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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-07 14:40:26 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-04-07 14:40:26 -0700
commitc17b651f1919a43f458f909d05c92d5f099ccc8b (patch)
tree591eb3fe9f80544611540ef49430c52a6d2f898b
parentMerge branch 'jk/rm-removed-paths' (diff)
downloadtgif-c17b651f1919a43f458f909d05c92d5f099ccc8b.tar.xz
Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
UI, Workflows & Features
+ * A triangular "pull from one place, push to another place" workflow
+ is supported better by new remote.pushdefault (overrides the
+ "origin" thing) and branch.*.pushremote (overrides the
+ branch.*.remote) configuration variables.
+
+ * "git status" learned to report that you are in the middle of a
+ revert session, just like it does for a cherry-pick and a bisect
+ session.
+
+ * The handing by "git branch --set-upstream-to" against various forms
+ of errorneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved.
+
* When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues
a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it.
An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by
@@ -101,6 +113,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Updates for building under msvc.
+ * The code to enforce permission bits on files in $GIT_DIR/ for
+ shared repositories have been simplified.
+
* A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the
hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table
repeatedly growing and rehashing.
@@ -135,6 +150,11 @@ 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).
+ * When used with "-d temporary-directory" option, "git filter-branch"
+ failed to come back to the original working tree to perform the
+ final clean-up procedure.
+ (merge 9727601 jk/filter-branch-come-back-to-original later to maint).
+
* "git merge $(git rev-parse v1.8.2)" behaved quite differently from
"git merge v1.8.2", as if v1.8.2 were written as v1.8.2^0 and did
not pay much attention to the annotated tag payload. Make the code