Fifth batch for 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 16, 2015 at 14:43 UTC
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* The use of 'good/bad' in "git bisect" made it confusing to use when
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hunting for a state change that is not a regression (e.g. bugfix).
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The command learned 'old/new' and then allows the end user to
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- say e.g. "bisect start --term-old=fast --term=new=slow" to find a
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+ say e.g. "bisect start --term-old=fast --term-new=slow" to find a
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performance regression.
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* "git interpret-trailers" can now run outside of a Git repository.
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work trees created via "git worktree add".
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(merge 11f9dd7 mk/submodule-gitdir-path later to maint).
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+ * "git gc" is safe to run anytime only because it has the built-in
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+ grace period to protect young objects. In order to run with no
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+ grace period, the user must make sure that the repository is
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+ quiescent.
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+ (merge fae1a90 jc/doc-gc-prune-now later to maint).
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+ * A recent "filter-branch --msg-filter" broke skipping of the commit
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+ object header, which is fixed.
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+ (merge a5a4b3f jk/filter-branch-use-of-sed-on-incomplete-line later to maint).
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+ * The normalize_ceiling_entry() function does not muck with the end
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+ of the path it accepts, and the real world callers do rely on that,
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+ but a test insisted that the function drops a trailing slash.
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+ (merge b2a7123 rd/test-path-utils later to maint).
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* Code clean-up and minor fixes.
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(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
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(merge b744767 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).
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(merge a43eb67 tk/doc-interpret-trailers-grammo later to maint).
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(merge ba128e2 es/worktree-add-cleanup 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).