Post 2.3 cyle (batch #5)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 25, 2015 at 15:44 UTC
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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Updates since v2.3
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Ports
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+ * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some
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+ platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2)
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+ failures.
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+ * We did not check the curl library version before using
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+ CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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@@ -28,6 +35,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
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HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
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+ * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an
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+ answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without
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+ questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks
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+ too short to be a valid encoding name.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -37,6 +49,39 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the
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reflogs better with the recently updated ref API.
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+ * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as
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+ verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based
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+ helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them
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+ the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better.
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+ * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
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+ running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
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+ is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
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+ a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
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+ heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
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+ check what they really require.
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+ (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint).
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+ * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
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+ the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
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+ can check only one place for all necessary information.
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+ * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
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+ the API manual.
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+ * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a
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+ project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we
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+ (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first
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+ place.
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+ * Typofix in comments.
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+ (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint).
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+ * Code clean-up.
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+ (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint).
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+ (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -169,3 +214,11 @@ notes for details).
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* "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory.
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(merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and
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+ conclude the resulting packfile cleanly.
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+ (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint).
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+ * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be
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+ refreshed for whatever reason.
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+ (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint).