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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index a71d660106..23bd0c45bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 UI, Workflows & Features + * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues + a message meant to help the system admininstrator to enable it. + An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by + issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. + + * "git status" suggests users to look into using--untracked=no option + when it takes too long. + + * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised + ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the + server side supports this feature. + + * "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary + packfiles and other garbage in the object store. + + * A new read-only credential helper (in contrib/) to interact with + the .netrc/.authinfo files has been added. + + * "git send-email" can be used with the credential helper system. Foreign Interface @@ -42,6 +61,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Updates for building under msvc. + * A few codepaths knew how much data they need to put in the + hashtables they use upfront, but still started from a small table + repeatedly growing and rehashing. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -53,6 +76,10 @@ 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). + * 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. (merge 3d0e75f jc/color-diff-doc later to maint). @@ -84,3 +111,52 @@ details). 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. + (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint). + + * 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. + (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint). + + * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the + 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). |