Twelfth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 31, 2020 at 15:00 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
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@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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deprecated and/or dangerous options from its output; it learned to
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optionally include all of them.
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+ * The output from the "diff" family of the commands had abbreviated
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+ object names of blobs involved in the patch, but its length was not
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+ affected by the --abbrev option. Now it is.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -113,6 +117,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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the ref backend in use, as its format is much richer than the
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normal refs, and written directly by "git fetch" as a plain file..
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+ * A handful of places in in-tree code still relied on being able to
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+ execute the git subcommands, especially built-ins, in "git-foo"
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+ form, which have been corrected.
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Fixes since v2.28
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marker like whitespaces.
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(merge 82a62015a7 rs/patch-id-with-incomplete-line later to maint).
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+ * Updates into a lazy/partial clone with a submodule did not work
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+ well with transfer.fsckobjects set.
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+ * The parser for "git for-each-ref --format=..." was too loose when
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+ parsing the "%(trailers...)" atom, and forgot that "trailers" and
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+ "trailers:<modifiers>" are the only two allowed forms, which has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 2c22e102f8 hv/ref-filter-trailers-atom-parsing-fix later to maint).
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+ * Long ago, we decided to use 3 threads by default when running the
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+ index-pack task in parallel, which has been adjusted a bit upwards.
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+ (merge fbff95b67f jk/index-pack-w-more-threads later to maint).
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+ * "git restore/checkout --no-overlay" with wildcarded pathspec
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+ mistakenly removed matching paths in subdirectories, which has been
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+ corrected.
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+ (merge bfda204ade rs/checkout-no-overlay-pathspec-fix later to maint).
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+ * The description of --cached/--index options in "git apply --help"
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+ has been updated.
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+ (merge d064702be3 rp/apply-cached-doc later to maint).
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+ * Feeding "$ZERO_OID" to "git log --ignore-missing --stdin", and
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+ running "git log --ignore-missing $ZERO_OID" fell back to start
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+ digging from HEAD; it has been corrected to become a no-op, like
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+ "git log --tags=no-tag-matches-this-pattern" does.
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+ (merge 04a0e98515 jk/rev-input-given-fix later to maint).
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+ * Various callers of run_command API has been modernized.
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+ (merge afbdba391e jc/run-command-use-embedded-args later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 84544f2ea3 sk/typofixes later to maint).
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(merge b17f411ab5 ar/help-guides-doc later to maint).