Yet another batch for 2.9.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 10, 2016 at 11:56 UTC
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@@ -89,4 +89,72 @@ Fixes since v2.9.2
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switch the default the built-in path to /usr/local/bin/perl on not
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too ancient FreeBSD releases.
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+ * "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
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+ merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
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+ conflicted rebase.
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+ * The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
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+ that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
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+ * Existing autoconf generated test for the need to link with pthread
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+ library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
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+ recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
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+ mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
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+ * Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
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+ * Users of the parse_options_concat() API function need to allocate
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+ extra slots in advance and fill them with OPT_END() when they want
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+ to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
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+ code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
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+ the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
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+
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+ * The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
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+ suboptimal, which has been fixed.
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+ * "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
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+ pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
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+ commit-msg hook.
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+ * "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
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+ lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
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+ the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
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+ "git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
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+ option to override the default.
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+ * The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
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+ has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
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+ of Go.
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+ * There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
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+ an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
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+ be the same as the blob being compared, expecting that open/mmap of
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+ such a file is faster than reading it from the object store, which
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+ involves inflating and applying delta. This however kicked in even
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+ when the checked-out copy needs to go through the convert-to-git
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+ conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
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+ point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
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+ the conversion is necessary.
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+
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+ * "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
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+ because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
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+ designed well.
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+ * Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
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+ inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
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+ * The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
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+ "gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
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+ * FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
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+ untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
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+ caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
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+ behaviour of the fast-path.
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+ * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
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+ * The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
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+ can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
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+ that it is safe to do so.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.