Sixth batch for 2.11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 29, 2016 at 16:58 UTC
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@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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been corrected to flip the executable bit for all paths that match
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the given pathspec.
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+ * When "git format-patch --stdout" output is placed as an in-body
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+ header and it uses the RFC2822 header folding, "git am" failed to
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+ put the header line back into a single logical line. The
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+ underlying "git mailinfo" was taught to handle this properly.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -261,6 +266,29 @@ notes for details).
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* "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in
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recent update, which has been corrected.
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+ * A low-level function verify_packfile() was meant to show errors
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+ that were detected without dying itself, but under some conditions
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+ it didn't and died instead, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge a9445d859e jk/verify-packfile-gently later to maint).
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+ * When "git fetch" tries to find where the history of the repository
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+ it runs in has diverged from what the other side has, it has a
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+ mechanism to avoid digging too deep into irrelevant side branches.
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+ This however did not work well over the "smart-http" transport due
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+ to a design bug, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 06b3d386e0 jt/fetch-pack-in-vain-count-with-stateless later to maint).
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+ * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an
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+ e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname
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+ field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.
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+ (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint).
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+ * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that
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+ ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored
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+ the variable setting. The command has been taught to read the
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+ default set of configuration variables to correct this.
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+ (merge d49028e6e7 jc/worktree-config later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
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(merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).