Nineteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 4, 2020 at 12:48 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
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@@ -98,6 +98,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The transport protocol v2 has become the default again.
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+ * The installation procedure learned to optionally omit "git-foo"
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+ executable files for each 'foo' built-in subcommand, which are only
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+ required by old timers that still rely on the age old promise that
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+ prepending "git --exec-path" output to PATH early in their script
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+ will keep the "git-foo" calls they wrote working.
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+ * The command line completion (in contrib/) learned that "git restore
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+ -s <TAB>" is often followed by a refname.
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+ * "git shortlog" has been taught to group commits by the contents of
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+ the trailer lines, like "Reviewed-by:", "Coauthored-by:", etc.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -409,6 +421,26 @@ Fixes since v2.28
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pull.ff configuration variable.
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(merge 54200cef86 ah/pull later to maint).
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+ * Compilation fix around type punning.
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+ (merge 176380fd11 jk/drop-unaligned-loads later to maint).
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+ * "git blame --ignore-rev/--ignore-revs-file" failed to validate
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+ their input are valid revision, and failed to take into account
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+ that the user may want to give an annotated tag instead of a
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+ commit, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 610e2b9240 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git bisect start X Y", when X and Y are not valid committish
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+ object names, should take X and Y as pathspec, but didn't.
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+ (merge 73c6de06af cc/bisect-start-fix later to maint).
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+ * The explanation of the "scissors line" has been clarified.
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+ (merge 287416dba6 eg/mailinfo-doc-scissors later to maint).
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+ * A race that leads to an access to a free'd data was corrected in
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+ the codepath that reads pack files.
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+ (merge bda959c476 mt/delta-base-cache-races later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
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(merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).
@@ -440,3 +472,4 @@ Fixes since v2.28
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(merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint).
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(merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 0512eabd91 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint).