Eighth batch for 2.11
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 6, 2016 at 14:55 UTC
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@@ -67,6 +67,25 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git gui" l10n to Portuguese.
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+ * When given an abbreviated object name that is not (or more
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+ realistically, "no longer") unique, we gave a fatal error
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+ "ambiguous argument". This error is now accompanied by hints that
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+ lists the objects that begins with the given prefix. During the
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+ course of development of this new feature, numerous minor bugs were
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+ uncovered and corrected, the most notable one of which is that we
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+ gave "short SHA1 xxxx is ambiguous." twice without good reason.
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+ * "git log rev^..rev" is an often-used revision range specification
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+ to show what was done on a side branch merged at rev. This has
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+ gained a short-hand "rev^-1". In general "rev^-$n" is the same as
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+ "^rev^$n rev", i.e. what has happened on other branches while the
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+ history leading to nth parent was looking the other way.
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+ * In recent versions of cURL, GSSAPI credential delegation is
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+ disabled by default due to CVE-2011-2192; introduce a configuration
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+ to selectively allow enabling this.
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+ (merge 26a7b23429 ps/http-gssapi-cred-delegation later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -327,6 +346,21 @@ notes for details).
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* Doc update to clarify what "log -3 --reverse" does.
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(merge 04be69478f pb/rev-list-reverse-with-count later to maint).
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+ * Almost everybody uses DEFAULT_ABBREV to refer to the default
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+ setting for the abbreviation, but "git blame" peeked into
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+ underlying variable bypassing the macro for no good reason.
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+ (merge 5293284b4d jc/blame-abbrev later to maint).
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+ * The "graph" API used in "git log --graph" miscounted the number of
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+ output columns consumed so far when drawing a padding line, which
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+ has been fixed; this did not affect any existing code as nobody
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+ tried to write anything after the padding on such a line, though.
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+ (merge 1647793524 jk/graph-padding-fix later to maint).
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+ * The code that parses the format parameter of for-each-ref command
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+ has seen a micro-optimization.
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+ (merge e94ce1394e sg/ref-filter-parse-optim later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge e78d57e bw/pathspec-remove-unused-extern-decl later to maint).
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(merge ce25e4c rs/checkout-some-states-are-const later to maint).