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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f65de52539 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +Git v2.2 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.1 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user + configuration file contents, instead of a total blank, when the + user does not already have any. This immediately reduces the + need for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we + can add more to the template as we gain more experience. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Looking up remotes configuration in a repository with very many + remotes defined has been optimized. + + * There are cases where you lock and open to write a file, close it + to show the updated contents to external processes, and then have + to update the file again while still holding the lock, but the + lockfile API lacked support for such an access pattern. + + * An in-core caching layer to let us avoid reading the same + configuration files number of times has been added. + + * Various code paths have been cleaned up and simplified by using + "strbuf", "starts_with()", and "skip_prefix()" APIs more. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.1 +---------------- + + * "git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not + mean the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default + format", which was counterintuitive. + (merge b9c7d6e jk/pretty-empty-format later to maint). + + * Implementations of "tar" that do not understand an extended pax + header would extract the contents of it in a regular file; make + sure the permission bits of this file follows the same tar.umask + configuration setting. + + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.1 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index a4cdfbf7f6..153d55d2b9 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v2.1.0 +DEF_VER=v2.1.0.GIT LF=' ' @@ -1 +1 @@ -Documentation/RelNotes/2.1.0.txt
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