| Git v2.8.3 Release Notes |
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| Fixes since v2.8.2 |
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| * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when |
| formulating a message ID. |
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| * The repository set-up sequence has been streamlined (the biggest |
| change is that there is no longer git_config_early()), so that we |
| do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a |
| Git repository. |
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| * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -d" allowed |
| 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 |
| branch that is checked out in another worktree without adjusting |
| the HEAD symbolic ref for the worktree. |
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| * "git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these |
| are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option |
| from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the |
| 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 |
| symbolic ref in a non-standard place in the refs/ hierarchy (we |
| expect symbolic refs to appear in refs/remotes/*/HEAD to point at |
| the primary branch the remote has, and as .git/HEAD to point at the |
| branch we locally checked out). |
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| * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed |
| the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real |
| repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has |
| been corrected. |
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| * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message |
| is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected. |
| |
| * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did |
| not work well. |
| |
| * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware |
| that socks5h:// proxies behave differently. |
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| * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to |
| printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed. |
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| * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then |
| rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary, |
| hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary" |
| pattern. |
| |
| This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is |
| already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also |
| has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while. |
| See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853 |
| and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275680. |
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| * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration. |
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| * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs |
| we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change. |
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| * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command |
| recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run |
| from the root level of the superproject. |
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| Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |