Eighth batch for 2.17
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 8, 2018 at 12:42 UTC
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@@ -54,13 +54,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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refs/tags/ hierarchy, and allow fast-forwarding otherwise, to
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mitigate the problem.
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+ * "git status" can spend a lot of cycles to compute the relation
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+ between the current branch and its upstream, which can now be
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+ disabled with "--no-ahead-behind" option.
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+ * "git diff" and friends learned funcname patterns for Go language
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+ source files.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* More perf tests for threaded grep
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* "perf" test output can be sent to codespeed server.
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- (merge 19cf57a92e cc/codespeed later to maint).
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* The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by
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weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker.
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* The tracing machinery learned to report tweaking of environment
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variables as well.
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- (merge 090a09272a nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
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* Update Coccinelle rules to catch and optimize strbuf_addf(&buf, "%s", str)
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- (merge cd9a4b6d93 rs/strbuf-cocci-workaround later to maint).
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* Prevent "clang-format" from breaking line after function return type.
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- (merge a3715d43e8 po/clang-format-functype-weight later to maint).
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* The sequencer infrastructure is shared across "git cherry-pick",
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"git rebase -i", etc., and has always spawned "git commit" when it
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* Avoid mmapping small files while using packed refs (especially ones
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with zero size, which would cause later munmap() to fail).
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- (merge ba41a8b600 kg/packed-ref-cache-fix later to maint).
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* Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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@@ -122,6 +124,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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like this help use of code analysis tools that targets C++ on our
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codebase.
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+ * The executable is now built in 'script' phase in Travis CI integration,
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+ to follow the established practice, rather than during 'before_script'
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+ phase. This allows the CI categorize the failures better ('failed'
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+ is project's fault, 'errored' is build environment's).
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+ (merge 3c93b82920 sg/travis-build-during-script-phase later to maint).
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+ * Writing out the index file when the only thing that changed in it
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+ is the untracked cache information is often wasteful, and this has
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+ been optimized out.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -271,6 +283,26 @@ Fixes since v2.16
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* Y2k20 fix ;-) for our perl scripts.
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(merge a40e06ee33 bw/perl-timegm-timelocal-fix later to maint).
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+ * Threaded "git grep" has been optimized to avoid allocation in code
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+ section that is covered under a mutex.
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+ (merge 38ef24dccf rv/grep-cleanup later to maint).
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+ * "git subtree" script (in contrib/) scripted around "git log", whose
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+ output got affected by end-user configuration like log.showsignature
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+ (merge 8841b5222c sg/subtree-signed-commits later to maint).
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+ * While finding unique object name abbreviation, the code may
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+ accidentally have read beyond the end of the array of object names
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+ in a pack.
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+ (merge 21abed500c ds/find-unique-abbrev-optim later to maint).
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+ * Micro optimization in revision traversal code.
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+ (merge ebbed3ba04 ds/mark-parents-uninteresting-optim later to maint).
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+ * "git commit" used to run "gc --auto" near the end, which was lost
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+ when the command was reimplemented in C by mistake.
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+ (merge 095c741edd ab/gc-auto-in-commit later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge e2a5a028c7 bw/oidmap-autoinit later to maint).
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(merge ec3b4b06f8 cl/t9001-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 1316416903 ms/non-ascii-ticks later to maint).
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(merge 878056005e rs/strbuf-read-file-or-whine later to maint).
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(merge 79f0ba1547 jk/strbuf-read-file-close-error later to maint).
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+ (merge edfb8ba068 ot/ref-filter-cleanup later to maint).
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+ (merge 11395a3b4b jc/test-must-be-empty later to maint).
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+ (merge 768b9d6db7 mk/doc-pretty-fill later to maint).