Git 2.12-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -108,7 +108,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Some people feel the default set of colors used by "git log --graph"
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rather limiting. A mechanism to customize the set of colors has
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been introduced.
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- (merge 512aba261a nd/log-graph-configurable-colors later to maint).
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+ * "git read-tree" and its underlying unpack_trees() machinery learned
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+ to report problematic paths prefixed with the --super-prefix option.
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+ * When a submodule "A", which has another submodule "B" nested within
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+ it, is "absorbed" into the top-level superproject, the inner
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+ submodule "B" used to be left in a strange state. The logic to
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+ adjust the .git pointers in these submodules has been corrected.
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+ * The user can specify a custom update method that is run when
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+ "submodule update" updates an already checked out submodule. This
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+ was ignored when checking the submodule out for the first time and
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+ we instead always just checked out the commit that is bound to the
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+ path in the superproject's index.
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+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that
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+ "git diff --submodule=" can take "diff" as a recently added option.
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+ * The "core.logAllRefUpdates" that used to be boolean has been
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+ enhanced to take 'always' as well, to record ref updates to refs
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+ other than the ones that are expected to be updated (i.e. branches,
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+ remote-tracking branches and notes).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git
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opens has been simplified.
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- (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint).
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* "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift
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the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of
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them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the
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"--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one.
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- (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint).
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* A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
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easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
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TravisCI.
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* Rewrite a scripted porcelain "git difftool" in C.
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+ * "make -C t failed" will now run only the tests that failed in the
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+ previous run. This is usable only when prove is not use, and gives
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+ a useless error message when run after "make clean", but otherwise
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+ is serviceable.
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+ * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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natively available, and a fallback implementation of it when not,
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to eliminate the need, which is a prerequisite for making the
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codepath reentrant.
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- (merge 83fc4d64fe rs/qsort-s later to maint).
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* "git fsck --connectivity-check" was not working at all.
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(merge a2b22854bd jk/fsck-connectivity-check-fix later to maint).
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needs some changes to work with documents meant to be formatted
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with AsciiDoc. "make USE_ASCIIDOCTOR=YesPlease" to use it out of
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the box to document our pages is getting closer to reality.
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- (merge 55d2d812e4 bc/use-asciidoctor-opt later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
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