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Eleventh batch for 2.14

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -38,19 +38,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* "git archive --format=zip" learned to use zip64 extension when
necessary to go beyond the 4GB limit.
(merge 867e40ff3a rs/large-zip later to maint).
* "git reset" learned "--recurse-submodules" option.
* "git diff --submodule=diff" now recurses into nested submodules.
(merge 5a5221427c jk/diff-submodule-diff-inline later to maint).
* "git repack" learned to accept the --threads=<n> option and pass it
to pack-objects.
* "git send-email" learned to run sendemail-validate hook to inspect
and reject a message before sending it out.
(merge 177409e589 jt/send-email-validate-hook later to maint).
* There is no good reason why "git fetch $there $sha1" should fail
when the $sha1 names an object at the tip of an advertised ref,
@ -81,7 +78,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
required disambiguation more often. The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.
(merge 2cb47ab695 jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation later to maint).
* Update "perl-compatible regular expression" support to enable JIT
and also allow linking with the newer PCRE v2 library.
@ -90,6 +86,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
to define a common function/variable that can be used by other
filters.
* Using "git add d/i/r" when d/i/r is the top of the working tree of
a separate repository would create a gitlink in the index, which
would appear as a not-quite-initialized submodule to others. We
learned to give warnings when this happens.
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@ -99,7 +100,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Code to update the cache-tree has been tightened so that we won't
accidentally write out any 0{40} entry in the tree object.
(merge a96d3cc3f6 jk/no-null-sha1-in-cache-tree later to maint).
* Attempt to allow us notice "fishy" situation where we fail to
remove the temporary directory used during the test.
@ -122,14 +122,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Simplify parse_pathspec() codepath and stop it from looking at the
default in-core index.
(merge 08de9151a8 bw/pathspec-sans-the-index later to maint).
* Add perf-test for wildmatch.
(merge 62ca75a6b9 ab/perf-wildmatch later to maint).
* Code from "conversion using external process" codepath has been
extracted to a separate sub-process.[ch] module.
(merge 4f2a2e9f0e bp/sub-process-convert-filter later to maint).
* When "git checkout", "git merge", etc. manipulates the in-core
index, various pieces of information in the index extensions are
@ -140,7 +137,6 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
cache is properly invalidated).
* The internal implementation of "git grep" has seen some clean-up.
(merge 8df4c2953f ab/grep-preparatory-cleanup later to maint).
* Update the C style recommendation for notes for translators, as
recent versions of gettext tools can work with our style of
@ -174,11 +170,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Three instances of the same helper function have been consolidated
to one.
(merge e0556a928f pc/dir-count-slashes later to maint).
* "fast-import" uses a default pack chain depth that is consistent
with other parts of the system.
* A new test to show the interaction between the pattern [^a-z]
(which matches '/') and a slash in a path has been added. The
pattern should not match the slash with "pathmatch", but should
with "wildmatch".
* The 'diff-highlight' program (in contrib/) has been restructured
for easier reuse by an external project 'diff-so-fancy'.
(merge 0c977dbc81 jk/diff-highlight-module later to maint).
* A common pattern to free a piece of memory and assign NULL to the
pointer that used to point at it has been replaced with a new
FREE_AND_NULL() macro.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@ -227,11 +235,6 @@ notes for details).
* "git checkout --recurse-submodules" did not quite work with a
submodule that itself has submodules.
* Plug some leaks and updates internal API used to implement the
split index feature to make it easier to avoid such a leak in the
future.
(merge de950c5773 nd/split-index-unshare later to maint).
* "pack-objects" can stream a slice of an existing packfile out when
the pack bitmap can tell that the reachable objects are all needed
in the output, without inspecting individual objects. This
@ -361,6 +364,32 @@ notes for details).
and %Z with caller-supplied values to help working around this.
(merge 6eced3ec5e rs/strbuf-addftime-zZ later to maint).
* "git mergetool" learned to work around a wrapper MacOS X adds
around underlying meld.
(merge 0af85f84bd da/mergetools-meld-output-opt-on-macos later to maint).
* An example in documentation that does not work in multi worktree
configuration has been corrected.
(merge 773a88914f ah/doc-gitattributes-empty-index later to maint).
* The pretty-format specifiers like '%h', '%t', etc. had an
optimization that no longer works correctly. In preparation/hope
of getting it correctly implemented, first discard the optimization
that is broken.
(merge fe9e2aefd4 rs/pretty-add-again later to maint).
* The code to pick up and execute command alias definition from the
configuration used to switch to the top of the working tree and
then come back when the expanded alias was executed, which was
unnecessarilyl complex. Attempt to simplify the logic by using the
early-config mechanism that does not chdir around.
(merge a9bcf6586d js/alias-early-config later to maint).
* Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
(merge dc8441fdb4 bw/config-h later to maint).
* Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
(merge 8ba74bfd7c jc/diff-tree-stale-comment later to maint).
(merge 68602c01fd sb/submodule-rm-absorb later to maint).
@ -368,3 +397,5 @@ notes for details).
(merge ae52d57f0b km/test-mailinfo-b-failure later to maint).
(merge 8b1d9136e1 sg/revision-parser-skip-prefix later to maint).
(merge bb8efa1772 sd/t3200-branch-m-test later to maint).
(merge 8abc09c0e3 sg/doc-pretty-formats later to maint).
(merge 680b469e83 sn/reset-doc-typofix later to maint).