Fifth batch for 2.13
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 17, 2017 at 13:51 UTC
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@@ -90,6 +90,29 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Documentation for "git ls-files" did not refer to core.quotePath.
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+ * The experimental "split index" feature has gained a few
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+ configuration variables to make it easier to use.
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+ * From a working tree of a repository, a new option of "rev-parse"
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+ lets you ask if the repository is used as a submodule of another
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+ project, and where the root level of the working tree of that
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+ project (i.e. your superproject) is.
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+ * The pathspec mechanism learned to further limit the paths that
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+ match the pattern to those that have specified attributes attached
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+ via the gitattributes mechanism.
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+ * Our source code has used the SHA1_HEADER cpp macro after "#include"
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+ in the C code to switch among the SHA-1 implementations. Instead,
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+ list the exact header file names and switch among implementations
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+ using "#ifdef BLK_SHA1/#include "block-sha1/sha1.h"/.../#endif";
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+ this helps some IDE tools.
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+ * The start-up sequence of "git" needs to figure out some configured
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+ settings before it finds and set itself up in the location of the
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+ repository and was quite messy due to its "chicken-and-egg" nature.
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+ The code has been restructured.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -134,11 +157,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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against a server that does not authenticate without a username
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(i.e. not using Kerberos etc., which makes http.emptyAuth
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pointless).
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- (merge 40a18fc77c jk/http-auth later to maint).
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* Windows port wants to use OpenSSL's implementation of SHA-1
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routines, so let them.
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- (merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint).
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* The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
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old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
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* Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
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Travis CI.
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- (merge 88dedd5e72 js/travis-32bit-linux later to maint).
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* "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
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to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
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output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before
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the breakage reaches to any released version.
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+ * Picking two versions of Git and running tests to make sure the
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+ older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
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+ possible.
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+ (merge bd4d9d993c jk/interop-test later to maint).
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+ * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
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+ * "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track
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+ of the state of object reachability without clearing them after
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+ use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
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+ facility.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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* When a redirected http transport gets an error during the
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redirected request, we ignored the error we got from the server,
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and ended up giving a not-so-useful error message.
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- (merge 8e27391a5f jt/http-base-url-update-upon-redirect later to maint).
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* The patch subcommand of "git add -i" was meant to have paths
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selection prompt just like other subcommand, unlike "git add -p"
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directly jumps to hunk selection. Recently, this was broken and
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"add -i" lost the paths selection dialog, but it now has been
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fixed.
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- (merge c852bd54bd jk/add-i-patch-do-prompt later to maint).
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* Git v2.12 was shipped with an embarrassing breakage where various
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operations that verify paths given from the user stopped dying when
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seeing an issue, and instead later triggering segfault.
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- (merge ce83eadd9a js/realpath-pathdup-fix later to maint).
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* There is no need for Python only to give a few messages to the
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standard error stream, but we somehow did.
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* The code to parse "git log -L..." command line was buggy when there
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are many ranges specified with -L; overrun of the allocated buffer
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has been fixed.
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- (merge aaae0bf787 ax/line-log-range-merge-fix later to maint).
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* The command-line parsing of "git log -L" copied internal data
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structures using incorrect size on ILP32 systems.
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- (merge 07f546cda5 vn/line-log-memcpy-size-fix later to maint).
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* "git diff --quiet" relies on the size field in diff_filespec to be
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correctly populated, but diff_populate_filespec() helper function
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when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
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(merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
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+ * "Dumb http" transport used to misparse a nonsense http-alternates
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+ response, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge d61434ae81 jk/http-walker-buffer-underflow-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git add -p <pathspec>" unnecessarily expanded the pathspec to a
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+ list of individual files that matches the pathspec by running "git
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+ ls-files <pathspec>", before feeding it to "git diff-index" to see
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+ which paths have changes, because historically the pathspec
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+ language supported by "diff-index" was weaker. These days they are
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+ equivalent and there is no reason to internally expand it. This
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+ helps both performance and avoids command line argument limit on
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+ some platforms.
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+ (merge 7288e12cce jk/add-i-use-pathspecs later to maint).
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+ * "git status --porcelain" is supposed to give a stable output, but a
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+ few strings were left as translatable by mistake.
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+ (merge b9e2bc560a mg/status-porcelain-no-i18n later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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- (merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
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(merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).
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(merge bcd886d897 ew/markdown-url-in-readme later to maint).
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(merge b2d593a779 rj/remove-unused-mktemp later to maint).
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(merge 3255e512a8 jk/ewah-use-right-type-in-sizeof later to maint).
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+ (merge dfa3ad3238 rs/blame-code-cleanup later to maint).