First batch for post 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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+Git 2.9 Release Notes
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+=====================
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+Backward compatibility note
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+---------------------------
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+The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and
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+"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use
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+"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this.
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+Updates since v2.8
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+------------------
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+UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log"
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+ now enables the rename detection by default.
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+ * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and
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+ there is no good way to override it from the command line. As
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+ a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves
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+ as the signal to clear the values specified in various files.
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+ * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to
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+ customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session.
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+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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+ * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build
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+ the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate
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+ array of strings.
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+ (merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint).
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+ * A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can
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+ easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG.
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+ (merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint).
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+ * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a
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+ repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git
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+ subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch
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+ references when we are not in a repository.
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+ (merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint).
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+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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+Fixes since v2.8
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+----------------
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+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance
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+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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+notes for details).
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+ * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git
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+ config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status
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+ when there was no matching configuration.
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+ (merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint).
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+ * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git
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+ rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's
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+ option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era.
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+ (merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work.
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+ (merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint).
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+ * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't
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+ work across remote-curl transport.
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+ (merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint).
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+ * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff
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+ code.
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+ (merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint).
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+ * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain
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+ corner cases in its error codepath.
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+ (merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint).
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+ * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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+ (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
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+ (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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LF='
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