Prepare for 2.10.0-rc2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
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which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
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- The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
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+ * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
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updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
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errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
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(merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
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* A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have
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been fixed.
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+ * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much
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+ refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has
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+ been reduced to help translators.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -563,7 +567,7 @@ notes for details).
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caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
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behaviour of the fast-path.
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- * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
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+ * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library.
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* A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
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has been plugged.
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taught to notice these exit status codes.
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(merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint).
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+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint).
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+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
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+ variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
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+ git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
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+ place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
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+ override, and if so how?"
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+ (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint).
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+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
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+ a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
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+ finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
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+ removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a
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+ subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
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+ subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
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+ made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
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+ the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
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+ to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
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+ (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
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(merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
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(merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
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(merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint).
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(merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
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+ (merge 175d38c hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint).