The fifteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 20, 2024 at 15:44 UTC
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files backend for its ref storage to use the reftable backend, with
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limitations.
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+ * "git diff --exit-code --ext-diff" learned to take the exit status
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+ of the external diff driver into account when deciding the exit
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+ status of the overall "git diff" invocation when configured to do
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+ so.
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+ * "git update-ref --stdin" learned to handle transactional updates of
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+ symbolic-refs.
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+ * "git format-patch --interdiff" for multi-patch series learned to
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+ turn on cover letters automatically (unless told never to enable
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+ cover letter with "--no-cover-letter" and such).
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+ * The "--heads" option of "ls-remote" and "show-ref" has been been
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+ deprecated; "--branches" replaces "--heads".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Building with "-Werror -Wwrite-strings" is now supported.
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+ * To help developers, the build procedure now allows builders to use
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+ CFLAGS_APPEND to specify additional CFLAGS.
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+ * "oidtree" tests were rewritten to use the unit test framework.
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+ * The structure of the document that records longer-term project
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+ decisions to deprecate/remove/update various behaviour has been
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+ outlined.
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Fixes since v2.45
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* A leak in "git imap-send" that somehow escapes LSan has been
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plugged.
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+ * Setting core.abbrev too early before the repository set-up
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+ (typically in "git clone") caused segfault, which as been
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+ corrected.
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+ * When the user adds to "git rebase -i" instruction to "pick" a merge
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+ commit, the error experience is not pleasant. Such an error is now
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+ caught earlier in the process that parses the todo list.
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+ (merge 4c063c82e9 pw/rebase-i-error-message later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge a5a4cb7b27 rs/diff-parseopts-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 55702c543e fa/p4-error later to maint).
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(merge 7150f140f9 mt/t0211-typofix later to maint).
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(merge d424488901 jc/rev-parse-fatal-doc later to maint).
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(merge 36d900d2b0 rs/difftool-env-simplify later to maint).
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+ (merge e83055ecb0 ds/doc-add-interactive-singlekey later to maint).
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+ (merge f1160393c1 ds/ahead-behind-fix later to maint).