@@ -74,6 +74,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git pull --rebase=interactive" learned "i" as a short-hand for
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"interactive".
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+ * "git instaweb" has been adjusted to run better with newer Apache on
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+ RedHat based distros.
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+ * "git range-diff" is a reimplementation of "git tbdiff" that lets us
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+ compare individual patches in two iterations of a topic.
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+ * The sideband code learned to optionally paint selected keywords at
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+ the beginning of incoming lines on the receiving end.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* The bulk of "git submodule foreach" has been rewritten in C.
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* The end result of documentation update has been made to be
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inspected more easily to help developers.
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+ * The API to iterate over all objects learned to optionally list
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+ objects in the order they appear in packfiles, which helps locality
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+ of access if the caller accesses these objects while as objects are
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+ enumerated.
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+ * Improve built-in facility to catch broken &&-chain in the tests.
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+ * The more library-ish parts of the codebase learned to work on the
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+ in-core index-state instance that is passed in by their callers,
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+ instead of always working on the singleton "the_index" instance.
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+ * A test prerequisite defined by various test scripts with slightly
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+ different semantics has been consolidated into a single copy and
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+ made into a lazily defined one.
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+ (merge 6ec633059a wc/make-funnynames-shared-lazy-prereq later to maint).
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+ * After a partial clone, repeated fetches from promisor remote would
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+ have accumulated many packfiles marked with .promisor bit without
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+ getting them coalesced into fewer packfiles, hurting performance.
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+ "git repack" now learned to repack them.
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Fixes since v2.18
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@@ -459,6 +490,49 @@ Fixes since v2.18
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* "git diff --indent-heuristic" had a bad corner case performance.
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(merge 301ef85401 sb/indent-heuristic-optim later to maint).
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+ * The "--exec" option to "git rebase --rebase-merges" placed the exec
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+ commands at wrong places, which has been corrected.
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+ * "git verify-tag" and "git verify-commit" have been taught to use
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+ the exit status of underlying "gpg --verify" to signal bad or
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+ untrusted signature they found.
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+ (merge 4e5dc9ca17 jc/gpg-status later to maint).
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+ * "git mergetool" stopped and gave an extra prompt to continue after
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+ the last path has been handled, which did not make much sense.
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+ (merge d651a54b8a ng/mergetool-lose-final-prompt later to maint).
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+ * Among the three codepaths we use O_APPEND to open a file for
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+ appending, one used for writing GIT_TRACE output requires O_APPEND
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+ implementation that behaves sensibly when multiple processes are
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+ writing to the same file. POSIX emulation used in the Windows port
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+ has been updated to improve in this area.
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+ (merge d641097589 js/mingw-o-append later to maint).
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+ * "git pull --rebase -v" in a repository with a submodule barfed as
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+ an intermediate process did not understand what "-v(erbose)" flag
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+ meant, which has been fixed.
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+ (merge e84c3cf3dc sb/pull-rebase-submodule later to maint).
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+ * Recent update to "git config" broke updating variable in a
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+ subsection, which has been corrected.
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+ (merge bff7df7a87 sb/config-write-fix later to maint).
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+ * When "git rebase -i" is told to squash two or more commits into
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+ one, it labeled the log message for each commit with its number.
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+ It correctly called the first one "1st commit", but the next one
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+ was "commit #1", which was off-by-one. This has been corrected.
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+ (merge dd2e36ebac pw/rebase-i-squash-number-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase -i", when a 'merge <branch>' insn in its todo list
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+ fails, segfaulted, which has been (minimally) corrected.
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+ (merge bc9238bb09 pw/rebase-i-merge-segv-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git cherry-pick --quit" failed to remove CHERRY_PICK_HEAD even
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+ though we won't be in a cherry-pick session after it returns, which
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+ has been corrected.
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+ (merge 3e7dd99208 nd/cherry-pick-quit-fix later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge aee9be2ebe sg/update-ref-stdin-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 037714252f jc/clean-after-sanity-tests later to maint).
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(merge 8578037bed nd/config-blame-sort later to maint).
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(merge 8ad169c4ba hn/config-in-code-comment later to maint).
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(merge b7446fcfdf ar/t4150-am-scissors-test-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge a8132410ee js/typofixes later to maint).
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+ (merge 388d0ff6e5 en/update-index-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge e05aa688dd jc/update-index-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 10c600172c sg/t5310-empty-input-fix later to maint).
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+ (merge 5641eb9465 jh/partial-clone-doc later to maint).
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+ (merge 2711b1ad5e ab/submodule-relative-url-tests later to maint).
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