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RelNotes: the eighth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* The SubmittingPatches document has been converted to produce an
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HTML version via AsciiDoc/Asciidoctor.
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(merge 049e64aa50 bc/submitting-patches-in-asciidoc later to maint).
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* We learned to talk to watchman to speed up "git status" and other
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operations that need to see which paths have been modified.
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@ -90,6 +89,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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pattern" (aka "diff.*.xfuncname") to include a comment block, if
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exists, that immediately precedes it.
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* "git config --expiry-date gc.reflogexpire" can read "2.weeks" from
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the configuration and report it as a timestamp, just like "--int"
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would read "1k" and report 1024, to help consumption by scripts.
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* The shell completion (in contrib/) learned that "git pull" can take
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the "--autostash" option.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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@ -130,6 +136,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Drop (perhaps overly cautious) sanity check before using the index
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read from the filesystem at runtime.
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* The build procedure has been taught to avoid some unnecessary
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instability in the build products.
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* A new mechanism to upgrade the wire protocol in place is proposed
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and demonstrated that it works with the older versions of Git
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without harming them.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@ -206,7 +219,6 @@ Fixes since v2.15
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* Recent update to the refs infrastructure implementation started
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rewriting packed-refs file more often than before; this has been
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optimized again for most trivial cases.
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(merge 7c6bd25c7d mh/avoid-rewriting-packed-refs later to maint).
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* Some error messages did not quote filenames shown in it, which have
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been fixed.
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@ -226,39 +238,31 @@ Fixes since v2.15
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* Clarify and enhance documentation for "merge-base --fork-point", as
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it was clear what it computed but not why/what for.
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(merge 6d1700b8af jc/merge-base-fork-point-doc later to maint).
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* A few scripts (both in production and tests) incorrectly redirected
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their error output. These have been corrected.
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(merge eadf1c8f45 tz/redirect-fix later to maint).
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* "git notes" sent its error message to its standard output stream,
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which was corrected.
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(merge 89b9e31dd5 tz/notes-error-to-stderr later to maint).
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* The three-way merge performed by "git cherry-pick" was confused
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when a new submodule was added in the meantime, which has been
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fixed (or "papered over").
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(merge c641ca6707 sb/test-cherry-pick-submodule-getting-in-a-way later to maint).
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* The sequencer machinery (used by "git cherry-pick A..B", and "git
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rebase -i", among other things) would have lost a commit if stopped
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due to an unlockable index file, which has been fixed.
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(merge bd58886775 pw/sequencer-recover-from-unlockable-index later to maint).
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* "git apply --inaccurate-eof" when used with "--ignore-space-change"
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triggered an internal sanity check, which has been fixed.
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(merge 4855de1233 rs/apply-inaccurate-eof-with-incomplete-line later to maint).
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* Command line completion (in contrib/) has been taught about the
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"--copy" option of "git branch".
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(merge 41ca0f773e tz/complete-branch-copy later to maint).
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* When "git rebase" prepared an mailbox of changes and fed it to "git
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am" to replay them, it was confused when a stray "From " happened
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to be in the log message of one of the replayed changes. This has
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been corrected.
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(merge ae3b2b04bb ew/rebase-mboxrd later to maint).
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* There was a recent semantic mismerge in the codepath to write out a
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section of a configuration section, which has been corrected.
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* Mentions of "git-rebase" and "git-am" (dashed form) still remained
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in end-user visible strings emitted by the "git rebase" command;
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they have been corrected.
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(merge 82cb775c06 ks/rebase-no-git-foo later to maint).
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* Contrary to the documentation, "git pull -4/-6 other-args" did not
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ask the underlying "git fetch" to go over IPv4/IPv6, which has been
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corrected.
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(merge ffb4568afe sw/pull-ipv46-passthru later to maint).
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* "git checkout --recursive" may overwrite and rewind the history of
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the branch that happens to be checked out in submodule
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repositories, which might not be desirable. Detach the HEAD but
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still allow the recursive checkout to succeed in such a case.
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(merge 57f22bf997 sb/submodule-recursive-checkout-detach-head later to maint).
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* "git branch --set-upstream" has been deprecated and (sort of)
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removed, as "--set-upstream-to" is the preferred one these days.
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The documentation still had "--set-upstream" listed on its
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synopsys section, which has been corrected.
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(merge a060f3d3d8 tz/branch-doc-remove-set-upstream later to maint).
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* Internaly we use 0{40} as a placeholder object name to signal the
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codepath that there is no such object (e.g. the fast-forward check
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while "git fetch" stores a new remote-tracking ref says "we know
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there is no 'old' thing pointed at by the ref, as we are creating
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it anew" by passing 0{40} for the 'old' side), and expect that a
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codepath to locate an in-core object to return NULL as a sign that
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the object does not exist. A look-up for an object that does not
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exist however is quite costly with a repository with large number
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of packfiles. This access pattern has been optimized.
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(merge 87b5e236a1 jk/fewer-pack-rescan later to maint).
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* In addition to "git stash -m message", the command learned to
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accept "git stash -mmessage" form.
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(merge 5675473fcb ph/stash-save-m-option-fix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge c5e3bc6ec4 sd/branch-copy later to maint).
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(merge 1a1fc2d5b5 rd/man-prune-progress later to maint).
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(merge 0ba014035a rd/man-reflog-add-n later to maint).
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(merge e54b63359f rd/doc-notes-prune-fix later to maint).
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(merge ff4c9b413a sp/doc-info-attributes later to maint).
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