First batch for 2.11

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2016-09-12 15:35:05 -07:00
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@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
learned to also peek into $path for presense of corresponding
repositories of submodules and borrow objects from there when able.
* The "git diff --submodule={short,log}" mechanism has been enhanced
to allow "--submodule=diff" to show the patch between the submodule
commits bound to the superproject.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -36,6 +40,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
further be used to teach git-prompt (in contrib/) to make fewer
calls to git.
* Extract a small helper out of the function that reads the authors
script file "git am" internally uses.
(merge a77598e jc/am-read-author-file later to maint).
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -54,3 +62,36 @@ notes for details).
* "diff-highlight" script (in contrib/) learned to work better with
"git log -p --graph" output.
(merge 3dbfe2b bh/diff-highlight-graph later to maint).
* The test framework left the number of tests and success/failure
count in the t/test-results directory, keyed by the name of the
test script plus the process ID. The latter however turned out not
to serve any useful purpose. The process ID part of the filename
has been removed.
(merge 5c885c1 jk/test-lib-drop-pid-from-results later to maint).
* Having a submodule whose ".git" repository is somehow corrupt
caused a few commands that recurse into submodules loop forever.
(merge 10f5c52 jc/submodule-anchor-git-dir later to maint).
* "git symbolic-ref -d HEAD" happily removes the symbolic ref, but
the resulting repository becomes an invalid one. Teach the command
to forbid removal of HEAD.
(merge 12cfa79 jc/forbid-symbolic-ref-d-HEAD later to maint).
* A test spawned a short-lived background process, which sometimes
prevented the test directory from getting removed at the end of the
script on some platforms.
(merge 5babb5b js/t6026-clean-up later to maint).
* Update a few tests that used to use GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to use the
newer GIT_TRACE_CURL.
(merge 14e2411 ep/use-git-trace-curl-in-tests later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 3e1952e jk/squelch-false-warning-from-gcc-o3 later to maint).
(merge ca2baa3 rs/compat-strdup later to maint).
(merge d233097 rs/hex2chr later to maint).
(merge c00bfc9 js/t9903-chaining later to maint).
(merge 5e4e5bb sb/xdiff-remove-unused-static-decl later to maint).
(merge 5cb5fe4 sb/transport-report-missing-submodule-on-stderr later to maint).