First batch for 2.19 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -6,9 +6,52 @@ Updates since v2.18
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git diff" compares the index and the working tree. For paths
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+ added with intent-to-add bit, the command shows the full contents
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+ of them as added, but the paths themselves were not marked as new
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+ files. They are now shown as new by default.
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+ "git apply" learned the "--intent-to-add" option so that an
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+ otherwise working-tree-only application of a patch will add new
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+ paths to the index marked with the "intent-to-add" bit.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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+ * The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
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+ * The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field,
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+ which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the
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+ code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a
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+ more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated.
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+ * A less often used command "git show-index" has been modernized.
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+ (merge fb3010c31f jk/show-index later to maint).
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+ * The conversion to pass "the_repository" and then "a_repository"
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+ throughout the object access API continues.
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+ * Continuing with the idea to programatically enumerate various
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+ pieces of data required for command line completion, teach the
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+ codebase to report the list of configuration variables
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+ subcommands care about to help complete them.
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+ * Separate "rebase -p" codepath out of "rebase -i" implementation to
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+ slim down the latter and make it easier to manage.
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Fixes since v2.18
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+ * "git remote update" can take both a single remote nickname and a
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+ nickname for remote groups, and the completion script (in contrib/)
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+ has been taught about it.
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+ (merge 9cd4382ad5 ls/complete-remote-update-names later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off
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+ point that is newer than the existing history used to end up
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+ grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out.
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+ (merge e34de73c56 nd/reject-empty-shallow-request later to maint).
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+ * Code cleanup.
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+ (merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).