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Fifth batch for 2.8 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt

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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
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(merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint).
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* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
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too much time before emitting the first line of the result.
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* "interpret-trailers" has been taught to optionally update a file in
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place, instead of always writing the result to the standard output.
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* Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text
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that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control
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their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated
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to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they
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used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR,
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which is usually not what the users expect).
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* "git notes merge" used to limit the source of the merged notes tree
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to somewhere under refs/notes/ hierarchy, which was too limiting
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when inventing a workflow to exchange notes with remote
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repositories using remote-tracking notes trees (located in e.g.
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refs/remote-notes/ or somesuch).
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* "git ls-files" learned a new "--eol" option to help diagnose
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end-of-line problems.
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* "ls-remote" learned an option to show which branch the remote
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repository advertises as its primary by pointing its HEAD at.
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* New http.proxyAuthMethod configuration variable can be used to
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specify what authentication method to use, as a way to work around
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proxies that do not give error response expected by libcurl when
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CURLAUTH_ANY is used. Also, the codepath for proxy authentication
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has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
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material in user's keyrings.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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(e.g. there is no need to collect the log messages when showing
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* "git checkout $branch" (and other operations that share the same
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underlying machinery) has been optimized.
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* Automated tests in Travis CI environment has been optimized by
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persisting runtime statistics of previous "prove" run, executing
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tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total
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wallclock time.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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1.9.0 and later.
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* The "split" subcommand of "git subtree" (in contrib/) incorrectly
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skipped merges when it shouldn't, which was corrected.
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(merge 933cfeb dw/subtree-split-do-not-drop-merge later to maint).
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* A few options of "git diff" did not work well when the command was
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run from a subdirectory.
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(merge a97262c nd/diff-with-path-params later to maint).
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* The command line completion learned a handful of additional options
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and command specific syntax.
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(merge fa4b5e3 jk/completion-rebase later to maint).
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(merge f7c2e1a pw/completion-show-branch later to maint).
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(merge d7d4ca8 pw/completion-stash later to maint).
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(merge e6414b4 tb/complete-word-diff-regex later to maint).
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* dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it.
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(merge e7d5ce8 js/dirname-basename later to maint).
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* The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands
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have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a
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directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted
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CPU cycles.
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(merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint).
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* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
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(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
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(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).
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(merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint).
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(merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).
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(merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint).

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