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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Nov 18, 2020 at 13:33 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.30.0.txt
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@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Exit codes from "git remote add" etc. were not usable by scripted
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callers, but now they are.
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+ * "git archive" now allows compression level higher than "-9"
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+ when generating tar.gz output.
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* Zsh autocompletion (in contrib/) update.
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@@ -101,6 +104,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Test scripts are being prepared to transition of the default branch
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name to 'main'.
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+ * "git fetch --depth=<n>" over the stateless RPC / smart HTTP
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+ transport handled EOF from the client poorly at the server end.
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Fixes since v2.29
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or so).
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(merge c779386182 jc/sequencer-stopped-sha-simplify later to maint).
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+ * The code to see if "git stash drop" can safely remove refs/stash
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+ has been made more carerful.
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+ (merge 4f44c5659b rs/empty-reflog-check-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git log -L<range>:<path>" is documented to take no pathspec, but
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+ this was not enforced by the command line option parser, which has
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+ been corrected.
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+ (merge 39664cb0ac jc/line-log-takes-no-pathspec later to maint).
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+ * "git format-patch --output=there" did not work as expected and
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+ instead crashed. The option is now supported.
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+ (merge dc1672dd10 jk/format-patch-output later to maint).
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+ * Define ARM64 compiled with MSVC to be little-endian.
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+ (merge 0c038fc65a dg/bswap-msvc later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i" did not store ORIG_HEAD correctly.
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+ (merge 8843302307 pw/rebase-i-orig-head later to maint).
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+ * "git blame -L :funcname -- path" did not work well for a path for
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+ which a userdiff driver is defined.
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+ * "make DEVELOPER=1 sparse" used to run sparse and let it emit
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+ warnings; now such warnings will cause an error.
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+ (merge 521dc56270 jc/sparse-error-for-developer-build later to maint).
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+ * "git blame --ignore-revs-file=<file>" learned to ignore a
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+ non-existent object name in the input, instead of complaining.
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+ (merge c714d05875 jc/blame-ignore-fix later to maint).
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* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 3e0a5dc9af cc/doc-filter-branch-typofix later to maint).
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(merge 32c83afc2c cw/ci-ghwf-check-ws-errors later to maint).