e144d126d7 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -82,6 +82,28 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

82 "feature" to fetch only commits and/or trees, which nobody used.

83 This has been removed.

84

85 + * The functionality of "$GIT_DIR/info/grafts" has been superseded by

86 + the "refs/replace/" mechanism for some time now, but the internal

87 + code had support for it in many places, which has been cleaned up

88 + in order to drop support of the "grafts" mechanism.

89 +

90 + * "git worktree add" learned to check out an existing branch.

91 +

92 + * "git --no-pager cmd" did not have short-and-sweet single letter

93 + option. Now it does as "-P".

94 + (merge 7213c28818 js/no-pager-shorthand later to maint).

95 +

96 + * "git rebase" learned "--rebase-merges" to transplant the whole

97 + topology of commit graph elsewhere.

98 +

99 + * "git status" learned to pay attention to UI related diff

100 + configuration variables such as diff.renames.

101 +

102 + * The command line completion mechanism (in contrib/) learned to load

103 + custom completion file for "git $command" where $command is a

104 + custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using

105 + newer version of bash.

106 +

107

108 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

109

@@ -179,6 +201,37 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

201 * The code to interface to GPG has been restructured somewhat to make

202 it cleaner to integrate with other types of signature systems later.

203

204 + * The code has been taught to use the duplicated information stored

205 + in the commit-graph file to learn the tree object name for a commit

206 + to avoid opening and parsing the commit object when it makes sense

207 + to do so.

208 +

209 + * "git gc" in a large repository takes a lot of time as it considers

210 + to repack all objects into one pack by default. The command has

211 + been taught to pretend as if the largest existing packfile is

212 + marked with ".keep" so that it is left untouched while objects in

213 + other packs and loose ones are repacked.

214 +

215 + * The transport protocol v2 is getting updated further.

216 +

217 + * The codepath around object-info API has been taught to take the

218 + repository object (which in turn tells the API which object store

219 + the objects are to be located).

220 +

221 + * Rename detection logic in "diff" family that is used in "merge" has

222 + learned to guess when all of x/a, x/b and x/c have moved to z/a,

223 + z/b and z/c, it is likely that x/d added in the meantime would also

224 + want to move to z/d by taking the hint that the entire directory

225 + 'x' moved to 'z'. A bug causing dirty files involved in a rename

226 + to be overwritten during merge has also been fixed as part of this

227 + work. Incidentally, this also avoids updating a file in the

228 + working tree after a (non-trivial) merge whose result matches what

229 + our side originally had.

230 +

231 + * "git pack-objects" needs to allocate tons of "struct object_entry"

232 + while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance

233 + quite a bit.

234 +

235

236 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

237

@@ -292,6 +345,43 @@ Fixes since v2.17

345 some merge commits in certain cases, which has been corrected.

346 (merge be011bbe00 ma/fast-export-skip-merge-fix later to maint).

347

348 + * The code did not propagate the terminal width to subprocesses via

349 + COLUMNS environment variable, which it now does. This caused

350 + trouble to "git column" helper subprocess when "git tag --column=row"

351 + tried to list the existing tags on a display with non-default width.

352 + (merge b5d5a567fb nd/term-columns later to maint).

353 +

354 + * We learned that our source files with ".pl" and ".py" extensions

355 + are Perl and Python files respectively and changes to them are

356 + better viewed as such with appropriate diff drivers.

357 + (merge 7818b619e2 ab/perl-python-attrs later to maint).

358 +

359 + * "git rebase -i" sometimes left intermediate "# This is a

360 + combination of N commits" message meant for the human consumption

361 + inside an editor in the final result in certain corner cases, which

362 + has been fixed.

363 + (merge 15ef69314d js/rebase-i-clean-msg-after-fixup-continue later to maint).

364 +

365 + * A test to see if the filesystem normalizes UTF-8 filename has been

366 + updated to check what we need to know in a more direct way, i.e. a

367 + path created in NFC form can be accessed with NFD form (or vice

368 + versa) to cope with APFS as well as HFS.

369 + (merge 742ae10e35 tb/test-apfs-utf8-normalization later to maint).

370 +

371 + * "git format-patch --cover --attach" created a broken MIME multipart

372 + message for the cover letter, which has been fixed by keeping the

373 + cover letter as plain text file.

374 + (merge 50cd54ef4e bc/format-patch-cover-no-attach later to maint).

375 +

376 + * The split-index feature had a long-standing and dormant bug in

377 + certain use of the in-core merge machinery, which has been fixed.

378 + (merge 7db118303a en/unpack-trees-split-index-fix later to maint).

379 +

380 + * Asciidoctor gives a reasonable imitation for AsciiDoc, but does not

381 + render illustration in a literal block correctly when indented with

382 + HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs.

383 + (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint).

384 +

385 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.

386 (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).

387 (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).

@@ -310,3 +400,14 @@ Fixes since v2.17

400 (merge adc887221f tq/t1510 later to maint).

401 (merge bed21a8ad6 sg/doc-gc-quote-mismatch-fix later to maint).

402 (merge 73364e4f10 tz/doc-git-urls-reference later to maint).

403 + (merge cd1e606bad bc/mailmap-self later to maint).

404 + (merge f7997e3682 ao/config-api-doc later to maint).

405 + (merge ee930754d8 jk/apply-p-doc later to maint).

406 + (merge 011b648646 nd/pack-format-doc later to maint).

407 + (merge 87a6bb701a sg/t5310-jgit-bitmap-test later to maint).

408 + (merge f6b82970aa sg/t5516-fixes later to maint).

409 + (merge 4362da078e sg/t7005-spaces-in-filenames-cleanup later to maint).

410 + (merge 7d0ee47c11 js/test-unset-prereq later to maint).

411 + (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint).

412 + (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint).

413 + (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).

The sixth batch for 2.18