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the difference between the base commit version and the working tree
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version, which is in line with what "git show" gives.
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+ * Sometimes users want to report a bug they experience on their
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+ repository, but they are not at liberty to share the contents of
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+ the repository. "fast-export" was taught an "--anonymize" option
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+ to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log
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+ messages with bland and simple strings to help them.
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+ * "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is
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+ made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives
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+ datetime output that is more strictly conformant.
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+ * A broken reimplementation of Git could write an invalid index that
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+ records both stage #0 and higher stage entries for the same path.
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+ We now notice and reject such an index, as there is no sensible
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+ fallback (we do not know if the broken tool wanted to resolve and
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+ forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve
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+ and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
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"write-tree" (used in "commit") and "diff-index --cached" (used in
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"status").
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+ * A common programming mistake to assign the same short option name
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+ to two separate options is detected by parse_options() API to help
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+ developers.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -79,7 +101,6 @@ notes for details).
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* "git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not
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mean the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default
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format", which was counterintuitive.
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- (merge b9c7d6e jk/pretty-empty-format later to maint).
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* Implementations of "tar" that do not understand an extended pax
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header would extract the contents of it in a regular file; make
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* "git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command"
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should pass the configuration differently (the former should be a
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boolean true, the latter should be an empty string).
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- (merge a789ca7 jk/command-line-config-empty-string later to maint).
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* Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to
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check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect
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paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths
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excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism.
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- (merge 477a08a jc/apply-ws-prefix later to maint).
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* "git bundle create" with date-range specification were meant to
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exclude tags outside the range, but it didn't.
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- (merge 2c8544a lf/bundle-exclusion later to maint).
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* "git add x" where x that used to be a directory has become a
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symbolic link to a directory misbehaved.
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- (merge ccad42d rs/refresh-beyond-symlink later to maint).
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* The prompt script checked $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there
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is a stash, which was a no-no.
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- (merge 0fa7f01 jk/prompt-stash-could-be-packed later to maint).
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* Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo.
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- (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint).
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* "git checkout -m" did not switch to another branch while carrying
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the local changes forward when a path was deleted from the index.
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- (merge 6a143aa jn/unpack-trees-checkout-m-carry-deletion later to maint).
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* With sufficiently long refnames, "git fast-import" could have
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overflown an on-stack buffer.
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- (merge c252785 jk/fast-import-fixes later to maint).
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* After "pack-refs --prune" packed refs at the top-level, it failed
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to prune them.
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- (merge afd11d3 jk/prune-top-level-refs-after-packing later to maint).
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* Progress output from "git gc --auto" was visible in "git fetch -q".
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- (merge 6fceed3 nd/fetch-pass-quiet-to-gc-child-process later to maint).
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* We used to pass -1000 to poll(2), expecting it to also mean "no
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timeout", which should be spelled as -1.
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- (merge 6c71f8b et/spell-poll-infinite-with-minus-one-only later to maint).
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+ * "git rebase" documentation was unclear that it is required to
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+ specify on what <upstream> the rebase is to be done when telling it
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+ to first check out <branch>.
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+ (merge 95c6826 so/rebase-doc later to maint).
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+ * "git push" over HTTP transport had an artificial limit on number of
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+ refs that can be pushed imposed by the command line length.
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+ (merge 26be19b jk/send-pack-many-refspecs later to maint).
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+ * When receiving an invalid pack stream that records the same object
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+ twice, multiple threads got confused due to a race.
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+ (merge ab791dd jk/index-pack-threading-races later to maint).
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+ * An attempt to remove the entire tree in the "git fast-import" input
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+ stream caused it to misbehave.
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+ (merge 2668d69 mb/fast-import-delete-root later to maint).
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+ * Reachability check (used in "git prune" and friends) did not add a
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+ detached HEAD as a starting point to traverse objects still in use.
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+ (merge c40fdd0 mk/reachable-protect-detached-head later to maint).
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+ * "git config --add section.var val" used to lose existing
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+ section.var whose value was an empty string.
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+ (merge c1063be ta/config-add-to-empty-or-true-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git fsck" failed to report that it found corrupt objects via its
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+ exit status in some cases.
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+ (merge 30d1038 jk/fsck-exit-code-fix later to maint).
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