The sixth batch for 1.8.0

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2012-09-14 12:34:11 -07:00
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@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions)
* Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has
been added.
* The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and
defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an
appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder.
The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis
when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a
good name for a branch).
* Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see
if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the
full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to
@ -102,6 +109,12 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the
maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes
to them for details).
* "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the
"--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same
issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes
much less sense than "--all --no-tags").
(merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint).
* The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was
"rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove".
(merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint).