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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt | 42 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt index 107e5f3d50..00d728de16 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.1.txt @@ -32,16 +32,22 @@ UI, Workflows & Features The bug has been fixed in "less" version 406 (June 2007), and the workaround has been removed in this release. + * Some documentation pages that used to ship only in the plain text + format are now formatted in HTML as well. + * A new configuration variable "diff.context" can be used to give the default number of context lines in the patch output, to override the hardcoded default of 3 lines. - * "git format-patch" leraned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give + * "git format-patch" learned the "--notes=<ref>" option to give notes for the commit after the three-dash lines in its output. * "git log --grep=<pcre>" learned to honor the "grep.patterntype" configuration set to "perl". + * "git replace -d <object>" now interprets <object>, instead of only + accepting full hex object name. + * "git rm $submodule" used to punt on removing a submodule working tree to avoid losing the repository embedded in it. Because recent git uses a mechanism to separate the submodule repository @@ -70,6 +76,8 @@ Foreign Interface Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * Compilation on Cygwin with newer header files are supported now. + * The logic to generate the initial advertisement from "upload-pack" (what is invoked by "git fetch" on the other side of the connection) to list what refs are available in the @@ -78,6 +86,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * The logic to find set of attributes that match a given path has been optimized. + * Use preloadindex in "git diff-index" and "git update-index", which + has a nice speedup on systems with slow stat calls (and even on + Linux). + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -132,11 +144,11 @@ details). (merge 11fbe18 po/maint-refs-replace-docs later to maint). * Various rfc2047 quoting issues around a non-ASCII name on the - From: line in the output from format-patch has been corrected. + From: line in the output from format-patch have been corrected. (merge 25dc8da js/format-2047 later to maint). * Sometimes curl_multi_timeout() function suggested a wrong timeout - value when there is no file descriptors to wait on and the http + value when there is no file descriptor to wait on and the http transport ended up sleeping for minutes in select(2) system call. A workaround has been added for this. (merge 7202b81 sz/maint-curl-multi-timeout later to maint). @@ -149,3 +161,27 @@ details). * "git diff -G<pattern>" did not honor textconv filter when looking for changes. (merge b1c2f57 jk/maint-diff-grep-textconv later to maint). + + * Some HTTP servers ask for auth only during the actual packing phase + (not in ls-remote phase); this is not really a recommended + configuration, but the clients used to fail to authenticate with + such servers. + (merge 2e736fd jk/maint-http-half-auth-fetch later to maint). + + * "git p4" used to try expanding malformed "$keyword$" that spans + across multiple lines. + (merge 6b2bf41 pw/maint-p4-rcs-expansion-newline later to maint). + + * Syntax highlighting in "gitweb" was not quite working. + (merge 048b399 rh/maint-gitweb-highlight-ext later to maint). + + * RSS feed from "gitweb" had a xss hole in its title output. + (merge 0f0ecf6 jk/maint-gitweb-xss later to maint). + + * "git config --path $key" segfaulted on "[section] key" (a boolean + "true" spelled without "=", not "[section] key = true"). + (merge 962c38e cn/config-missing-path later to maint). + + * "git checkout -b foo" while on an unborn branch did not say + "Switched to a new branch 'foo'" like other cases. + (merge afa8c07 jk/checkout-out-of-unborn later to maint). |