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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6facf57af8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +Git 2.9 Release Notes +===================== + +Backward compatibility note +--------------------------- + +The end-user facing Porcelain level commands in the "git diff" and +"git log" by default enables the rename detection; you can still use +"diff.renames" configuration variable to disable this. + + +Updates since v2.8 +------------------ + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * The end-user facing Porcelain level commands like "diff" and "log" + now enables the rename detection by default. + + * The credential.helper configuration variable is cumulative and + there is no good way to override it from the command line. As + a special case, giving an empty string as its value now serves + as the signal to clear the values specified in various files. + + * A new "interactive.diffFilter" configuration can be used to + customize the diff shown in "git add -i" session. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. + + * The embedded args argv-array in the child process is used to build + the command line to run pack-objects instead of using a separate + array of strings. + (merge 65a3629 mp/upload-pack-use-embedded-args later to maint). + + * A test for tags has been restructured so that more parts of it can + easily be run on a platform without a working GnuPG. + (merge 618310a es/test-gpg-tags later to maint). + + * The startup_info data, which records if we are working inside a + repository (among other things), are now uniformly available to Git + subcommand implementations, and Git avoids attempting to touch + references when we are not in a repository. + (merge 11e6b3f jk/startup-info later to maint). + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v2.8 +---------------- + +Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.8 in the maintenance +track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' +notes for details). + + * "git config --get-urlmatch", unlike other variants of the "git + config --get" family, did not signal error with its exit status + when there was no matching configuration. + (merge 24990b2 jk/config-get-urlmatch later to maint). + + * The "--local-env-vars" and "--resolve-git-dir" options of "git + rev-parse" failed to work outside a repository when the command's + option parsing was rewritten in 1.8.5 era. + (merge fc7d47f jk/rev-parse-local-env-vars later to maint). + + * "git index-pack --keep[=<msg>] pack-$name.pack" simply did not work. + (merge 0e94242 jc/maint-index-pack-keep later to maint). + + * Fetching of history by naming a commit object name directly didn't + work across remote-curl transport. + (merge 754ecb1 gf/fetch-pack-direct-object-fetch later to maint). + + * A small memory leak in an error codepath has been plugged in xdiff + code. + (merge 87f1625 rj/xdiff-prepare-plug-leak-on-error-codepath later to maint). + + * strbuf_getwholeline() did not NUL-terminate the buffer on certain + corner cases in its error codepath. + (merge b709043 jk/getwholeline-getdelim-empty later to maint). + + * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates + (merge aed7480 mm/lockfile-error-message later to maint). + (merge bfee614 jc/index-pack later to maint). diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN index 46595dad22..655b49011f 100755 --- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN +++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/bin/sh GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE -DEF_VER=v2.8.1 +DEF_VER=v2.8.0.GIT LF=' ' |