RelNotes: the second batch post 2.15 comes
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 6, 2017 at 14:31 UTC
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@@ -17,6 +17,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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deprecating and warning a pathspec that has such an element in
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2.11 (Nov 2016).
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+ * A hook script that is set unexecutable is simply ignored. Git
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+ notifies when such a file is ignored, unless the message is
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+ squelched via advice.ignoredHook configuration.
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+ * "git pull" has been taught to accept "--[no-]signoff" option and
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+ pass it down to "git merge".
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+ * The "--push-option=<string>" option to "git push" now defaults to a
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+ list of strings configured via push.pushOption variable.
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+ * "gitweb" checks if a directory is searchable with Perl's "-x"
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+ operator, which can be enhanced by using "filetest 'access'"
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+ pragma, which now we do.
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+ * "git stash save" has been deprecated in favour of "git stash push".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -24,15 +40,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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lockfile structure (as opposed to having to deliberately leak an
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on-heap one). Many codepaths have been updated to take advantage
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of this new facility.
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- (merge b74c90fb41 ma/lockfile-fixes later to maint).
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* Calling cmd_foo() as if it is a general purpose helper function is
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a no-no. Correct two instances of such to set an example.
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- (merge a92b1095d1 jc/no-cmd-as-subroutine later to maint).
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* We try to see if somebody runs our test suite with a shell that
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does not support "local" like bash/dash does.
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- (merge 01d3a526ad mh/test-local-canary later to maint).
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+ * An early part of piece-by-piece rewrite of "git bisect" in C.
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+ * GSoC to piece-by-piece rewrite "git submodule" in C.
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+ * Optimize the code to find shortest unique prefix of object names.
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+ * Pathspec-limited revision traversal was taught not to keep finding
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+ unneeded differences once it knows two trees are different inside
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+ given pathspec.
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+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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commands from subdirectories via "exec" insn has been fixed.
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(merge 09d7b6c6fa jk/rebase-i-exec-gitdir-fix later to maint).
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+ * A (possibly flakey) test fix.
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+ (merge cff48ccf2a jc/t5601-copy-workaround later to maint).
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+ * "git check-ref-format --branch @{-1}" bit a "BUG()" when run
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+ outside a repository for obvious reasons; clarify the documentation
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+ and make sure we do not even try to expand the at-mark magic in
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+ such a case, but still call the validation logic for branch names.
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+ (merge 89dd32aedc jc/check-ref-format-oor later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch --recurse-submodules" now knows that submodules can be
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+ moved around in the superproject in addition to getting updated,
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+ and finds the ones that need to be fetched accordingly.
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+ (merge 4b4acedd61 hv/fetch-moved-submodules-on-demand later to maint).
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+ * Command line completion (in contrib/) update.
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+ (merge 6357d9d004 tb/complete-checkout later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge bab76141da cn/diff-indent-no-longer-is-experimental later to maint).
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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#!/bin/sh
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-DEF_VER=v2.15.0
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+DEF_VER=v2.15.GIT
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