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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-31 14:11:38 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-05-31 14:11:38 -0700 |
commit | 4b0891ffe4ec3aef081cf48c5f9a747586076f7a (patch) | |
tree | 1b19f688d165b53309b2a849dd0ff7dcd64e676c | |
parent | Merge branch 'sb/submodule-deinit-all' into maint (diff) | |
download | tgif-4b0891ffe4ec3aef081cf48c5f9a747586076f7a.tar.xz |
More topics for 2.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt index 6005548fd6..8d484b170a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.4.txt @@ -24,4 +24,32 @@ Fixes since v2.8.3 * Many 'linkgit:<git documentation page>' references were broken, which are all fixed with this. + * "git describe --contains" often made a hard-to-justify choice of + tag to give name to a given commit, because it tried to come up + with a name with smallest number of hops from a tag, causing an old + commit whose close descendant that is recently tagged were not + described with respect to an old tag but with a newer tag. It did + not help that its computation of "hop" count was further tweaked to + penalize being on a side branch of a merge. The logic has been + updated to favor using the tag with the oldest tagger date, which + is a lot easier to explain to the end users: "We describe a commit + in terms of the (chronologically) oldest tag that contains the + commit." + + * Running tests with '-x' option to trace the individual command + executions is a useful way to debug test scripts, but some tests + that capture the standard error stream and check what the command + said can be broken with the trace output mixed in. When running + our tests under "bash", however, we can redirect the trace output + to another file descriptor to keep the standard error of programs + being tested intact. + + * "http.cookieFile" configuration variable clearly wants a pathname, + but we forgot to treat it as such by e.g. applying tilde expansion. + + * When de-initialising all submodules, "git submodule deinit" gave a + faulty recommendation to use "git submodule deinit .", which would + result in a strange error message in a pathological corner case. + This has been corrected to suggest "submodule deinit --all" instead. + Also contains other minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. |