Fourth batch for 2.8.cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 28, 2016 at 16:14 UTC
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@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
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your workflow.
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+ * "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
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+ place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -62,7 +65,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has
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been updated to share more code with the code that deals with
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normal references.
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- (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint).
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+ * strbuf_getline() and friends have been redefined to make it easier
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+ to identify which callsite of (new) strbuf_getline_lf() should
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+ allow and silently ignore carriage-return at the end of the line to
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+ help users on DOSsy systems.
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+ * "git shortlog" used to accumulate various pieces of information
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+ regardless of what was asked to be shown in the final output. It
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+ has been optimized by noticing what need not to be collected
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+ (e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing
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+ only the number of changes).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -138,6 +152,15 @@ notes for details).
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now close the packs before doing so.
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(merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
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+ * A recent optimization to filter-branch in v2.7.0 introduced a
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+ regression when --prune-empty filter is used, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge 1dc413e jk/filter-branch-no-index later to maint).
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+ * The description for SANITY prerequisite the test suite uses has
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+ been clarified both in the comment and in the implementation.
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+ (merge 719c3da jk/sanity later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
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(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).