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@@ -117,6 +117,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git pull --rebase --recurse-submodules" learns to rebase the
branch in the submodules to an updated base.
+ * "git log" learned -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp, "git grep"
+ already had such a synonym.
+
+ * "git log" didn't understand --regexp-ignore-case when combined with
+ --perl-regexp. This has been fixed.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -230,6 +235,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
behaviour of the comparison function can be specified at the time a
hashmap is initialized.
+ * The "collision detecting" SHA-1 implementation shipped with 2.13 is
+ now integrated into git.git as a submodule (the first submodule to
+ ship with git.git). Clone git.git with --recurse-submodules to get
+ it. For now a non-submodule copy of the same code is also shipped
+ as part of the tree.
+
+ * A recent update made it easier to use "-fsanitize=" option while
+ compiling but supported only one sanitize option. Allow more than
+ one to be combined, joined with a comma, like "make SANITIZE=foo,bar".
+
+ * Use "p4 -G" to make "p4 changes" output more Python-friendly
+ to parse.
+
+ * We started using "%" PRItime, imitating "%" PRIuMAX and friends, as
+ a way to format the internal timestamp value, but this does not
+ play well with gettext(1) i18n framework, and causes "make pot"
+ that is run by the l10n coordinator to create a broken po/git.pot
+ file. This is a possible workaround for that problem.
+
+ * It turns out that Cygwin also needs the fopen() wrapper that
+ returns failure when a directory is opened for reading.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -443,14 +469,12 @@ notes for details).
set does.
* Code clean-up to fix possible buffer over-reading.
- (merge 2d105451c0 rs/apply-avoid-over-reading later to maint).
* A few tests that tried to verify the contents of push certificates
did not use 'git rev-parse' to formulate the line to look for in
the certificate correctly.
* Update the character width tables.
- (merge 7560aacd7c bb/unicode-10.0 later to maint).
* After "git branch --move" of the currently checked out branch, the
code to walk the reflog of HEAD via "log -g" and friends
@@ -463,33 +487,31 @@ notes for details).
* The build procedure has been improved to allow building and testing
Git with address sanitizer more easily.
- (merge 566cf0b3bd jk/build-with-asan later to maint).
+ (merge 425ca6710b jk/build-with-asan later to maint).
* On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
slashes at the beginning.
- (merge 496f256989 tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path later to maint).
* The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had
0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead
show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more
useful number.
- (merge 0fae1e072a rs/progress-overall-throughput-at-the-end later to maint).
* Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.
- (merge 8db1ae5740 jn/hooks-pre-rebase-sample-fix later to maint).
* We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before
daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background
auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the
early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the
early part also under the GC lock.
- (merge c45af94dbc jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook later to maint).
+
+ * A recent update broke an alias that contained an uppercase letter.
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
- (merge 3f9c637ec7 pw/unquote-path-in-git-pm later to maint).
(merge 5053313562 rs/urlmatch-cleanup later to maint).
(merge 42c78a216e rs/use-div-round-up later to maint).
(merge 5e8d2729ae rs/wt-status-cleanup later to maint).
- (merge 01826066b0 ks/fix-rebase-doc-picture later to maint).
+ (merge bc9b7e207f as/diff-options-grammofix later to maint).
+ (merge ac05222b31 ah/patch-id-doc later to maint).