Hopefully the final last-minute update before 2.9 final
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 10, 2016 at 15:30 UTC
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@@ -118,9 +118,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* HTTP transport clients learned to throw extra HTTP headers at the
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server, specified via http.extraHeader configuration variable.
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- * Patch output from "git diff" and friends has been tweaked to be
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- more readable by using a blank line as a strong hint that the
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- contents before and after it belong to logically separate units.
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+ * The "--compaction-heuristic" option to "git diff" family of
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+ commands enables a heuristic to make the patch output more readable
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+ by using a blank line as a strong hint that the contents before and
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+ after it belong to logically separate units. It is still
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+ experimental.
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* A new configuration variable core.hooksPath allows customizing
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where the hook directory is.
@@ -506,3 +508,5 @@ notes for details).
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(merge cd82b7a pa/cherry-pick-doc-typo later to maint).
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(merge 2bb73ae rs/patch-id-use-skip-prefix later to maint).
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(merge aa20cbc rs/apply-name-terminate later to maint).
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+ (merge fe17fc0 jc/t2300-setup later to maint).
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+ (merge e256eec jk/shell-portability later to maint).