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Update draft release notes to 2.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.2.0.txt

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forgot to remove higher stage entries, or if it wanted to unresolve
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and forgot to remove the stage#0 entry).
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* The temporary files "git mergetool" uses are named to avoid too
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many dots in them (e.g. a temporary file for "hello.c" used to be
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named e.g. "hello.BASE.4321.c" but now uses underscore instead,
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e.g. "hello_BASE_4321.c").
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* The temporary files "git mergetools" uses can be placed in a newly
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creted temporary directory, instead of the current directory, by
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setting the mergetool.writeToTemp configuration variable.
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* The "pre-receive" and "post-receive" hooks are no longer required
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to consume their input fully (not following this requirement used
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to result in intermittent errors in "git push").
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The API to manipulate the "refs" is currently undergoing a revamp
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to make it more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow
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all-or-none atomic updates and migrating the storage to something
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other than the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
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* The API to manipulate the "refs" has been restructured to make it
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more transactional, with the eventual goal to allow all-or-none
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atomic updates and migrating the storage to something other than
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the traditional filesystem based one (e.g. databases).
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* The lockfile API and its users have been cleaned up.
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* "gitweb" used deprecated CGI::startfrom, which was removed from
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CGI.pm as of 4.04; use CGI::start_from instead.
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(merge 4750f4b rm/gitweb-start-form later to maint).
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* Newer versions of 'meld' breaks the auto-detection we use to see if
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they are new enough to support the `--output` option.
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(merge b12d045 da/mergetool-meld later to maint).

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