The seventh batch

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Feb 10, 2021 at 14:39 UTC f9f2520108bab26a750bcbb00518dc27672cf0a2
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt
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@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Backward incompatible and other important changes
14 * The development community has adopted Contributor Covenant v2.0 to
15 update from v1.4 that we have been using.
16
17 + * The support for deprecated PCRE1 library has been dropped.
18 +
19
20 UI, Workflows & Features
21
@@ -54,6 +56,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
56 unmerged, which is a source for confusion unless -s/-u option is in
57 use. A new option --deduplicate has been introduced.
58
59 + * `git worktree list` now annotates worktrees as prunable, shows
60 + locked and prunable attributes in --porcelain mode, and gained
61 + a --verbose option.
62 +
63
64 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
65
@@ -104,13 +110,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
110 hierarchy, which was quite wasteful.
111
112 * A perf script was made more portable.
107 - (merge f08b6c553d jk/p5303-sed-portability-fix later to maint).
113
114 * Our setting of GitHub CI test jobs were a bit too eager to give up
115 once there is even one failure found. Tweak the knob to allow
116 other jobs keep running even when we see a failure, so that we can
117 find more failures in a single run.
113 - (merge 2b0e14f640 pb/ci-matrix-wo-shortcut later to maint).
118
119 * We've carried compatibility codepaths for compilers without
120 variadic macros for quite some time, but the world may be ready for
@@ -119,45 +123,49 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
123 such a way that we can easily revert if it turns out that the world
124 is not yet ready.
125
126 + * Code clean-up to ensure our use of hashtables using object names as
127 + keys use the "struct object_id" objects, not the raw hash values.
128 +
129 + * Lose the debugging aid that may have been useful in the past, but
130 + no longer is, in the "grep" codepaths.
131 +
132 + * Some pretty-format specifiers do not need the data in commit object
133 + (e.g. "%H"), but we were over-eager to load and parse it, which has
134 + been made even lazier.
135 +
136 + * Get rid of "GETTEXT_POISON" support altogether, which may or may
137 + not be controversial.
138 +
139
140 Fixes since v2.30
141 -----------------
142
143 * Diagnose command line error of "git rebase" early.
127 - (merge ca5120c339 rs/rebase-commit-validation later to maint).
144
145 * Clean up option descriptions in "git cmd --help".
130 - (merge e73fe3dd02 zh/arg-help-format later to maint).
146
147 * "git stash" did not work well in a sparsely checked out working
148 tree.
134 - (merge ba359fd507 en/stash-apply-sparse-checkout later to maint).
149
150 * Some tests expect that "ls -l" output has either '-' or 'x' for
151 group executable bit, but setgid bit can be inherited from parent
152 directory and make these fields 'S' or 's' instead, causing test
153 failures.
140 - (merge ea8bbf2a4e mt/t4129-with-setgid-dir later to maint).
154
155 * "git for-each-repo --config=<var> <cmd>" should not run <cmd> for
156 any repository when the configuration variable <var> is not defined
157 even once.
145 - (merge 6c62f01552 ds/for-each-repo-noopfix later to maint).
158
159 * Fix 2.29 regression where "git mergetool --tool-help" fails to list
160 all the available tools.
149 - (merge 80f5a16798 pb/mergetool-tool-help-fix later to maint).
161
162 * Fix for procedure to building CI test environment for mac.
152 - (merge 3831132ace jc/macos-install-dependencies-fix later to maint).
163
164 * The implementation of "git branch --sort" wrt the detached HEAD
165 display has always been hacky, which has been cleaned up.
156 - (merge 4045f659bd ab/branch-sort later to maint).
166
167 * Newline characters in the host and path part of git:// URL are
168 now forbidden.
160 - (merge 6aed56736b jk/forbid-lf-in-git-url later to maint).
169
170 * "git diff" showed a submodule working tree with untracked cruft as
171 "Submodule commit <objectname>-dirty", but a natural expectation is
@@ -169,33 +177,16 @@ Fixes since v2.30
177 side, "git log --cherry-pick A...B" did not exclude them all when a
178 commit with the same patch ID appears on the other side. Now it
179 does.
172 - (merge c9e3a4e76d jk/log-cherry-pick-duplicate-patches later to maint).
180
181 * Documentation for "git fsck" lost stale bits that has become
182 incorrect.
176 - (merge 28cc00a13d ab/fsck-doc-fix later to maint).
183
184 * Doc fix for packfile URI feature.
179 - (merge bfc2a36ff2 jt/packfile-as-uri-doc later to maint).
185 +
186 + * When "git rebase -i" processes "fixup" insn, there is no reason to
187 + clean up the commit log message, but we did the usual stripspace
188 + processing. This has been corrected.
189 + (merge f7d42ceec5 js/rebase-i-commit-cleanup-fix later to maint).
190
191 * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
182 - (merge 505a276596 pk/subsub-fetch-fix-take-2 later to maint).
183 - (merge 33fc56253b fc/t6030-bisect-reset-removes-auxiliary-files later to maint).
184 - (merge 7efc378205 ta/doc-typofix later to maint).
185 - (merge 1f4e9319c7 pb/doc-modules-git-work-tree-typofix later to maint).
186 - (merge 04f6b0a192 ma/t1300-cleanup later to maint).
187 - (merge 7b77f5a13e ma/doc-pack-format-varint-for-sizes later to maint).
188 - (merge cc2d43be2b nk/perf-fsmonitor-cleanup later to maint).
189 - (merge c8302c6c00 ar/t6016-modernise later to maint).
190 - (merge 0454986e78 jc/sign-off later to maint).
191 - (merge 155067ab4f vv/send-email-with-less-secure-apps-access later to maint).
192 - (merge acaabcf391 jk/t5516-deflake later to maint).
193 - (merge a1e03535db ad/t4129-setfacl-target-fix later to maint).
194 - (merge b356d23638 ug/doc-lose-dircache later to maint).
195 - (merge 9371c0e9dd ab/gettext-charset-comment-fix later to maint).
196 - (merge 52fc4f195c dl/p4-encode-after-kw-expansion later to maint).
197 - (merge 4eb56b56e7 bc/doc-status-short later to maint).
198 - (merge a4a1ca22ef tb/local-clone-race-doc later to maint).
199 - (merge 6a8c89d053 ma/more-opaque-lock-file later to maint).
200 - (merge 4a5ec7d166 js/skip-dashed-built-ins-from-config-mak later to maint).
201 - (merge 6eaf624dea pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff later to maint).
192 + (merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint).