Update draft release notes to 2.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Git v2.2 Release Notes
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Updates since v2.1
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+Ports
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+ * Building on older MacOS X systems automatically sets
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+ the necessary NO_APPLE_COMMON_CRYPTO build-time option.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git config --edit --global" starts from a skeletal per-user
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need for a later "Have you forgotten setting core.user?" and we
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can add more to the template as we gain more experience.
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+ * "git stash list -p" used to be almost always a no-op because each
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+ stash entry is represented as a merge commit. It learned to show
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+ the difference between the base commit version and the working tree
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+ version, which is in line with what "git show" gives.
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * In tests, we have been using NOT_{MINGW,CYGWIN} test prerequisites
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+ long before negated prerequisites e.g. !MINGW were invented.
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+ The former has been converted to the latter to avoid confusion.
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* Looking up remotes configuration in a repository with very many
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remotes defined has been optimized.
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@@ -36,6 +50,10 @@ Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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Fixes since v2.1
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+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.1 in the maintenance
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+track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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+notes for details).
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* "git log --pretty/format=" with an empty format string did not
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mean the more obvious "No output whatsoever" but "Use default
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format", which was counterintuitive.
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sure the permission bits of this file follows the same tar.umask
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configuration setting.
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+ * "git -c section.var command" and "git -c section.var= command"
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+ should pass the configuration differently (the former should be a
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+ boolean true, the latter should be an empty string).
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+ (merge a789ca7 jk/command-line-config-empty-string later to maint).
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-Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.1 in the maintenance
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-track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'
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-notes for details).
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+ * Applying a patch not generated by Git in a subdirectory used to
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+ check the whitespace breakage using the attributes for incorrect
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+ paths. Also whitespace checks were performed even for paths
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+ excluded via "git apply --exclude=<path>" mechanism.
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+ (merge 477a08a jc/apply-ws-prefix later to maint).
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+
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+ * "git bundle create" with date-range specification were meant to
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+ exclude tags outside the range, but it didn't.
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+ (merge 2c8544a lf/bundle-exclusion later to maint).
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+ * "git add x" where x that used to be a directory has become a
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+ symbolic link to a directory misbehaved.
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+ (merge ccad42d rs/refresh-beyond-symlink later to maint).
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+ * The prompt script checked $GIT_DIR/ref/stash file to see if there
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+ is a stash, which was a no-no.
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+ (merge 0fa7f01 jk/prompt-stash-could-be-packed later to maint).
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+ * Pack-protocol documentation had a minor typo.
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+ (merge 5d146f7 sp/pack-protocol-doc-on-shallow later to maint).