Third batch for 1.7.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 28, 2012 at 15:35 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.12.txt
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@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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the wire, so that the server log can be examined to see the vintage
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distribution of clients.
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+ * "git rebase -i" learned "-x <cmd>" to insert "exec <cmd>" after
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+ each commit in the resulting history.
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+ * "git status" gives finer classification to various states of paths
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+ in conflicted state and offer advice messages in its output.
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+ * "git submodule" learned to deal with nested submodule structure
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+ where a module is contained within a module whose origin is
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+ specified as a relative URL to its superproject's origin.
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+ * A rather heavy-ish "git completion" script has been split to create
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+ a separate "git prompting" script, to help lazy-autoloading of the
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+ completion part while making prompting part always available.
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Foreign Interface
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@@ -31,6 +45,14 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
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* We no longer use AsciiDoc7 syntax in our documentation and favor a
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more modern style.
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+ * "git index-pack" and "git pack-objects" use streaming API to read
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+ from the object store to avoid having to hold a large blob object
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+ in-core while they are doing their thing.
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+ * Code to match paths with exclude patterns learned to avoid calling
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+ fnmatch() by comparing fixed leading substring literally when
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+ possible.
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -42,6 +64,27 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.11 in the maintenance
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releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * When "git log" gets "--simplify-merges/by-decoration" together with
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+ "--first-parent", the combination of these options makes the
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+ simplification logic to use in-core commit objects that haven't
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+ been examined for relevance, either producing incorrect result or
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+ taking too long to produce any output. Teach the simplification
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+ logic to ignore commits that the first-parent traversal logic
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+ ignored when both are in effect to work around the issue.
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+ (merge 6e513ba jc/rev-list-simplify-merges-first-parent later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git add" allows adding a regular file to the path where a
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+ submodule used to exist, but "git update-index" does not allow an
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+ equivalent operation to Porcelain writers.
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+ (merge 242f55f hv/submodule-update-nuke-submodules later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --no-index" did not work with pagers correctly.
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+ (merge af63b54 jk/diff-no-index-pager later to maint).
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+ * "git diff COPYING HEAD:COPYING" gave a nonsense error message that
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+ claimed that the treeish HEAD did not have COPYING in it.
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+ (merge 023e37c mm/verify-filename-fix later to maint).
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* The documentation for "git cherry-pick A B..C" was misleading.
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(merge b98878e cn/cherry-pick-range-docs later to maint).
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