Git 2.2.0-rc3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 21, 2014 at 12:10 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt
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* "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each
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stash entry is represented as a merge commit. It learned to show
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the difference between the base commit version and the working tree
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- version, which is in line with what "git show" gives.
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+ version, which is in line with what "git stash show" gives.
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* Sometimes users want to report a bug they experience on their
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repository, but they are not at liberty to share the contents of
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* The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too
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many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be
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named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead,
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- e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c").
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+ e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c", to allow us to have multiple variants).
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- * The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly
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+ * The temporary files "git mergetool" uses can be placed in a newly
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created temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
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setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
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* "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of
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BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it
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- feels awkward to say "--tool bc3".
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+ feels awkward to say "--tool bc3" to run version 4.
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* The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
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to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
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without having to "trust" the server.
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* "git interpret-trailers" is a new filter to programmatically edit
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- the tail end of the commit log messages.
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+ the tail end of the commit log messages, e.g. "Signed-off-by:".
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* "git help everyday" shows the "Everyday Git in 20 commands or so"
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- document, whose contents have been updated to more modern Git
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- practice.
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+ document, whose contents have been updated to match more modern
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+ Git practice.
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* On the "git svn" front, work to reduce memory consumption and
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to improve handling of mergeinfo progresses.
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-Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it
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more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none
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* There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it
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to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have
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- to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the
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- lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern.
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+ to update the file again while still holding the lock; now the
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* The API to allocate the structure to keep track of commit
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decoration has been updated to make it less cumbersome to use.
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a shell-trace of each command run in them.
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* The "run-command" API learned to manage the argv and environment
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+ arrays for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to
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allocate and deallocate them.
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* Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our
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- documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as
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- AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up.
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+ documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted to be usable
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+ by both, as AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input
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+ mark-up.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
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-DEF_VER=v2.2.0-rc2
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+DEF_VER=v2.2.0-rc3
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LF='
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