* "git archive" learned to handle files that are larger than 8GB and
commits far in the future than expressible by the traditional US-TAR
format.
- (merge 5caeeb8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+ (merge 560b0e8 jk/big-and-future-archive-tar later to maint).
+
* A new configuration variable core.sshCommand has been added to
specify what value for GIT_SSH_COMMAND to use per repository.
the standard output and the standard error of an external process,
which is cumbersome to hand-roll correctly without deadlocking.
- The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
+ * The codepath to sign data in a prepared buffer with GPG has been
updated to use this API to read from the status-fd to check for
errors (instead of relying on GPG's exit status).
(merge efee955 jk/gpg-interface-cleanup later to maint).
combination has been fixed to be equivalent to doing
$ git config core.autocrlf true
+ * Documentation has been updated to show better example usage
+ of the updated "text=auto" attribute.
+
* A few tests that specifically target "git rebase -i" have been
added.
changes and attempts to find matches. This has been optimized by
lazily computing the full patch-id (which is expensive) to be
compared only for changes that touch the same set of paths.
- (merge b3dfeeb kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint).
+ (merge ba67504 kw/patch-ids-optim later to maint).
* A handful of tests that were broken under gettext-poison build have
been fixed.
+ * The recent i18n patch we added during this cycle did a bit too much
+ refactoring of the messages to avoid word-legos; the repetition has
+ been reduced to help translators.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
behaviour of the fast-path.
- * Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
+ * Squelch compiler warnings for nedmalloc (in compat/) library.
* A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
has been plugged.
taught to notice these exit status codes.
(merge 45a4f5d jk/difftool-command-not-found later to maint).
+ * On Windows, help.browser configuration variable used to be ignored,
+ which has been corrected.
+ (merge 6db5967 js/no-html-bypass-on-windows later to maint).
+
+ * The "git -c var[=val] cmd" facility to append a configuration
+ variable definition at the end of the search order was described in
+ git(1) manual page, but not in git-config(1), which was more likely
+ place for people to look for when they ask "can I make a one-shot
+ override, and if so how?"
+ (merge ae1f709 dg/document-git-c-in-git-config-doc later to maint).
+
+ * The tempfile (hence its user lockfile) API lets the caller to open
+ a file descriptor to a temporary file, write into it and then
+ finalize it by first closing the filehandle and then either
+ removing or renaming the temporary file. When the process spawns a
+ subprocess after obtaining the file descriptor, and if the
+ subprocess has not exited when the attempt to remove or rename is
+ made, the last step fails on Windows, because the subprocess has
+ the file descriptor still open. Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
+ to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
+ (merge 05d1ed6 bw/mingw-avoid-inheriting-fd-to-lockfile later to maint).
+
+ * Correct an age-old calco (is that a typo-like word for calc)
+ in the documentation.
+ (merge 7841c48 ls/packet-line-protocol-doc-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
(merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
(merge ddd0bfa jk/tighten-alloc later to maint).
(merge ecf30b2 rs/mailinfo-lib later to maint).
(merge 0eb75ce sg/reflog-past-root later to maint).
+ (merge 4369523 hv/doc-commit-reference-style later to maint).