Second half of seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 11, 2015 at 09:35 UTC
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@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ Ports
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * The bash completion script (in contrib/) learned a few options that
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+ "git revert" takes.
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+ * Whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines can also be
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+ painted in the output of "git diff" and friends with the new
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+ --ws-error-highlight option.
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* List of commands shown by "git help" are grouped along the workflow
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elements to help early learners.
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@@ -164,6 +171,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
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not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
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+ * Error reporting mechanism used in "refs" API has been made more
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+ consistent.
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+ * "git pull" has more test coverage now.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -390,6 +402,19 @@ notes for details).
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paths outside the given pathspec.
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(merge 838d6a9 dt/clean-pathspec-filter-then-lstat later to maint).
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+ * Recent "git prune" traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep
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+ old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes
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+ caused error messages that are unnecessarily alarming.
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+ (merge ce4e7b2 jk/squelch-missing-link-warning-for-unreachable later to maint).
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+ * The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
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+ the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
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+ (merge 9ca0aaf jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure later to maint).
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+ * "color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
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+ a more logical synonym.
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+ (merge 8dbf3eb jk/color-diff-plain-is-context later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
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(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
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(merge 22570b6 rs/janitorial later to maint).
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(merge 5c2a581 mc/commit-doc-grammofix later to maint).
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(merge ce41720 ah/usage-strings later to maint).
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+ (merge e6a268c sb/glossary-submodule later to maint).
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+ (merge ec48a76 sb/submodule-doc-intro later to maint).
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+ (merge 14f8b9b jk/clone-dissociate later to maint).