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A few more topics before 2.14-rc1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.14.0.txt

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Git 2.14 Release Notes
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Backward compatibility notes.
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Backward compatibility notes and other notable changes.
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* Use of an empty string as a pathspec element that is used for
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'everything matches' is still warned and Git asks users to use a
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diff output has finished, and the "indent heuristics" has now
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* Git can now be built with PCRE v2 instead of v1 of the PCRE
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library. Replace USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease with USE_LIBPCRE2=YesPlease
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in existing build scripts to build against the new version. As the
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upstream PCRE maintainer has abandoned v1 maintenance for all but
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the most critical bug fixes, use of v2 is recommended.
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Updates since v2.13
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when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
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even when the other side hasn't enabled allowTipSHA1InWant.
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* The recently introduced "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..."
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mechanism has further been taught to take symlinks into account.
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The directory "$dir" specified in "gitdir:$dir" may be a symlink to
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a real location, not something that $(getcwd) may return. In such
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a case, a realpath of "$dir" is compared with the real path of the
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current repository to determine if the contents from the named path
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should be included.
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* The "[includeIf "gitdir:$dir"] path=..." mechanism introduced in
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2.13.0 would canonicalize the path of the gitdir being matched,
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and did not match e.g. "gitdir:~/work/*" against a repo in
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"~/work/main" if "~/work" was a symlink to "/mnt/storage/work".
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Now we match both the resolved canonical path and what "pwd" would
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show. The include will happen if either one matches.
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* Make the "indent" heuristics the default in "diff" and diff.indentHeuristics
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configuration variable an escape hatch for those who do no want it.
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* The "indent" heuristics is now the default in "diff". The
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diff.indentHeuristic configuration variable can be set to "false"
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for those who do not want it.
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* Many commands learned to pay attention to submodule.recurse
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configuration.
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would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
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* "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries the
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user has in its output.
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* "git status" learned to optionally give how many stash entries there
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are in its output.
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* "git status" has long shown essentially the same message as "git
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(rather than the commit the user is preparing for, which is more in
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* "git send-email" learned to overcome some SMTP server limitation
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that does not allow many pieces of e-mails to be sent over a single
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session.
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* "git send-email" now has --batch-size and --relogin-delay options
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which can be used to overcome limitations on SMTP servers that
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restrict on how many of e-mails can be sent in a single session.
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* An old message shown in the commit log template was removed, as it
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has outlived its usefulness.
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* A recent regression in "git rebase -i" has been fixed and tests
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* An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code ahs been corrected.
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* An unaligned 32-bit access in pack-bitmap code has been corrected.
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* Tighten error checks for invalid "git apply" input.
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* The split index code did not honor core.sharedrepository setting
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* The split index code did not honor core.sharedRepository setting
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* The Makefile rule in contrib/subtree for building documentation
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* Update the sha1dc again to fix portability glitches.
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* On Cygwin, similar to Windows, "git push //server/share/repository"
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ought to mean a repository on a network share that can be accessed
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locally, but this did not work correctly due to stripping the double
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slashes at the beginning.
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(merge 496f256989 tb/push-to-cygwin-unc-path later to maint).
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* The progress meter did not give a useful output when we haven't had
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0.5 seconds to measure the throughput during the interval. Instead
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show the overall throughput rate at the end, which is a much more
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useful number.
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(merge 0fae1e072a rs/progress-overall-throughput-at-the-end later to maint).
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* Code clean-up, that makes us in sync with Debian by one patch.
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(merge 8db1ae5740 jn/hooks-pre-rebase-sample-fix later to maint).
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* We run an early part of "git gc" that deals with refs before
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daemonising (and not under lock) even when running a background
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auto-gc, which caused multiple gc processes attempting to run the
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early part at the same time. This is now prevented by running the
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early part also under the GC lock.
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(merge c45af94dbc jk/gc-pre-detach-under-hook later to maint).
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