The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 25, 2019 at 13:56 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt
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@@ -91,6 +91,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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commit-graph files now, which allows the commit-graph files to be
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updated incrementally.
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+ * The "git log" command learns to issue a warning when log.mailmap
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+ configuration is not set and --[no-]mailmap option is not used, to
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+ prepare users for future versions of Git that uses the mailmap by
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+ default.
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+ * "git range-diff" output has been tweaked for easier identification
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+ of which part of what file the patch shown is about.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -143,6 +151,24 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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committed, the command line prompt script failed to notice the
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current status, which has been improved.
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+ * Many GIT_TEST_* environment variables control various aspects of
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+ how our tests are run, but a few followed "non-empty is true, empty
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+ or unset is false" while others followed the usual "there are a few
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+ ways to spell true, like yes, on, etc., and also ways to spell
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+ false, like no, off, etc." convention.
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+ * Adjust the dir-iterator API and apply it to the local clone
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+ optimization codepath.
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+ * We have been trying out a few language features outside c89; the
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+ coding guidelines document did not talk about them and instead had
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+ a blanket ban against them.
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+ (merge cc0c42975a jc/post-c89-rules-doc later to maint).
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+ * A test helper has been introduced to optimize preparation of test
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+ repositories with many simple commits, and a handful of test
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+ scripts have been updated to use it.
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Fixes since v2.22
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as these are mutually exclusive features.
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(merge 7328482253 ew/repack-with-bitmaps-by-default later to maint).
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+ * "git rm" to resolve a conflicted path leaked an internal message
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+ "needs merge" before actually removing the path, which was
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+ confusing. This has been corrected.
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+ (merge b2b1f615ce jc/denoise-rm-to-resolve later to maint).
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+ * "git stash --keep-index" did not work correctly on paths that have
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+ been removed, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge b932f6a5e8 tg/stash-keep-index-with-removed-paths later to maint).
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+ * Window 7 update ;-)
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+ (merge eb7c786314 js/mingw-spawn-with-spaces-in-path later to maint).
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+ * A codepath that reads from GPG for signed object verification read
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+ past the end of allocated buffer, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 64c45dc72e sr/gpg-interface-stop-at-the-end later to maint).
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+ * "git clean" silently skipped a path when it cannot lstat() it; now
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+ it gives a warning.
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+ (merge b09364c47a js/clean-report-too-long-a-path later to maint).
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+ * "git push --atomic" that goes over the transport-helper (namely,
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+ the smart http transport) failed to prevent refs to be pushed when
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+ it can locally tell that one of the ref update will fail without
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+ having to consult the other end, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 2581ea3d31 es/local-atomic-push-failure-with-http later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
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(merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
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(merge 37a2e35395 sg/ci-brew-gcc-workaround later to maint).
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(merge 24df0d49c4 js/trace2-signo-typofix later to maint).
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(merge fbec05c210 cc/test-oidmap later to maint).
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+ (merge 7926cee904 di/readme-markup-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 02638d1e11 vn/xmmap-gently later to maint).
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+ (merge f7bf24d4dd rm/gpg-program-doc-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 3aef54e8b8 js/unmap-before-ext-diff later to maint).