Second batch for 2.7
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 7, 2015 at 13:38 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.0.txt
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@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git interpret-trailers" can now run outside of a Git repository.
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+ * "git p4" learned to reencode the pathname it uses to communicate
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+ with the p4 depot with a new option.
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+ * Give progress meter to "git filter-branch".
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+ * Allow a later "!/abc/def" to override an earlier "/abc" that
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+ appears in the same .gitignore file to make it easier to express
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+ "everything in /abc directory is ignored, except for ...".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -105,5 +114,12 @@ notes for details).
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in our Makefile was broken when they were used together.
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(merge ef49e05 jk/make-findstring-makeflags-fix later to maint).
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+ * Allocation related functions and stdio are unsafe things to call
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+ inside a signal handler, and indeed killing the pager can cause
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+ glibc to deadlock waiting on allocation mutex as our signal handler
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+ tries to free() some data structures in wait_for_pager(). Reduce
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+ these unsafe calls.
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+ (merge 507d780 ti/glibc-stdio-mutex-from-signal-handler later to maint).
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* Code clean-up and minor fixes.
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(merge 15ed07d jc/rerere later to maint).