Git 2.8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 28, 2016 at 12:19 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
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have a place to store the updated notes tree, iow, a ref).
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* "git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index"
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- behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
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+ behavior outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
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user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a
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new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this
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cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
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* Many commands that read files that are expected to contain text
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that is generated (or can be edited) by the end user to control
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- their behaviour (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated
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+ their behavior (e.g. "git grep -f <filename>") have been updated
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to be more tolerant to lines that are terminated with CRLF (they
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used to treat such a line to contain payload that ends with CR,
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which is usually not what the users expect).
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with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
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* Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
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- analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
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+ analyzers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
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number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
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calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of protrams that are already safe
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has been rewritten to avoid false warnings.
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* "git send-email" was confused by escaped quotes stored in the alias
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files saved by "mutt", which has been corrected.
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- * A few unportable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler
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+ * A few non-portable C construct have been spotted by clang compiler
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and have been fixed.
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* The documentation has been updated to hint the connection between
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* "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
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possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
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worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
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- repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
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- "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
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- obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
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- when triggered.
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+ repository needs to maintain back-pointers to its worktrees,
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+ but "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact
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+ will obviously not adjust them), which actually made things
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+ worse when triggered.
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* The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
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termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
Documentation/git.txt
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
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Documentation for older releases are available here:
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+* link:v2.8.0/git.html[documentation for release 2.8]
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+* release notes for
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+ link:RelNotes/2.8.0.txt[2.8].
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* link:v2.7.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.7.3]
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* release notes for
GIT-VERSION-GEN
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-DEF_VER=v2.8.0-rc4
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