The eighteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 13, 2023 at 14:18 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.43.0.txt
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@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git repack" machinery learns to pay attention to the "--filter="
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option.
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+ * Test coverage for trailers has been improved.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -223,6 +225,24 @@ Fixes since v2.42
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Unicode 15.1
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(merge 872976c37e bb/unicode-width-table-15 later to maint).
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+ * Update mailmap entry for Derrick.
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+ (merge 6e5457d8c7 ds/mailmap-entry-update later to maint).
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+ * In .gitmodules files, submodules are keyed by their names, and the
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+ path to the submodule whose name is $name is specified by the
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+ submodule.$name.path variable. There were a few codepaths that
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+ mixed the name and path up when consulting the submodule database,
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+ which have been corrected. It took long for these bugs to be found
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+ as the name of a submodule initially is the same as its path, and
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+ the problem does not surface until it is moved to a different path,
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+ which apparently happens very rarely.
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+ * "git diff --merge-base X other args..." insisted that X must be a
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+ commit and errored out when given an annotated tag that peels to a
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+ commit, but we only need it to be a committish. This has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge 4adceb5a29 ar/diff-index-merge-base-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge fd3ba590d8 ws/git-push-doc-grammofix later to maint).
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(merge 5f33a843de ds/upload-pack-error-sequence-fix later to maint).
@@ -245,3 +265,4 @@ Fixes since v2.42
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(merge 43abaaf008 ob/am-msgfix later to maint).
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(merge c2c349a15c xz/commit-title-soft-limit-doc later to maint).
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(merge f4cbb32c27 rs/parse-opt-ctx-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge badf2fe1c3 jk/decoration-and-other-leak-fixes later to maint).