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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-14 15:29:40 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-03-14 15:29:40 -0700
commit4a9b9b32d47212e4ea43cd1fa3c11afef6d4c491 (patch)
tree194cb56ad920a3e747572408bb8d1d081f71aae8
parentMerge branch 'kn/ref-filter-branch-list' (diff)
downloadtgif-4a9b9b32d47212e4ea43cd1fa3c11afef6d4c491.tar.xz
Fourth batch after 2.12
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -140,6 +140,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
routines, so let them.
(merge 2cfc70f0de jh/mingw-openssl-sha1 later to maint).
+ * The t/perf performance test suite was not prepared to test not so
+ old versions of Git, but now it covers versions of Git that are not
+ so ancient.
+ (merge 28e1fb5466 jt/perf-updates later to maint).
+
+ * Add 32-bit Linux variant to the set of platforms to be tested with
+ Travis CI.
+ (merge 88dedd5e72 js/travis-32bit-linux later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch --list" takes the "--abbrev" and "--no-abbrev" options
+ to control the output of the object name in its "-v"(erbose)
+ output, but a recent update started ignoring them; fix it before
+ the breakage reaches to any released version.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -247,6 +261,34 @@ notes for details).
conversion).
(merge 12426e114b jc/diff-populate-filespec-size-only-fix later to maint).
+ * A few tests were run conditionally under (rare) conditions where
+ they cannot be run (like running cvs tests under 'root' account).
+ (merge c6507484a2 ab/cond-skip-tests later to maint).
+
+ * "git branch @" created refs/heads/@ as a branch, and in general the
+ code that handled @{-1} and @{upstream} was a bit too loose in
+ disambiguating.
+ (merge fd4692ff70 jk/interpret-branch-name later to maint).
+
+ * "git fetch" that requests a commit by object name, when the other
+ side does not allow such an request, failed without much
+ explanation.
+ (merge d56583ded6 mm/fetch-show-error-message-on-unadvertised-object later to maint).
+
+ * "git filter-branch --prune-empty" drops a single-parent commit that
+ becomes a no-op, but did not drop a root commit whose tree is empty.
+ (merge 32da7467eb dp/filter-branch-prune-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Recent versions of Git treats http alternates (used in dumb http
+ transport) just like HTTP redirects and requires the client to
+ enable following it, due to security concerns. But we forgot to
+ give a warning when we decide not to honor the alternates.
+ (merge 5cae73d5d2 ew/http-alternates-as-redirects-warning later to maint).
+
+ * "git push" had a handful of codepaths that could lead to a deadlock
+ when unexpected error happened, which has been fixed.
+ (merge d1a13d3fcb jk/push-deadlock-regression-fix later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 2cfa83574c mm/two-more-xstrfmt later to maint).
(merge b803ae4427 ps/docs-diffcore later to maint).