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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 54b05db9d0..b027992d82 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -62,9 +62,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The new "--follow-tags" option tells "git push" to push relevant annotated tags when pushing branches out. - -Foreign Interface - + * "git mergetool" now feeds files to the "p4merge" backend in the + order that matches the p4 convention, where "theirs" is usually + shown on the left side, which is the opposite from other backend + expects. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. @@ -75,6 +76,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table repeatedly growing and rehashing. + * The API to walk reflog entries from the latest to older, which was + necessary for operations such as "git checkout -", was cumbersome + to use correctly and also inefficient. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -121,7 +126,6 @@ details). * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the correct objects. - (merge e8e92e0 jc/maint-reflog-expire-clean-mark-typofix later to maint). * The logic used by "git diff -M --stat" to shorten the names of files before and after a rename did not work correctly when the @@ -136,7 +140,6 @@ details). * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. - (merge cfe1348 jc/maint-push-refspec-default-doc later to maint). * The "--color=<when>" argument to the commands in the diff family was described poorly. @@ -161,14 +164,12 @@ details). to file scope static, but a few functions in graph.c were used by CGit from sideways bypassing the entry points of the API the in-tree users use. - (merge ac751a0 jk/graph-c-expose-symbols-for-cgit later to maint). * "git update-index -h" did not do the usual "-h(elp)" thing. * "git index-pack" had a buffer-overflow while preparing an informational message when the translated version of it was too long. - (merge 5c3459f nd/index-pack-l10n-buf-overflow later to maint). * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when $msg already ended with one. @@ -177,15 +178,12 @@ details). * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS sites that serve multiple hostnames on a single IP. - (merge 698a1ec ob/imap-send-ssl-verify later to maint). * perl/Git.pm::cat_blob slurped everything in core only to write it out to a file descriptor, which was not a very smart thing to do. - (merge 712c6ad jc/perl-cat-blob later to maint). * "git branch" did not bother to check nonsense command line parameters and issue errors in many cases. - (merge 8efb889 nd/branch-error-cases later to maint). * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C or en/US locale. @@ -195,19 +193,15 @@ details). most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the user-supplied encoding name that are the common alternative spellings of UTF-8. - (merge 5c680be jk/utf-8-can-be-spelled-differently later to maint). * When export-subst is used, "zip" output recorded incorrect size of the file. - (merge d3c1472 rs/zip-compresssed-size-with-export-subst later to maint). * "git am $maildir/" applied messages in an unexpected order; sort filenames read from the maildir/ in a way that is more likely to sort messages in the order the writing MUA meant to, by sorting numeric segment in numeric order and non-numeric segment in alphabetical order. - (merge 18505c3 jk/mailsplit-maildir-muttsort later to maint). * "git submodule update", when recursed into sub-submodules, did not acccumulate the prefix paths. - (merge 75bf5e6 we/submodule-update-prefix-output later to maint). |