Sixth batch for 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 13, 2012 at 15:48 UTC
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@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ Updates since v1.7.11
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * Git can be told to normalize pathnames it read from readdir(3) and
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+ all arguments it got from the command line into precomposed UTF-8
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+ (assuming that they come as decomposed UTF-8), in order to work
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+ around issues on Mac OS.
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+ I think there still are other places that need conversion
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+ (e.g. paths that are read from stdin for some commands), but this
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+ should be a good first step in the right direction.
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* Per-user $HOME/.gitconfig file can optionally be stored in
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$HOME/.config/git/config instead, which is in line with XDG.
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@@ -59,6 +68,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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Foreign Interface
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+ * "mediawiki" remote helper (in contrib/) learned to handle file
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+ attachments.
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+ * vcs-svn has been updated to clean-up compilation, lift 32-bit
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+ limitations, etc.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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@@ -67,6 +82,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
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more modern style.
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+ * "git am --rebasing" codepath was taught to grab authorship, log
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+ message and the patch text directly out of existing commits. This
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+ will help rebasing commits that have confusing "diff" output in
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+ their log messages.
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* "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
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from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
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in-core while they are doing their thing.
@@ -86,6 +106,19 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * "git show"'s auto-walking behaviour was an unreliable and
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+ unpredictable hack; it now behaves just like "git log" does when it
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+ walks.
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+ (merge c5941f1 tr/maint-show-walk later to maint).
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+ * "git diff", "git status" and anything that internally uses the
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+ comparison machinery was utterly broken when the difference
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+ involved a file with "-" as its name. This was due to the way "git
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+ diff --no-index" was incorrectly bolted on to the system, making
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+ any comparison that involves a file "-" at the root level
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+ incorrectly read from the standard input.
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+ (merge 4682d85 jc/refactor-diff-stdin later to maint).
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* We did not have test to make sure "git rebase" without extra options
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filters out an empty commit in the original history.
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(merge 2b5ba7b mz/empty-rebase-test later to maint).