The ninth batch
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Taylor Blau committed
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description of the branch you were on before switching to the
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current branch.
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+ * "git merge-tree --stdin" is a new way to request a series of merges
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+ and report the merge results.
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+ * "git shortlog" learned to group by the "format" string.
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+ * A new "--include-whitespace" option is added to "git patch-id", and
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+ existing bugs in the internal patch-id logic that did not match
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+ what "git patch-id" produces have been corrected.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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compiler.
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(merge 4b992f0a24 jk/unused-anno-more later to maint).
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+ * Rewrite a deep recursion in the skipping negotiator to use a loop
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+ with on-heap prio queue to avoid stack wastage.
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+ * Add documentation for message IDs in fsck error messages.
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+ * Define the logical elements of a "bundle list", data structure to
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+ store them in-core, format to transfer them, and code to parse
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+ them.
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+ * The role the security mailing list plays in an embargoed release
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+ has been documented.
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+ * Two new facilities, "timer" and "counter", are introduced to the
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+ trace2 API.
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+ * Code simplification by using strvec_pushf() instead of building an
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+ argument in a separate strbuf.
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+ * Make sure generated dependency file is stably sorted to help
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+ developers debugging their build issues.
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Fixes since v2.38
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adjust them to compute the display width assuming UTF-8 pathnames.
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(merge ce8529b2bb tb/diffstat-with-utf8-strwidth later to maint).
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+ * "git branch --edit-description" can exit with status -1 which is
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+ not a good practice; it learned to use 1 as everybody else instead.
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+ * "git apply" limits its input to a bit less than 1 GiB.
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+ * Merging a branch with directory renames into a branch that changes
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+ the directory to a symlink was mishandled by the ort merge
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+ strategy, which has been corrected.
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+ * A bugfix to "git subtree" in its split and merge features.
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+ * Fix some bugs in the reflog messages when rebasing and changes the
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+ reflog messages of "rebase --apply" to match "rebase --merge" with
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+ the aim of making the reflog easier to parse.
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+ * "git rebase --keep-base" used to discard the commits that are
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+ already cherry-picked to the upstream, even when "keep-base" meant
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+ that the base, on top of which the history is being rebuilt, does
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+ not yet include these cherry-picked commits. The --keep-base
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+ option now implies --reapply-cherry-picks and --no-fork-point
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+ options.
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+ * The way "git repack" creared temporary files when it received a
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+ signal was prone to deadlocking, which has been corrected.
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 413bc6d20a ds/cmd-main-reorder later to maint).
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(merge 8d2863e4ed nw/t1002-cleanup later to maint).