The fourth batch for 2.26
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Feb 12, 2020 at 12:12 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt
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@@ -16,6 +16,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete
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subcommands and arguments to "git worktree".
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+ * Disambiguation logic to tell revisions and pathspec apart has been
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+ tweaked so that backslash-escaped glob special characters do not
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+ count in the "wildcards are pathspec" rule.
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+ * One effect of specifying where the GIT_DIR is (either with the
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+ environment variable, or with the "git --git-dir=<where> cmd"
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+ option) is to disable the repository discovery. This has been
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+ placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often
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+ get confused.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -36,6 +46,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Preparation of test scripts for the day when the object names will
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use SHA-256 continues.
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+ * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code
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+ to tentatively use in-core objects.
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Fixes since v2.25
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@@ -116,6 +129,29 @@ Fixes since v2.25
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corrected.
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(merge a9472afb63 pb/recurse-submodule-in-worktree-fix later to maint).
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+ * Futureproofing a test not to depend on the current implementation
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+ detail.
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+ (merge b54128bb0b jt/t5616-robustify later to maint).
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+ * Running "git rm" on a submodule failed unnecessarily when
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+ .gitmodules is only cache-dirty, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 7edee32985 dt/submodule-rm-with-stale-cache later to maint).
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+ * C pedantry ;-) fix.
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+ (merge cf82bff73f jk/clang-sanitizer-fixes later to maint).
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+ * "git grep --no-index" should not get affected by the contents of
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+ the .gitmodules file but when "--recurse-submodules" is given or
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+ the "submodule.recurse" variable is set, it did. Now these
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+ settings are ignored in the "--no-index" mode.
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+ (merge c56c48dd07 pb/do-not-recurse-grep-no-index later to maint).
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+ * Technical details of the bundle format has been documented.
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+ (merge 7378ec90e1 ms/doc-bundle-format later to maint).
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+ * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched.
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+ (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint).
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(merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint).
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(merge 7a2dc95cbc bc/misconception-doc later to maint).
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(merge b441717256 dl/test-must-fail-fixes later to maint).
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(merge d031049da3 mt/sparse-checkout-doc-update later to maint).
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+ (merge 145136a95a jc/skip-prefix later to maint).
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+ (merge eb31044ff7 jb/multi-pack-index-docfix later to maint).
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+ (merge 04e5b3f0b4 km/submodule-doc-use-sm-path later to maint).
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+ (merge e469afe158 ma/filter-branch-doc-caret later to maint).
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+ (merge 395518cf7a jb/parse-options-message-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint).
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+ (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint).