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
has been taught to use credential API to store the authentication
material in user's keyrings.
+ * Update the untracked cache subsystem and change its primary UI from
+ "git update-index" to "git config".
+
+ * There were a few "now I am doing this thing" progress messages in
+ the TCP connection code that can be triggered by setting a verbose
+ option internally in the code, but "git fetch -v" and friends never
+ passed the verbose option down to that codepath.
+
+ * Clean/smudge filters defined in a configuration file of lower
+ precedence can now be overridden to be a pass-through no-op by
+ setting the variable to an empty string.
+
+ * A new "<branch>^{/!-<pattern>}" notation can be used to name a
+ 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.
CPU cycles.
(merge a2d5156 jk/ref-cache-non-repository-optim later to maint).
+ * "git worktree" had a broken code that attempted to auto-fix
+ possible inconsistency that results from end-users moving a
+ worktree to different places without telling Git (the original
+ repository needs to maintain backpointers to its worktrees, but
+ "mv" run by end-users who are not familiar with that fact will
+ obviously not adjust them), which actually made things worse
+ when triggered.
+ (merge 618244e nd/do-not-move-worktree-manually later to maint).
+
+ * The low-level merge machinery has been taught to use CRLF line
+ termination when inserting conflict markers to merged contents that
+ are themselves CRLF line-terminated.
+ (merge 15980de js/xmerge-marker-eol later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --force-with-lease" has been taught to report if the push
+ needed to force (or fast-forwarded).
+ (merge b2e93f8 aw/push-force-with-lease-reporting later to maint).
+
+ * The emulated "yes" command used in our test scripts has been
+ tweaked not to spend too much time generating unnecessary output
+ that is not used, to help those who test on Windows where it would
+ 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).