Git 2.8 Release Notes

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Updates since v2.7

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UI, Workflows & Features

* "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not.

(merge 38a2559 ps/push-delete-option later to maint).

* "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes

too much time before emitting the first line of the result.

(merge aba37f4 ea/blame-progress later to maint).

* "git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line)

how many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.

(merge 89f09dd vl/grep-configurable-threads later to maint).

Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.

* Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use

it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel.

* A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets

as such correctly.

Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.

Fixes since v2.7

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Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v2.7 in the maintenance

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

notes for details).

* An earlier change in 2.5.x-era broke users' hooks and aliases by

exporting GIT_WORK_TREE to point at the root of the working tree,

interfering when they tried to use a different working tree without

setting GIT_WORK_TREE environment themselves.

(merge df1e6ea nd/stop-setenv-work-tree later to maint).