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Release notes: grammatical fixes 

Signed-off-by: Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xiplink.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Marc Branchaud 2014-08-05 12:50:45 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Backward compatibility notes
$ git config core.pager "less -S"

to restore the traditional behaviour. It is expected that people
find output from the most subcommands easier to read with the new
find output from most subcommands easier to read with the new
default, except for "blame" which tends to produce really long
lines. To override the new default only for "git blame", you can
do this:
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
default value "FRSX" when we spawn "less" as the pager. "S" (chop
long lines instead of wrapping) has been removed from this default
set of options, because it is more or less a personal taste thing,
as opposed to others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is
as opposed to the others that have good justifications (i.e. "R" is
very much justified because many kinds of output we produce are
colored and "FX" is justified because output we produce is often
shorter than a page).
@ -39,47 +39,47 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* The logic and data used to compute the display width needed for
UTF-8 strings have been updated to match Unicode 7.0 better.

* HTTP-based transports learned to propagate the error messages from
the webserver better to the client coming over the HTTP transport.
* HTTP-based transports learned to better propagate the error messages from
the webserver to the client coming over the HTTP transport.

* The completion script for bash (in contrib/) has been updated to
handle aliases that define complex sequence of commands better.
better handle aliases that define a complex sequence of commands.

* The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is by default
enabled, allowing modern platforms to take advantage of the
multiple cores they have.
* The "core.preloadindex" configuration variable is enabled by default,
allowing modern platforms to take advantage of their
multiple cores.

* "git clone" applies the "if cloning from a local disk, physically
copy repository using hardlinks, unless otherwise told not to with
--no-local" optimization when url.*.insteadOf mechanism rewrites a
"git clone $URL" that refers to a repository over the network to a
copy the repository using hardlinks, unless otherwise told not to with
--no-local" optimization when the url.*.insteadOf mechanism rewrites a
remote-repository "git clone $URL" into a
clone from a local disk.

* "git commit --date=<date>" option learned to read from more
* "git commit --date=<date>" option learned more
timestamp formats, including "--date=now".

* The `core.commentChar` configuration variable is used to specify a
custom comment character other than the default "#" to be used in
the commit log editor. This can be set to `auto` to attempt to
choose a different character that does not conflict with what
already starts a line in the message being edited for cases like
custom comment character (other than the default "#") for
the commit message editor. This can be set to `auto` to attempt to
choose a different character that does not conflict with any that
already starts a line in the message being edited, for cases like
"git commit --amend".

* "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to take the mail
signature from.
* "git format-patch" learned --signature-file=<file> to add the contents
of a file as a signature to the mail message it produces.

* "git grep" learned grep.fullname configuration variable to force
"--full-name" to be default. This may cause regressions on
scripted users that do not expect this new behaviour.
* "git grep" learned the grep.fullname configuration variable to force
"--full-name" to be the default. This may cause regressions for
scripted users who do not expect this new behaviour.

* "git imap-send" learned to ask the credential helper for auth
material.

* "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" set to the
* "git log" and friends now understand the value "auto" for the
"log.decorate" configuration variable to enable the "--decorate"
option automatically when the output is sent to tty.

* "git merge" without argument, even when there is an upstream
* "git merge" without an argument, even when there is an upstream
defined for the current branch, refused to run until
merge.defaultToUpstream is set to true. Flip the default of that
configuration variable to true.
@ -87,22 +87,20 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git mergetool" learned to drive the vimdiff3 backend.

* mergetool.prompt used to default to 'true', always asking "do you
really want to run the tool on this path?". Among the two
purposes this prompt serves, ignore the use case to confirm that
the user wants to view particular path with the named tool, and
redefine the meaning of the prompt only to confirm the choice of
the tool made by the autodetection (for those who configured the
tool explicitly, the prompt shown for the latter purpose is
simply annoying).
really want to run the tool on this path?". The default has been
changed to 'false'. However, the prompt will still appear if
mergetool used its autodetection system to guess which tool to use.
Users who explicitly specify or configure a tool will no longer see
the prompt by default.

Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change and the
Strictly speaking, this is a backward incompatible change and
users need to explicitly set the variable to 'true' if they want
to resurrect the now-ignored use case.
to be prompted to confirm running the tool on each path.

* "git replace" learned the "--edit" subcommand to create a
replacement by editing an existing object.

* "git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite parents of a
* "git replace" learned a "--graft" option to rewrite the parents of a
commit.

* "git send-email" learned "--to-cover" and "--cc-cover" options, to
@ -117,10 +115,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
being edited as a comment in the editor.

* "git tag" learned to pay attention to "tag.sort" configuration, to
be used as the default sort order when no --sort=<value> the option
be used as the default sort order when no --sort=<value> option
is given.

* "git verify-commit" command to check GPG signature in signed
* A new "git verify-commit" command, to check GPG signatures in signed
commits, in a way similar to "git verify-tag" is used to check
signed tags, was added.

@ -129,8 +127,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

* Build procedure for 'subtree' (in contrib/) has been cleaned up.

