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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-06-30 13:47:49 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-06-30 13:47:49 -0700
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Thirteenth batch for 2.14
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
user has in its output.
+ * "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
+ commit"; the message it gives while preparing for the root commit,
+ i.e. "Initial commit", was hard to understand for some new users.
+ Now it says "No commits yet" to stress more on the current status
+ (rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
+ line with the focus of "git commit").
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -190,6 +196,12 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
+ * Traditionally, the default die() routine had a code to prevent it
+ from getting called multiple times, which interacted badly when a
+ threaded program used it (one downside is that the real error may
+ be hidden and instead the only error message given to the user may
+ end up being "die recursion detected", which is not very useful).
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -393,7 +405,18 @@ notes for details).
metacharacter like $ and * did not work.
(merge d85d7ecb80 jk/add-p-commentchar-fix later to maint).
+ * A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests
+ that would have caught it and others have been added.
+ (merge adf16c08cb pw/rebase-i-regression-fix-tests later to maint).
+
+ * An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected.
+ (merge da41c942b3 jc/pack-bitmap-unaligned later to maint).
+
+ * Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.
+ (merge d70e9c5c8c rs/apply-validate-input later to maint).
+
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 68241cb9dd sb/t4005-modernize later to maint).
(merge 4fced24712 ks/t7508-indent-fix later to maint).
(merge 968b1fe263 mb/reword-autocomplete-message later to maint).
+ (merge 8592c95cdf ah/doc-pretty-color-auto-prefix later to maint).