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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-26 01:08:00 +0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-03-26 01:08:00 +0400 |
commit | 7632cd274464d693c3821205f72a54cda2b7d83b (patch) | |
tree | 7001de1bfbee21ec50d1d5ccbba9e9361152517a /Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | |
parent | 870987dec752fe2a6752f7813fe1892b5e1a8d32 (diff) |
Second wave of topics toward 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 58 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 23bd0c45bb..54b05db9d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -52,6 +52,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system. + * There was no Porcelain way to say "I no longer am interested in + this submodule", once you express your interest in a submodule with + "submodule init". "submodule deinit" is the way to do so. + + * "git pull --rebase" learned to pass "-v/-q" options to underlying + "git rebase". + + * The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant + annotated tags when pushing branches out. + Foreign Interface @@ -76,35 +86,76 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised + correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git. + (merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint). + + * Recent optimization broke shallow clones. + (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint). + + * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and + instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string. + (merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint). + + * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when + creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating). + (merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint). + + * "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4 + client was not its real path. + (merge bbd8486 pw/p4-symlinked-root later to maint). + + * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out + of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty + archive back in such a case. + (merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint). + + * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files, + it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in + the middle of it. + (merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint). + + * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say + it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake. + (merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint). + + * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the + correct objects. + (merge e8e92e0 jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix later to maint). + + * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of + files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the + common prefix and suffix between the two filenames overlapped. + (merge b174eb4 ap/maint-diff-rename-avoid-overlap later to maint). + + * The "--match=<pattern>" option of "git describe", when used with + "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a + base of description, did not restrict the output from the command + to those that match the given pattern. + (merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint). + * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint). * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family was described poorly. - (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint). * The arguments given to pre-rebase hook were not documented. - (merge 0414acc wk/doc-pre-rebase later to maint). * The v4 index format was not documented. - (merge 647d879 nd/doc-index-format later to maint). * The "--match=<pattern>" argument "git describe" takes uses glob pattern but it wasn't obvious from the documentation. - (merge 5229149 gp/describe-match-uses-glob-pattern later to maint). * Some sources failed to compile on systems that lack NI_MAXHOST in their system header (e.g. z/OS). - (merge 3b130ade dm/ni-maxhost-may-be-missing later to maint). * Add an example use of "--env-filter" in "filter-branch" documentation. - (merge 21b6e4f tk/doc-filter-branch later to maint). * "git bundle verify" did not say "records a complete history" for a bundle that does not have any prerequisites. - (merge a02ffe0 lf/bundle-verify-list-prereqs later to maint). * In the v1.8.0 era, we changed symbols that do not have to be global to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by |