8a36cd87b7 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

133 * The codepath in "git fsck" to detect malformed tree objects has

134 been updated not to die but keep going after detecting them.

135

136 + * We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of

137 + the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us

138 + omit it.

139 +

140 + * "git pack-objects" in a repository with many packfiles used to

141 + spend a lot of time looking for/at objects in them; the accesses to

142 + the packfiles are now optimized by checking the most-recently-used

143 + packfile first.

144 + (merge c9af708b1a jk/pack-objects-optim-mru later to maint).

145 +

146

147 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

148

@@ -174,35 +184,28 @@ notes for details).

184 we are sending an object C, we want a tag B that directly points at

185 C but also a tag A that points at the tag B. We used to miss the

186 intermediate tag B in some cases.

177 - (merge b773dde jk/pack-tag-of-tag later to maint).

187

188 * Update Japanese translation for "git-gui".

180 - (merge 02748bc sy/git-gui-i18n-ja later to maint).

189

190 * "git fetch http::/site/path" did not die correctly and segfaulted

191 instead.

184 - (merge d63ed6e jk/fix-remote-curl-url-wo-proto later to maint).

192

193 * "git commit-tree" stopped reading commit.gpgsign configuration

194 variable that was meant for Porcelain "git commit" in Git 2.9; we

195 forgot to update "git gui" to look at the configuration to match

196 this change.

190 - (merge f14a310 js/git-gui-commit-gpgsign later to maint).

197

198 * "git add --chmod=+x" added recently lacked documentation, which has

199 been corrected.

194 - (merge 7ef7903 et/add-chmod-x later to maint).

200

201 * "git log --cherry-pick" used to include merge commits as candidates

202 to be matched up with other commits, resulting a lot of wasted time.

203 The patch-id generation logic has been updated to ignore merges to

204 avoid the wastage.

200 - (merge 7c81040 jk/patch-ids-no-merges later to maint).

205

206 * The http transport (with curl-multi option, which is the default

207 these days) failed to remove curl-easy handle from a curlm session,

208 which led to unnecessary API failures.

205 - (merge 2abc848 ew/http-do-not-forget-to-call-curl-multi-remove-handle later to maint).

209

210 * There were numerous corner cases in which the configuration files

211 are read and used or not read at all depending on the directory a

@@ -221,13 +224,11 @@ notes for details).

224 * Performance tests done via "t/perf" did not use the same set of

225 build configuration if the user relied on autoconf generated

226 configuration.

224 - (merge cd5c281 ks/perf-build-with-autoconf later to maint).

227

228 * "git format-patch --base=..." feature that was recently added

229 showed the base commit information after "-- " e-mail signature

230 line, which turned out to be inconvenient. The base information

231 has been moved above the signature line.

230 - (merge 480871e jt/format-patch-base-info-above-sig later to maint).

232

233 * More i18n.

234 (merge 43073f8 va/i18n later to maint).

@@ -239,13 +240,11 @@ notes for details).

240 than nice. As the underlying commands used inside "git rebase"

241 would fail with a more meaningful error message and advice text

242 when the bogus ident matters, this extra check was removed.

242 - (merge 1e461c4 jk/rebase-i-drop-ident-check later to maint).

243

244 * "git gc --aggressive" used to limit the delta-chain length to 250,

245 which is way too deep for gaining additional space savings and is

246 detrimental for runtime performance. The limit has been reduced to

247 50.

248 - (merge 07e7dbf jk/reduce-gc-aggressive-depth later to maint).

248

249 * Documentation for individual configuration variables to control use

250 of color (like `color.grep`) said that their default value is

@@ -253,7 +252,6 @@ notes for details).

252 When we updated the default value for color.ui from 'false' to

253 'auto' quite a while ago, all of them broke. This has been

254 corrected.

256 - (merge 14d16e2 mm/config-color-ui-default-to-auto later to maint).

255

256 * The pretty-format specifier "%C(auto)" used by the "log" family of

257 commands to enable coloring of the output is taught to also issue a

@@ -262,7 +260,6 @@ notes for details).

