The ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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to the recent update to "git config" that adopted subcommand based
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UI.
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+ * The knobs to tweak how reftable files are written have been made
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+ available as configuration variables.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -87,14 +90,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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builtin/config.c done via the use of global variables.
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* The pack bitmap code saw some clean-up to prepare for a follow-up topic.
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- (merge 85f360fee5 tb/pack-bitmap-write-cleanups later to maint).
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* Preliminary code clean-up for "git send-email".
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- (merge c02dc38570 ds/send-email-per-message-block later to maint).
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* The default "creation-factor" used by "git format-patch" has been
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raised to make it more aggressively find matching commits.
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- (merge c22d41d641 jc/format-patch-more-aggressive-range-diff later to maint).
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+ * Before discovering the repository details, We used to assume SHA-1
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+ as the "default" hash function, which has been corrected. Hopefully
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+ this will smoke out codepaths that rely on such an unwarranted
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+ assumptions.
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+ * The project decision making policy has been documented.
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+ * The strcmp-offset tests have been rewritten using the unit test
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+ framework.
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+ * "git add -p" learned to complain when an answer with more than one
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+ letter is given to a prompt that expects a single letter answer.
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Fixes since v2.45
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the keychain.
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(merge e1ab45b2da kn/osxkeychain-skip-idempotent-store later to maint).
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+ * The chainlint script (invoked during "make test") did nothing when
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+ it failed to detect the number of available CPUs. It now falls
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+ back to 1 CPU to avoid the problem.
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+ (merge 2e7e9205be es/chainlint-ncores-fix later to maint).
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+ * Revert overly aggressive "layered defence" that went into 2.45.1
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+ and friends, which broke "git-lfs", "git-annex", and other use
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+ cases, so that we can rebuild necessary counterparts in the open.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 4cf6e7bf5e jt/doc-submitting-rerolled-series later to maint).
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(merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint).