@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ Updates since v2.7
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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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@@ -77,6 +102,14 @@ 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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only the number of changes).
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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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@@ -170,8 +203,33 @@ notes for details).
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1.9.0 and later.
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(merge 0b66415 ew/svn-1.9.0-auth later to maint).
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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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