Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
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@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the
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command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same
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command line without the option.
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The way "git push $there $what" interprets $what part given on the
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command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us
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what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced.
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A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
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finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).
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@ -81,9 +85,50 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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* Various bugfixes to remote-bzr and remote-hg (in contrib/).
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* The build procedure is aware of MirBSD now.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* Two-level configuration variable names in "branch.*" and "remote.*"
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hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were
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not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.
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* Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while 'frotz/nitfol'
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remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch was still there, would
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error out, primarily because the command was not told that it is
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allowed to lose any information on our side. "git fetch --prune"
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now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and
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store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch.
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* "diff.orderfile=<file>" configuration variable can be used to
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pretend as if the "-O<file>" option were given from the command
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line of "git diff", etc.
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* The negative pathspec syntax allows "git log -- . ':!dir'" to tell
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us "I am interested in everything but 'dir' directory".
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* "git difftool" shows how many different paths there are in total,
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and how many of them have been shown so far, to indicate progress.
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* "git push origin master" used to push our 'master' branch to update
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the 'master' branch at the 'origin' repository. This has been
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enhanced to use the same ref mapping "git push origin" would use to
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determine what ref at the 'origin' to be updated with our 'master'.
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For example, with this configuration
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[remote "origin"]
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push = refs/heads/*:refs/review/*
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that would cause "git push origin" to push out our local branches
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to corresponding refs under refs/review/ hierarchy at 'origin',
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"git push origin master" would update 'refs/review/master' over
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there. Alternatively, if push.default is set to 'upstream' and our
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'master' is set to integrate with 'topic' from the 'origin' branch,
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running "git push origin" while on our 'master' would update their
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'topic' branch, and running "git push origin master" while on any
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of our branches does the same.
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* "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as
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if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in
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Gerrit).
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@ -109,6 +154,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to
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be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are
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contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed
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result is represented---packing the same set of objects using
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different settings (or delta order) would produce a pack with
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different name.
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* "git diff --no-index" mode used to unnecessarily attempt to read
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the index when there is one.
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* The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed;
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use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code.
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@ -122,7 +177,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* "git merge-base" learned the "--fork-point" mode, that implements
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the same logic used in "git pull --rebase" to find a suitable fork
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point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the
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work has been based on.
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work has been based on. "git rebase" has the same logic that can be
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triggered with the "--fork-point" option.
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* A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can
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advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use
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@ -141,6 +197,63 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
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for details).
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* The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
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a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
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names.
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(merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint).
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* There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of
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parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
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there was.
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(merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint).
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* The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the
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t/ directory.
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(merge 738a8be jk/test-framework-updates later to maint).
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* "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
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result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
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(merge 8f29299 bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup later to maint).
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* A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
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new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't.
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(merge ed7eda8 km/gc-eperm later to maint).
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* An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak.
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(merge e1c1a32 jk/credential-plug-leak later to maint).
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* "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
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used to emit an error.
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(merge 64ed07c nd/add-empty-fix later to maint).
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* "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
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nicely.
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(merge 5e1361c bc/log-decoration later to maint).
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* When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
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keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
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cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
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rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt
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to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to
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fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
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(merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint).
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* read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given
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an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no
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corresponding mechanism to sha1_object_info() that was used to
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obtain the metainfo (e.g. type & size) about the object. This led
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callers to weird inconsistencies.
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(merge 663a856 cc/replace-object-info later to maint).
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* "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
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behave very well.
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(merge 6554dfa jk/cat-file-regression-fix later to maint).
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* "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
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disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
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the same way.
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(merge 62f162f jk/rev-parse-double-dashes later to maint).
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* "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
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out, but it didn't.
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(merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
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