Getting ready for -rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 25, 2015 at 13:01 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.0.txt
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@@ -114,6 +114,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* A new "push.followTags" configuration turns the "--follow-tags"
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option on by default for the "git push" command.
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+ * "git log --graph --no-walk A B..." is a conflicting request that
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+ asks nonsense; no-walk tells us show discrete points in the
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+ history, while graph asks to draw connections between these
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+ discrete points. Forbid the combination.
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+ * "git rev-list --bisect --first-parent" does not work (yet) and can
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+ even cause SEGV; forbid it. "git log --bisect --first-parent"
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+ would not be useful until "git bisect --first-parent" materializes,
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+ so it is also forbidden for now.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -168,6 +178,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* "git push" codepath has been restructured to make it easier to add
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new configuration bits.
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+ * The run-command interface was easy to abuse and make a pipe for us
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+ to read from the process, wait for the process to finish and then
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+ attempt to read its output, which is a pattern that lead to a
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+ deadlock. Fix such uses by introducing a helper to do this
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+ correctly (i.e. we need to read first and then wait the process to
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+ finish) and also add code to prevent such abuse in the run-command
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+ helper.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -400,6 +418,37 @@ notes for details).
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that are about listing in a wrong section.
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(merge dd059c6 jk/tag-h-column-is-a-listing-option later to maint).
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+ * "git prune" used to largely ignore broken refs when deciding which
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+ objects are still being used, which could spread an existing small
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+ damage and make it a larger one.
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+ (merge ea56c4e jk/prune-with-corrupt-refs later to maint).
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+
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+ * The split-index mode introduced at v2.3.0-rc0~41 was broken in the
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+ codepath to protect us against a broken reimplementation of Git
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+ that writes an invalid index with duplicated index entries, etc.
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+ (merge 03f15a7 tg/fix-check-order-with-split-index later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git fetch" that fetches a commit using the allow-tip-sha1-in-want
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+ extension could have failed to fetch all the requested refs.
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+ (merge 32d0462 jk/fetch-pack later to maint).
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+ * An failure early in the "git clone" that started creating the
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+ working tree and repository could have resulted in some directories
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+ and files left without getting cleaned up.
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+ (merge 16eff6c jk/cleanup-failed-clone later to maint).
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+ * Recommend format-patch and send-email for those who want to submit
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+ patches to this project.
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+ (merge b25c469 jc/submitting-patches-mention-send-email later to maint).
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+ * Even though "git grep --quiet" is run merely to ask for the exit
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+ status, we spawned the pager regardless. Stop doing that.
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+ (merge c2048f0 ws/grep-quiet-no-pager later to maint).
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+
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+ * The prompt script (in contrib/) did not show the untracked sign
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+ when working in a subdirectory without any untracked files.
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+ (merge 9bdc517 ct/prompt-untracked-fix later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 2ce63e9 rs/simple-cleanups later to maint).
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(merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint).
@@ -412,3 +461,6 @@ notes for details).
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(merge 9a6f128 rs/deflate-init-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 6f75d45 rs/use-isxdigit later to maint).
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(merge 376e4b3 jk/test-annoyances later to maint).
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+ (merge 7032054 nd/doc-git-index-version later to maint).
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+ (merge e869c5e tg/test-index-v4 later to maint).
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+ (merge 599d223 jk/simplify-csum-file-sha1fd-check later to maint).