Sixth batch for 2.19 cycle

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Aug 15, 2018 at 15:13 UTC 63749b2dea5d1501ff85bab7b8a7f64911d21dea
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
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@@ -50,6 +50,21 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
50 ancestor discovery during the "git fetch" transaction.
51 (merge 42cc7485a2 jt/fetch-negotiator-skipping later to maint).
52
53 + * A new configuration variable core.usereplacerefs has been added,
54 + primarily to help server installations that want to ignore the
55 + replace mechanism altogether.
56 +
57 + * Teach "git tag -s" etc. a few configuration variables (gpg.format
58 + that can be set to "openpgp" or "x509", and gpg.<format>.program
59 + that is used to specify what program to use to deal with the format)
60 + to allow x.509 certs with CMS via "gpgsm" to be used instead of
61 + openpgp via "gnupg".
62 +
63 + * Many more strings are prepared for l10n.
64 +
65 + * "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should
66 + continue with submitting.
67 +
68
69 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
70
@@ -157,6 +172,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
172 * The singleton commit-graph in-core instance is made per in-core
173 repository instance.
174
175 + * "make DEVELOPER=1 DEVOPTS=pedantic" allows developers to compile
176 + with -pedantic option, which may catch more problematic program
177 + constructs and potential bugs.
178 +
179 + * Preparatory code to later add json output for telemetry data has
180 + been added.
181 +
182 + * Update the way we use Coccinelle to find out-of-style code that
183 + need to be modernised.
184 +
185 + * It is too easy to misuse system API functions such as strcat();
186 + these selected functions are now forbidden in this codebase and
187 + will cause a compilation failure.
188 +
189 + * Add a script (in contrib/) to help users of VSCode work better with
190 + our codebase.
191 +
192 + * The Travis CI scripts were taught to ship back the test data from
193 + failed tests.
194 + (merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint).
195 +
196
197 Fixes since v2.18
198 -----------------
@@ -329,6 +365,40 @@ Fixes since v2.18
365 * The lazy clone support had a few places where missing but promised
366 objects were not correctly tolerated, which have been fixed.
367
368 + * One of the "diff --color-moved" mode "dimmed_zebra" that was named
369 + in an unusual way has been deprecated and replaced by
370 + "dimmed-zebra".
371 + (merge e3f2f5f9cd es/diff-color-moved-fix later to maint).
372 +
373 + * The wire-protocol v2 relies on the client to send "ref prefixes" to
374 + limit the bandwidth spent on the initial ref advertisement. "git
375 + clone" when learned to speak v2 forgot to do so, which has been
376 + corrected.
377 + (merge 402c47d939 bw/clone-ref-prefixes later to maint).
378 +
379 + * "git diff --histogram" had a bad memory usage pattern, which has
380 + been rearranged to reduce the peak usage.
381 + (merge 79cb2ebb92 sb/histogram-less-memory later to maint).
382 +
383 + * Code clean-up to use size_t/ssize_t when they are the right type.
384 + (merge 7726d360b5 jk/size-t later to maint).
385 +
386 + * The wire-protocol v2 relies on the client to send "ref prefixes" to
387 + limit the bandwidth spent on the initial ref advertisement. "git
388 + fetch $remote branch:branch" that asks tags that point into the
389 + history leading to the "branch" automatically followed sent to
390 + narrow prefix and broke the tag following, which has been fixed.
391 + (merge 2b554353a5 jt/tag-following-with-proto-v2-fix later to maint).
392 +
393 + * When the sparse checkout feature is in use, "git cherry-pick" and
394 + other mergy operations lost the skip_worktree bit when a path that
395 + is excluded from checkout requires content level merge, which is
396 + resolved as the same as the HEAD version, without materializing the
397 + merge result in the working tree, which made the path appear as
398 + deleted. This has been corrected by preserving the skip_worktree
399 + bit (and not materializing the file in the working tree).
400 + (merge 2b75fb601c en/merge-recursive-skip-fix later to maint).
401 +
402 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
403 (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
404 (merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
@@ -344,3 +414,10 @@ Fixes since v2.18
414 (merge 6aaded5509 tb/config-default later to maint).
415 (merge 022d2ac1f3 sb/blame-color later to maint).
416 (merge 5a06a20e0c bp/test-drop-caches-for-windows later to maint).
417 + (merge dd61cc1c2e jk/ui-color-always-to-auto later to maint).
418 + (merge 1e83b9bfdd sb/trailers-docfix later to maint).
419 + (merge ab29f1b329 sg/fast-import-dump-refs-on-checkpoint-fix later to maint).
420 + (merge 6a8ad880f0 jn/subtree-test-fixes later to maint).
421 + (merge ffbd51cc60 nd/pack-objects-threading-doc later to maint).
422 + (merge e9dac7be60 es/mw-to-git-chain-fix later to maint).
423 + (merge fe583c6c7a rs/remote-mv-leakfix later to maint).