Second batch for 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 20, 2016 at 11:54 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
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@@ -11,11 +11,23 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
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too much time before emitting the first line of the result.
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- (merge aba37f4 ea/blame-progress later to maint).
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* "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line)
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how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.
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- (merge 89f09dd vl/grep-configurable-threads later to maint).
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+
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+ * Some "git notes" operations, e.g. "git log --notes=<note>", should
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+ be able to read notes from any tree-ish that is shaped like a notes
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+ tree, but the notes infrastructure required that the argument must
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+ be a ref under refs/notes/. Loosen it to require a valid ref only
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+ when the operation would update the notes (in which case we must
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+ have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref).
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+ * "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index"
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+ behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
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+ user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a
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+ new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this
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+ cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
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+ disabled.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets
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as such correctly.
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+ * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets
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+ you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined.
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+ * d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like
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+ $GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias
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+ handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to
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+ affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which
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+ resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init".
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+ Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
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+ and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -42,3 +65,57 @@ notes for details).
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interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without
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setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.
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(merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint).
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+
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+ * The "exclude_list" structure has the usual "alloc, nr" pair of
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+ fields to be used by ALLOC_GROW(), but clear_exclude_list() forgot
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+ to reset 'alloc' to 0 when it cleared 'nr' to discard the managed
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+ array.
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+ (merge 2653a8c nd/dir-exclude-cleanup later to maint).
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+
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+ * Paths that have been told the index about with "add -N" are not
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+ quite yet in the index, but a few commands behaved as if they
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+ already are in a harmful way.
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+ (merge 4d55200 nd/ita-cleanup later to maint).
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+ * "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias
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+ files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 2c510f2 ew/send-email-mutt-alias-fix later to maint).
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+ * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler
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+ and have been fixed.
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+ (merge a0df2e5 jk/clang-pedantic later to maint).
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+ * The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
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+ the '--signoff' option and DCO.
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+ (merge b2c150d dw/signoff-doc later to maint).
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+ * "git reflog" incorrectly assumed that all objects that used to be
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+ at the tip of a ref must be commits, which caused it to segfault.
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+ (merge aecad37 dk/reflog-walk-with-non-commit later to maint).
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+
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+ * The ignore mechanism saw a few regressions around untracked file
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+ listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change
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+ that is responsible for the regression has been reverted.
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+ (merge 8c72236 nd/exclusion-regression-fix later to maint).
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+ * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR
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+ (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is
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+ done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to
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+ be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous
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+ user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling
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+ unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.
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+ (merge ea56518 js/fopen-harder later to maint).
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+ * Asking gitweb for a nonexistent commit left a warning in the server
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+ log.
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+ Somebody may want to follow this up with an additional test, perhaps?
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+ IIRC, we do test that no Perl warnings are given to the server log,
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+ so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good.
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+ (merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint).
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+ * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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+ (merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
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+ (merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).