d166e6afe5 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

161 "--smtp-auth=none" option, even when the smtp username is given

162 (which turns the authentication on by default).

163

164 + * A fourth class of configuration files (in addition to the

165 + traditional "system wide", "per user in the $HOME directory" and

166 + "per repository in the $GIT_DIR/config") has been introduced so

167 + that different worktrees that share the same repository (hence the

168 + same $GIT_DIR/config file) can use different customization.

169 +

170 + * A pattern with '**' that does not have a slash on either side used

171 + to be an invalid one, but the code now treats such double-asterisks

172 + the same way as two normal asterisks that happen to be adjacent to

173 + each other.

174 + (merge e5bbe09e88 nd/wildmatch-double-asterisk later to maint).

175 +

176

177 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

178

@@ -282,6 +294,44 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

294

295 * Windows port learned to use nano-second resolution file timestamps.

296

297 + * The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into

298 + million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece

299 + included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.

300 +

301 + * Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git

302 + fetch" with hashmaps.

303 +

304 + * Unify code to read the author-script used in "git am" and the

305 + commands that use the sequencer machinery, e.g. "git rebase -i".

306 +

307 + * In preparation to the day when we can deprecate and remove the

308 + "rebase -p", make sure we can skip and later remove tests for

309 + it.

310 +

311 + * The history traversal used to implement the tag-following has been

312 + optimized by introducing a new helper.

313 +

314 + * The helper function to refresh the cached stat information in the

315 + in-core index has learned to perform the lstat() part of the

316 + operation in parallel on multi-core platforms.

317 +

318 + * The code to traverse objects for reachability, used to decide what

319 + objects are unreferenced and expendable, have been taught to also

320 + consider per-worktree refs of other worktrees as starting points to

321 + prevent data loss.

322 +

323 + * "git add" needs to internally run "diff-files" equivalent, and the

324 + codepath learned the same optimization as "diff-files" has to run

325 + lstat(2) in parallel to find which paths have been updated in the

326 + working tree.

327 +

328 + * The procedure to install dependencies before testing at Travis CI

329 + is getting revamped for both simplicity and flexibility, taking

330 + advantage of the recent move to the vm-based environment.

331 +

332 + * The support for format-patch (and send-email) by the command-line

333 + completion script (in contrib/) has been simplified a bit.

334 +

335

336 Fixes since v2.19

337 -----------------

@@ -447,6 +497,53 @@ Fixes since v2.19

497 '--verbose-log' option.

498 (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).

499

500 + * A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite

501 + loop while processing truncated loose objects.

502 + (merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint).

503 +

504 + * "git ls-remote $there foo" was broken by recent update for the

505 + protocol v2 and stopped showing refs that match 'foo' that are not

506 + refs/{heads,tags}/foo, which has been fixed.

507 + (merge 6a139cdd74 jk/proto-v2-ref-prefix-fix later to maint).

508 +

509 + * Additional comment on a tricky piece of code to help developers.

510 + (merge 0afbe3e806 jk/stream-pack-non-delta-clarification later to maint).

511 +

512 + * A couple of tests used to leave the repository in a state that is

513 + deliberately corrupt, which have been corrected.

514 + (merge aa984dbe5e ab/pack-tests-cleanup later to maint).

515 +

516 + * The submodule support has been updated to read from the blob at

517 + HEAD:.gitmodules when the .gitmodules file is missing from the

518 + working tree.

519 + (merge 2b1257e463 ao/submodule-wo-gitmodules-checked-out later to maint).

520 +

521 + * "git fetch" was a bit loose in parsing responses from the other side

522 + when talking over the protocol v2.

523 +

524 + * "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first

525 + saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches"

526 + and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time")

527 + worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the

528 + same way, which has been fixed.

529 + (merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint).

530 +

531 + * "git send-email --transfer-encoding=..." in recent versions of Git

532 + sometimes produced an empty "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" header,

533 + which has been corrected.

534 + (merge 3c88e46f1a al/send-email-auto-cte-fixup later to maint).

535 +

536 + * The interface into "xdiff" library used to discover the offset and

537 + size of a generated patch hunk by first formatting it into the

538 + textual hunk header "@@ -n,m +k,l @@" and then parsing the numbers

539 + out. A new interface has been introduced to allow callers a more

540 + direct access to them.

541 + (merge 5eade0746e jk/xdiff-interface later to maint).

542 +

543 + * Pathspec matching against a tree object were buggy when negative

544 + pathspec elements were involved, which has been fixed.

545 + (merge b7845cebc0 nd/tree-walk-path-exclusion later to maint).

546 +

547 * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.

548 (merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).

549 (merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).

@@ -485,3 +582,4 @@ Fixes since v2.19

582 (merge aaaa881822 jk/uploadpack-packobjectshook-fix later to maint).

583 (merge 3063477445 tb/char-may-be-unsigned later to maint).

584 (merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).

585 + (merge 71571cd7d6 ma/sequencer-do-reset-saner-loop-termination later to maint).

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