From 1b593e1ea4d2af0f6444d9a7788d5d99abd6fde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Ambo Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 23:36:56 +0000 Subject: Squashed 'third_party/git/' content from commit cb71568594 git-subtree-dir: third_party/git git-subtree-split: cb715685942260375e1eb8153b0768a376e4ece7 --- Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt (limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..0b67268a9660 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.3.8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Git v2.3.8 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.3.7 +------------------ + + * The usual "git diff" when seeing a file turning into a directory + showed a patchset to remove the file and create all files in the + directory, but "git diff --no-index" simply refused to work. Also, + when asked to compare a file and a directory, imitate POSIX "diff" + and compare the file with the file with the same name in the + directory, instead of refusing to run. + + * The default $HOME/.gitconfig file created upon "git config --global" + that edits it had incorrectly spelled user.name and user.email + entries in it. + + * "git commit --date=now" or anything that relies on approxidate lost + the daylight-saving-time offset. + +Also contains typofixes, documentation updates and trivial code +clean-ups. -- cgit 1.4.1