* The support for the profile-feedback build, which has been left
bit-rotten for quite a while, has been updated.
* Support for the profile-feedback build, which has
bit-rotted for quite a while, has been updated.

* An experimental format to use two files (the base file and
incremental changes relative to it) to represent the index has been
@ -152,7 +150,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
structure that is used to keep track of the work to be done.

* "git diff" that compares 3-or-more trees (e.g. parents and the
result of a merge) have been optimized.
result of a merge) has been optimized.

* The API to update/delete references are being converted to handle
updates to multiple references in a transactional way. As an
@ -188,8 +186,8 @@ notes for details).
to a tty.
(merge 38de156 mn/sideband-no-ansi later to maint).

* Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that has trailing SPs quoted
with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") have been
* Mishandling of patterns in .gitignore that have trailing SPs quoted
with backslashes (e.g. ones that end with "\ ") has been
corrected.
(merge 97c1364be6b pb/trim-trailing-spaces later to maint).

@ -226,7 +224,7 @@ notes for details).
and to allow the caller find the length of the object.
(merge 218aa3a jk/commit-buffer-length later to maint).

* The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support the tilde
* The "mailmap.file" configuration option did not support tilde
expansion (i.e. ~user/path and ~/path).
(merge 9352fd5 ow/config-mailmap-pathname later to maint).

@ -238,7 +236,7 @@ notes for details).
* The unix-domain socket used by the sample credential cache daemon
tried to unlink an existing stale one at a wrong path, if the path
to the socket was given as an overlong path that does not fit in
sun_path member of the sockaddr_un structure.
the sun_path member of the sockaddr_un structure.
(merge 2869b3e rs/fix-unlink-unix-socket later to maint).

* An ancient rewrite passed a wrong pointer to a curl library
@ -246,12 +244,12 @@ notes for details).
(merge 479eaa8 ah/fix-http-push later to maint).

* "--ignore-space-change" option of "git apply" ignored the spaces
at the beginning of line too aggressively, which is inconsistent
with the option of the same name "diff" and "git diff" have.
at the beginning of lines too aggressively, which is inconsistent
with the option of the same name that "diff" and "git diff" have.
(merge 14d3bb4 jc/apply-ignore-whitespace later to maint).

* "git blame" miscounted number of columns needed to show localized
timestamps, resulting in jaggy left-side-edge of the source code
* "git blame" miscounted the number of columns needed to show localized
timestamps, resulting in a jaggy left-side-edge for the source code
lines in its output.
(merge dd75553 jx/blame-align-relative-time later to maint).

@ -265,17 +263,17 @@ notes for details).
because it incorrectly used strstr().
(merge 60a5f5f jc/fix-clone-single-starting-at-a-tag later to maint).

* "git commit --allow-empty-messag -C $commit" did not work when the
* "git commit --allow-empty-message -C $commit" did not work when the
commit did not have any log message.
(merge 076cbd6 jk/commit-C-pick-empty later to maint).

* "git diff --find-copies-harder" sometimes pretended as if the mode
bits have changed for paths that are marked with assume-unchanged
bits have changed for paths that are marked with the assume-unchanged
bit.
(merge 5304810 jk/diff-files-assume-unchanged later to maint).

* "filter-branch" left an empty single-parent commit that results when
all parents of a merge commit gets mapped to the same commit, even
all parents of a merge commit get mapped to the same commit, even
under "--prune-empty".
(merge 79bc4ef cb/filter-branch-prune-empty-degenerate-merges later to maint).

@ -308,10 +306,10 @@ notes for details).
mergetag that was and was not correctly validated.
(merge 42c55ce mg/fix-log-mergetag-color later to maint).

* "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to "--graph" option.
* "log --show-signature" did not pay attention to the "--graph" option.
(merge cf3983d zk/log-graph-showsig later to maint).

* "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the end of header string while
* "git mailinfo" used to read beyond the ends of header strings while
parsing an incoming e-mail message to extract the patch.
(merge b1a013d rs/mailinfo-header-cmp later to maint).

@ -331,7 +329,7 @@ notes for details).
(merge fb79947 rs/pack-objects-no-unnecessary-realloc later to maint).

* Recent updates to "git repack" started to duplicate objects that
are in packfiles marked with .keep flag into the new packfile by
are in packfiles marked with the .keep flag into the new packfile by
mistake.
(merge d078d85 jk/repack-pack-keep-objects later to maint).

@ -369,14 +367,14 @@ notes for details).
* "git status", even though it is a read-only operation, tries to
update the index with refreshed lstat(2) info to optimize future
accesses to the working tree opportunistically, but this could
race with a "read-write" operation that modify the index while it
race with a "read-write" operation that modifies the index while it
is running. Detect such a race and avoid overwriting the index.
(merge 426ddee ym/fix-opportunistic-index-update-race later to maint).

* "git status" (and "git commit") behaved as if changes in a modified
submodule are not there if submodule.*.ignore configuration is set,
which was misleading. The configuration is only to unclutter diff
output during the course of development, and should not to hide
output during the course of development, and not to hide
changes in the "status" output to cause the users forget to commit
them.
(merge c215d3d jl/status-added-submodule-is-never-ignored later to maint).