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Fourth batch for 2.20
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt

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@@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git multi-pack-index" learned to detect corruption in the .midx
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file it uses, and this feature has been integrated into "git fsck".
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* Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been
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fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a
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meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress
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output.
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* The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port fo Git is
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now set to Vista.
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* The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of
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options "git stash list" command takes.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
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* Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation.
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(merge 371a655074 ab/fsck-skiplist later to maint).
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* An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden,
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but now it is allowed to create such an alias.
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* Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct
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handling of exit status of various commands.
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* "gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been
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corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when
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daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping
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due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no
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point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with
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failure in such a case.
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Fixes since v2.19
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segfault, which has been corrected.
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(merge e467a90c7a tg/range-diff-corner-case-fix later to maint).
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* The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible
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with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable
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nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations
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based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these
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incompatible features are in use in the repository.
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(merge 829a321569 ds/commit-graph-with-grafts later to maint).
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* The mailmap file update.
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(merge 255eb03edf jn/mailmap-update later to maint).
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* The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This
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was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data
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used for the first run, which has been corrected.
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(merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to maint).
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* Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
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(merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint).
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(merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint).
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(merge 0597dd62ba sb/string-list-remove-unused later to maint).
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(merge db2d36fad8 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint).
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(merge 456d7cd3a9 sg/split-index-test later to maint).
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(merge 7b6057c852 tq/refs-internal-comment-fix later to maint).
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(merge 29e8dc50ad tg/t5551-with-curl-7.61.1 later to maint).
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(merge 55f6bce2c9 fe/doc-updates later to maint).
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(merge 7987d2232d jk/check-everything-connected-is-long-gone later to maint).
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(merge 4ba3c9be47 dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules later to maint).
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(merge 4c399442f7 ma/commit-graph-docs later to maint).
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(merge fc0503b04e ma/t1400-undebug-test later to maint).
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(merge e56b53553a nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix later to maint).
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(merge c56170a0c4 ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help later to maint).
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(merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint).
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(merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).

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