom later to maint).
385
386 * UI consistency improvements for "git mergetool".
361 - (merge cce076e nf/mergetool-prompt later to maint).
387
388 * "git rebase -m" could be asked to rebase an entire branch starting
389 from the root, but failed by assuming that there always is a parent
@@ -366,24 +391,19 @@ notes for details).
391 (merge 79f4344 bw/rebase-merge-entire-branch later to maint).
392
393 * Fix a broken "p4 lfs" test.
369 - (merge 9e220fe ls/p4-lfs-test-fix-2.7.0 later to maint).
394
395 * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from
396 its "lfs pointer" subcommand.
373 - (merge 82f2567 ls/p4-lfs later to maint).
397
398 * "git fetch" test t5510 was flaky while running a (forced) automagic
399 garbage collection.
377 - (merge bb05510 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
400
401 * Documentation updates to help contributors setting up Travis CI
402 test for their patches.
381 - (merge 0e5d028 ls/travis-submitting-patches later to maint).
403
404 * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part
405 of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in
406 gitweb.
386 - (merge 029f372 sk/gitweb-highlight-encoding later to maint).
407
408 * "git commit-tree" plumbing command required the user to always sign
409 its result when the user sets the commit.gpgsign configuration
@@ -442,19 +462,20 @@ notes for details).
462 adjusted to align with that used by OpenPGP.
463 (merge 05a5869 kf/gpg-sig-verification-doc later to maint).
464
465 + * A couple of bugs around core.autocrlf have been fixed.
466 + (merge caa47ad tb/core-eol-fix later to maint).
467 +
468 + * Many commands normalize command line arguments from NFD to NFC
469 + variant of UTF-8 on OSX, but commands in the "diff" family did
470 + not, causing "git diff $path" to complain that no such path is
471 + known to Git. They have been taught to do the normalization.
472 + (merge 90a78b8 ar/diff-args-osx-precompose later to maint).
473 +
474 + * "git difftool" learned to handle unmerged paths correctly in
475 + dir-diff mode.
476 + (merge 366f9ce da/difftool later to maint).
477 +
478 * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
446 - (merge 8b5a3e9 kn/for-each-tag-branch later to maint).
447 - (merge 99dab16 sb/misc-cleanups later to maint).
448 - (merge 7a6a44c cc/apply later to maint).
449 - (merge 6594883 nd/remove-unused later to maint).
450 - (merge 0ff7410 sg/test-lib-simplify-expr-away later to maint).
451 - (merge 060e776 jk/fix-attribute-macro-in-2.5 later to maint).
452 - (merge d16df0c rt/string-list-lookup-cleanup later to maint).
453 - (merge 376eb60 sb/config-exit-status-list later to maint).
454 - (merge 9cea46c ew/doc-split-pack-disables-bitmap later to maint).
455 - (merge fa72245 ew/normal-to-e later to maint).
456 - (merge 2e39a24 rn/glossary-typofix later to maint).
457 - (merge cadfbef sb/clean-test-fix later to maint).
479 (merge 832c0e5 lp/typofixes later to maint).
480 (merge f5ee54a sb/z-is-gnutar-ism later to maint).
481 (merge 2e3926b va/i18n-misc-updates later to maint).
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
1 #!/bin/sh
2
3 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
4 -DEF_VER=v2.8.0.GIT
4 +DEF_VER=v2.9.0-rc0
5
6 LF='
7 '