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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 63c04823c9..408c602cc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes Updates since v1.8.3 -------------------- -Foreign interfaces and ports. +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version. * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the credential helper interface from Git.pm. @@ -33,6 +35,10 @@ Foreign interfaces and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first + thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to + Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order @@ -88,6 +94,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code, + matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few) + have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would + match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, 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"). @@ -139,6 +150,12 @@ details). unquoted strings). (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). + * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different + contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit, + apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index + entries, which has been plugged. + (merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array 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. |