Sixth batch for 2.20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 26, 2018 at 14:53 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt
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@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ Backward Compatibility Notes
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* "git help -a" now gives verbose output (same as "git help -av").
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Those who want the old output may say "git help --no-verbose -a"..
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+ * "git cpn --help", when "cpn" is an alias to, say, "cherry-pick -n",
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+ reported only the alias expansion of "cpn" in earlier versions of
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+ Git. It now runs "git cherry-pick --help" to show the manual page
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+ of the command, while sending the alias expansion to the standard
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+ error stream.
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Updates since v2.19
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advertisement. The alternate refs that are advertised are now
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configurable with a pair of configuration variables.
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+ * "git cmd --help" when "cmd" is aliased used to only say "cmd is
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+ aliased to ...". Now it shows that to the standard error stream
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+ and runs "git $cmd --help" where $cmd is the first word of the
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+ alias expansion.
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+ * The documentation of "git gc" has been updated to mention that it
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+ is no longer limited to "pruning away crufts" but also updates
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+ ancillary files like commit-graph as a part of repository
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+ optimization.
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+ * "git p4 unshelve" improvements.
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+ * The logic to select the default user name and e-mail on Windows has
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+ been improved.
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+ (merge 501afcb8b0 js/mingw-default-ident later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -196,6 +218,18 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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object exists, even for paths that are outside of the partial
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checkout area. The code has been updated to avoid such a check.
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+ * To help developers, an EditorConfig file that attempts to follow
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+ the project convention has been added.
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+ (merge b548d698a0 bc/editorconfig later to maint).
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+ * The result of coverage test can be combined with "git blame" to
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+ check the test coverage of code introduced recently with a new
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+ 'coverage-diff' tool (in contrib/).
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+ (merge 783faedd65 ds/coverage-diff later to maint).
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+ * An experiment to fuzz test a few areas, hopefully we can gain more
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+ coverage to various areas.
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Fixes since v2.19
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no blobs are needed.
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(merge 4c7f9567ea jt/non-blob-lazy-fetch later to maint).
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+ * The codepath to support the experimental split-index mode had
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+ remaining "racily clean" issues fixed.
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+ (merge 4c490f3d32 sg/split-index-racefix later to maint).
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+ * "git log --graph" showing an octopus merge sometimes miscounted the
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+ number of display columns it is consuming to show the merge and its
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+ parent commits, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 04005834ed np/log-graph-octopus-fix later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
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(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
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(merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint).
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(merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).
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(merge d9f079ad1a jc/how-to-document-api later to maint).
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+ (merge b1492bf315 ma/t7005-bash-workaround later to maint).
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+ (merge ac1f98a0df du/rev-parse-is-plumbing later to maint).
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+ (merge ca8ed443a5 mm/doc-no-dashed-git later to maint).
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+ (merge ce366a8144 du/get-tar-commit-id-is-plumbing later to maint).
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+ (merge 61018fe9e0 du/cherry-is-plumbing later to maint).