The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 20, 2021 at 15:09 UTC
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interactive when the help.autocorrect configuration variable is set
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to 'prompt'.
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+ * "git maintenance" scheduler learned to use systemd timers as a
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+ possible backend.
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+ * "git diff --submodule=diff" showed failure from run_command() when
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+ trying to run diff inside a submodule, when the user manually
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+ removes the submodule directory.
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+ * "git bundle unbundle" learned to show progress display.
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+ * In cone mode, the sparse-index code path learned to remove ignored
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+ files (like build artifacts) outside the sparse cone, allowing the
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+ entire directory outside the sparse cone to be removed, which is
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+ especially useful when the sparse patterns change.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "make INSTALL_STRIP=-s install" allows the installation step to use
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"install -s" to strip the binaries as they get installed.
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+ * Code that handles large number of refs in the "git fetch" code
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+ path has been optimized.
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+ * The reachability bitmap file used to be generated only for a single
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+ pack, but now we've learned to generate bitmaps for history that
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+ span across multiple packfiles.
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+ * The code to make "git grep" recurse into submodules has been
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+ updated to migrate away from the "add submodule's object store as
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+ an alternate object store" mechanism (which is suboptimal).
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+ * The tracing of process ancestry information has been enhanced.
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+ * Reduce number of write(2) system calls while sending the
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+ ref advertisement.
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+ * Update the build procedure to use the "-pedantic" build when
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+ DEVELOPER makefile macro is in effect.
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+ * Large part of "git submodule add" gets rewritten in C.
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+ * The run-command API has been updated so that the callers can easily
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+ ask the file descriptors open for packfiles to be closed immediately
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+ before spawning commands that may trigger auto-gc.
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Fixes since v2.33
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corrected.
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(merge 709b3f32d3 rs/range-diff-avoid-segfault-with-I later to maint).
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+ * The order in which various files that make up a single (conceptual)
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+ packfile has been reevaluated and straightened up. This matters in
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+ correctness, as an incomplete set of files must not be shown to a
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+ running Git.
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+ (merge 4bc1fd6e39 tb/pack-finalize-ordering later to maint).
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+ * The "mode" word is useless in a call to open(2) that does not
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+ create a new file. Such a call in the files backend of the ref
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+ subsystem has been cleaned up.
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+ (merge 35cf94eaf6 rs/no-mode-to-open-when-appending later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 1d9c8daef8 ab/bundle-doc later to maint).
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(merge 81483fe613 en/merge-strategy-docs later to maint).
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(merge ca0cc98e03 bs/doc-bugreport-outdir later to maint).
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(merge 72b113e562 ab/no-more-check-bindir later to maint).
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(merge 92a5d1c9b4 jc/prefix-filename-allocates later to maint).
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+ (merge d9a65b6c0a rs/setup-use-xopen-and-xdup later to maint).
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+ (merge e8f55568de jk/t5562-racefix later to maint).