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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 23bd0c45bb..dcef36e671 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -37,9 +37,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. - * "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option + * In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with + the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch" + message with the final log message contents after applymsg hook + munges it. + + * "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option when it takes too long. + * "git status" shows a bit more information to "git status" during a + rebase/bisect session. + * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the server side supports this feature. @@ -52,9 +60,20 @@ 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". -Foreign Interface + * The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant + annotated tags when pushing branches out. + * "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the + order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually + shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend + expects. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. @@ -65,6 +84,16 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table repeatedly growing and rehashing. + * The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was + necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome + to use correctly and also inefficient. + + * Codepaths that inspect log-message-to-be and decide when to add a + new Signed-off-by line in various commands have been consolidated. + + * The pkt-line API, implementation and its callers have been cleaned + up to make them more robust. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -76,48 +105,97 @@ 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). + * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta + depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack. + (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint). + + * "index-pack --verify-stat" used a few counters outside protection + of mutex, possibly showing incorrect numbers. + (merge 8f82aad nd/index-pack-threaded-fixes later to maint). + + * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on + platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a + hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever. + (merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint). + + * 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. + + * 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. + + * 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 CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the in-tree users use. - (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint). * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing. * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an informational message when the translated version of it was too long. - (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint). * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when $msg already ended with one. @@ -126,15 +204,12 @@ details). * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP. - (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint). * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do. - (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint). * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line parameters and issue errors in many cases. - (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint). * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C or en/US locale. @@ -144,19 +219,15 @@ details). most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative spellings of UTF-8. - (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint). * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect size of the file. - (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint). * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in alphabetical order. - (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint). * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not acccumulate the prefix paths. - (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint). |