The seventh batch post 2.14

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Sep 10, 2017 at 17:15 UTC c739cd12a9aa471f4acb3639e0b73935b650be68
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.15.0.txt
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@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
77 * "branch --set-upstream" that has been deprecated in Git 1.8 has
78 finally been retired.
79
80 + * The codepath to call external process filter for smudge/clean
81 + operation learned to show the progress meter.
82 +
83
84 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
85
@@ -161,7 +164,6 @@ Fixes since v2.14
164 * Some versions of GnuPG fails to kill gpg-agent it auto-spawned
165 and such a left-over agent can interfere with a test. Work it
166 around by attempting to kill one before starting a new test.
164 - (merge 29ff1f8f74 st/lib-gpg-kill-stray-agent later to maint).
167
168 * A recently added test for the "credential-cache" helper revealed
169 that EOF detection done around the time the connection to the cache
@@ -170,49 +172,36 @@ Fixes since v2.14
172
173 * "git log --tag=no-such-tag" showed log starting from HEAD, which
174 has been fixed---it now shows nothing.
173 - (merge 5d34d1ac06 jk/rev-list-empty-input later to maint).
175
176 * The "tag.pager" configuration variable was useless for those who
177 actually create tag objects, as it interfered with the use of an
178 editor. A new mechanism has been introduced for commands to enable
179 pager depending on what operation is being carried out to fix this,
180 and then "git tag -l" is made to run pager by default.
180 - (merge 595d59e2b5 ma/pager-per-subcommand-action later to maint).
181
182 * "git push --recurse-submodules $there HEAD:$target" was not
183 propagated down to the submodules, but now it is.
184 - (merge c7be7201a7 bw/push-options-recursively-to-submodules later to maint).
184
185 * Commands like "git rebase" accepted the --rerere-autoupdate option
186 from the command line, but did not always use it. This has been
187 fixed.
189 - (merge f826fb799e pw/sequence-rerere-autoupdate later to maint).
188
189 * "git clone --recurse-submodules --quiet" did not pass the quiet
190 option down to submodules.
193 - (merge 03c004c581 bw/clone-recursive-quiet later to maint).
191
192 * Test portability fix for OBSD.
196 - (merge bed67874e2 rs/obsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
197 - (merge 4c7fda8fc1 rs/t4062-obsd later to maint).
193
194 * Portability fix for OBSD.
200 - (merge 29c2eda80b rs/in-obsd-basename-dirname-take-const later to maint).
195
196 * "git am -s" has been taught that some input may end with a trailer
197 block that is not Signed-off-by: and it should refrain from adding
198 an extra blank line before adding a new sign-off in such a case.
205 - (merge 735285b403 pw/am-signoff later to maint).
199
200 * "git svn" used with "--localtime" option did not compute the tz
201 offset for the timestamp in question and instead always used the
202 current time, which has been corrected.
210 - (merge 1adc4b9a58 ur/svn-local-zone later to maint).
203
204 * Memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged.
213 - (merge 83cd6f9017 rs/fsck-obj-leakfix later to maint).
214 - (merge 896dca3ab7 rs/unpack-entry-leakfix later to maint).
215 - (merge 149d8cbb2e rs/win32-syslog-leakfix later to maint).
205
206 * "git stash -u" used the contents of the committed version of the
207 ".gitignore" file to decide which paths are ignored, even when the
@@ -221,16 +210,13 @@ Fixes since v2.14
210
211 * bash 4.4 or newer gave a warning on NUL byte in command
212 substitution done in "git stash"; this has been squelched.
224 - (merge 5fc92f8828 kd/stash-with-bash-4.4 later to maint).
213
214 * "git grep -L" and "git grep --quiet -L" reported different exit
215 codes; this has been corrected.
228 - (merge e1f68c66d5 as/grep-quiet-no-match-exit-code-fix later to maint).
216
217 * When handshake with a subprocess filter notices that the process
218 asked for an unknown capability, Git did not report what program
219 the offending subprocess was running. This has been corrected.
233 - (merge d3ba566342 cc/subprocess-handshake-missing-capabilities later to maint).
220
221 * "git apply" that is used as a better "patch -p1" failed to apply a
222 taken from a file with CRLF line endings to a file with CRLF line
@@ -239,38 +225,29 @@ Fixes since v2.14
225 entry at the same path, which is a nonsense---in that mode, "apply"
226 is not working on the data in (or derived from) the index at all.
227 This has been fixed.
242 - (merge c24f3abace tb/apply-with-crlf later to maint).
228
229 * Killing "git merge --edit" before the editor returns control left
230 the repository in a state with MERGE_MSG but without MERGE_HEAD,
231 which incorrectly tells the subsequent "git commit" that there was
232 a squash merge in progress. This has been fixed.
248 - (merge 9d89b35526 mg/killed-merge later to maint).
233
234 * "git archive" did not work well with pathspecs and the
235 export-ignore attribute.
252 - (merge 5ff247ac0c rs/archive-excluded-directory later to maint).
236 +
237 + * In addition to "cc: <a@dd.re.ss> # cruft", "cc: a@dd.re.ss # cruft"
238 + was taught to "git send-email" as a valid way to tell it that it
239 + needs to also send a carbon copy to <a@dd.re.ss> in the trailer
240 + section.
241 + (merge cc90750677 mm/send-email-cc-cruft later to maint).
242 +
243 + * "git branch -M a b" while on a branch that is completely unrelated
244 + to either branch a or branch b misbehaved when multiple worktree
245 + was in use. This has been fixed.
246 + (merge 31824d180d nd/worktree-kill-parse-ref later to maint).
247
248 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
255 - (merge dff2813391 ab/ref-filter-no-contains later to maint).
249 (merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
257 - (merge 974ce8078c mf/no-dashed-subcommands later to maint).
258 - (merge f81935cc4d jc/perl-git-comment-typofix later to maint).
259 - (merge 57ea241ef0 rs/t3700-clean-leftover later to maint).
250 (merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
261 - (merge 0b006014c8 jk/hashcmp-memcmp later to maint).
262 - (merge 1e22a9917b rj/add-chmod-error-message later to maint).
263 - (merge 881529c846 rs/apply-lose-prefix-length later to maint).
264 - (merge 6355a76802 rs/find-pack-entry-bisection later to maint).
265 - (merge de3ce210ed rs/merge-microcleanup later to maint).
266 - (merge 7f0a02be2f ah/doc-empty-string-is-false later to maint).
267 - (merge 70ec6bd63b rs/t1002-do-not-use-sum later to maint).
268 - (merge 2456990dfd sb/sha1-file-cleanup later to maint).
269 - (merge 2aac933c62 hv/t5526-andand-chain-fix later to maint).
270 - (merge c8d0c4fe9b sb/submodule-parallel-update later to maint).
271 - (merge 794b7e1674 mg/format-ref-doc-fix later to maint).
272 - (merge 24da8a26a9 rs/commit-h-single-parent-cleanup later to maint).
273 - (merge 4e36907fa3 jk/doc-the-this later to maint).
274 - (merge 15d1d0951e bc/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint).
275 - (merge b8f43b120b jn/vcs-svn-cleanup later to maint).
276 - (merge 4a4becfb23 jt/doc-pack-objects-fix later to maint).
251 + (merge 6cdf8a7929 ma/ts-cleanups later to maint).
252 + (merge 7560f547e6 ma/up-to-date later to maint).
253 + (merge 0db3dc75f3 rs/apply-epoch later to maint).