Getting ready for 2.11-rc0
... but not quite yet. A few more topics to go. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error, upgrading
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the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature.
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* The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
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has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the
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next release (not this one).
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+ * The default abbreviation length, which has historically been 7, now
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+ scales as the repository grows, using the approximate number of
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+ objects in the reopsitory and a bit of math around the birthday
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+ paradox. The logic suggests to use 12 hexdigits for the Linux
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+ kernel, and 9 to 10 for Git itself.
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Updates since v2.10
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learned to turn "git describe" output (e.g. v2.9.3-599-g2376d31787)
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into clickable links in its output.
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+ * When new paths were added by "git add -N" to the index, it was
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+ enough to circumvent the check by "git commit" to refrain from
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+ making an empty commit without "--allow-empty". The same logic
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+ prevented "git status" to show such a path as "new file" in the
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+ "Changes not staged for commit" section.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -212,6 +223,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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by reducing use of timestamp-ordered commit-list, which was
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replaced with a priority queue.
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+ * "git diff --no-index" codepath has been updated not to try to peek
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+ into .git/ directory that happens to be under the current
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+ directory, when we know we are operating outside any repository.
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+ * Update of the sequencer codebase to make it reusable to reimplement
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+ "rebase -i" continues.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -518,6 +536,23 @@ notes for details).
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work around them.
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(merge 6750f62699 po/fix-doc-merge-base-illustration later to maint).
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+ * A minor regression fix for "git submodule" that was introduced
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+ when more helper functions were reimplemented in C.
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+ (merge 77b63ac31e sb/submodule-ignore-trailing-slash later to maint).
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+ * The code that we have used for the past 10+ years to cycle
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+ 4-element ring buffers turns out to be not quite portable in
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+ theoretical world.
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+ (merge bb84735c80 rs/ring-buffer-wraparound later to maint).
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+ * "git daemon" used fixed-length buffers to turn URL to the
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+ repository the client asked for into the server side directory
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+ path, using snprintf() to avoid overflowing these buffers, but
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+ allowed possibly truncated paths to the directory. This has been
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+ tightened to reject such a request that causes overlong path to be
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+ required to serve.
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+ (merge 6bdb0083be jk/daemon-path-ok-check-truncation later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge a94bb68397 rs/cocci later to maint).
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(merge 641c900b2c js/reset-usage later to maint).