Getting ready for -rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 23, 2017 at 22:08 UTC
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@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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to the working tree of the submodule but not the commit that is
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checked out.
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+ * Allow the http.postbuffer configuration variable to be set to a
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+ size that can be expressed in size_t, which can be larger than
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+ ulong on some platforms.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -242,8 +246,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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older one and the newer one interoperate happily has now become
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possible.
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- * "uchar [40]" to "struct object_id" conversion continues.
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-
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* "git tag --contains" used to (ab)use the object bits to keep track
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of the state of object reachability without clearing them after
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use; this has been cleaned up and made to use the newer commit-slab
@@ -278,13 +280,28 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Define a new task in .travis.yml that triggers a test session on
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Windows run elsewhere.
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- * Conversion from unsigned char [40] to struct object_id continues.
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+ * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
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* The "submodule" specific field in the ref_store structure is
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replaced with a more generic "gitdir" that can later be used also
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when dealing with ref_store that represents the set of refs visible
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from the other worktrees.
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+ * The string-list API used a custom reallocation strategy that was
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+ very inefficient, instead of using the usual ALLOC_GROW() macro,
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+ which has been fixed.
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+ (merge 950a234cbd jh/string-list-micro-optim later to maint).
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+ * In a 2- and 3-way merge of trees, more than one source trees often
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+ end up sharing an identical subtree; optimize by not reading the
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+ same tree multiple times in such a case.
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+ (merge d12a8cf0af jh/unpack-trees-micro-optim later to maint).
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+ * The index file has a trailing SHA-1 checksum to detect file
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+ corruption, and historically we checked it every time the index
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+ file is used. Omit the validation during normal use, and instead
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+ verify only in "git fsck".
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -492,6 +509,32 @@ notes for details).
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checked out; it should use "symbolic-ref HEAD".
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(merge eff451101d ld/p4-current-branch-fix later to maint).
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+ * "http.proxy" set to an empty string is used to disable the usage of
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+ proxy. We broke this early last year.
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+ (merge ae51d91105 sr/http-proxy-configuration-fix later to maint).
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+ * $GIT_DIR may in some cases be normalized with all symlinks resolved
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+ while "gitdir" path expansion in the pattern does not receive the
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+ same treatment, leading to incorrect mismatch. This has been fixed.
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+ * "git submodule" script does not work well with strange pathnames.
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+ Protect it from a path with slashes in them, at least.
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+ * "git fetch-pack" was not prepared to accept ERR packet that the
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+ upload-pack can send with a human-readable error message. It
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+ showed the packet contents with ERR prefix, so there was no data
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+ loss, but it was redundant to say "ERR" in an error message.
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+ (merge 8e2c7bef03 jt/fetch-pack-error-reporting later to maint).
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+ * "ls-files --recurse-submodules" did not quite work well in a
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+ project with nested submodules.
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+ * gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does
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+ not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer
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+ was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up
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+ using garbage past the end of the buffer.
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+ (merge 5781a9a270 dt/xgethostname-nul-termination later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint).
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(merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint).
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(merge 35ad44cbd8 sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
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(merge 0301f1fd92 va/i18n-perl-scripts later to maint).
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(merge 733e064d98 vn/revision-shorthand-for-side-branch-log later to maint).
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+ (merge 85999743e7 tb/doc-eol-normalization later to maint).
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+ (merge 0747fb49fd jk/loose-object-fsck later to maint).
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+ (merge d8f4481c4f jk/quarantine-received-objects later to maint).
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+ (merge 7ba1ceef95 xy/format-patch-base later to maint).
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+ (merge fa1912c89a rs/misc-cppcheck-fixes later to maint).