Eighth batch for 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -97,6 +97,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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of "git stripspace" has been updated to use the parse_options API.
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(merge bed4452 tk/stripspace later to maint).
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+ * "git am" used to spawn "git mailinfo" via run_command() API once
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+ per each patch, but learned to make a direct call to mailinfo()
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+ instead.
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+ * The implementation of "git mailinfo" was refactored so that a
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+ mailinfo() function can be directly called from inside a process.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -258,7 +265,20 @@ notes for details).
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never die, which is not the case (yet).
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(merge c63d4b2 jc/am-3-fallback-regression-fix later to maint).
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- * Code clean-up and minor fixes.
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+ * The linkage order of libraries was wrong in places around libcurl.
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+ (merge 7e91e8d rp/link-curl-before-ssl later to maint).
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+ * The name-hash subsystem that is used to cope with case insensitive
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+ filesystems keeps track of directories and their on-filesystem
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+ cases for all the paths in the index by holding a pointer to a
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+ randomly chosen cache entry that is inside the directory (for its
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+ ce->ce_name component). This pointer was not updated even when the
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+ cache entry was removed from the index, leading to use after free.
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+ This was fixed by recording the path for each directory instead of
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+ borrowing cache entries and restructuring the API somewhat.
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+ (merge 41284eb dt/name-hash-dir-entry-fix later to maint).
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+ * Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
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(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
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(merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
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(merge 29bc480 nd/ls-remote-does-not-have-u-option later to maint).
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(merge 44cd91e cc/quote-comments later to maint).
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(merge 147875f sb/submodule-config-parse later to maint).
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(merge ae9f274 es/worktree-add later to maint).
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+ (merge 3b19dba jc/em-dash-in-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge f3f38c7 jc/everyday-markup later to maint).
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+ (merge 77d5f71 xf/user-manual-markup later to maint).