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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-02-25 15:44:04 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-02-25 15:44:04 -0800
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Post 2.3 cyle (batch #5)
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ Updates since v2.3
Ports
+ * Our default I/O size (8 MiB) for large files was too large for some
+ platforms with smaller SSIZE_MAX, leading to read(2)/write(2)
+ failures.
+
+ * We did not check the curl library version before using
+ CURLOPT_PROXYAUTH feature that may not exist.
+
UI, Workflows & Features
@@ -28,6 +35,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
* Using environment variable LANGUAGE and friends on the client side,
HTTP-based transports now send Accept-Language when making requests.
+ * "git send-email" used to accept a mistaken "y" (or "yes") as an
+ answer to "What encoding do you want to use [UTF-8]? " without
+ questioning. Now it asks for confirmation when the answer looks
+ too short to be a valid encoding name.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -37,6 +49,39 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* Implementation of "reflog expire" has been restructured to fit the
reflogs better with the recently updated ref API.
+ * The transport-helper did not give transport options such as
+ verbosity, progress, cloning, etc. to import and export based
+ helpers, like it did for fetch and push based helpers, robbing them
+ the chance to honor the wish of the end-users better.
+
+ * The tests that wanted to see that file becomes unreadable after
+ running "chmod a-r file", and the tests that wanted to make sure it
+ is not run as root, we used "can we write into the / directory?" as
+ a cheap substitute, but on some platforms that is not a good
+ heuristics. The tests and their prerequisites have been updated to
+ check what they really require.
+ (merge f400e51 jk/sanity later to maint).
+
+ * The strbuf API was explained between the API documentation and in
+ the header file. Move missing bits to strbuf.h so that programmers
+ can check only one place for all necessary information.
+
+ * The error handling functions and conventions are now documented in
+ the API manual.
+
+ * Optimize attribute look-up, mostly useful in "git grep" on a
+ project that does not use many attributes, by avoiding it when we
+ (should) know that the attributes are not defined in the first
+ place.
+
+ * Typofix in comments.
+ (merge ef2956a ak/git-pm-typofix later to maint).
+
+ * Code clean-up.
+ (merge 0b868f0 sb/hex-object-name-is-at-most-41-bytes-long later to maint).
+ (merge 5d30851 dp/remove-duplicated-header-inclusion later to maint).
+
+
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
@@ -169,3 +214,11 @@ notes for details).
* "git blame" died, trying to free an uninitialized piece of memory.
(merge e600592 es/blame-commit-info-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git fast-import" used to crash when it could not close and
+ conclude the resulting packfile cleanly.
+ (merge 5e915f3 jk/fast-import-die-nicely-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "update-index --refresh" used to leak when an entry cannot be
+ refreshed for whatever reason.
+ (merge bc1c2ca sb/plug-leak-in-make-cache-entry later to maint).