260

261 * A shell script example in check-ref-format documentation has been

262 fixed.

265 - (merge 92dece7 ep/doc-check-ref-format-example later to maint).

263

264 * "git checkout <word>" does not follow the usual disambiguation

265 rules when the <word> can be both a rev and a path, to allow

@@ -270,7 +267,6 @@ notes for details).

267 file 'foo' in the working tree without having to disambiguate.

268 This was poorly documented and the check was incorrect when the

269 command was run from a subdirectory.

273 - (merge b829b94 nd/checkout-disambiguation later to maint).

270

271 * Some codepaths in "git diff" used regexec(3) on a buffer that was

272 mmap(2)ed, which may not have a terminating NUL, leading to a read

@@ -283,15 +279,12 @@ notes for details).

279 internal directory structure we assumed HomeBrew uses, which was a

280 no-no. The procedure has been updated to ask HomeBrew things we

281 need to know to fix this.

286 - (merge f86f49b ls/travis-homebrew-path-fix later to maint).

282

283 * When "git rebase -i" is given a broken instruction, it told the

284 user to fix it with "--edit-todo", but didn't say what the step

285 after that was (i.e. "--continue").

291 - (merge 37875b4 rt/rebase-i-broken-insn-advise later to maint).

286

287 * Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated.

294 - (merge 106b672 jk/doc-cvs-update later to maint).

288

289 * "git clone --recurse-submodules" lost the progress eye-candy in

290 recent update, which has been corrected.

@@ -311,7 +304,6 @@ notes for details).

304 * In the codepath that comes up with the hostname to be used in an

305 e-mail when the user didn't tell us, we looked at ai_canonname

306 field in struct addrinfo without making sure it is not NULL first.

314 - (merge c375a7efa3 jk/ident-ai-canonname-could-be-null later to maint).

307

308 * "git worktree", even though it used the default_abbrev setting that

309 ought to be affected by core.abbrev configuration variable, ignored

@@ -361,12 +353,37 @@ notes for details).

353 has seen a micro-optimization.

354 (merge e94ce1394e sg/ref-filter-parse-optim later to maint).

355

356 + * When we started cURL to talk to imap server when a new enough

357 + version of cURL library is available, we forgot to explicitly add

358 + imap(s):// before the destination. To some folks, that didn't work

359 + and the library tried to make HTTP(s) requests instead.

360 + (merge d2d07ab861 ak/curl-imap-send-explicit-scheme later to maint).

361 +

362 + * The ./configure script generated from configure.ac was taught how

363 + to detect support of SSL by libcurl better.

364 + (merge 924b7eb1c9 dp/autoconf-curl-ssl later to maint).

365 +

366 + * The command-line completion script (in contrib/) learned to

367 + complete "git cmd ^mas<HT>" to complete the negative end of

368 + reference to "git cmd ^master".

369 + (merge 49416ad22a cp/completion-negative-refs later to maint).

370 +

371 + * The existing "git fetch --depth=<n>" option was hard to use

372 + correctly when making the history of an existing shallow clone

373 + deeper. A new option, "--deepen=<n>", has been added to make this

374 + easier to use. "git clone" also learned "--shallow-since=<date>"

375 + and "--shallow-exclude=<tag>" options to make it easier to specify

376 + "I am interested only in the recent N months worth of history" and

377 + "Give me only the history since that version".

378 + (merge cccf74e2da nd/shallow-deepen later to maint).

379 +

380 + * It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path",

381 + expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines

382 + in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current

383 + commit.

384 + (merge e1d09701a4 jc/blame-reverse later to maint).

385 +

386 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.

365 - (merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).

366 - (merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).

367 - (merge a8342a4 rs/strbuf-remove-fix later to maint).

368 - (merge b56aa5b rs/unpack-trees-reduce-file-scope-global later to maint).

369 - (merge 5efc60c mr/vcs-svn-printf-ulong later to maint).

387 (merge a22ae75 rs/cocci later to maint).

388 (merge 45ccef87b3 rs/copy-array later to maint).

389 (merge 8201688ecd dt/mailinfo later to maint).

Ninth batch for 2.11