command line, or setting sendemail.suppresscc configuration
variable to "misc-by", can be used to disable this behaviour.
- * Developer builds now uses -Wunused-function compilation option.
-
- * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
- settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
-
* "git mergetool" learned to take the "--[no-]gui" option, just like
"git difftool" does.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+ * Developer builds now use -Wunused-function compilation option.
+
+ * One of our CI tests to run with "unusual/experimental/random"
+ settings now also uses commit-graph and midx.
+
* When there are too many packfiles in a repository (which is not
recommended), looking up an object in these would require
consulting many pack .idx files; a new mechanism to have a single
used during tests are getting renamed for consistency.
(merge 4231d1ba99 bp/rename-test-env-var later to maint).
- * A new extension to the index file has been introduced, which allows
- the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
+ * A pair of new extensions to the index file have been introduced.
+ They allow the index file to be read in parallel for performance.
* The oidset API was built on top of the oidmap API which in turn is
on the hashmap API. Replace the implementation to build on top of
* The overly large Documentation/config.txt file have been split into
million little pieces. This potentially allows each individual piece
- included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
+ to be included into the manual page of the command it affects more easily.
* Replace three string-list instances used as look-up tables in "git
fetch" with hashmaps.
two classes to ease code migration process has been proposed and
its support has been added to the Makefile.
+ * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
+ file is getting prepared for the transition.
+ (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
+
+ * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
+ '--verbose-log' option.
+ (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
+
Fixes since v2.19
-----------------
didn't make much sense. This has been corrected.
(merge 669b1d2aae md/exclude-promisor-objects-fix later to maint).
- * The "container" mode of TravisCI is going away. Our .travis.yml
- file is getting prepared for the transition.
- (merge 32ee384be8 ss/travis-ci-force-vm-mode later to maint).
-
- * Our test scripts can now take the '-V' option as a synonym for the
- '--verbose-log' option.
- (merge a5f52c6dab sg/test-verbose-log later to maint).
-
* A regression in Git 2.12 era made "git fsck" fall into an infinite
loop while processing truncated loose objects.
(merge 18ad13e5b2 jk/detect-truncated-zlib-input later to maint).
* "git rev-parse --exclude=* --branches --branches" (i.e. first
saying "add only things that do not match '*' out of all branches"
- and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time")
+ and then adding all branches, without any exclusion this time)
worked as expected, but "--exclude=* --all --all" did not work the
same way, which has been fixed.
(merge 5221048092 ag/rev-parse-all-exclude-fix later to maint).
used by the diffstat (shown in the cover letter).
(merge 284aeb7e60 nd/format-patch-cover-letter-stat-width later to maint).
+ * The way .git/index and .git/sharedindex* files were initially
+ created gave these files different perm bits until they were
+ adjusted for shared repository settings. This was made consistent.
+ (merge c9d6c78870 cc/shared-index-permbits later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase --stat" to transplant a piece of history onto a totally
+ unrelated history were not working before and silently showed wrong
+ result. With the recent reimplementation in C, it started to instead
+ die with an error message, as the original logic was not prepared
+ to cope with this case. This has now been fixed.
+
+ * The advice message to tell the user to migrate an existing graft
+ file to the replace system when a graft file was read was shown
+ even when "git replace --convert-graft-file" command, which is the
+ way the message suggests to use, was running, which made little
+ sense.
+ (merge 8821e90a09 ab/replace-graft-with-replace-advice later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --raw" lost ellipses to adjust the output columns for
+ some time now, but the documentation still showed them.
+
* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
(merge 8c64bc9420 sg/test-rebase-editor-fix later to maint).
(merge 71571cd7d6 ma/sequencer-do-reset-saner-loop-termination later to maint).
(merge 9a4cb8781e cb/notes-freeing-always-null-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 3006f5ee16 ma/reset-doc-rendering-fix later to maint).
+ (merge 4c2eb06419 sg/daemon-test-signal-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d27525e519 ss/msvc-strcasecmp later to maint).