Git 2.8-rc0
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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* You can now set http.[<url>.]pinnedpubkey to specify the pinned
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public key when building with recent enough versions of libcURL.
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+ * The configuration system has been taught to phrase where it found a
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+ bad configuration variable in a better way in its error messages.
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+ "git config" learnt a new "--show-origin" option to indicate where
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+ the values come from.
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+ * The "credential-cache" daemon process used to run in whatever
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+ directory it happened to start in, but this made umount(2)ing the
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+ filesystem that houses the repository harder; now the process
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+ chdir()s to the directory that house its own socket on startup.
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+ * When "git submodule update" did not result in fetching the commit
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+ object in the submodule that is referenced by the superproject, the
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+ command learned to retry another fetch, specifically asking for
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+ that commit that may not be connected to the refs it usually
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+ fetches.
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+ * "git merge-recursive" learned "--no-renames" option to disable its
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+ rename detection logic.
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+ * Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to
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+ get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting
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+ push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn, given that
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+ the transition is over long time ago.
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+ * README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked
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+ slightly to make it easier on the eyes.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Help those who debug http(s) part of the system.
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(merge 0054045 sp/remote-curl-ssl-strerror later to maint).
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+ * The internal API to interact with "remote.*" configuration
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+ variables has been streamlined.
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+ * The ref-filter's format-parsing code has been refactored, in
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+ preparation for "branch --format" and friends.
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+ * Traditionally, the tests that try commands that work on the
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+ contents in the working tree were named with "worktree" in their
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+ filenames, but with the recent addition of "git worktree"
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+ subcommand, whose tests are also named similarly, it has become
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+ harder to tell them apart. The traditional tests have been renamed
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+ to use "work-tree" instead in an attempt to differentiate them.
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+ (merge 5549029 mg/work-tree-tests later to maint).
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+ * Many codepaths forget to check return value from git_config_set();
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+ the function is made to die() to make sure we do not proceed when
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+ setting a configuration variable failed.
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+ (merge 3d18064 ps/config-error later to maint).
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+ * Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
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+ process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
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+ tests.
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+ (merge 43f3afc jk/epipe-in-async later to maint).
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+ * There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
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+ options in the Makefile.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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broken in 2.6.0 timeframe when the command was rewritten in C.
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(merge 708b8cc jc/am-i-v-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git merge-tree" used to mishandle "both sides added" conflict with
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+ its own "create a fake ancestor file that has the common parts of
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+ what both sides have added and do a 3-way merge" logic; this has
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+ been updated to use the usual "3-way merge with an empty blob as
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+ the fake common ancestor file" approach used in the rest of the
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+ system.
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+ (merge 907681e jk/no-diff-emit-common later to maint).
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+ * The memory ownership rule of fill_textconv() API, which was a bit
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+ tricky, has been documented a bit better.
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+ (merge a64e6a4 jk/more-comments-on-textconv later to maint).
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+ * Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
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+ (merge 08c95df jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
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+ * The documentation did not clearly state that the 'simple' mode is
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+ now the default for "git push" when push.default configuration is
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+ not set.
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+ (merge f6b1fb3 mm/push-simple-doc later to maint).
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+ * Recent versions of GNU grep are pickier when their input contains
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+ arbitrary binary data, which some of our tests uses. Rewrite the
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+ tests to sidestep the problem.
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+ (merge 3b1442d jk/grep-binary-workaround-in-test later to maint).
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+ * A helper function "git submodule" uses since v2.7.0 to list the
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+ modules that match the pathspec argument given to its subcommands
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+ (e.g. "submodule add <repo> <path>") has been fixed.
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+ (merge 2b56bb7 sb/submodule-module-list-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git config section.var value" to set a value in per-repository
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+ configuration file failed when it was run outside any repository,
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+ but didn't say the reason correctly.
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+ (merge 638fa62 js/config-set-in-non-repository later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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+ (merge f459823 ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep later to maint).
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+ (merge 63ca1c0 ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command later to maint).
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+ (merge 4867f11 ps/plug-xdl-merge-leak later to maint).
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+ (merge 4938686 dt/initial-ref-xn-commit-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 9537f21 ma/update-hooks-sample-typofix later to maint).
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