Start preparing for 2.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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+Git v2.8.3 Release Notes
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+========================
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+Fixes since v2.8.2
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+------------------
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+ * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when
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+ formulating a message ID.
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+ * The repository set-up sequence has been streamlined (the biggest
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+ change is that there is no longer git_config_early()), so that we
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+ do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a
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+ Git repository.
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+ * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -d" allowed
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+ deletion of a branch that is checked out in another worktree
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+ * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -m" renamed a
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+ branch that is checked out in another worktree without adjusting
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+ the HEAD symbolic ref for the worktree.
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+ * "git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these
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+ are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option
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+ from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the
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+ diff, and the documentation now hides these options as well.
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+ * A change back in version 2.7 to "git branch" broke display of a
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+ symbolic ref in a non-standard place in the refs/ hierarchy (we
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+ expect symbolic refs to appear in refs/remotes/*/HEAD to point at
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+ the primary branch the remote has, and as .git/HEAD to point at the
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+ branch we locally checked out).
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+ * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed
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+ the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real
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+ repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has
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+ been corrected.
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+ * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message
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+ is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected.
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+ * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did
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+ not work well.
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+ * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware
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+ that socks5h:// proxies behave differently.
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+ * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to
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+ printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed.
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+ * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then
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+ rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary,
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+ hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary"
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+ pattern.
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+ This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
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+ already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also
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+ has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
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+ See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
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+ and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275680.
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+Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.