Third batch for 2.19 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 18, 2018 at 12:24 UTC
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@@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new
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paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit.
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+ * "git grep" learned the "--column" option that gives not just the
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+ line number but the column number of the hit.
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+ * The "-l" option in "git branch -l" is an unfortunate short-hand for
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+ "--create-reflog", but many users, both old and new, somehow expect
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+ it to be something else, perhaps "--list". This step warns when "-l"
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+ is used as a short-hand for "--create-reflog" and warns about the
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+ future repurposing of the it when it is used.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -51,6 +60,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Build and test procedure for netrc credential helper (in contrib/)
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has been updated.
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+ * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
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+ throughout the object access API continues.
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+ * Remove unused function definitions and declarations from ewah
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+ bitmap subsystem.
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+ * Code preparation to make "git p4" closer to be usable with Python 3.
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+ * Tighten the API to make it harder to misuse in-tree .gitmodules
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+ file, even though it shares the same syntax with configuration
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+ files, to read random configuration items from it.
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Fixes since v2.18
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to the submodule was changed in the range of commits in the
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superproject, sometimes showing "(null)". This has been corrected.
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- * Code cleanup.
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+ * "git submodule" did not correctly adjust core.worktree setting that
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+ indicates whether/where a submodule repository has its associated
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+ working tree across various state transitions, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge 984cd77ddb sb/submodule-core-worktree later to maint).
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+ * Bugfix for "rebase -i" corner case regression.
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+ (merge a9279c6785 pw/rebase-i-keep-reword-after-conflict later to maint).
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+ * Recently added "--base" option to "git format-patch" command did
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+ not correctly generate prereq patch ids.
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+ (merge 15b76c1fb3 xy/format-patch-prereq-patch-id-fix later to maint).
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+ * POSIX portability fix in Makefile to fix a glitch introduced a few
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+ releases ago.
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+ (merge 6600054e9b dj/runtime-prefix later to maint).
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+ * "git filter-branch" when used with the "--state-branch" option
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+ still attempted to rewrite the commits whose filtered result is
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+ known from the previous attempt (which is recorded on the state
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+ branch); the command has been corrected not to waste cycles doing
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+ so.
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+ (merge 709cfe848a mb/filter-branch-optim later to maint).
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+ * Clarify that setting core.ignoreCase to deviate from reality would
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+ not turn a case-incapable filesystem into a case-capable one.
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+ (merge 48294b512a ms/core-icase-doc later to maint).
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+ * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
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+ (merge 5b26c3c941 en/merge-recursive-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge 0dcbc0392e bw/config-refer-to-gitsubmodules-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge bb4d000e87 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint).
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+ (merge 928f0ab4ba vs/typofixes later to maint).
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+ (merge d7f590be84 en/rebase-i-microfixes later to maint).
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+ (merge 81d395cc85 js/rebase-recreate-merge later to maint).
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+ (merge 51d1863168 tz/exclude-doc-smallfixes later to maint).
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+ (merge a9aa3c0927 ds/commit-graph later to maint).
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+ (merge 5cf8e06474 js/enhanced-version-info later to maint).