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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt index 1b1dcbb584..7f25bbffbd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt @@ -26,9 +26,19 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git am" learned "--message-id" option to copy the message ID of the incoming e-mail to the log message of resulting commit. + * "git clone --reference=<over there>" learned the "--dissociate" + option to go with it; it borrows objects from the reference object + store while cloning only to reduce network traffic and then + dissociates the resulting clone from the reference by performing + local copies of borrowed objects. + * "git send-email" learned "--transfer-encoding" option to force a non-fault Content-Transfer-Encoding header (e.g. base64). + * "git send-email" normally identifies itself via X-Mailer: header in + the message it sends out. A new command line flag --no-xmailer + allows the user to squelch the header. + * "git push" into a repository with a working tree normally refuses to modify the branch that is checked out. The command learned to optionally do an equivalent of "git reset --hard" only when there @@ -53,9 +63,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "diff-highlight" filter (in contrib/) allows its color output to be customized via configuration variables. + * "git imap-send" learned to take "-v" (verbose) and "-q" (quiet) + command line options. + + * "git imap-send" now can be built to use cURL library to talk to + IMAP servers (if the library is recent enough, of course). + This allows you to use authenticate method other than CRAM-MD5, + among other things. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + * Squelched useless compiler warnings on Mac OS X regarding the + crypto API. + + * The procedure to generate unicode table has been simplified. + * Some filesystems assign filemodes in a strange way, fooling then automatic "filemode trustability" check done during a new repository creation. The initialization codepath has been hardened @@ -64,6 +87,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The codepath in "git remote update --prune" to drop many refs has been optimized. + * The API into get_merge_bases*() family of functions was easy to + misuse, which has been corrected to make it harder to do so. + * Long overdue departure from the assumption that S_IFMT is shared by everybody made in 2005, which was necessary to port to z/OS. @@ -87,10 +113,41 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.2 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * The report from "git checkout" on a branch that builds on another + local branch by setting its branch.*.merge to branch name (not a + full refname) incorrectly said that the upstream is gone. + (merge 05e7368 jc/checkout-local-track-report later to maint). + + * With The git-prompt support (in contrib/), using the exit status of + the last command in the prompt, e.g. PS1='$(__git_ps1) $? ', did + not work well, because the helper function stomped on the exit + status. + (merge eb443e3 tf/prompt-preserve-exit-status later to maint). + + * Recent update to "git commit" broke amending an existing commit with bogus author/committer lines without a valid e-mail address. (merge c83a509 jk/commit-date-approxidate later to maint). + * The lockfile API used to get confused which file to clean up when + the process moved the $cwd after creating a lockfile. + (merge fa137f6 nd/lockfile-absolute later to maint). + + * Traditionally we tried to avoid interpreting date strings given by + the user as future dates, e.g. GIT_COMMITTER_DATE=2014-12-10 when + used early November 2014 was taken as "October 12, 2014" because it + is likely that a date in the future, December 10, is a mistake. + This heuristics has been loosened to allow people to express future + dates (most notably, --until=<date> may want to be far in the + future) and we no longer tiebreak by future-ness of the date when + + (1) ISO-like format is used, and + (2) the string can make sense interpreted as both y-m-d and y-d-m. + + Git may still have to use the heuristics to tiebreak between dd/mm/yy + and mm/dd/yy, though. + (merge d372395 jk/approxidate-avoid-y-d-m-over-future-dates later to maint). + * Git did not correctly read an overlong refname from a packed refs file. (merge ea41783 jk/read-packed-refs-without-path-max later to maint). @@ -99,6 +156,14 @@ notes for details). option, which it does not. (merge 0cef4e7 rw/apply-does-not-take-ignore-date later to maint). + * "git add -i" did not notice when the interactive command input + stream went away and kept asking the same question. + (merge a8bec7a jk/add-i-read-error later to maint). + + * "git send-email" did not handle RFC 2047 encoded headers quite + right. + (merge ab47e2a rd/send-email-2047-fix later to maint). + * New tag object format validation added in 2.2 showed garbage after a tagname it reported in its error message. (merge a1e920a js/fsck-tag-validation later to maint). @@ -108,6 +173,23 @@ notes for details). read them correctly. (merge 69216bf jk/for-each-reflog-ent-reverse later to maint). + * "git diff -B -M" after making a new copy B out of an existing file + A and then editing A extensively ought to report that B was created + by copying A and A was modified, which is what "git diff -C" + reports, but it instead said A was renamed to B and A was edited + heavily in place. This was not just incoherent but also failed to + apply with "git apply". The report has been corrected to match what + "git diff -C" produces for this case. + (merge 6936b58 jc/diff-b-m later to maint). + + * In files we pre-populate for the user to edit with commented hints, + a line of hint that is indented with a tab used to show as '#' (or + any comment char), ' ' (space), and then the hint text that began + with the tab, which some editors flag as an indentation error (tab + following space). We now omit the space after the comment char in + such a case. + (merge d55aeb7 jc/strbuf-add-lines-avoid-sp-ht-sequence later to maint). + * "git ls-tree" does not support path selection based on negative pathspecs, but did not error out when negative pathspecs are given. (merge f1f6224 nd/ls-tree-pathspec later to maint). |