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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 7799cec1dd..15ad460b59 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -33,12 +33,29 @@ from today's version in such a situation. Updates since v1.8.2 -------------------- +Foreign interface + + * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated. + + UI, Workflows & Features * "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). + * In a sparsely populated working tree, "git checkout <pathspec>" no + longer unmarks paths that match the given pathspec that were + originally ignored with "--sparse" (use --ignore-skip-worktree-bits + option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want + to). + + * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect + log file. + + * "git clone --reference" can now refer to a gitfile "textual symlink" + that points at the real location of the repository. + * "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary. @@ -192,6 +209,11 @@ 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). + * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed + crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an + timestamp can always be found in it. + (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint). + * When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to "git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said there was a programming error to trigger the die handler |