From c18b86734113ee2aeb0e140c922c8fbd4accc860 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:03:57 -0800 Subject: First batch for 2.3 cycle Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 56 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fb956b2c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Git v2.3 Release Notes +====================== + +Updates since v2.2 +------------------ + +Ports + + * + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * It was cumbersome to use "GIT_SSH" mechanism when the user wanted + to pass an extra set of arguments to the underlying ssh. A new + environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND can be used for this. + + * A request to store an empty note via "git notes" meant to remove + note from the object but with --allow-empty we will store a + (surprise!) note that is empty. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.2 +---------------- + +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). + + * "git checkout $treeish $path", when $path in the index and the + working tree already matched what is in $treeish at the $path, + still overwrote the $path unnecessarily. + (merge c5326bd jk/checkout-from-tree later to maint). + + * open() emulated on Windows platforms did not give EISDIR upon + an attempt to open a directory for writing. + (merge ba6fad0 js/windows-open-eisdir-error later to maint). + + * A few code paths used abs() when they should have used labs() on + long integers. + (merge 83915ba rs/maint-config-use-labs later to maint). + (merge 31a8aa1 rs/receive-pack-use-labs later to maint). + + * "gitweb" used to depend on a behaviour recent CGI.pm deprecated. + (merge 13dbf46 jk/gitweb-with-newer-cgi-multi-param later to maint). + + * "git init" (hence "git clone") initialized the per-repository + configuration file .git/config with x-bit by mistake. + (merge 1f32ecf mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking later to maint). -- cgit v1.2.1