The tenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 26, 2024 at 08:54 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.44.0.txt
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@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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and domain in the error message when we barf on mismatch between
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the Git directory and the current user on Windows.
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+ * The error message given when "git branch -d branch" fails due to
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+ commits unique to the branch has been split into an error and a new
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+ conditional advice message.
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+ * When given an existing but unreadable file as a configuration file,
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+ gitweb behaved as if the file did not exist at all, but now it
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+ errors out. This is a change that may break backward compatibility.
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+ * When $HOME/.gitignore is missing but XDG config file available, we
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+ should write into the latter, not former. "git gc" and "git
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+ maintenance" wrote into a wrong "global config" file, which have
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+ been corrected.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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single, primary, pack in a repository with multiple packfiles. It
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has been extended to allow reuse from other packfiles, too.
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+ * Comment updates to help developers not to attempt to modify
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+ messages from plumbing commands that must stay constant.
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+ It might make sense to reassess the plumbing needs every few years,
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+ but that should be done as a separate effort.
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+ * Move test-ctype helper to the unit-test framework.
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+ * Instead of manually creating refs/ hierarchy on disk upon a
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+ creation of a secondary worktree, which is only usable via the
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+ files backend, use the refs API to populate it.
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+ * CI for GitLab learned to drive macOS jobs.
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+ * A few tests to "git commit -o <pathspec>" and "git commit -i
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+ <pathspec>" has been added.
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Fixes since v2.43
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(merge 25aec06326 ib/rebase-reschedule-doc later to maint).
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(merge 5aea3955bc rj/clarify-branch-doc-m later to maint).
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(merge 9cce3be2df bk/bisect-doc-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 8f50984cf4 ne/doc-filter-blob-limit-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge f10b0989b8 la/strvec-comment-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 8430b438f6 vd/fsck-submodule-url-test later to maint).