* "git status" learned to suggest "merge --abort" during a conflicted
merge, just like it already suggests "rebase --abort" during a
conflicted rebase.
- (merge b0a61ab mm/status-suggest-merge-abort later to maint).
* "git jump" script (in contrib/) has been updated a bit.
(merge a91e692 jk/git-jump later to maint).
paint the arrow in the same color as "HEAD", not in the color for
commits.
+ * "git format-patch" learned format.from configuration variable to
+ specify the default settings for its "--from" option.
+
+ * "git am -3" calls "git merge-recursive" when it needs to fall back
+ to a three-way merge; this call has been turned into an internal
+ subroutine call instead of spawning a separate subprocess.
+
+ * The command line completion scripts (in contrib/) now knows about
+ "git branch --delete/--move [--remote]".
+ (merge 2703c22 vs/completion-branch-fully-spelled-d-m-r later to maint).
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* The .c/.h sources are marked as such in our .gitattributes file so
that "git diff -W" and friends would work better.
- (merge e82675a rs/help-c-source-with-gitattributes later to maint).
* Code clean-up to avoid using a variable string that compilers may
feel untrustable as printf-style format given to write_file()
library did not check all the functions from pthread libraries;
recent FreeBSD has some functions in libc but not others, and we
mistakenly thought linking with libc is enough when it is not.
- (merge a9b02de ew/autoconf-pthread later to maint).
* When "git fsck" reports a broken link (e.g. a tree object contains
a blob that does not exist), both containing object and the object
the containing object from existing refs (e.g. "HEAD~24^2:file.txt").
* Allow http daemon tests in Travis CI tests.
- (merge d9d1426 ls/travis-enable-httpd-tests later to maint).
* Makefile assumed that -lrt is always available on platforms that
want to use clock_gettime() and CLOCK_MONOTONIC, which is not a
to decide the set of supported options dynamically, which makes the
code error-prone and hard to read. This has been corrected by tweaking
the API to allocate and return a new copy of "struct option" array.
- (merge 023ff39 jk/parse-options-concat later to maint).
* "git fetch" exchanges batched have/ack messages between the sender
and the receiver, initially doubling every time and then falling
mechanism is used to tweak the default settings to MORE on FreeBSD.
(merge 995bc22 ew/build-time-pager-tweaks later to maint).
+ * The http-backend (the server-side component of smart-http
+ transport) used to trickle the HTTP header one at a time. Now
+ these write(2)s are batched.
+ (merge b36045c ew/http-backend-batch-headers later to maint).
+
+ * When "git rebase" tries to compare set of changes on the updated
+ upstream and our own branch, it computes patch-id for all of these
+ 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).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
* The use of strbuf in "git rm" to build filename to remove was a bit
suboptimal, which has been fixed.
- (merge deb8e15 rs/rm-strbuf-optim later to maint).
* An age old bug that caused "git diff --ignore-space-at-eol"
misbehave has been fixed.
* "git commit --help" said "--no-verify" is only about skipping the
pre-commit hook, and failed to say that it also skipped the
commit-msg hook.
- (merge def480f os/no-verify-skips-commit-msg-too later to maint).
* "git merge" in Git v2.9 was taught to forbid merging an unrelated
lines of history by default, but that is exactly the kind of thing
the "--rejoin" mode of "git subtree" (in contrib/) wants to do.
"git subtree" has been taught to use the "--allow-unrelated-histories"
option to override the default.
- (merge 0f12c7d da/subtree-2.9-regression later to maint).
* The build procedure for "git persistent-https" helper (in contrib/)
has been updated so that it can be built with more recent versions
of Go.
- (merge accb613 pm/build-persistent-https-with-recent-go later to maint).
* There is an optimization used in "git diff $treeA $treeB" to borrow
an already checked-out copy in the working tree when it is known to
conversion (including the clean filter), which defeats the whole
point of the optimization. The optimization has been disabled when
the conversion is necessary.
- (merge 06dec43 jk/diff-do-not-reuse-wtf-needs-cleaning later to maint).
* "git -c grep.patternType=extended log --basic-regexp" misbehaved
because the internal API to access the grep machinery was not
designed well.
- (merge 8465541 jc/grep-commandline-vs-configuration later to maint).
* Windows port was failing some tests in t4130, due to the lack of
inum in the returned values by its lstat(2) emulation.
- (merge 54956df js/t4130-rename-without-ino later to maint).
* The reflog output format is documented better, and a new format
--date=unix to report the seconds-since-epoch (without timezone)
* "git difftool <paths>..." started in a subdirectory failed to
interpret the paths relative to that directory, which has been
fixed.
- (merge 32b8c58 jk/difftool-in-subdir later to maint).
* The characters in the label shown for tags/refs for commits in
"gitweb" output are now properly escaped for proper HTML output.
- (merge 77947bb ab/gitweb-link-html-escape later to maint).
* FreeBSD can lie when asked mtime of a directory, which made the
untracked cache code to fall back to a slow-path, which in turn
caused tests in t7063 to fail because it wanted to verify the
behaviour of the fast-path.
- (merge 6b7728d nd/fbsd-lazy-mtime later to maint).
* Squelch compiler warnings for netmalloc (in compat/) library.
- (merge c6c9e18 js/nedmalloc-gcc6-warnings later to maint).
* A small memory leak in the command line parsing of "git blame"
has been plugged.
* The API documentation for hashmap was unclear if hashmap_entry
can be safely discarded without any other consideration. State
that it is safe to do so.
- (merge 54ba5a1 jc/hashmap-doc-init later to maint).
+
+ * Not-so-recent rewrite of "git am" that started making internal
+ calls into the commit machinery had an unintended regression, in
+ that no matter how many seconds it took to apply many patches, the
+ resulting committer timestamp for the resulting commits were all
+ the same.
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" already had enough logic to allow
+ ensuring that such a push results in creation of a ref (i.e. the
+ receiving end did not have another push from sideways that would be
+ discarded by our force-pushing), but didn't expose this possibility
+ to the users. It does so now.
+ (merge 9eed4f3 jk/push-force-with-lease-creation later to maint).
+
+ * The mechanism to limit the pack window memory size, when packing is
+ done using multiple threads (which is the default), is per-thread,
+ but this was not documented clearly.
+ (merge 954176c ms/document-pack-window-memory-is-per-thread later to maint).
+
+ * "import-tars" fast-import script (in contrib/) used to ignore a
+ hardlink target and replaced it with an empty file, which has been
+ corrected to record the same blob as the other file the hardlink is
+ shared with.
+ (merge 04e0869 js/import-tars-hardlinks later to maint).
+
+ * "git mv dir non-existing-dir/" did not work in some environments
+ the same way as existing mainstream platforms. The code now moves
+ "dir" to "non-existing-dir", without relying on rename("A", "B/")
+ that strips the trailing slash of '/'.
+ (merge 189d035 js/mv-dir-to-new-directory later to maint).
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
- (merge 9d1ca1d jk/t4205-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 5f072e0 cp/completion-clone-recurse-submodules later to maint).
- (merge bc57b9c rs/use-strbuf-addstr later to maint).
- (merge 52db4b0 jh/clean-smudge-f-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 02a8cfa rs/merge-add-strategies-simplification later to maint).
+ (merge af4941d rs/merge-recursive-string-list-init later to maint).
+ (merge 1eb47f1 rs/use-strbuf-add-unique-abbrev later to maint).