The ninth batch of topics graduated to 'master'
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 7, 2012 at 13:39 UTC
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@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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name over there. The plan is to make this mode the new default
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value when push.default is not configured.
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+ * A couple of commands learned the "--column" option to produce
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+ columnar output.
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* A third-party tool "git subtree" is distributed in contrib/
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* Error messages given when @{u} is used for a branch without its
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* The output from "diff/log --stat" used to always allocate 4 columns
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to show the number of modified lines, but not anymore.
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+ * "git difftool" learned the "--dir-diff" option to spawn external
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+ diff tools that can compare two directory hierarchies at a time
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+ after populating two temporary directories, instead of running an
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+ instance of the external tool once per a file pair.
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* The "fmt-merge-msg" command learns to list the primary contributors
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involved in the side topic you are merging.
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@@ -116,11 +124,17 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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- * When using a Perl script on a system where "perl" found on user's
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- $PATH could be ancient or otherwise broken, we allow builders to
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- specify the path to a good copy of Perl with $PERL_PATH. The
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- gitweb test forgot to use that Perl when running its test.
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- (merge 0754e08 jk/maint-gitweb-test-use-sane-perl later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
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+ execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
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+ right.
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+ * "log -z --pretty=tformat:..." did not terminate each record with
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+ NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
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+ --patch and/or --stat, though.
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+ (merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
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+ * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
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+ (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
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* A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
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user futzed with her $PATH.
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* "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
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output had line breaks at wrong places.
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(merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).
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- * "git config --rename-section" to rename an existing section into a
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- bogus one did not check the new name.
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- (merge 94a35b1 jk/maint-config-bogus-section later to maint).
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- * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
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- (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).
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- * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
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- (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint).
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- * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
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- final commit correctly.
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- (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint).
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- * In the older days, the header "Conflicts:" in "cherry-pick" and
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- "merge" was separated by a blank line from the list of paths that
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- follow for readability, but when "merge" was rewritten in C, we lost
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- it by mistake. Remove the newline from "cherry-pick" to make them
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- match again.
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- (merge 5112068 rt/cherry-revert-conflict-summary later to maint).
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- * The filesystem boundary was not correctly reported when .git
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- directory discovery stopped at a mount point.
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- (merge 2565b43 cb/maint-report-mount-point-correctly-in-setup later to maint).
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- * The command line parser choked "git cherry-pick $name" when $name
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- can be both revision name and a pathname, even though $name can
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- never be a path in the context of the command.
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- (merge 6d5b93f cb/cherry-pick-rev-path-confusion later to maint).
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- * HTTP transport that requires authentication did not work correctly
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- when multiple connections are used simultaneously.
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- (merge 6f4c347 cb/http-multi-curl-auth later to maint).
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- * The i18n of error message "git stash save" was not properly done.
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- (merge ed3c400 rl/maint-stash-i18n-save-error later to maint).
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- * The report from "git fetch" said "new branch" even for a non branch
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- ref.
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- (merge 0997ada mb/fetch-call-a-non-branch-a-ref later to maint).
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- * The "diff --no-index" codepath used limited-length buffers, risking
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- pathnames getting truncated. Update it to use the strbuf API.
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- (merge 875b91b jm/maint-strncpy-diff-no-index later to maint).