The fourth batch

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

Junio C Hamano committed Jul 9, 2019 at 15:48 UTC 6d5b26420848ec3bc7eae46a7ffa54f20276249d
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt
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@@ -46,6 +46,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
46 * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
47 boundary for Rust has been added.
48
49 + * "git status" can be told a non-standard default value for the
50 + "--[no-]ahead-behind" option with a new configuration variable
51 + status.aheadBehind.
52 +
53 + * "git fetch" and "git pull" reports when a fetch results in
54 + non-fast-forward updates to let the user notice unusual situation.
55 + The commands learned "--no-shown-forced-updates" option to disable
56 + this safety feature.
57 +
58 + * Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
59 + split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
60 + "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
61 + advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
62 + command.
63 +
64 + * "git branch --list" learned to always output the detached HEAD as
65 + the first item (when the HEAD is detached, of course), regardless
66 + of the locale.
67 +
68 + * The conditional inclusion mechanism learned to base the choice on
69 + the branch the HEAD currently is on.
70 +
71 + * "git rev-list --objects" learned with "--no-object-names" option to
72 + squelch the path to the object that is used as a grouping hint for
73 + pack-objects.
74 +
75 + * A new tag.gpgSign configuration variable turns "git tag -a" into
76 + "git tag -s".
77 +
78
79 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
80
@@ -71,6 +100,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
100 * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
101 developers has been added.
102
103 + * Auto-detect how to tell HP-UX aCC where to use dynamically linked
104 + libraries from at runtime.
105 +
106 + * "git mergetool" and its tests now spawn fewer subprocesses.
107 +
108 + * Dev support update to help tracing out tests.
109 +
110 + * Support to build with MSVC has been updated.
111 +
112 + * "git fetch" that grabs from a group of remotes learned to run the
113 + auto-gc only once at the very end.
114
115
116 Fixes since v2.22
@@ -175,9 +215,84 @@ Fixes since v2.22
215 updated.
216 (merge fc7e03aace mo/clang-format-for-each-update later to maint).
217
218 + * "git branch --list" learned to show branches that are checked out
219 + in other worktrees connected to the same repository prefixed with
220 + '+', similar to the way the currently checked out branch is shown
221 + with '*' in front.
222 + (merge 6e9381469e nb/branch-show-other-worktrees-head later to maint).
223 +
224 + * Code restructuring during 2.20 period broke fetching tags via
225 + "import" based transports.
226 + (merge f80d922355 fc/fetch-with-import-fix later to maint).
227 +
228 + * The commit-graph file is now part of the "files that the runtime
229 + may keep open file descriptors on, all of which would need to be
230 + closed when done with the object store", and the file descriptor to
231 + an existing commit-graph file now is closed before "gc" finalizes a
232 + new instance to replace it.
233 + (merge 2d511cfc0b ds/close-object-store later to maint).
234 +
235 + * "git checkout -p" needs to selectively apply a patch in reverse,
236 + which did not work well.
237 + (merge 2bd69b9024 pw/add-p-recount later to maint).
238 +
239 + * Code clean-up to avoid signed integer wraparounds during binary search.
240 + (merge 568a05c5ec rs/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation later to maint).
241 +
242 + * "git interpret-trailers" always treated '#' as the comment
243 + character, regardless of core.commentChar setting, which has been
244 + corrected.
245 + (merge 29c83fc23f jk/trailers-use-config later to maint).
246 +
247 + * "git stash show 23" used to work, but no more after getting
248 + rewritten in C; this regression has been corrected.
249 + (merge 63b50c8ffe tg/stash-ref-by-index-fix later to maint).
250 +
251 + * "git rebase --abort" used to leave refs/rewritten/ when concluding
252 + "git rebase -r", which has been corrected.
253 + (merge d559f502c5 pw/rebase-abort-clean-rewritten later to maint).
254 +
255 + * An incorrect list of options was cached after command line
256 + completion failed (e.g. trying to complete a command that requires
257 + a repository outside one), which has been corrected.
258 + (merge 69702523af nd/completion-no-cache-failure later to maint).
259 +
260 + * The code to parse scaled numbers out of configuration files has
261 + been made more robust and also easier to follow.
262 + (merge 39c575c969 rs/config-unit-parsing later to maint).
263 +
264 + * The codepath to compute delta islands used to spew progress output
265 + without giving the callers any way to squelch it, which has been
266 + fixed.
267 + (merge bdbdf42f8a jk/delta-islands-progress-fix later to maint).
268 +
269 + * Protocol capabilities that go over wire should never be translated,
270 + but it was incorrectly marked for translation, which has been
271 + corrected. The output of protocol capabilities for debugging has
272 + been tweaked a bit.
273 +
274 + * Use "Erase in Line" CSI sequence that is already used in the editor
275 + support to clear cruft in the progress output.
276 + (merge 5b12e3123b sg/rebase-progress later to maint).
277 +
278 + * "git submodule foreach" did not protect command line options passed
279 + to the command to be run in each submodule correctly, when the
280 + "--recursive" option was in use.
281 + (merge 30db18b148 ms/submodule-foreach-fix later to maint).
282 +
283 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
284 (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
285 (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
286 (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint).
287 (merge 9df8f734fd cm/send-email-document-req-modules later to maint).
288 (merge afc3bf6eb1 ab/hash-object-doc later to maint).
289 + (merge 1fde99cfc7 po/doc-branch later to maint).
290 + (merge 459842e1c2 dl/config-alias-doc later to maint).
291 + (merge 5d137fc2c7 cb/fsmonitor-intfix later to maint).
292 + (merge 921d49be86 rs/copy-array later to maint).
293 + (merge cc8d872e69 js/t3404-typofix later to maint).
294 + (merge 729a9b558b cb/mkstemps-uint-type-fix later to maint).
295 + (merge 9dae4fe79f js/gcc-8-and-9 later to maint).
296 + (merge ed33bd8f30 js/t0001-case-insensitive later to maint).
297 + (merge dfa880e336 jw/gitweb-sample-update later to maint).
298 + (merge e532a90a9f sg/t5551-fetch-smart-error-is-translated later to maint).