Git v2.8.3 Release Notes ======================== Fixes since v2.8.2 ------------------ * "git send-email" now uses a more readable timestamps when formulating a message ID. * 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. * When "git worktree" feature is in use, "git branch -d" allowed deletion of a branch that is checked out in another worktree * 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. * "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. * 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). * 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. * "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. * "git config" had a codepath that tried to pass a NULL to printf("%s"), which nobody seems to have noticed. * 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. Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.