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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt index af184783bc..fedd9968e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt @@ -67,4 +67,35 @@ Fixes since v2.8.2 recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run from the root level of the superproject. + * The test scripts for "git p4" (but not "git p4" implementation + itself) has been updated so that they would work even on a system + where the installed version of Python is python 3. + + * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable makes it an error + if users do not explicitly set user.name and user.email. However, + its check was not done early enough and allowed another error to + trigger, reporting that the default value we guessed from the + system setting was unusable. This was a suboptimal end-user + experience as we want the users to set user.name/user.email without + relying on the auto-detection at all. + + * "git mv old new" did not adjust the path for a submodule that lives + as a subdirectory inside old/ directory correctly. + + * "git push" from a corrupt repository that attempts to push a large + number of refs deadlocked; the thread to relay rejection notices + for these ref updates blocked on writing them to the main thread, + after the main thread at the receiving end notices that the push + failed and decides not to read these notices and return a failure. + + * A question by "git send-email" to ask the identity of the sender + has been updated. + + * Recent update to Git LFS broke "git p4" by changing the output from + its "lfs pointer" subcommand. + + * Some multi-byte encoding can have a backslash byte as a later part + of one letter, which would confuse "highlight" filter used in + gitweb. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |