The second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 17, 2019 at 10:16 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.0.txt
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* The code to show args with potential typo that cannot be
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interpreted as a commit-ish has been improved.
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+ * "git clone --recurse-submodules" learned to set up the submodules
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+ to ignore commit object names recorded in the superproject gitlink
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+ and instead use the commits that happen to be at the tip of the
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+ remote-tracking branches from the get-go, by passing the new
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+ "--remote-submodules" option.
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+ * The pattern "git diff/grep" use to extract funcname and words
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+ boundary for Matlab has been extend to cover Octave, which is more
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+ or less equivalent.
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+ * "git help git" was hard to discover (well, at least for some
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+ people).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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which is the more recent GCC uses. Those who need to build with an
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old GCC can still use "CC_LD_DYNPATH=-R"
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+ * Prepare use of reachability index in topological walker that works
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+ on a range (A..B).
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+ * A new tutorial targetting specifically aspiring git-core
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+ developers has been added.
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Fixes since v2.22
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one (i.e. fast-forward instead), but did not. Which has been
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corrected.
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+ * Code cleanup and futureproof.
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+ (merge 31f5256c82 ds/object-info-for-prefetch-fix later to maint).
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+ * More parameter validation.
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+ (merge de99eb0c24 es/grep-require-name-when-needed later to maint).
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+ * "git update-server-info" used to leave stale packfiles in its
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+ output, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge e941c48d49 ew/server-info-remove-crufts later to maint).
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+ * The server side support for "git fetch" used to show incorrect
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+ value for the HEAD symbolic ref when the namespace feature is in
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+ use, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 533e088250 jk/HEAD-symref-in-xfer-namespaces later to maint).
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+ * "git am -i --resolved" segfaulted after trying to see a commit as
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+ if it were a tree, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 7663e438c5 jk/am-i-resolved-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git bundle verify" needs to see if prerequisite objects exist in
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+ the receiving repository, but the command did not check if we are
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+ in a repository upfront, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 3bbbe467f2 js/bundle-verify-require-object-store later to maint).
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+ * "git merge --squash" is designed to update the working tree and the
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+ index without creating the commit, and this cannot be countermanded
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+ by adding the "--commit" option; the command now refuses to work
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+ when both options are given.
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+ (merge 1d14d0c994 vv/merge-squash-with-explicit-commit later to maint).
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+ * The data collected by fsmonitor was not properly written back to
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+ the on-disk index file, breaking t7519 tests occasionally, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge b5a8169752 js/fsmonitor-unflake later to maint).
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+ * Update to Unicode 12.1 width table.
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+ (merge 5817f9caa3 bb/unicode-12.1-reiwa later to maint).
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+ * The command line to invoke a "git cat-file" command from inside
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+ "git p4" was not properly quoted to protect a caret and running a
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+ broken command on Windows, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge c3f2358de3 mm/p4-unshelve-windows-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git request-pull" learned to warn when the ref we ask them to pull
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+ from in the local repository and in the published repository are
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+ different.
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+ (merge 0454220d66 pb/request-pull-verify-remote-ref later to maint).
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+ * When creating a partial clone, the object filtering criteria is
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+ recorded for the origin of the clone, but this incorrectly used a
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+ hardcoded name "origin" to name that remote; it has been corrected
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+ to honor the "--origin <name>" option.
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+ (merge 1c4a9f9114 xl/record-partial-clone-origin later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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+ (merge f547101b26 es/git-debugger-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 7877ac3d7b js/bisect-helper-check-get-oid-return-value later to maint).
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+ (merge 0108f47eb3 sw/git-p4-unshelve-branched-files later to maint).