Third batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 18, 2019 at 11:55 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.0.txt
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * We now have an active interim maintainer for the Git-Gui part of
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+ the system. Praise and thank Pratyush Yadav for volunteering.
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* The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
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standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
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first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
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* Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
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(merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase --rebase-merges" learned to drive different merge
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+ strategies and pass strategy specific options to them.
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+ * A new "pre-merge-commit" hook has been introduced.
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+ * Command line completion updates for "git -c var.name=val" have been
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+ added.
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+ * The lazy clone machinery has been taught that there can be more
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+ than one promisor remote and consult them in order when downloading
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+ missing objects on demand.
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+ * The list-objects-filter API (used to create a sparse/lazy clone)
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+ learned to take a combined filter specification.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Further clean-up of the initialization code.
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+ * xmalloc() used to have a mechanism to ditch memory and address
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+ space resources as the last resort upon seeing an allocation
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+ failure from the underlying malloc(), which made the code complex
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+ and thread-unsafe with dubious benefit, as major memory resource
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+ users already do limit their uses with various other mechanisms.
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+ It has been simplified away.
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+ * Unnecessary full-tree diff in "git log -L" machinery has been
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+ optimized away.
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+ * The http transport lacked some optimization the native transports
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+ learned to avoid unnecessary ref advertisement, which has been
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+ corrected.
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Fixes since v2.23
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subsequent steps.
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(merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
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+ * Tell cURL library to use the same malloc() implementation, with the
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+ xmalloc() wrapper, as the rest of the system, for consistency.
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+ (merge 93b980e58f cb/curl-use-xmalloc later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
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(merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).