The first half of the seventh batch for 2.5

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2015-06-05 12:20:57 -07:00
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@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
chunks from Perforce, instead of making one call to "p4 changes"
that may trigger "too many rows scanned" error from Perforce.
* Unlike "$EDITOR" and "$GIT_EDITOR" that can hold the path to the
command and initial options (e.g. "/path/to/emacs -nw"), 'git p4'
did not let the shell interpolate the contents of the environment
variable that name the editor "$P4EDITOR" (and "$EDITOR", too).
This release makes it in line with the rest of Git, as well as with
Perforce.
* A new short-hand <branch>@{push} denotes the remote-tracking branch
that tracks the branch at the remote the <branch> would be pushed
to.
* "git show-branch --topics HEAD" (with no other arguments) did not
do anything interesting. Instead, contrast the given revision
against all the local branches by default.
@ -150,6 +161,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
the semantics of the option changed back in Git 1.9 days.
(merge 19d122b pt/pull-tags-error-diag later to maint).
* for_each_ref() callback functions were taught to name the objects
not with "unsigned char sha1[20]" but with "struct object_id".
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.