f15a486ca1 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -104,6 +104,35 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

104 custom "git-$command" that the end user has on the $PATH when using

105 newer version of bash.

106

107 + * "git send-email" can sometimes offer confirmation dialog "Send this

108 + email?" with choices 'Yes', 'No', 'Quit', and 'All'. A new action

109 + 'Edit' has been added to this dialog's choice.

110 +

111 + * With merge.renames configuration set to false, the recursive merge

112 + strategy can be told not to spend cycles trying to find renamed

113 + paths and merge them accordingly.

114 +

115 + * "git status" learned to honor a new status.renames configuration to

116 + skip rename detection, which could be useful for those who want to

117 + do so without disabling the default rename detection done by the

118 + "git diff" command.

119 +

120 + * Command line completion (in contrib/) learned to complete pathnames

121 + for various commands better.

122 +

123 + * "git blame" learns to unhighlight uninteresting metadata from the

124 + originating commit on lines that are the same as the previous one,

125 + and also paint lines in different colors depending on the age of

126 + the commit.

127 +

128 + * Transfer protocol v2 learned to support the partial clone.

129 +

130 + * When a short hexadecimal string is used to name an object but there

131 + are multiple objects that share the string as the prefix of their

132 + names, the code lists these ambiguous candidates in a help message.

133 + These object names are now sorted according to their types for

134 + easier eyeballing.

135 +

136

137 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

138

@@ -232,6 +261,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

261 while doing its work, and shrinking its size helps the performance

262 quite a bit.

263

264 + * The implementation of "git rebase -i --root" has been updated to use

265 + the sequencer machinery more.

266 +

267 + * Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to

268 + mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.

269 +

270 + * Developer support. Use newer GCC on one of the builds done at

271 + TravisCI.org to get more warnings and errors diagnosed.

272 +

273 + * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.

274 +

275

276 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

277

@@ -382,6 +422,45 @@ Fixes since v2.17

422 HT by default. The problem is fixed by forcing 8-space tabs.

423 (merge 379805051d bc/asciidoctor-tab-width later to maint).

424

425 + * Code clean-up to adjust to a more recent lockfile API convention that

426 + allows lockfile instances kept on the stack.

427 + (merge 0fa5a2ed8d ma/lockfile-cleanup later to maint).

428 +

429 + * the_repository->index is not a allocated piece of memory but

430 + repo_clear() indiscriminately attempted to free(3) it, which has

431 + been corrected.

432 + (merge 74373b5f10 nd/repo-clear-keep-the-index later to maint).

433 +

434 + * Code clean-up to avoid non-standard-conformant pointer arithmetic.

435 + (merge c112084af9 rs/no-null-ptr-arith-in-fast-export later to maint).

436 +

437 + * Code clean-up to turn history traversal more robust in a

438 + semi-corrupt repository.

439 + (merge 8702b30fd7 jk/unavailable-can-be-missing later to maint).

440 +

441 + * "git update-ref A B" is supposed to ensure that ref A does not yet

442 + exist when B is a NULL OID, but this check was not done correctly

443 + for pseudo-refs outside refs/ hierarchy, e.g. MERGE_HEAD.

444 +

445 + * "git submodule update" and "git submodule add" supported the

446 + "--reference" option to borrow objects from a neighbouring local

447 + repository like "git clone" does, but lacked the more recent

448 + invention "--dissociate". Also "git submodule add" has been taught

449 + to take the "--progress" option.

450 + (merge a0ef29341a cf/submodule-progress-dissociate later to maint).

451 +

452 + * Update credential-netrc helper (in contrib/) to allow customizing

453 + the GPG used to decrypt the encrypted .netrc file.

454 + (merge 786ef50a23 lm/credential-netrc later to maint).

455 +

456 + * "git submodule update" attempts two different kinds of "git fetch"

457 + against the upstream repository to grab a commit bound at the

458 + submodule's path, but it incorrectly gave up if the first kind

459 + (i.e. a normal fetch) failed, making the second "last resort" one

460 + (i.e. fetching an exact commit object by object name) ineffective.

461 + This has been corrected.

462 + (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint).

463 +

464 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.

465 (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).

466 (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).

@@ -411,3 +490,4 @@ Fixes since v2.17

490 (merge 5356a3c354 ah/misc-doc-updates later to maint).

491 (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint).

492 (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).

493 + (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint).

The seventh batch for 2.18