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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-15 22:12:52 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-06-15 22:12:52 -0700
commit0dbd81251dbc516bb3bf07862c369fc582a4e5e0 (patch)
tree27d68d01b51caaf466926ac6ca1e593e6dc299bb
parentMerge branch 'rr/complete-difftool-fixup' (diff)
downloadtgif-0dbd81251dbc516bb3bf07862c369fc582a4e5e0.tar.xz
Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt17
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
index b974d492dc..63c04823c9 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Updates since v1.8.3
Foreign interfaces and ports.
+ * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the
+ credential helper interface from Git.pm.
+
* Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that
this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
ahead.
@@ -85,6 +88,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
+ * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to
+ its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so
+ make a copy if you want to keep it").
+
+ * The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant
+ parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated.
+
* Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other
codepaths) have been plugged.
@@ -122,6 +132,13 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details).
+ * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
+ "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
+ needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes
+ around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and
+ unquoted strings).
+ (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
+
* "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
when used as a persistent CGI.