Post 2.3 cycle (batch #11)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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Git 2.4 Release Notes
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+Backward compatibility warning(s)
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+---------------------------------
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+Output from "git log --decorate" (and "%d" format specifier used in
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+the userformat "--format=<string>" parameter "git log" family of
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+command takes) used to list "HEAD" just like other tips of branch
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+names, separated with a comma in between. E.g.
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+ $ git log --decorate -1 master
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+ commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD, master)
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+ ...
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+This release updates the output slightly when HEAD refers to the tip
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+of a branch whose name is also shown in the output. The above is
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+shown as:
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+ $ git log --decorate -1 master
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+ commit bdb0f6788fa5e3cacc4315e9ff318a27b2676ff4 (HEAD -> master)
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+ ...
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Updates since v2.3
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* We did not check the curl library version before using
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CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist.
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+ * We now detect number of CPUs on older BSD-derived systems.
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+ * Portability fixes and workarounds for shell scripts have been added
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+ to help BSD-derived systems.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git archive" can now be told to set the 'text' attribute in the
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resulting zip archive.
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+ * Output from "git log --decorate" mentions HEAD when it points at a
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+ tip of an branch differently from a detached HEAD.
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+ This is a potentially backward-incompatible change.
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+ * "git branch" on a detached HEAD always said "(detached from xyz)",
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+ even when "git status" would report "detached at xyz". The HEAD is
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+ actually at xyz and haven't been moved since it was detached in
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+ such a case, but the user cannot read what the current value of
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+ HEAD is when "detached from" is used.
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+ (merge 4b06318 mg/detached-head-report later to maint).
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+ * "git -C '' subcmd" refused to work in the current directory, unlike
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+ "cd ''" which silently behaves as a no-op.
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+ (merge 6a536e2 kn/git-cd-to-empty later to maint).
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+ * The versionsort.prerelease configuration variable can be used to
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+ specify that v1.0-pre1 comes before v1.0.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Simplify the ref transaction API around how "the ref should be
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pointing at this object" is specified.
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+ * Code in "git daemon" to parse out and hold hostnames used in
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+ request interpolation has been simplified.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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* A corrupt input to "git diff -M" used to cause it to segfault.
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(merge 4d6be03 jk/diffcore-rename-duplicate later to maint).
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+ * Certain builds of GPG triggered false breakages in a test.
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+ (merge 3f88c1b mg/verify-commit later to maint).
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+ * "git imap-send" learned to optionally talk with an IMAP server via
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+ libcURL; because there is no other option when Git is built with
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+ NO_OPENSSL option, use that codepath by default under such
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+ configuration.
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+ (merge dcd01ea km/imap-send-libcurl-options later to maint).
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+ * "git log --decorate" did not reset colors correctly around the
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+ branch names.
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+ (merge 5ee8758 jc/decorate-leaky-separator-color later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentaiton updates.
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(merge 33baa69 rj/no-xopen-source-for-cygwin later to maint).
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