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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.13.0.txt

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release (yet).
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* The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."
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has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in a
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future release.
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has been deprecated for quite some time, and is now removed.
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* The default location "~/.git-credential-cache/socket" for the
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socket used to communicate with the credential-cache daemon has
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been moved to "~/.cache/git/credential/socket".
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* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
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sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
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happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
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We've tried hard to locate such cases and fixed them, but there
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might still be cases that need to be addressed--bug reports are
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greatly appreciated.
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Updates since v2.12
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doing other things, output from reset seeped out). These, and
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other chattyness has been fixed.
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* "git merge <message> HEAD <commit>" syntax that has been deprecated
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since October 2007 has been removed.
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* The refs completion for large number of refs has been sped up,
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partly by giving up disambiguating ambiguous refs and partly by
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eliminating most of the shell processing between 'git for-each-ref'
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and 'ls-remote' and Bash's completion facility.
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* On many keyboards, typing "@{" involves holding down SHIFT key and
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one can easily end up with "@{Up..." when typing "@{upstream}". As
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the upstream/push keywords do not appear anywhere else in the syntax,
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we can safely accept them case insensitively without introducing
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ambiguity or confusion to solve this.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* An earlier version of sha1dc/sha1.c that was merged to 'master'
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compiled incorrectly on Windows, which has been fixed.
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* "what URL do we want to update this submodule?" and "are we
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interested in this submodule?" are split into two distinct
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concepts, and then the way used to express the latter got extended,
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paving a way to make it easier to manage a project with many
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submodules and make it possible to later extend use of multiple
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worktrees for a project with submodules.
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* Some debugging output from "git describe" were marked for l10n,
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but some weren't. Mark missing ones for l10n.
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* Fix for NO_PTHREADS option.
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(merge 2225e1ea20 bw/grep-recurse-submodules later to maint).
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* Git now avoids blindly falling back to ".git" when the setup
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sequence said we are _not_ in Git repository. A corner case that
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happens to work right now may be broken by a call to die("BUG").
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(merge b1ef400eec jk/no-looking-at-dotgit-outside-repo-final later to maint).
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* A few commands that recently learned the "--recurse-submodule"
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option misbehaved when started from a subdirectory of the
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superproject.
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(merge b2dfeb7c00 bw/recurse-submodules-relative-fix later to maint).
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* FreeBSD implementation of getcwd(3) behaved differently when an
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intermediate directory is unreadable/unsearchable depending on the
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length of the buffer provided, which our strbuf_getcwd() was not
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aware of. strbuf_getcwd() has been taught to cope with it better.
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(merge a54e938e5b rs/freebsd-getcwd-workaround later to maint).
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* A recent update to "rebase -i" stopped running hooks for the "git
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commit" command during "reword" action, which has been fixed.
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* Removing an entry from a notes tree and then looking another note
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entry from the resulting tree using the internal notes API
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functions did not work as expected. No in-tree users of the API
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has such access pattern, but it still is worth fixing.
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* "git receive-pack" could have been forced to die by attempting
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allocate an unreasonably large amount of memory with a crafted push
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certificate; this has been fixed.
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(merge f2214dede9 bc/push-cert-receive-fix later to maint).
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* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
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(merge df2a6e38b7 jk/pager-in-use later to maint).
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(merge 75ec4a6cb0 ab/branch-list-doc later to maint).
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(merge 3e5b36c637 sg/skip-prefix-in-prettify-refname later to maint).
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(merge 2c5e2865cc jk/fast-import-cleanup later to maint).
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(merge 4473060bc2 ab/test-readme-updates later to maint).
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(merge 48a96972fd ab/doc-submitting later to maint).
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(merge f5c2bc2b96 jk/make-coccicheck-detect-errors later to maint).

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