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1 Git 2.12 Release Notes

2 ======================

4 Backward compatibility notes.

6 * Use of an empty string that is used for 'everything matches' is

7 still warned and Git asks users to use a more explicit '.' for that

8 instead. The hope is that existing users will not mind this

9 change, and eventually the warning can be turned into a hard error,

10 upgrading the deprecation into removal of this (mis)feature. That

11 is not scheduled to happen in the upcoming release (yet).

13 * The historical argument order "git merge <msg> HEAD <commit>..."

14 has been deprecated for quite some time, and will be removed in the

15 upcoming release.

18 Updates since v2.11

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21 UI, Workflows & Features

26 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

31 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

36 Fixes since v2.10

37 -----------------

39 Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.9 in the maintenance

40 track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases'

41 notes for details).

43 * We often decide if a session is interactive by checking if the

44 standard I/O streams are connected to a TTY, but isatty() that

45 comes with Windows incorrectly returned true if it is used on NUL

46 (i.e. an equivalent to /dev/null). This has been fixed.

47 (merge cbb3f3c9b1 js/mingw-isatty later to maint).

49 * "git svn" did not work well with path components that are "0", and

50 some configuration variable it uses were not documented.

51 (merge ea9a93dcc2 ew/svn-fixes later to maint).

53 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.