A bit more of remaining topics before -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 19, 2022 at 12:55 UTC
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* "git remote show [-n] frotz" now pays attention to negative
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pathspec.
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- * "git push" sometimes perform poorly when reachability bitmaps are
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+ * "git push" sometimes performs poorly when reachability bitmaps are
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used, even in a repository where other operations are helped by
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bitmaps. The push.useBitmaps configuration variable is introduced
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to allow disabling use of reachability bitmaps only for "git push".
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what locale they are in by sending Accept-Language HTTP header, but
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this was done only for some requests but not others.
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- * Introduce a discovery.barerepository configuration variable that
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+ * Introduce a safe.barerepository configuration variable that
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allows users to forbid discovery of bare repositories.
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* Various messages that come from the pack-bitmap codepaths have been
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* "git format-patch --from=<ident>" can be told to add an in-body
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"From:" line even for commits that are authored by the given
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- <ident> with "--force-in-body-from"option.
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+ <ident> with "--force-in-body-from" option.
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* The built-in fsmonitor refuses to work on a network mounted
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repositories; a configuration knob for users to override this has
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been introduced.
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+ * The "scalar" addition from Microsoft is now part of the core Git
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+ installation.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The way "git multi-pack" uses parse-options API has been improved.
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- * A coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
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+ * A Coccinelle rule (in contrib/) to encourage use of COPY_ARRAY
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macro has been improved.
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* API tweak to make it easier to run fuzz testing on commit-graph parser.
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* Share the text used to explain configuration variables used by "git
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<subcmd>" in "git help <subcmd>" with the text from "git help config".
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+ * "git mv A B" in a sparsely populated working tree can be asked to
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+ move a path from a directory that is "in cone" to another directory
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+ that is "out of cone". Handling of such a case has been improved.
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+ * The chainlint script for our tests has been revamped.
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Fixes since v2.37
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* "git fsck" reads mode from tree objects but canonicalizes the mode
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before passing it to the logic to check object sanity, which has
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hid broken tree objects from the checking logic. This has been
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- corrected, but to help exiting projects with broken tree objects
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+ corrected, but to help existing projects with broken tree objects
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that they cannot fix retroactively, the severity of anomalies this
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code detects has been demoted to "info" for now.
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* An earlier optimization discarded a tree-object buffer that is
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still in use, which has been corrected.
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* Fix deadlocks between main Git process and subprocess spawned via
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the pipe_command() API, that can kill "git add -p" that was
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reimplemented in C recently.
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* The sequencer machinery translated messages left in the reflog by
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mistake, which has been corrected.
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* xcalloc(), imitating calloc(), takes "number of elements of the
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array", and "size of a single element", in this order. A call that
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does not follow this ordering has been corrected.
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* The preload-index codepath made copies of pathspec to give to
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multiple threads, which were left leaked.
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- (merge 23578904da ad/preload-plug-memleak later to maint).
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* Update the version of Ubuntu used for GitHub Actions CI from 18.04
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to 22.04.
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- (merge ef46584831 ds/github-actions-use-newer-ubuntu later to maint).
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* The auto-stashed local changes created by "git merge --autostash"
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was mixed into a conflicted state left in the working tree, which
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has been corrected.
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- (merge d3a9295ada en/merge-unstash-only-on-clean-merge later to maint).
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* Multi-pack index got corrupted when preferred pack changed from one
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pack to another in a certain way, which has been corrected.