Sixth batch for 2.13

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Mar 21, 2017 at 15:11 UTC 92f74a61921a774f2f3e7386fc927247a54a0d22
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt
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@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
77 unlike in the e-mail header. "git send-email" has been updated to
78 ignore anything after '>' when picking addresses, to allow non-address
79 cruft like " # stable 4.4" after the address.
80 - (merge 9d3343961b jh/send-email-one-cc later to maint).
80
81 * When "git submodule init" decides that the submodule in the working
82 tree is its upstream, it now gives a warning as it is not a very
@@ -113,6 +112,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
112 repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature.
113 The code has been restructured.
114
115 + * The command line prompt (in contrib/) learned a new 'tag' style
116 + that can be specified with GIT_PS1_DESCRIBE_STYLE, to describe a
117 + detached HEAD with "git describe --tags".
118 +
119 + * The configuration file learned a new "includeIf.<condition>.path"
120 + that includes the contents of the given path only when the
121 + condition holds. This allows you to say "include this work-related
122 + bit only in the repositories under my ~/work/ directory".
123 +
124 + * Recent update to "rebase -i" started showing a message that is not
125 + a warning with "warning:" prefix by mistake. This has been fixed.
126 +
127
128 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
129
@@ -141,11 +152,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
152
153 * A test that creates a confusing branch whose name is HEAD has been
154 corrected not to do so.
144 - (merge f0252ca23c jk/t6300-cleanup later to maint).
155
156 * The code that parses header fields in the commit object has been
157 updated for (micro)performance and code hygiene.
148 - (merge b072504ce1 rs/commit-parsing-optim later to maint).
158
159 * An helper function to make it easier to append the result from
160 real_path() to a strbuf has been added.
@@ -216,7 +225,6 @@ notes for details).
225 * "git show-branch" expected there were only very short branch names
226 in the repository and used a fixed-length buffer to hold them
227 without checking for overflow.
219 - (merge d3cc5f4c44 jk/show-branch-lift-name-len-limit later to maint).
228
229 * A caller of tempfile API that uses stdio interface to write to
230 files may ignore errors while writing, which is detected when
@@ -225,17 +233,14 @@ notes for details).
233 be long gone and was overwritten by an irrelevant value.
234 close_tempfile() now resets errno to EIO to make errno at least
235 predictable.
228 - (merge 7e8c9355b7 jk/tempfile-ferror-fclose-confusion later to maint).
236
237 * "git remote rm X", when a branch has remote X configured as the
238 value of its branch.*.remote, tried to remove branch.*.remote and
239 branch.*.merge and failed if either is unset.
233 - (merge 20690b2139 rl/remote-allow-missing-branch-name-merge later to maint).
240
241 * A "gc.log" file left by a backgrounded "gc --auto" disables further
242 automatic gc; it has been taught to run at least once a day (by
243 default) by ignoring a stale "gc.log" file that is too old.
238 - (merge a831c06a2b dt/gc-ignore-old-gc-logs later to maint).
244
245 * The code to parse "git -c VAR=VAL cmd" and set configuration
246 variable for the duration of cmd had two small bugs, which have
@@ -250,11 +255,9 @@ notes for details).
255 report a request for a ref that was not advertised as invalid.
256 This is generally not a problem (because "git fetch" will stop
257 before making such a request), but is the right thing to do.
253 - (merge bdb31eada7 jt/upload-pack-error-report later to maint).
258
259 * A leak in a codepath to read from a packed object in (rare) cases
260 has been plugged.
257 - (merge 886ddf4777 rs/sha1-file-plug-fallback-base-leak later to maint).
261
262 * When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
263 redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
@@ -272,7 +275,6 @@ notes for details).
275
276 * There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
277 standard error stream, but we somehow did.
275 - (merge b8686c661d ss/remote-bzr-hg-placeholder-wo-python later to maint).
278
279 * The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
280 are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
@@ -286,7 +288,6 @@ notes for details).
288 made an incorrect short-cut when asked only to populate the size
289 field for paths that need to go through convert_to_git() (e.g. CRLF
290 conversion).
289 - (merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint).
291
292 * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
293 they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
@@ -318,7 +319,6 @@ notes for details).
319
320 * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
321 response, which has been fixed.
321 - (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint).
322
323 * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a
324 list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git
@@ -332,11 +332,17 @@ notes for details).
332
333 * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
334 few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
335 - (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint).
335 +
336 + * Code to read submodule.<name>.ignore config did not state the
337 + variable name correctly when giving an error message diagnosing
338 + misconfiguration.
339 + (merge 5ea304896e sb/submodule-config-parse-ignore-fix later to maint).
340
341 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
338 - (merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
339 - (merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
340 - (merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).
341 - (merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint).
342 (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint).
343 + (merge ffddfc6328 jk/rev-parse-cleanup later to maint).
344 + (merge f20754802a jk/pack-name-cleanups later to maint).
345 + (merge d4aae459cd sb/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
346 + (merge 2c7ee986c7 ab/doc-no-option-notation-fix later to maint).
347 + (merge e4e016f65d ab/push-default-doc-fix later to maint).
348 + (merge baced9e4e5 nd/commit-hook-doc-fix later to maint).