Revision c62bc49139f1d18e922fc98e35bb08b1aadbcafc authored by Junio C Hamano on 02 August 2019, 20:12:02 UTC, committed by Junio C Hamano on 02 August 2019, 20:12:02 UTC
Support building Git with Visual Studio

The bits about .git/branches/* have been dropped from the series.
We may want to drop the support for it, but until that happens, the
tests should rely on the existence of the support to pass.

* js/visual-studio: (23 commits)
  git: avoid calling aliased builtins via their dashed form
  bin-wrappers: append `.exe` to target paths if necessary
  .gitignore: ignore Visual Studio's temporary/generated files
  .gitignore: touch up the entries regarding Visual Studio
  vcxproj: also link-or-copy builtins
  msvc: add a Makefile target to pre-generate the Visual Studio solution
  contrib/buildsystems: add a backend for modern Visual Studio versions
  contrib/buildsystems: handle options starting with a slash
  contrib/buildsystems: also handle -lexpat
  contrib/buildsystems: handle libiconv, too
  contrib/buildsystems: handle the curl library option
  contrib/buildsystems: error out on unknown option
  contrib/buildsystems: optionally capture the dry-run in a file
  contrib/buildsystems: redirect errors of the dry run into a log file
  contrib/buildsystems: ignore gettext stuff
  contrib/buildsystems: handle quoted spaces in filenames
  contrib/buildsystems: fix misleading error message
  contrib/buildsystems: ignore irrelevant files in Generators/
  contrib/buildsystems: ignore invalidcontinue.obj
  Vcproj.pm: urlencode '<' and '>' when generating VC projects
  ...
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1.6.0.2.txt
GIT v1.6.0.2 Release Notes
==========================

Fixes since v1.6.0.1
--------------------

* Installation on platforms that needs .exe suffix to git-* programs were
  broken in 1.6.0.1.

* Installation on filesystems without symbolic links support did not
  work well.

* In-tree documentations and test scripts now use "git foo" form to set a
  better example, instead of the "git-foo" form (which is an acceptable
  form if you have "PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH" in your script)

* Many commands did not use the correct working tree location when used
  with GIT_WORK_TREE environment settings.

* Some systems need to use compatibility fnmatch and regex libraries
  independent from each other; the compat/ area has been reorganized to
  allow this.


* "git apply --unidiff-zero" incorrectly applied a -U0 patch that inserts
  a new line before the second line.

* "git blame -c" did not exactly work like "git annotate" when range
  boundaries are involved.

* "git checkout file" when file is still unmerged checked out contents from
  a random high order stage, which was confusing.

* "git clone $there $here/" with extra trailing slashes after explicit
  local directory name $here did not work as expected.

* "git diff" on tracked contents with CRLF line endings did not drive "less"
  intelligently when showing added or removed lines.

* "git diff --dirstat -M" did not add changes in subdirectories up
  correctly for renamed paths.

* "git diff --cumulative" did not imply "--dirstat".

* "git for-each-ref refs/heads/" did not work as expected.

* "git gui" allowed users to feed patch without any context to be applied.

* "git gui" botched parsing "diff" output when a line that begins with two
  dashes and a space gets removed or a line that begins with two pluses
  and a space gets added.

* "git gui" translation updates and i18n fixes.

* "git index-pack" is more careful against disk corruption while completing
  a thin pack.

* "git log -i --grep=pattern" did not ignore case; neither "git log -E
  --grep=pattern" triggered extended regexp.

* "git log --pretty="%ad" --date=short" did not use short format when
  showing the timestamp.

* "git log --author=author" match incorrectly matched with the
  timestamp part of "author " line in commit objects.

* "git log -F --author=author" did not work at all.

* Build procedure for "git shell" that used stub versions of some
  functions and globals was not understood by linkers on some platforms.

* "git stash" was fooled by a stat-dirty but otherwise unmodified paths
  and refused to work until the user refreshed the index.

* "git svn" was broken on Perl before 5.8 with recent fixes to reduce
  use of temporary files.

* "git verify-pack -v" did not work correctly when given more than one
  packfile.

Also contains many documentation updates.
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