Post 2.3 cycle (batch #12)
Hopefully with another batch or two, we would be ready for -rc0 to close this cycle. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -4,24 +4,36 @@ Git 2.4 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility warning(s)
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-Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in
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-the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of
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-command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch
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-names, separated with a comma in between. E.g.
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+This release has a few changes in the user-visible output from
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+Porcelain commands, which the users may want to be aware of.
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- $ git log --decorate -1 master
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- commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master)
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- ...
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+ * Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in
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+ the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of
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+ command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch
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+ names, separated with a comma in between. E.g.
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-This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip
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-of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is
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-shown as:
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+ $ git log --decorate -1 master
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+ commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master)
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+ ...
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- $ git log --decorate -1 master
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- commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master)
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- ...
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+ This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip
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+ of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is
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+ shown as:
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+ $ git log --decorate -1 master
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+ commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master)
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+ ...
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+ * The phrasing "git branch" uses to describe a detached HEAD has been
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+ updated to match that of "git status":
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+ - When the HEAD is at the same commit as it was originally
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+ detached, they now both show "detached at <commit object name>".
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+ - When the HEAD has moved since it was originally detached,
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+ they now both show "detached from <commit object name>".
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+ Earlier "git branch" always used "from"
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Updates since v2.3
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actually at xyz and haven't been moved since it was detached in
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such a case, but the user cannot read what the current value of
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HEAD is when "detached from" is used.
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- (merge 4b06318 mg/detached-head-report later to maint).
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* "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike
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"cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op.
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* The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to
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specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0.
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+ * A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags"
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+ option on by default for the "git push" command.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Code in "git daemon" to parse out and hold hostnames used in
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request interpolation has been simplified.
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+ * "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add
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+ new configuration bits.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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branch names.
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(merge 5ee8758 jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color later to maint).
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- * Code cleanups and documentaiton updates.
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+ * The code that reads from the ctags file in the completion script
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+ (in contrib/) did not spell ${param/pattern/string} substitution
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+ correctly, which happened to work with bash but not with zsh.
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+ (merge db8d750 js/completion-ctags-pattern-substitution-fix later to maint).
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+ * The transfer.hiderefs support did not quite work for smart-http
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+ transport.
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+ (merge 8ddf3ca jk/smart-http-hide-refs later to maint).
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+ * "git tag -h" used to show the "--column" and "--sort" options
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+ that are about listing in a wrong section.
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+ (merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint).
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+ * Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint).
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(merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint).
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(merge 817d03e jc/diff-test-updates later to maint).
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(merge 8fa7975 ak/git-done-help-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 6f75d45 rs/use-isxdigit later to maint).
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+ (merge 376e4b3 jk/test-annoyances later to maint).