The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 6, 2020 at 22:13 UTC
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* "git diff-files" has been taught to say paths that are marked as
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intent-to-add are new files, not modified from an empty blob.
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+ * "git status" learned to report the status of sparse checkout.
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+ * "git difftool" has trouble dealing with paths added to the index
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+ with the intent-to-add bit.
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+ * "git fast-export --anonymize" learned to take customized mapping to
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+ allow its users to tweak its output more usable for debugging.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -90,6 +98,22 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* A misdesigned strbuf_write_fd() function has been retired.
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+ * SHA-256 migration work continues, including CVS/SVN interface.
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+ * A few fields in "struct commit" that do not have to always be
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+ present have been moved to commit slabs.
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+ * API cleanup for get_worktrees()
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+ * By renumbering object flag bits, "struct object" managed to lose
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+ bloated inter-field padding.
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+ * The name of the primary branch in existing repositories, and the
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+ default name used for the first branch in newly created
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+ repositories, is made configurable, so that we can eventually wean
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+ ourselves off of the hardcoded 'master'.
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+ * The effort to avoid using test_must_fail on non-git command continues.
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Fixes since v2.27
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* An in-code comment in "git diff" has been updated.
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(merge c592fd4c83 dl/diff-usage-comment-update later to maint).
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+ * The documentation and some tests have been adjusted for the recent
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+ renaming of "pu" branch to "seen".
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+ (merge 6dca5dbf93 js/pu-to-seen later to maint).
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+ * The code to push changes over "dumb" HTTP had a bad interaction
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+ with the commit reachability code due to incorrect allocation of
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+ object flag bits, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 64472d15e9 bc/http-push-flagsfix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 2c31a7aa44 jx/pkt-line-doc-count-fix later to maint).
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(merge d63ae31962 cb/t5608-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge b75a219904 es/advertise-contribution-doc later to maint).
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(merge 0c9a4f638a rs/pull-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge d546fe2874 rs/commit-reach-leakfix later to maint).
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+ (merge 087bf5409c mk/pb-pretty-email-without-domain-part-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 5f4ee57ad9 es/worktree-code-cleanup later to maint).