Sixth batch for 2.12
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 18, 2017 at 15:15 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.12.0.txt
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@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
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(merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
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+ * "git grep" has been taught to optionally recurse into submodules.
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+ * "git rm" used to refuse to remove a submodule when it has its own
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+ git repository embedded in its working tree. It learned to move
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+ the repository away to $GIT_DIR/modules/ of the superproject
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+ instead, and allow the submodule to be deleted (as long as there
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+ will be no loss of local modifications, that is).
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+ * A recent updates to "git p4" was not usable for older p4 but it
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+ could be made to work with minimum changes. Do so.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -99,6 +110,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
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that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
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+ * "git push \\server\share\dir" has recently regressed and then
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+ fixed. A test has retroactively been added for this breakage.
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+ * Build updates for Cygwin.
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+ * The implementation of "real_path()" was to go there with chdir(2)
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+ and call getcwd(3), but this obviously wouldn't be usable in a
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+ threaded environment. Rewrite it to manually resolve relative
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+ paths including symbolic links in path components.
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+ * Adjust documentation to help AsciiDoctor render better while not
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+ breaking the rendering done by AsciiDoc.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -252,5 +276,45 @@ notes for details).
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* Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
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(merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
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+ * It is natural that "git gc --auto" may not attempt to pack
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+ everything into a single pack, and there is no point in warning
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+ when the user has configured the system to use the pack bitmap,
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+ leading to disabling further "gc".
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+ (merge 1c409a705c dt/disable-bitmap-in-auto-gc later to maint).
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+ * "git archive" did not read the standard configuration files, and
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+ failed to notice a file that is marked as binary via the userdiff
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+ driver configuration.
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+ (merge 965cba2e7e jk/archive-zip-userdiff-config later to maint).
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+ * "git blame --porcelain" misidentified the "previous" <commit, path>
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+ pair (aka "source") when contents came from two or more files.
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+ (merge 4e76832984 jk/blame-fixes later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i" with a recent update started showing an incorrect
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+ count when squashing more than 10 commits.
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+ (merge 356b8ecff1 jk/rebase-i-squash-count-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git <cmd> @{push}" on a detached HEAD used to segfault; it has
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+ been corrected to error out with a message.
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+ (merge b10731f43d km/branch-get-push-while-detached later to maint).
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+ * Running "git add a/b" when "a" is a submodule correctly errored
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+ out, but without a meaningful error message.
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+ (merge 2d81c48fa7 sb/pathspec-errors later to maint).
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+ * Typing ^C to pager, which usually does not kill it, killed Git and
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+ took the pager down as a collateral damage in certain process-tree
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+ structure. This has been fixed.
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+ (merge 46df6906f3 jk/execv-dashed-external later to maint).
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+ * "git mergetool" without any pathspec on the command line that is
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+ run from a subdirectory became no-op in Git v2.11 by mistake, which
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+ has been fixed.
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+ * Retire long unused/unmaintained gitview from the contrib/ area.
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+ (merge 3120925c25 sb/remove-gitview 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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+ (merge 384f1a167b sb/unpack-trees-cleanup later to maint).