Fifth batch 2.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 10, 2017 at 15:25 UTC
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@@ -61,6 +61,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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the previous hack that depended on internals of (older) MSVC
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runtime.
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+ * Some platforms no longer understand "latin-1" that is still seen in
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+ the wild in e-mail headers; replace them with "iso-8859-1" that is
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+ more widely known when conversion fails from/to it.
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+ (merge df3755888b jc/latin-1 later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -81,6 +86,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Update the procedure to generate "tags" for developer support.
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(merge 046e4c1c09 jk/make-tags-find-sources-tweak later to maint).
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+ * The codeflow of setting NOATIME and CLOEXEC on file descriptors Git
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+ opens has been simplified.
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+ (merge b4d065df03 jc/git-open-cloexec later to maint).
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+ * "git diff" and its family had two experimental heuristics to shift
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+ the contents of a hunk to make the patch easier to read. One of
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+ them turns out to be better than the other, so leave only the
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+ "--indent-heuristic" option and remove the other one.
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+ (merge 3cde4e02ee jc/retire-compaction-heuristics later to maint).
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+ * A new submodule helper "git submodule embedgitdirs" to make it
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+ easier to move embedded .git/ directory for submodules in a
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+ superproject to .git/modules/ (and point the latter with the former
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+ that is turned into a "gitdir:" file) has been added.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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fixed.
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(merge c46458e82f mk/mingw-winansi-ttyname-termination-fix later to maint).
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+ * When the http server gives an incomplete response to a smart-http
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+ rpc call, it could lead to client waiting for a full response that
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+ will never come. Teach the client side to notice this condition
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+ and abort the transfer.
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+ (merge f8edeaa05d dt/smart-http-detect-server-going-away later to maint).
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+ * Compression setting for producing packfiles were spread across
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+ three codepaths, one of which did not honor any configuration.
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+ Unify these so that all of them honor core.compression and
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+ pack.compression variables the same way.
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+ (merge 8de7eeb54b jc/compression-config later to maint).
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+ * "git fast-import" sometimes mishandled while rebalancing notes
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+ tree, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 405d7f4af6 mh/fast-import-notes-fix-new later to maint).
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+ * Recent update to the default abbreviation length that auto-scales
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+ lacked documentation update, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 48d5014dd4 jc/abbrev-autoscale-config later to maint).
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+ * Leakage of lockfiles in the config subsystem has been fixed.
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+ (merge c06fa62dfc nd/config-misc-fixes later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge fa6ca11105 nd/qsort-in-merge-recursive later to maint).
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(merge fa3142c919 ak/lazy-prereq-mktemp later to maint).
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(merge 47437fd3bd kh/tutorial-grammofix later to maint).
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(merge f2627d9b19 sb/submodule-config-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 7eeda8b821 ls/filter-process later to maint).
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+ (merge 6cc823c5c1 jt/fetch-no-redundant-tag-fetch-map later to maint).
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+ (merge 235ec24352 mm/push-social-engineering-attack-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge f1350d0c12 mm/gc-safety-doc later to maint).