Update draft release notes to 2.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 29, 2014 at 10:18 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt
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* The support to build with NO_PTHREADS has been resurrected.
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+ * Compilation options has been updated a bit to support z/OS port
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+ better.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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@@ -33,10 +36,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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to replace blob contents, names of people and paths and log
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messages with bland and simple strings to help them.
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+ * "git difftool" learned an option to stop feeding paths to the
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+ diff backend when it exits with a non-zero status.
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* "log --date=iso" uses a slight variant of ISO 8601 format that is
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made more human readable. A new "--date=iso-strict" option gives
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datetime output that is more strictly conformant.
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+ * The logic "git prune" uses is more resilient against various corner
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+ cases.
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* A broken reimplementation of Git could write an invalid index that
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records both stage #0 and higher stage entries for the same path.
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We now notice and reject such an index, as there is no sensible
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creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
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setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
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+ * "git mergetool" understands "--tool bc" now, as version 4 of
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+ BeyondCompare can be driven the same way as its version 3 and it
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+ feels awkward to say "--tool bc3".
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* The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
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to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
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to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
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array for child process, alleviating the need for the callers to
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allocate and deallocate them.
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+ * Some people use AsciiDoctor, instead of AsciiDoc, to format our
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+ documentation set; the documentation has been adjusted, as
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+ AsciiDoctor is pickier than AsciiDoc in its input mark-up.
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Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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