1Git v2.8.3 Release Notes 2======================== 3 4Fixes since v2.8.2 5------------------ 6 7 * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when 8 formulating a message ID. 9 10 * The repository set-up sequence has been streamlined (the biggest 11 change is that there is no longer git_config_early()), so that we 12 do not attempt to look into refs/* when we know we do not have a 13 Git repository. 14 15 * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -d" allowed 16 deletion of a branch that is checked out in another worktree 17 18 * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -m" renamed a 19 branch that is checked out in another worktree without adjusting 20 the HEAD symbolic ref for the worktree. 21 22 * "git format-patch --help" showed `-s` and `--no-patch` as if these 23 are valid options to the command. We already hide `--patch` option 24 from the documentation, because format-patch is about showing the 25 diff, and the documentation now hides these options as well. 26 27 * A change back in version 2.7 to "git branch" broke display of a 28 symbolic ref in a non-standard place in the refs/ hierarchy (we 29 expect symbolic refs to appear in refs/remotes/*/HEAD to point at 30 the primary branch the remote has, and as .git/HEAD to point at the 31 branch we locally checked out). 32 33 * A partial rewrite of "git submodule" in the 2.7 timeframe changed 34 the way the gitdir: pointer in the submodules point at the real 35 repository location to use absolute paths by accident. This has 36 been corrected. 37 38 * "git commit" misbehaved in a few minor ways when an empty message 39 is given via -m '', all of which has been corrected. 40 41 * Support for CRAM-MD5 authentication method in "git imap-send" did 42 not work well. 43 44 * The socks5:// proxy support added back in 2.6.4 days was not aware 45 that socks5h:// proxies behave differently. 46 47 * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to 48 printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed. 49 50 * On Cygwin, object creation uses the "create a temporary and then 51 rename it to the final name" pattern, not "create a temporary, 52 hardlink it to the final name and then unlink the temporary" 53 pattern. 54 55 This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is 56 already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds. It also 57 has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while. 58 See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853 59 and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275680. 60 61 * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration. 62 63 * Upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 will break compilation b updating a few APIs 64 we use in imap-send, which has been adjusted for the change. 65 66 * "git submodule" reports the paths of submodules the command 67 recurses into, but this was incorrect when the command was not run 68 from the root level of the superproject. 69 70Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.