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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git.txt | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a65a6c5829 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.1.txt @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +Git v2.4.1 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.4 +---------------- + + * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory + showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the + directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, + when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" + and compare the file with the file with the same name in the + directory, instead of refusing to run. + + * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" + that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email + entries in it. + + * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost + the daylight-saving-time offset. + + * "git cat-file bl $blob" failed to barf even though there is no + object type that is "bl". + + * Teach the codepaths that read .gitignore and .gitattributes files + that these files encoded in UTF-8 may have UTF-8 BOM marker at the + beginning; this makes it in line with what we do for configuration + files already. + + * Access to objects in repositories that borrow from another one on a + slow NFS server unnecessarily got more expensive due to recent code + becoming more cautious in a naive way not to lose objects to pruning. + + * We avoid setting core.worktree when the repository location is the + ".git" directory directly at the top level of the working tree, but + the code misdetected the case in which the working tree is at the + root level of the filesystem (which arguably is a silly thing to + do, but still valid). + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt index 42464c7af1..38cc004065 100644 --- a/Documentation/git.txt +++ b/Documentation/git.txt @@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ unreleased) version of Git, that is available from the 'master' branch of the `git.git` repository. Documentation for older releases are available here: -* link:v2.4.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.4] +* link:v2.4.1/git.html[documentation for release 2.4.1] * release notes for + link:RelNotes/2.4.1.txt[2.4.1], link:RelNotes/2.4.0.txt[2.4]. * link:v2.3.8/git.html[documentation for release 2.3.8] |