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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-11 09:35:25 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-06-11 09:35:25 -0700
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treeeb16c3618960e41fc2e9661fecfab497803a609e /Documentation
parentMerge branch 'tb/complete-sequencing' (diff)
downloadtgif-a5fe66802f8c4036badd54ff36ff327d43236e7e.tar.xz
Second half of seventh batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ Ports
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * The bash completion script (in contrib/) learned a few options that
+ "git revert" takes.
+
+ * Whitespace breakages in deleted and context lines can also be
+ painted in the output of "git diff" and friends with the new
+ --ws-error-highlight option.
+
* List of commands shown by "git help" are grouped along the workflow
elements to help early learners.
@@ -164,6 +171,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
+ * Error reporting mechanism used in "refs" API has been made more
+ consistent.
+
+ * "git pull" has more test coverage now.
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -390,6 +402,19 @@ notes for details).
paths outside the given pathspec.
(merge 838d6a9 dt/clean-pathspec-filter-then-lstat later to maint).
+ * Recent "git prune" traverses young unreachable objects to safekeep
+ old objects in the reachability chain from them, which sometimes
+ caused error messages that are unnecessarily alarming.
+ (merge ce4e7b2 jk/squelch-missing-link-warning-for-unreachable later to maint).
+
+ * The configuration reader/writer uses mmap(2) interface to access
+ the files; when we find a directory, it barfed with "Out of memory?".
+ (merge 9ca0aaf jk/diagnose-config-mmap-failure later to maint).
+
+ * "color.diff.plain" was a misnomer; give it 'color.diff.context' as
+ a more logical synonym.
+ (merge 8dbf3eb jk/color-diff-plain-is-context 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).
@@ -405,3 +430,6 @@ notes for details).
(merge 22570b6 rs/janitorial later to maint).
(merge 5c2a581 mc/commit-doc-grammofix later to maint).
(merge ce41720 ah/usage-strings later to maint).
+ (merge e6a268c sb/glossary-submodule later to maint).
+ (merge ec48a76 sb/submodule-doc-intro later to maint).
+ (merge 14f8b9b jk/clone-dissociate later to maint).