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Seventh batch for the 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Git 2.8 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility note
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The rsync:// transport has been removed.
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Updates since v2.7
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
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the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
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nobody noticed nor complained about it.
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* "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
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* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
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commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
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given <pattern>.
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* The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable can be used to
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force the user to always set user.email & user.name configuration
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variables, serving as a reminder for those who work on multiple
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projects and do not want to put these in their $HOME/.gitconfig.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total
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wallclock time.
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* Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not
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portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones
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with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
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* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
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analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
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number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
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calls to strcpy(3) in test-path-utils that are already safe has
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been rewritten to avoid false wanings.
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* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
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analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
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number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
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calls to strcpy(3) in "git rerere" that are already safe has been
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rewritten to avoid false wanings.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
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(merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes later to maint).
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* The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
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that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
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been the case.
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(merge 31e3c2d mm/clean-doc-fix later to maint).
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* The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange
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and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of
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majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign
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buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based
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on that order.
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(merge 2300328 dw/mergetool-vim-window-shuffle later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
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(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).
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(merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint).
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(merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).
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(merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint).
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(merge f562d7d ah/stripspace-optstring later to maint).
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