First batch for 2.11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 12, 2016 at 15:35 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.11.0.txt
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@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
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repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
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+ * The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced
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+ to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule
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+ commits bound to the superproject.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -36,6 +40,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer
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calls to git.
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+ * Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors
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+ script file "git am" internally uses.
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+ (merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -54,3 +62,36 @@ notes for details).
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* "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
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"git log -p --graph" output.
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(merge 3dbfe2b bh/diff-highlight-graph later to maint).
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+ * The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
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+ count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
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+ test script plus the process ID. The latter however turned out not
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+ to serve any useful purpose. The process ID part of the filename
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+ has been removed.
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+ (merge 5c885c1 jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results later to maint).
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+ * Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
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+ caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.
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+ (merge 10f5c52 jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir later to maint).
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+ * "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
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+ the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command
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+ to forbid removal of HEAD.
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+ (merge 12cfa79 jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD later to maint).
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+ * A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
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+ prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
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+ script on some platforms.
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+ (merge 5babb5b js/t6026-clean-up later to maint).
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+ * Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
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+ newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
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+ (merge 14e2411 ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests later to maint).
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+ * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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+ (merge 3e1952e jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3 later to maint).
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+ (merge ca2baa3 rs/compat-strdup later to maint).
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+ (merge d233097 rs/hex2chr later to maint).
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+ (merge c00bfc9 js/t9903-chaining later to maint).
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+ (merge 5e4e5bb sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl later to maint).
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+ (merge 5cb5fe4 sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr later to maint).