The seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 5, 2022 at 13:56 UTC
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* The "init" and "set" subcommands in "git sparse-checkout" have been
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unified for a better user experience and performance.
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+ * Many git commands that deal with working tree files try to remove a
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+ directory that becomes empty (i.e. "git switch" from a branch that
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+ has the directory to another branch that does not would attempt
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+ remove all files in the directory and the directory itself). This
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+ drops users into an unfamiliar situation if the command was run in
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+ a subdirectory that becomes subject to removal due to the command.
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+ The commands have been taught to keep an empty directory if it is
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+ the directory they were started in to avoid surprising users.
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+ * "git am" learns "--empty=(stop|drop|keep)" option to tweak what is
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+ done to a piece of e-mail without a patch in it.
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+ * The default merge message prepared by "git merge" records the name
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+ of the current branch; the name can be overridden with a new option
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+ to allow users to pretend a merge is made on a different branch.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Broken &&-chains in the test scripts have been corrected.
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+ * The RCS keyword substitution in "git p4" used to be done assuming
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+ that the contents are UTF-8 text, which can trigger decoding
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+ errors. We now treat the contents as a bytestring for robustness
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+ and correctness.
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+ * The conditions to choose different definitions of the FLEX_ARRAY
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+ macro for vendor compilers has been simplified to make it easier to
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+ maintain.
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+ * Correctness and performance update to "diff --color-moved" feature.
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+ * "git upload-pack" (the other side of "git fetch") used a 8kB buffer
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+ but most of its payload came on 64kB "packets". The buffer size
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+ has been enlarged so that such a packet fits.
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Fixes since v2.34
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which has been corrected.
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(merge 17baeaf82d ab/fetch-set-upstream-while-detached later to maint).
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+ * Among some code paths that ask an yes/no question, only one place
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+ gave a prompt that looked different from the others, which has been
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+ updated to match what the others create.
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+ (merge 0fc8ed154c km/help-prompt-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git log --invert-grep --author=<name>" used to exclude commits
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+ written by the given author, but now "--invert-grep" only affects
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+ the matches made by the "--grep=<pattern>" option.
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+ (merge 794c000267 rs/log-invert-grep-with-headers later to maint).
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+ * "git grep --perl-regexp" failed to match UTF-8 characters with
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+ wildcard when the pattern consists only of ASCII letters, which has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 32e3e8bc55 rs/pcre2-utf later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 74db416c9c cw/protocol-v2-doc-fix later to maint).
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(merge f9b2b6684d ja/doc-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 2c68f577fc ew/cbtree-remove-unused-and-broken-cb-unlink later to maint).
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(merge eafd6e7e55 ab/die-with-bug later to maint).
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(merge 91028f7659 jc/grep-patterntype-default-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 47ca93d071 ds/repack-fixlets later to maint).
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+ (merge e6a9bc0c60 rs/t4202-invert-grep-test-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge deb5407a42 gh/gpg-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 999bba3e0b rs/daemon-plug-leak later to maint).