Seventh batch for 2.1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 10, 2014 at 11:37 UTC
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@@ -106,14 +106,27 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git tag" when editing the tag message shows the name of the tag
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being edited as a comment in the editor.
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+ * "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed
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+ commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check
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+ signed tags, was added.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up.
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+ * Effort to shrink the size of patches Windows folks maintain on top
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+ by upstreaming them continues.
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* Patches maintained by msysgit folks for Windows port are being
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upstreamed here a bit by bit.
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+ * The leaf function to check validity of a refname format has been
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+ micro-optimized, using SSE2 instructions when available. A few
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+ breakages during its development have been caught and fixed already
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+ but there might remain some more still; please test and report if
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+ you find any.
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* The `core.deltabasecachelimit` used to default to 16 MiB , but this
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proved to be too small, and has been bumped to 96 MiB.
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@@ -169,6 +182,10 @@ notes for details).
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be checked out currently.
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(merge e3fa568 jc/revision-dash-count-parsing later to maint).
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+ * Code to avoid adding the same alternate object store twice was
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+ subtly broken for a long time, but nobody seems to have noticed.
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+ (merge 80b4785 rs/fix-alt-odb-path-comparison later to maint).
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* The "%<(10,trunc)%s" pretty format specifier in the log family of
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commands is used to truncate the string to a given length (e.g. 10
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in the example) with padding to column-align the output, but did
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line endings.
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(merge 4d4813a bc/blame-crlf-test later to maint).
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+ * "git clone -b brefs/tags/bar" would have mistakenly thought we were
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+ following a single tag, even though it was a name of the branch,
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+ because it incorrectly used strstr().
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+ (merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint).
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* "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the
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commit did not have any log message.
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(merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint).