Seventh batch for 2.19 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Aug 17, 2018 at 13:15 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.0.txt
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@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git p4 submit" learns to ask its own pre-submit hook if it should
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continue with submitting.
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+ * The test performed at the receiving end of "git push" to prevent
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+ bad objects from entering repository can be customized via
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+ receive.fsck.* configuration variables; we now have gained a
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+ counterpart to do the same on the "git fetch" side, with
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+ fetch.fsck.* configuration variables.
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+ * "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a short-hand for
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+ "interactive".
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@@ -193,6 +201,25 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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failed tests.
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(merge aea8879a6a sg/travis-retrieve-trash-upon-failure later to maint).
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+ * The parse-options machinery learned to refrain from enclosing
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+ placeholder string inside a "<bra" and "ket>" pair automatically
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+ without PARSE_OPT_LITERAL_ARGHELP. Existing help text for option
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+ arguments that are not formatted correctly have been identified and
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+ fixed.
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+ (merge 5f0df44cd7 rs/parse-opt-lithelp later to maint).
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+ * Noiseword "extern" has been removed from function decls in the
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+ header files.
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+ * A few atoms like %(objecttype) and %(objectsize) in the format
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+ specifier of "for-each-ref --format=<format>" can be filled without
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+ getting the full contents of the object, but just with the object
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+ header. These cases have been optimized by calling
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+ oid_object_info() API (instead of reading and inspecting the data).
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+ * The end result of documentation update has been made to be
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+ inspected more easily to help developers.
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Fixes since v2.18
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bit (and not materializing the file in the working tree).
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(merge 2b75fb601c en/merge-recursive-skip-fix later to maint).
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+ * The "author-script" file "git rebase -i" creates got broken when
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+ we started to move the command away from shell script, which is
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+ getting fixed now.
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+ (merge 5522bbac20 es/rebase-i-author-script-fix later to maint).
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+ * The automatic tree-matching in "git merge -s subtree" was broken 5
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+ years ago and nobody has noticed since then, which is now fixed.
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+ (merge 2ec4150713 jk/merge-subtree-heuristics later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch $there refs/heads/s" ought to fetch the tip of the
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+ branch 's', but when "refs/heads/refs/heads/s", i.e. a branch whose
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+ name is "refs/heads/s" exists at the same time, fetched that one
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+ instead by mistake. This has been corrected to honor the usual
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+ disambiguation rules for abbreviated refnames.
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+ (merge 60650a48c0 jt/refspec-dwim-precedence-fix later to maint).
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+ * Futureproofing a helper function that can easily be misused.
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+ (merge 65bb21e77e es/want-color-fd-defensive later to maint).
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+ * The http-backend (used for smart-http transport) used to slurp the
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+ whole input until EOF, without paying attention to CONTENT_LENGTH
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+ that is supplied in the environment and instead expecting the Web
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+ server to close the input stream. This has been fixed.
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+ (merge eebfe40962 mk/http-backend-content-length later to maint).
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+ * "git merge --abort" etc. did not clean things up properly when
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+ there were conflicted entries in the index in certain order that
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+ are involved in D/F conflicts. This has been corrected.
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+ (merge ad3762042a en/abort-df-conflict-fixes later to maint).
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+ * "git diff --indent-heuristic" had a bad corner case performance.
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+ (merge 301ef85401 sb/indent-heuristic-optim later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
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(merge ffbd51cc60 nd/pack-objects-threading-doc later to maint).
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(merge e9dac7be60 es/mw-to-git-chain-fix later to maint).
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(merge fe583c6c7a rs/remote-mv-leakfix later to maint).
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+ (merge 69885ab015 en/t3031-title-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 8578037bed nd/config-blame-sort later to maint).
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+ (merge 8ad169c4ba hn/config-in-code-comment later to maint).
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+ (merge b7446fcfdf ar/t4150-am-scissors-test-fix later to maint).