* Many long-running operations show progress eye-candy, even when
they are later backgrounded. Hide the eye-candy when the process
is sent to the background instead.
- (merge 9a9a41d lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint).
+ (merge a4fb76c lm/squelch-bg-progress later to maint).
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Memory usage of "git index-pack" has been trimmed by tens of
per-cent.
- (merge a78c5b3 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint).
+ (merge f0e7f11 nd/slim-index-pack-memory-usage later to maint).
* "git rev-list --objects $old --not --all" to see if everything that
is reachable from $old is already connected to the existing refs
the order was swapped from the beginning. This belatedly fixes it.
(merge 099d2d8 jc/gitignore-precedence later to maint).
- * After "git add -N", the path appeared in output of "git diff HEAD"
- and "git diff --cached HEAD", leading "git status" to classify it
- as "Changes to be committed". Such a path, however, is not yet to
- be scheduled to be committed. "git diff" showed the change to the
- path as modification, not as a "new file", in the header of its
- output.
-
- Treat such paths as "yet to be added to the index but Git already
- know about them"; "git diff HEAD" and "git diff --cached HEAD"
- should not talk about them, and "git diff" should show them as new
- files yet to be added to the index.
- (merge d95d728 nd/diff-i-t-a later to maint).
-
* There was a commented-out (instead of being marked to expect
failure) test that documented a breakage that was fixed since the
test was written; turn it into a proper test.
tags as boundary commits.
(merge 9b7a61d jc/do-not-feed-tags-to-clear-commit-marks later to maint).
+ * "git fetch --depth=<depth>" and "git clone --depth=<depth>" issued
+ a shallow transfer request even to an upload-pack that does not
+ support the capability.
+ (merge eb86a50 me/fetch-into-shallow-safety later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" did not exit with failure when format-patch it invoked
+ failed for whatever reason.
+ (merge 60d708b cb/rebase-am-exit-code later to maint).
+
+ * Fix a small bug in our use of umask() return value.
+ (merge 3096b2e jk/fix-refresh-utime later to maint).
+
+ * An ancient test framework enhancement to allow color was not
+ entirely correct; this makes it work even when tput needs to read
+ from the ~/.terminfo under the user's real HOME directory.
+ (merge d5c1b7c rh/test-color-avoid-terminfo-in-original-home later to maint).
+
+ * A minor bugfix when pack bitmap is used with "rev-list --count".
+ (merge c8a70d3 jk/rev-list-no-bitmap-while-pruning later to maint).
+
* Code cleanups and documentation updates.
(merge 0269f96 mm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex later to maint).
(merge 64f2589 nd/t1509-chroot-test later to maint).
(merge 72dbb36 sg/completion-commit-cleanup later to maint).
(merge e654eb2 es/utf8-stupid-compiler-workaround later to maint).
(merge 34b935c es/osx-header-pollutes-mask-macro later to maint).
+ (merge ab7fade jc/prompt-document-ps1-state-separator later to maint).
+ (merge 25f600e mm/describe-doc later to maint).
+ (merge 83fe167 mm/branch-doc-updates later to maint).
+ (merge 75d2e5a ls/hint-rev-list-count later to maint).
+ (merge edc8f71 cb/subtree-tests-update later to maint).
+ (merge 5330e6e sb/p5310-and-chain later to maint).
+ (merge c4ac525 tb/checkout-doc later to maint).
+ (merge e479c5f jk/pretty-encoding-doc later to maint).