1Git v2.3 Release Notes 2====================== 3 4Updates since v2.2 5------------------ 6 7Ports 8 9 * 10 11UI, Workflows & Features 12 13 * It was cumbersome to use "GIT_SSH" mechanism when the user wanted 14 to pass an extra set of arguments to the underlying ssh. A new 15 environment variable GIT_SSH_COMMAND can be used for this. 16 17 * A request to store an empty note via "git notes" meant to remove 18 note from the object but with --allow-empty we will store a 19 (surprise!) note that is empty. 20 21 22Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. 23 24 * 25 26 27Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. 28 29 30Fixes since v2.2 31---------------- 32 33Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.2 in the maintenance 34track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' 35notes for details). 36 37 * "git checkout $treeish $path", when $path in the index and the 38 working tree already matched what is in $treeish at the $path, 39 still overwrote the $path unnecessarily. 40 (merge c5326bd jk/checkout-from-tree later to maint). 41 42 * "git config --get-color" did not parse its command line arguments 43 carefully. 44 (merge cb35722 jk/colors-fix later to maint). 45 46 * open() emulated on Windows platforms did not give EISDIR upon 47 an attempt to open a directory for writing. 48 (merge ba6fad0 js/windows-open-eisdir-error later to maint). 49 50 * A few code paths used abs() when they should have used labs() on 51 long integers. 52 (merge 83915ba rs/maint-config-use-labs later to maint). 53 (merge 31a8aa1 rs/receive-pack-use-labs later to maint). 54 55 * "gitweb" used to depend on a behaviour recent CGI.pm deprecated. 56 (merge 13dbf46 jk/gitweb-with-newer-cgi-multi-param later to maint). 57 58 * "git init" (hence "git clone") initialized the per-repository 59 configuration file .git/config with x-bit by mistake. 60 (merge 1f32ecf mh/config-flip-xbit-back-after-checking later to maint). 61 62 * Git 2.0 was supposed to make the "simple" mode for the default of 63 "git push", but it didn't. 64 (merge 00a6fa0 jk/push-simple later to maint). 65 66 * "Everyday" document had a broken link. 67 (merge 366c8d4 po/everyday-doc later to maint). 68 69 * A few test fixes. 70 (merge 880ef58 jk/no-perl-tests later to maint). 71 72 * The build procedure did not bother fixing perl and python scripts 73 when NO_PERL and NO_PYTHON build-time configuration changed. 74 (merge ca2051d jk/rebuild-perl-scripts-with-no-perl-seting-change later to maint).