RelNotes update for 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Dec 4, 2015 at 11:31 UTC
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a superset of "--no-progress". Extend the command to support the
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usual "--[no-]progress".
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+ * The semantics of tranfer.hideRefs configuration variable have been
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+ extended to work better with the ref "namespace" feature that lets
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+ you throw unrelated bunches of repositories in a single physical
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+ repository and virtually serve them as separate ones.
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+ * send-email config variables whose values are pathnames now go
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+ through the ~username/ expansion.
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+ * bash completion learnt to TAB-complete recipient addresses given
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+ to send-email.
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+ * The credential-cache daemon can be told to ignore SIGHUP to work
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+ around issue when running Git from inside emacs.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* With a "debug" helper, debugging of a single "git" invocation in
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our test scripts has become a lot easier.
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+ * The "configure" script did not test for -lpthread correctly, which
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+ upset some linkers.
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+ * Cross completed task off of subtree project's todo list.
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+ * Test cleanups for the subtree project.
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+ * Clean up style in an ancient test t9300.
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+ * Work around some test flakiness with p4d.
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+ * Fsck did not correctly detect a NUL-truncated header in a tag.
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+ * Use a safer behavior when we hit errors verifying remote certificates.
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+ * Speed up filter-branch for cases where we only care about rewriting
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+ commits, not tree data.
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+ * The parse-options API has been updated to make "-h" command line
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+ option work more consistently in all commands.
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+ * "git svn rebase/mkdirs" got optimized by keeping track of empty
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+ directories better.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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requested range. However, we were hand-crafting a range request
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and it did not kick in.
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+ * Having a leftover .idx file without corresponding .pack file in
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+ the repository hurts performance; "git gc" learned to prune them.
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+ (merge 478f34d dk/gc-idx-wo-pack later to maint).
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+ * Apple's common crypto implementation of SHA1_Update() does not take
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+ more than 4GB at a time, and we now have a compile-time workaround
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+ for it.
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+ (merge 001fd7a ad/sha1-update-chunked later to maint).
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+ * Produce correct "dirty" marker for shell prompts, even when we
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+ are on an orphan or an unborn branch.
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+ (merge c26f70c sg/bash-prompt-dirty-orphan later to maint).
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* Code clean-up, minor fixes etc.
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(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).
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(merge e7a7401 pt/pull-builtin later to maint).