Fourth batch of topics for 2.10
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 11, 2016 at 10:36 UTC
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@@ -55,6 +55,26 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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to the right border.
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(merge 066790d nd/graph-width-padded later to maint).
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+ * A careless invocation of "git send-email directory/" after editing
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+ 0001-change.patch with an editor often ends up sending both
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+ 0001-change.patch and its backup file, 0001-change.patch~, causing
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+ embarrassment and a minor confusion. Detect such an input and
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+ offer to skip the backup files when sending the patches out.
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+ (merge 531220b jc/send-email-skip-backup later to maint).
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+ * "git submodule update" that drives many "git clone" could
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+ eventually hit flaky servers/network conditions on one of the
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+ submodules; the command learned to retry the attempt.
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+ * The output coloring scheme learned two new attributes, italic and
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+ strike, in addition to existing bold, reverse, etc.
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+ * "git log" learns log.showSignature configuration variable, and a
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+ command line option "--no-show-signature" to countermand it.
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+ (merge fce04c3 mj/log-show-signature-conf later to maint).
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+ * A couple of "git svn" updates.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
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(merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
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+ * Allow t/perf framework to use the features from the most recent
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+ version of Git even when testing an older installed version.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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paths that are _inside_.
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(merge 09667d0 ao/p4-has-branch-prefix-fix later to maint).
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+ * The top level documentation "git help git" still pointed at the
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+ documentation set hosted at now-defunct google-code repository.
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+ Update it to point to https://git.github.io/htmldocs/git.html
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+ instead.
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+ (merge f793582 jn/preformatted-doc-url later to maint).
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+ * A helper function that takes the contents of a commit object and
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+ finds its subject line did not ignore leading blank lines, as is
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+ commonly done by other codepaths. Make it ignore leading blank
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+ lines to match.
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+ (merge 054a5ae js/find-commit-subject-ignore-leading-blanks later to maint).
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+ * For a long time, we carried an in-code comment that said our
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+ colored output would work only when we use fprintf/fputs on
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+ Windows, which no longer is the case for the past few years.
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+ (merge 3d0a833 js/color-on-windows-comment later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge e51b0df pb/commit-editmsg-path later to maint).
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(merge b333d0d jk/send-pack-stdio later to maint).