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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 45 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 6c85bf4f0f..92de751f3f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -26,13 +26,49 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Output from the tests is coloured using "green is okay, yellow is questionable, red is bad and blue is informative" scheme. + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read + mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these + tools in server settings. + + * Color specifiers, e.g. "%C(blue)Hello%C(reset)", used in the + "--format=" option of "git log" and friends can be disabled when + the output is not sent to a terminal by prefixing them with + "auto,", e.g. "%C(auto,blue)Hello%C(auto,reset)". + + * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do + not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings. + + * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec + with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match + the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the + real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated + anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch. + + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a + fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + + * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the + tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit + recorded in the superproject's gitlink). + + Foreign Interface - * + * "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of + the remote helper interface. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. - * + * "git fsck" has been taught to be pickier about entries in tree + objects that should not be there, e.g. ".", ".git", and "..". + + * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard + characters has been optimized further. + + * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml + quoting code from http-push codepath. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -71,6 +107,11 @@ details). pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). + * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be + applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the + exclude mechanism does. + (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint). + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). |