Third batch for 2.14

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed May 29, 2017 at 12:39 UTC e83352ef23cca2701953ed3c915f1db49b255a7d
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt
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36 necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
37 (merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
38
39 + * "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
40 +
41 + * "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
42 + (merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
43 +
44 + * "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
45 + to pack-objects.
46 +
47
48 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
49
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73 * We can trigger Windows auto-build tester (credits: Dscho &
74 Microsoft) from our existing Travis CI tester now.
75
76 + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
77 +
78 +
79
80 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
81
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129 not translated by mistake), and TravisCI is told to run them.
130 (merge b8e188f6f5 ab/fix-poison-tests later to maint).
131
132 + * "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
133 + submodule that itself has submodules.
134 + (merge 218c883783 sb/checkout-recurse-submodules later to maint).
135 +
136 + * Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
137 + split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
138 + future.
139 + (merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
140 +
141 + * "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
142 + the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
143 + in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
144 + strategy however would not work well when "--local" and other
145 + options are in use, and need to be disabled.
146 + (merge da5a1f8100 jk/disable-pack-reuse-when-broken later to maint).
147 +
148 + * Fix memory leaks pointed out by Coverity (and people).
149 + (merge 443a12f37b js/plug-leaks later to maint).
150 +
151 + * "git read-tree -m" (no tree-ish) gave a nonsense suggestion "use
152 + --empty if you want to clear the index". With "-m", such a request
153 + will still fail anyway, as you'd need to name at least one tree-ish
154 + to be merged.
155 + (merge b9b10d3681 jc/read-tree-empty-with-m later to maint).
156 +
157 + * Make sure our tests would pass when the sources are checked out
158 + with "platform native" line ending convention by default on
159 + Windows. Some "text" files out tests use and the test scripts
160 + themselves that are meant to be run with /bin/sh, ought to be
161 + checked out with eol=LF even on Windows.
162 + (merge 2779f66505 js/eol-on-ourselves later to maint).
163 +
164 + * Introduce the BUG() macro to improve die("BUG: ...").
165 + (merge 3d7dd2d3b6 jk/bug-to-abort later to maint).
166 +
167 + * Clarify documentation for include.path and includeIf.<condition>.path
168 + configuration variables.
169 + (merge ce933ebd5a jk/doc-config-include later to maint).
170 +
171 + * Git sometimes gives an advice in a rhetorical question that does
172 + not require an answer, which can confuse new users and non native
173 + speakers. Attempt to rephrase them.
174 + (merge 6963893943 ja/do-not-ask-needless-questions later to maint).
175 +
176 + * A few http:// links that are redirected to https:// in the
177 + documentation have been updated to https:// links.
178 + (merge 5e68729fd9 jk/update-links-in-docs later to maint).
179 +
180 + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." with %(HEAD) in the format used to
181 + resolve the HEAD symref as many times as it had processed refs,
182 + which was wasteful, and "git branch" shared the same problem.
183 + (merge 613a0e52ea kn/ref-filter-branch-list later to maint).
184 +
185 + * Regression fix to topic recently merged to 'master'.
186 + (merge d096d7f1ef pw/rebase-i-regression-fix later to maint).
187 +
188 + * The shell completion script (in contrib/) learned "git stash" has
189 + a new "push" subcommand.
190 + (merge 3851e4483f tg/stash-push-fixup later to maint).
191 +
192 + * "git interpret-trailers", when used as GIT_EDITOR for "git commit
193 + -v", looked for and appended to a trailer block at the very end,
194 + i.e. at the end of the "diff" output. The command has been
195 + corrected to pay attention to the cut-mark line "commit -v" adds to
196 + the buffer---the real trailer block should appear just before it.
197 + (merge d76650b8d1 bm/interpret-trailers-cut-line-is-eom later to maint).
198 +
199 + * A test allowed both "git push" and "git receive-pack" on the other
200 + end write their traces into the same file. This is OK on platforms
201 + that allows atomically appending to a file opened with O_APPEND,
202 + but on other platforms led to a mangled output, causing
203 + intermittent test failures. This has been fixed by disabling
204 + traces from "receive-pack" in the test.
205 + (merge 71406ed4d6 jk/alternate-ref-optim later to maint).
206 +
207 + * Tag objects, which are not reachable from any ref, that point at
208 + missing objects were mishandled by "git gc" and friends (they
209 + should silently be ignored instead)
210 + (merge a3ba6bf10a jk/ignore-broken-tags-when-ignoring-missing-links later to maint).
211 +
212 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
213 (merge 515360f9e9 jn/credential-doc-on-clear later to maint).
214 (merge 0e6d899fee ab/aix-needs-compat-regex later to maint).
215 (merge e294e8959f jc/apply-fix-mismerge later to maint).
216 (merge 7f1b225153 bw/submodule-with-bs-path later to maint).
217 (merge c8f7c8b704 tb/dedup-crlf-tests later to maint).
218 + (merge 449456ad47 sg/core-filemode-doc-typofix later to maint).
219 + (merge ba4dce784e km/log-showsignature-doc later to maint).