Sixteenth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 22, 2020 at 12:25 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.29.0.txt
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@@ -67,6 +67,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git worktree add" learns that the "-d" is a synonym to "--detach"
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option to create a new worktree without being on a branch.
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+ * "format-patch --range-diff=<prev> <origin>..HEAD" has been taught
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+ not to ignore <origin> when <prev> is a single version.
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+ * "add -p" now allows editing paths that were only added in intent.
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+ * The 'meld' backend of the "git mergetool" learned to give the
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+ underlying 'meld' the '--auto-merge' option, which would help
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+ reduce the amount of text that requires manual merging.
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+ * "git for-each-ref" and friends that list refs used to allow only
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+ one --merged or --no-merged to filter them; they learned to take
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+ combination of both kind of filtering.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -155,6 +168,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Allow maintainers to tweak $(TAR) invocations done while making
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distribution tarballs.
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+ * "git index-pack" learned to resolve deltified objects with greater
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+ parallelism.
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Fixes since v2.28
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early and cleanly when started outside a git repository.
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(merge 378fe5fc3d mt/config-fail-nongit-early later to maint).
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+ * There is a logic to estimate how many objects are in the
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+ repository, which is mean to run once per process invocation, but
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+ it ran every time the estimated value was requested.
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+ (merge 67bb65de5d jk/dont-count-existing-objects-twice later to maint).
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+ * "git remote set-head" that failed still said something that hints
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+ the operation went through, which was misleading.
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+ (merge 5a07c6c3c2 cs/don-t-pretend-a-failed-remote-set-head-succeeded later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch --all --ipv4/--ipv6" forgot to pass the protocol options
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+ to instances of the "git fetch" that talk to individual remotes,
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+ which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 4e735c1326 ar/fetch-ipversion-in-all 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).
@@ -366,3 +396,4 @@ Fixes since v2.28
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(merge e6d5a11fed al/t3200-back-on-a-branch later to maint).
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(merge 324efcf6b6 pw/add-p-leakfix later to maint).
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(merge 1c6ffb546b jk/add-i-fixes later to maint).
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+ (merge e40e936551 cd/commit-graph-doc later to maint).