Third batch for 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 26, 2016 at 15:41 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
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@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
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disabled.
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+ * "git pull --rebase" has been extended to allow invoking
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+ "rebase -i".
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+ * "git p4" learned to cope with the type of a file getting changed.
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+ * "git format-patch" learned to notice format.outputDirectory
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+ configuration variable. This allows "-o <dir>" option to be
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+ omitted on the command line if you always use the same directory in
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+ your workflow.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -49,6 +59,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
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and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.
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+ * The low-level code that is used to create symbolic references has
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+ been updated to share more code with the code that deals with
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+ normal references.
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+ (merge 2859dcd jk/symbolic-ref later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -114,6 +128,16 @@ notes for details).
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so this should have been caught if our test coverage were good.
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(merge a9eb90a ho/gitweb-squelch-undef-warning later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase", unlike all other callers of "gc --auto", did not
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+ ignore the exit code from "gc --auto".
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+ (merge 8c24f5b jk/ok-to-fail-gc-auto-in-rebase later to maint).
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+ * Many codepaths that run "gc --auto" before exiting kept packfiles
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+ mapped and left the file descriptors to them open, which was not
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+ friendly to systems that cannot remove files that are open. They
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+ now close the packs before doing so.
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+ (merge d562102 js/close-packs-before-gc later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
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(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).