The tenth batch of topics
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
May 10, 2012 at 11:04 UTC
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@@ -25,13 +25,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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tracking. Also "branch" learned the "-q"uiet option to squelch
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informational message.
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+ * Your build platform may support hardlinks but you may prefer not to
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+ use them, e.g. when installing to DESTDIR to make a tarball and
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+ untarring on a filesystem that has poor support for hardlinks.
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+ There is a Makefile option NO_INSTALL_HARDLINKS for you.
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* The smart-http backend used to always override GIT_COMMITTER_*
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variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
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now preserved when set.
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- * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
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- understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
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-
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* "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
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existing the "--exclude" option.
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@@ -83,6 +85,9 @@ Performance and Internal Implementation (please report possible regressions)
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* An experimental "version 4" format of the index file has been
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introduced to reduce on-disk footprint and I/O overhead.
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+ * "git archive" learned to produce its output without reading the
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+ blob object it writes out in memory in its entirety.
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* The code to compute hash values for lines used by the internal diff
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engine was optimized on little-endian machines, using the same
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trick the kernel folks came up with.
@@ -124,6 +129,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * When checking out another commit from an already detached state, we
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+ used to report all commits that are not reachable from any of the
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+ refs as lossage, but some of them might be reachable from the new
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+ HEAD, and there is no need to warn about them.
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+ (merge 5d88639 js/checkout-detach-count later to maint).
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+ * Some time ago, "git clone" lost the progress output for its
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+ "checkout" phase; when run without any "--quiet" option, it should
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+ give progress to the lengthy operation.
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+ (merge 8f63da1 ef/maint-clone-progress-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git status --porcelain" ignored "--branch" option by mistake. The
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+ output for "git status --branch -z" was also incorrect and did not
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+ terminate the record for the current branch name with NUL as asked.
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+ (merge d4a6bf1 jk/maint-status-porcelain-z-b later to maint).
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* "git diff --stat" used to fully count a binary file with modified
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execution bits whose contents is unmodified, which was not quite
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right.
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NUL. The fix is not entirely correct when the output also asks for
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--patch and/or --stat, though.
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(merge fafd382 jk/maint-tformat-with-z later to maint).
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- * "git push" over smart-http lost progress output a few releases ago.
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- (merge e304aeb jk/maint-push-progress later to maint).
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- * A contrib script "rerere-train" did not work out of the box unless
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- user futzed with her $PATH.
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- (merge 53876fc jc/rerere-train later to maint).
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- * "log --graph" was not very friendly with "--stat" option and its
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- output had line breaks at wrong places.
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- (merge bafa16e lp/diffstat-with-graph later to maint).