Prepare for -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 7, 2017 at 16:29 UTC
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@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@ Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
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more explicit '.' for that instead. The hope is that existing
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users will not mind this change, and eventually the warning can be
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turned into a hard error, upgrading the deprecation into removal of
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- this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in the upcoming
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- release.
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+ this (mis)feature. That is now scheduled to happen in Git v2.16,
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+ the next major release after this one.
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* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
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sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
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- happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
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+ happens to work right now may be broken by a call to BUG().
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We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
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might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
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greatly appreciated.
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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other options to make it easier for scripts to grab existing
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trailer lines from a commit log message.
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+ * The "--format=%(trailers)" option "git log" and its friends take
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+ learned to take the 'unfold' and 'only' modifiers to normalize its
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+ output, e.g. "git log --format=%(trailers:only,unfold)".
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* "gitweb" shows a link to visit the 'raw' contents of blbos in the
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history overview page.
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@@ -222,6 +226,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Add comment to clarify that the style file is meant to be used with
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clang-5 and the rules are still work in progress.
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+ * Many variables that points at a region of memory that will live
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+ throughout the life of the program have been marked with UNLEAK
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+ marker to help the leak checkers concentrate on real leaks..
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -455,6 +464,27 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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request-pull script.
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(merge e66d7c37a5 ar/request-pull-phrasofix later to maint).
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+ * Fixes for a handful memory access issues identified by valgrind.
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+ (merge 2944a94c6b tg/memfixes later to maint).
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+ * Backports a moral equivalent of 2015 fix to the poll() emulation
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+ from the upstream gnulib to fix occasional breakages on HPE NonStop.
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+ (merge 61b2a1acaa rb/compat-poll-fix later to maint).
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+
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+ * Users with "color.ui = always" in their configuration were broken
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+ by a recent change that made plumbing commands to pay attention to
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+ them as the patch created internally by "git add -p" were colored
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+ (heh) and made unusable. Fix this regression by redefining
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+ 'always' to mean the same thing as 'auto'.
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+ (merge 6be4595edb jk/ui-color-always-to-auto-maint later to maint).
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+
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+ * In the "--format=..." option of the "git for-each-ref" command (and
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+ its friends, i.e. the listing mode of "git branch/tag"), "%(atom:)"
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+ (e.g. "%(refname:)", "%(body:)" used to error out. Instead, treat
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+ them as if the colon and an empty string that follows it were not
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+ there.
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+ (merge bea4dbeafd tb/ref-filter-empty-modifier later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge f094b89a4d ma/parse-maybe-bool later to maint).
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(merge 39b00fa4d4 jk/drop-sha1-entry-pos later to maint).
@@ -481,3 +511,8 @@ Fixes since v2.14
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(merge 9ca356fa8b rs/cocci-de-paren-call-params later to maint).
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(merge 7099153e8d rs/tag-null-pointer-arith-fix later to maint).
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(merge 0e187d758c rs/run-command-use-alloc-array later to maint).
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+ (merge e0222159fa jn/strbuf-doc-re-reuse later to maint).
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+ (merge 97487ea11a rs/qsort-s later to maint).
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+ (merge a9155c50bd sb/branch-avoid-repeated-strbuf-release later to maint).
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+ (merge f777623514 ks/branch-tweak-error-message-for-extra-args later to maint).
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+ (merge 33f3c683ec ks/verify-filename-non-option-error-message-tweak later to maint).