Sixth batch for 2.5 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 1, 2015 at 12:47 UTC
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * List of commands shown by "git help" are grouped along the workflow
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+ elements to help early learners.
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* "git p4" now detects the filetype (e.g. binary) correctly even when
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the files are opened exclusively.
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@@ -85,6 +88,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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to optionally remember already seen untracked files, in order to
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speed up "git status" in a working tree with tons of cruft.
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+ * "git mergetool" learned to drive WinMerge as a backend.
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+ * "git upload-pack" that serves "git fetch" can be told to serve
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+ commits that are not at the tip of any ref, as long as they are
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+ reachable from a ref, with uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
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+ configuration variable.
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+ * "git cat-file --batch(-check)" learned the "--follow-symlinks"
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+ option that follows an in-tree symbolic link when asked about an
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+ object via extended SHA-1 syntax, e.g. HEAD:RelNotes that points at
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+ Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt. With the new option, the command
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+ behaves as if HEAD:Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt was given as
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+ input instead.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -330,10 +347,39 @@ notes for details).
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cryptic error message; it should be a silent no-op instead.
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(merge 0544574 jk/rerere-forget-check-enabled later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i" fired post-rewrite hook when it shouldn't (namely,
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+ when it was told to stop sequencing with 'exec' insn).
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+ (merge 141ff8f mm/rebase-i-post-rewrite-exec later to maint).
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+ * Clarify that "log --raw" and "log --format=raw" are unrelated
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+ concepts.
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+ (merge 92de921 mm/log-format-raw-doc later to maint).
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+ * Make "git stash something --help" error out, so that users can
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+ safely say "git stash drop --help".
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+ (merge 5ba2831 jk/stash-options later to maint).
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+ * The clean/smudge interface did not work well when filtering an
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+ empty contents (failed and then passed the empty input through).
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+ It can be argued that a filter that produces anything but empty for
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+ an empty input is nonsense, but if the user wants to do strange
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+ things, then why not?
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+ (merge f6a1e1e jh/filter-empty-contents later to maint).
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+ * Communication between the HTTP server and http_backend process can
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+ lead to a dead-lock when relaying a large ref negotiation request.
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+ Diagnose the situation better, and mitigate it by reading such a
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+ request first into core (to a reasonable limit).
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+ (merge 636614f jk/http-backend-deadlock later to maint).
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+ * "git clean pathspec..." tried to lstat(2) and complain even for
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+ paths outside the given pathspec.
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+ (merge 838d6a9 dt/clean-pathspec-filter-then-lstat later to maint).
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* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
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(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
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(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
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- (merge f86a374 sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint).
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+ (merge d201a1e sb/test-bitmap-free-at-end later to maint).
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(merge 05bfc7d sb/line-log-plug-pairdiff-leak later to maint).
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(merge 846e5df pt/xdg-config-path later to maint).
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(merge 1154aa4 jc/plug-fmt-merge-msg-leak later to maint).
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(merge bbf431c ps/doc-packfile-vs-pack-file later to maint).
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(merge 309a9e3 jk/skip-http-tests-under-no-curl later to maint).
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(merge ccd593c dl/branch-error-message later to maint).
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+ (merge 22570b6 rs/janitorial later to maint).
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+ (merge 5c2a581 mc/commit-doc-grammofix later to maint).
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+ (merge ce41720 ah/usage-strings later to maint).