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More topics for 2.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken,
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which are all fixed with this.
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* "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of
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tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up
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with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old
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commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not
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described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did
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not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to
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penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been
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updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which
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is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit
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in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the
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commit."
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* Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command
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executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests
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that capture the standard error stream and check what the command
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said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running
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our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output
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to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs
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being tested intact.
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* "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname,
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but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion.
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* When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a
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faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would
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result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case.
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This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead.
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Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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