Sixth batch for post 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 22, 2016 at 15:48 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
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@@ -80,6 +80,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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such a case, and allows the users to override it with a new option,
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"--no-expand-tabs".
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+ * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when
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+ formulating a message ID.
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+ (merge f916ab0 ew/send-email-readable-message-id later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -213,6 +217,43 @@ notes for details).
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branch we locally checked out).
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(merge 95c38fb jk/branch-shortening-funny-symrefs later to maint).
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+ * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed
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+ the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real
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+ repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 1f15ba1 sb/submodule-helper-clone-regression-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message
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+ is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 27014cb ad/commit-have-m-option later to maint).
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+ * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
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+ not work well.
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+ (merge eb94ee7 ky/imap-send later to maint).
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+ * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs
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+ we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change.
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+ (merge 1245c74 ky/imap-send-openssl-1.1.0 later to maint).
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+ * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
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+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
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+ (merge 87f8a0b jc/http-socks5h later to maint).
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+ * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
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+ printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
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+ (merge 1cae428 jk/do-not-printf-NULL later to maint).
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+ * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
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+ rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
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+ hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
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+ pattern.
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+ This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
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+ already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
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+ has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
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+ See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
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+ (merge e53a64b ad/cygwin-wants-rename later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint).
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(merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint).
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(merge 8e9b208 js/mingw-tests-2.8 later to maint).
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(merge d55de70 jc/makefile-redirection-stderr later to maint).
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(merge 4232b21 ep/trace-doc-sample-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge ef8c95e ew/send-email-drop-data-dumper later to maint).
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+ (merge 24041d6 jc/xstrfmt-null-with-prec-0 later to maint).
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+ (merge 7bec7f5 jk/use-write-script-more later to maint).