Eleventh batch for 2.14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 24, 2017 at 14:34 UTC
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* "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
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necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
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- (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
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* "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
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* "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
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- (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
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* "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
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to pack-objects.
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* "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
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and reject a message before sending it out.
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- (merge 177409e589 jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).
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* There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
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when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
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required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
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learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
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looks like so.
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- (merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint).
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* Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
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and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
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to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
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filters.
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+ * Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
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+ a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
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+ would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
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+ learned to give warnings when this happens.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
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accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
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- (merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint).
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* Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
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remove the temporary directory used during the test.
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* Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
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default in-core index.
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- (merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint).
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* Add perf-test for wildmatch.
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- (merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint).
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* Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
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extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
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- (merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint).
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* When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
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index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
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cache is properly invalidated).
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* The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
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- (merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint).
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* Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
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recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
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* Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
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to one.
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- (merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint).
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* "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
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with other parts of the system.
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+ * A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
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+ (which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The
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+ pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
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+ with "wildmatch".
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+ * The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured
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+ for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'.
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+ (merge 0c977dbc81 jk/diff-highlight-module later to maint).
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+ * A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
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+ pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
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+ FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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* "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
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submodule that itself has submodules.
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- * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
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- split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
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- future.
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- (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
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* "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
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the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
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in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
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and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
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(merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
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+ * "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds
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+ around underlying meld.
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+ (merge 0af85f84bd da/mergetools-meld-output-opt-on-macos later to maint).
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+ * An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
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+ configuration has been corrected.
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+ (merge 773a88914f ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index later to maint).
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+ * The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an
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+ optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope
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+ of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization
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+ that is broken.
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+ (merge fe9e2aefd4 rs/pretty-add-again later to maint).
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+ * The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
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+ configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
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+ then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
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+ unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
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+ early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.
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+ (merge a9bcf6586d js/alias-early-config later to maint).
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+ * Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
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+ that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
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+ into its own header file.
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+ (merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
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(merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
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(merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint).
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(merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint).
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(merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint).
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+ (merge 8abc09c0e3 sg/doc-pretty-formats later to maint).
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+ (merge 680b469e83 sn/reset-doc-typofix later to maint).