Seventh batch for 2.20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 30, 2018 at 15:44 UTC
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of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard
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error stream.
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+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
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+ trailer whose name ends with "-by". This is a backward-incompatible
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+ change. Adding "--suppress-cc=misc-by" on the command line, or
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+ setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration variable to "misc-by",
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+ can be used to disable this behaviour.
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Updates since v2.19
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been improved.
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(merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint).
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+ * The "rev-list --filter" feature learned to exclude all trees via
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+ "tree:0" filter.
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+ * "git send-email" learned to grab address-looking string on any
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+ trailer whose name ends with "-by"; --suppress-cc=misc-by on the
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+ command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
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+ variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
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+ * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option.
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+ * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
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+ settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
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+ * "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
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+ "git difftool" does.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -230,6 +252,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more
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coverage to various areas.
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+ * More codepaths are moving away from hardcoded hash sizes.
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+ * The way the Windows port figures out the current directory has been
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+ improved.
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+ * The way DLLs are loaded on the Windows port has been improved.
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+ * Some tests have been reorganized and renamed; "ls t/" now gives a
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+ better overview of what is tested for these scripts than before.
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Fixes since v2.19
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parent commits, which has been corrected.
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(merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git range-diff" did not work well when the compared ranges had
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+ changes in submodules and the "--submodule=log" was used.
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+ * The implementation of run_command() API on the UNIX platforms had a
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+ bug that caused a command not on $PATH to be found in the current
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+ directory.
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+ (merge f67b980771 jk/run-command-notdot later to maint).
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+ * A mutex used in "git pack-objects" were not correctly initialized
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+ and this caused "git repack" to dump core on Windows.
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+ (merge 34204c8166 js/pack-objects-mutex-init-fix later to maint).
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+ * Under certain circumstances, "git diff D:/a/b/c D:/a/b/d" on
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+ Windows would strip initial parts from the paths because they
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+ were not recognized as absolute, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge ffd04e92e2 js/diff-notice-has-drive-prefix later to maint).
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+ * The receive.denyCurrentBranch=updateInstead codepath kicked in even
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+ when the push should have been rejected due to other reasons, such
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+ as it does not fast-forward or the update-hook rejects it, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge b072a25fad jc/receive-deny-current-branch-fix later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
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(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
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(merge ce366a8144 du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing later to maint).
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(merge 61018fe9e0 du/cherry-is-plumbing later to maint).
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+ (merge c7e5fe79b9 sb/strbuf-h-update later to maint).
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+ (merge 8d2008196b tq/branch-create-wo-branch-get later to maint).
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+ (merge 2e3c894f4b tq/branch-style-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge c5d844af9c sg/doc-show-branch-typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge 081d91618b ah/doc-updates later to maint).
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+ (merge b84c783882 jc/cocci-preincr later to maint).
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+ (merge 5e495f8122 uk/merge-subtree-doc-update later to maint).
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+ (merge aaaa881822 jk/uploadpack-packobjectshook-fix later to maint).