Git 2.8 Release Notes
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+Backward compatibility note
+---------------------------
+
+The rsync:// transport has been removed.
+
+
Updates since v2.7
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UI, Workflows & Features
+ * It turns out "git clone" over rsync transport has been broken when
+ the source repository has packed references for a long time, and
+ nobody noticed nor complained about it.
+
* "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.
* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes
commit that is reachable from <branch> that does not match the
given <pattern>.
+ * The "user.useConfigOnly" configuration variable can be used to
+ force the user to always set user.email & user.name configuration
+ variables, serving as a reminder for those who work on multiple
+ projects and do not want to put these in their $HOME/.gitconfig.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
tests that take longer before other ones; this reduces the total
wallclock time.
+ * Test scripts have been updated to remove assumptions that are not
+ portable between Git for POSIX and Git for Windows, or to skip ones
+ with expectations that are not satisfiable on Git for Windows.
+
+ * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
+ analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
+ number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
+ calls to strcpy(3) in test-path-utils that are already safe has
+ been rewritten to avoid false wanings.
+
+ * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static
+ analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the
+ number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few
+ calls to strcpy(3) in "git rerere" that are already safe has been
+ rewritten to avoid false wanings.
Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
not stop until it fills the pipe buffer due to lack of SIGPIPE.
(merge 6129c93 js/test-lib-windows-emulated-yes later to maint).
+ * The documentation for "git clean" has been corrected; it mentioned
+ that .git/modules/* are removed by giving two "-f", which has never
+ been the case.
+ (merge 31e3c2d mm/clean-doc-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The vimdiff backend for "git mergetool" has been tweaked to arrange
+ and number buffers in the order that would match the expectation of
+ majority of people who read left to right, then top down and assign
+ buffers 1 2 3 4 "mentally" to local base remote merge windows based
+ on that order.
+ (merge 2300328 dw/mergetool-vim-window-shuffle later to maint).
+
* Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
(merge 99487cf ss/user-manual later to maint).
(merge e914ef0 ew/for-each-ref-doc later to maint).
(merge 36fc7d8 sg/t6050-failing-editor-test-fix later to maint).
(merge 60253a6 ss/clone-depth-single-doc later to maint).
(merge bd02e97 lv/add-doc-working-tree later to maint).
+ (merge f562d7d ah/stripspace-optstring later to maint).