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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-05-01 15:32:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-05-01 15:32:24 -0700 |
| commit | de0977d528055bac8a3ae666652f16bf39363ddc (patch) | |
| tree | ff51b0d2e9bf0f80732d0865bee055c64e1a41c7 /Documentation | |
| parent | Fix grammar in the 1.8.3 release notes. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-de0977d528055bac8a3ae666652f16bf39363ddc.tar.xz | |
Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 0d70b3605c..b0cd887403 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Foreign interface UI, Workflows & Features + * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) learned to + show how many changes there are in total and how many have been + replayed during a "git rebase" session. + * "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream, which defaults to blue). @@ -158,9 +162,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the - same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it - tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy - in the working tree. + same time, it now refrains from overwriting the copy in the working + tree and leaves the temporary file so that changes can be merged + manually. * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while @@ -224,6 +228,15 @@ 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). + * Recent versions of File::Temp (used by "git svn") started blowing + up when its tempfile sub is called as a class method; updated the + callsite to call it as a plain vanilla function to fix it. + (merge eafc2dd hb/git-pm-tempfile later to maint). + + * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous + command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors. + (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint). + * When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hung |