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Update draft release notes to 1.9
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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ The meanings of "--tags" option to "git fetch" has changed; the
command fetches tags _in addition to_ what are fetched by the same
command line without the option.

The way "git push $there $what" interprets $what part given on the
command line, when it does not have a colon that explicitly tells us
what ref at the $there repository is to be updated, has been enhanced.

A handful of ancient commands that have long been deprecated are
finally gone (repo-config, tar-tree, lost-found, and peek-remote).

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* Various bugfixes to remote-bzr and remote-hg (in contrib/).

* The build procedure is aware of MirBSD now.


UI, Workflows & Features

* Two-level configuration variable names in "branch.*" and "remote.*"
hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were
not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.

* Fetching 'frotz' branch with "git fetch", while 'frotz/nitfol'
remote-tracking branch from an earlier fetch was still there, would
error out, primarily because the command was not told that it is
allowed to lose any information on our side. "git fetch --prune"
now can be used to remove 'frotz/nitfol' to make room to fetch and
store 'frotz' remote-tracking branch.

* "diff.orderfile=<file>" configuration variable can be used to
pretend as if the "-O<file>" option were given from the command
line of "git diff", etc.

* The negative pathspec syntax allows "git log -- . ':!dir'" to tell
us "I am interested in everything but 'dir' directory".

* "git difftool" shows how many different paths there are in total,
and how many of them have been shown so far, to indicate progress.

* "git push origin master" used to push our 'master' branch to update
the 'master' branch at the 'origin' repository. This has been
enhanced to use the same ref mapping "git push origin" would use to
determine what ref at the 'origin' to be updated with our 'master'.
For example, with this configuration

[remote "origin"]
push = refs/heads/*:refs/review/*

that would cause "git push origin" to push out our local branches
to corresponding refs under refs/review/ hierarchy at 'origin',
"git push origin master" would update 'refs/review/master' over
there. Alternatively, if push.default is set to 'upstream' and our
'master' is set to integrate with 'topic' from the 'origin' branch,
running "git push origin" while on our 'master' would update their
'topic' branch, and running "git push origin master" while on any
of our branches does the same.

* "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as
if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in
Gerrit).
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

* The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to
be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are
contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed
result is represented---packing the same set of objects using
different settings (or delta order) would produce a pack with
different name.

* "git diff --no-index" mode used to unnecessarily attempt to read
the index when there is one.

* The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed;
use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code.

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* "git merge-base" learned the "--fork-point" mode, that implements
the same logic used in "git pull --rebase" to find a suitable fork
point out of the reflog entries for the remote-tracking branch the
work has been based on.
work has been based on. "git rebase" has the same logic that can be
triggered with the "--fork-point" option.

* A third-party "receive-pack" (the responder to "git push") can
advertise the "no-thin" capability to tell "git push" not to use
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
for details).

* The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
names.
(merge 82246b7 nd/daemon-informative-errors-typofix later to maint).

* There is no reason to have a hardcoded upper limit of the number of
parents for an octopus merge, created via the graft mechanism, but
there was.
(merge e228c17 js/lift-parent-count-limit later to maint).

* The basic test used to leave unnecessary trash directories in the
t/ directory.
(merge 738a8be jk/test-framework-updates later to maint).

* "git merge-base --octopus" used to leave cleaning up suboptimal
result to the caller, but now it does the clean-up itself.
(merge 8f29299 bm/merge-base-octopus-dedup later to maint).

* A "gc" process running as a different user should be able to stop a
new "gc" process from starting, but it didn't.
(merge ed7eda8 km/gc-eperm later to maint).

* An earlier "clean-up" introduced an unnecessary memory leak.
(merge e1c1a32 jk/credential-plug-leak later to maint).

* "git add -A" (no other arguments) in a totally empty working tree
used to emit an error.
(merge 64ed07c nd/add-empty-fix later to maint).

* "git log --decorate" did not handle a tag pointed by another tag
nicely.
(merge 5e1361c bc/log-decoration later to maint).

* When we figure out how many file descriptors to allocate for
keeping packfiles open, a system with non-working getrlimit() could
cause us to die(), but because we make this call only to get a
rough estimate of how many is available and we do not even attempt
to use up all file descriptors available ourselves, it is nicer to
fall back to a reasonable low value rather than dying.
(merge 491a8de jh/rlimit-nofile-fallback later to maint).

* read_sha1_file(), that is the workhorse to read the contents given
an object name, honoured object replacements, but there was no
corresponding mechanism to sha1_object_info() that was used to
obtain the metainfo (e.g. type & size) about the object. This led
callers to weird inconsistencies.
(merge 663a856 cc/replace-object-info later to maint).

* "git cat-file --batch=", an admittedly useless command, did not
behave very well.
(merge 6554dfa jk/cat-file-regression-fix later to maint).

* "git rev-parse <revs> -- <paths>" did not implement the usual
disambiguation rules the commands in the "git log" family used in
the same way.
(merge 62f162f jk/rev-parse-double-dashes later to maint).

* "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error
out, but it didn't.
(merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint).
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