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Git 2.11 Release Notes
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======================
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Updates since v2.10
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git format-patch --cover-letter HEAD^" to format a single patch
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with a separate cover letter now numbers the output as [PATCH 0/1]
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and [PATCH 1/1] by default.
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* An incoming "git push" that attempts to push too many bytes can now
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be rejected by setting a new configuration variable at the receiving
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end.
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* "git nosuchcommand --help" said "No manual entry for gitnosuchcommand",
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which was not intuitive, given that "git nosuchcommand" said "git:
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'nosuchcommand' is not a git command".
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* "git clone --resurse-submodules --reference $path $URL" is a way to
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reduce network transfer cost by borrowing objects in an existing
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$path repository when cloning the superproject from $URL; it
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learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
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repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
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* The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced
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to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule
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commits bound to the superproject.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The delta-base-cache mechanism has been a key to the performance in
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a repository with a tightly packed packfile, but it did not scale
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well even with a larger value of core.deltaBaseCacheLimit.
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* Enhance "git status --porcelain" output by collecting more data on
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the state of the index and the working tree files, which may
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further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer
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calls to git.
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* Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors
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script file "git am" internally uses.
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(merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint).
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v2.10
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-----------------
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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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notes for details).
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* Clarify various ways to specify the "revision ranges" in the
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documentation.
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(merge a117be4 po/range-doc later to maint).
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* "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
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"git log -p --graph" output.
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(merge 3dbfe2b bh/diff-highlight-graph later to maint).
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* The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
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count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
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test script plus the process ID. The latter however turned out not
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to serve any useful purpose. The process ID part of the filename
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has been removed.
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(merge 5c885c1 jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results later to maint).
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* Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
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caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.
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(merge 10f5c52 jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir later to maint).
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* "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
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the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command
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to forbid removal of HEAD.
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(merge 12cfa79 jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD later to maint).
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* A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
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prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
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script on some platforms.
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(merge 5babb5b js/t6026-clean-up later to maint).
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* Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
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newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
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(merge 14e2411 ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge 3e1952e jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3 later to maint).
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(merge ca2baa3 rs/compat-strdup later to maint).
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(merge d233097 rs/hex2chr later to maint).
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(merge c00bfc9 js/t9903-chaining later to maint).
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(merge 5e4e5bb sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl later to maint).
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(merge 5cb5fe4 sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr later to maint).
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