The fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 25, 2021 at 14:04 UTC
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Updates since v2.30
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+Backward incompatible and other important changes
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+ * The "pack-redundant" command, which has been left stale with almost
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+ unusable performance issues, now warns loudly when it gets used, as
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+ we no longer want to recommend its use (instead just "repack -d"
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+ instead).
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+ * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to
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+ update from v1.4 that we have been using.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* The "--format=%(trailers)" mechanism gets enhanced to make it
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* "git maintenance" learned to drive scheduled maintenance on
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platforms whose native scheduling methods are not 'cron'.
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+ * After expiring a reflog and making a single commit, the reflog for
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+ the branch would record a single entry that knows both @{0} and
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+ @{1}, but we failed to answer "what commit were we on?", i.e. @{1}
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+ * "git bundle" learns "--stdin" option to read its refs from the
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+ standard input. Also, it now does not lose refs whey they point
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+ at the same object.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The topological walk codepath is covered by new trace2 stats.
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+ * Update the Code-of-conduct to version 2.0 from the upstream (we've
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+ been using version 1.4).
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+ * "git mktag" validates its input using its own rules before writing
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+ a tag object---it has been updated to share the logic with "git
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+ fsck".
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+ * Two new ways to feed configuration variable-value pairs via
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+ environment variables have been introduced, and the way
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+ GIT_CONFIG_PARAMETERS encodes variable/value pairs has been tweaked
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+ to make it more robust.
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+ * Tests have been updated so that they do not to get affected by the
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+ name of the default branch "git init" creates.
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+ * "git fetch" learns to treat ref updates atomically in all-or-none
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+ fashion, just like "git push" does, with the new "--atomic" option.
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Fixes since v2.30
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* Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac.
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(merge 3831132ace jc/macos-install-dependencies-fix later to maint).
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+ * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD
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+ display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.
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+ (merge 4045f659bd ab/branch-sort later to maint).
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+ * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are
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+ now forbidden.
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+ (merge 6aed56736b jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url later to maint).
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+ * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as
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+ "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is
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+ that the "-dirty" indicator would align with "git describe --dirty",
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+ which does not consider having untracked files in the working tree
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+ as source of dirtiness. The inconsistency has been fixed.
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+ * When more than one commit with the same patch ID appears on one
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+ side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a
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+ commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it
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+ does.
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+ (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint).
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(merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint).
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(merge 52fc4f195c dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion later to maint).
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(merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint).
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(merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint).