The twelfth batch for 2.15
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 3, 2017 at 15:50 UTC
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@@ -87,6 +87,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git describe --match <pattern>" has been taught to play well with
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the "--all" option.
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+ * "git branch" learned "-c/-C" to create a new branch by copying an
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+ existing one.
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+ * Some commands (most notably "git status") makes an opportunistic
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+ update when performing a read-only operation to help optimize later
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+ operations in the same repository. The new "--no-optional-locks"
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+ option can be passed to Git to disable them.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -203,6 +211,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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the directory, which is unnecessary. The codepath has been
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optimized to avoid this overhead.
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+ * The final batch to "git rebase -i" updates to move more code from
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+ the shell script to C has been merged.
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+ * Operations that do not touch (majority of) packed refs have been
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+ optimized by making accesses to packed-refs file lazy; we no longer
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+ pre-parse everything, and an access to a single ref in the
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+ packed-refs does not touch majority of irrelevant refs, either.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -421,6 +437,11 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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* Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
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(merge 4d01a7fa65 ma/leakplugs later to maint).
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+ * Recent versions of "git rev-parse --parseopt" did not parse the
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+ option specification that does not have the optional flags (*=?!)
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+ correctly, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge a6304fa4c2 bc/rev-parse-parseopt-fix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
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(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
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(merge 217bb56d4f hn/typofix later to maint).
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(merge c08fd6388c jk/doc-read-tree-table-asciidoctor-fix later to maint).
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(merge c3342b362e ks/doc-use-camelcase-for-config-name later to maint).
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+ (merge 0bca165fdb jk/validate-headref-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 93dbefb389 mr/doc-negative-pathspec later to maint).
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+ (merge 5e633326e4 ad/doc-markup-fix later to maint).