Second batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -11,7 +11,22 @@ Backward compatibility note
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UI, Workflows & Features
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- * (no entry yet so far)
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+ * The command line parser learned "--end-of-options" notation; the
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+ standard convention for scripters to have hardcoded set of options
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+ first on the command line, and force the command to treat end-user
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+ input as non-options, has been to use "--" as the delimiter, but
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+ that would not work for commands that use "--" as a delimiter
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+ between revs and pathspec.
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+ * A mechanism to affect the default setting for a (related) group of
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+ configuration variables is introduced.
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+ * "git fetch" learned "--set-upstream" option to help those who first
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+ clone from their private fork they intend to push to, add the true
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+ upstream via "git remote add" and then "git fetch" from it.
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+ * Device-tree files learned their own userdiff patterns.
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+ (merge 3c81760bc6 sb/userdiff-dts later to maint).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The first line of verbose output from each test piece now carries
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the test name and number to help scanning with eyeballs.
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+ * Further clean-up of the initialization code.
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Fixes since v2.23
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* Compilation fix.
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(merge 70597e8386 rs/nedalloc-fixlets later to maint).
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+ * "git gui" learned to call the clean-up procedure before exiting.
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+ (merge 0d88f3d2c5 py/git-gui-do-quit later to maint).
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+ * We promoted the "indent heuristics" that decides where to split
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+ diff hunks from experimental to the default a few years ago, but
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+ some stale documentation still marked it as experimental, which has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 64e5e1fba1 sg/diff-indent-heuristic-non-experimental later to maint).
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+ * Fix a mismerge that happened in 2.22 timeframe.
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+ (merge acb7da05ac en/checkout-mismerge-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git archive" recorded incorrect length in extended pax header in
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+ some corner cases, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge 71d41ff651 rs/pax-extended-header-length-fix later to maint).
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+ * On-demand object fetching in lazy clone incorrectly tried to fetch
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+ commits from submodule projects, while still working in the
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+ superproject, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge a63694f523 jt/diff-lazy-fetch-submodule-fix later to maint).
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+ * Prepare get_short_oid() codepath to be thread-safe.
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+ (merge 7cfcb16b0e rs/sort-oid-array-thread-safe later to maint).
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+ * "for-each-ref" and friends that show refs did not protect themselves
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+ against ancient tags that did not record tagger names when asked to
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+ show "%(taggername)", which have been corrected.
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+ (merge 8b3f33ef11 mp/for-each-ref-missing-name-or-email later to maint).
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+ * The "git am" based backend of "git rebase" ignored the result of
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+ updating ".gitattributes" done in one step when replaying
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+ subsequent steps.
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+ (merge 2c65d90f75 bc/reread-attributes-during-rebase later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge d1387d3895 en/fast-import-merge-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 1c24a54ea4 bm/repository-layout-typofix later to maint).
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+ (merge 415b770b88 ds/midx-expire-repack later to maint).
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+ (merge 19800bdc3f nd/diff-parseopt later to maint).
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+ (merge 58166c2e9d tg/t0021-racefix later to maint).