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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 6dda09560e..b974d492dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -4,7 +4,15 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes Updates since v1.8.3 -------------------- -Foreign interface +Foreign interfaces and ports. + + * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that + this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it + ahead. + + * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has + been updated to kick in not just when talking http/https but also + imap(s) and smtp. * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. @@ -14,8 +22,28 @@ Foreign interface does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now. + * git-remote-hg/bzr (in contrib/) updates. + + * git-remote-mw (in contrib/) hints users to check the certificate, + when https:// connection failed. + + UI, Workflows & Features + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, + directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref + "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order + is unlikely to change, but we should warn about the ambiguity just + like we warn when more than one refs/ hierachies share the same + name. + + * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local + changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal + response was to stash them and re-run). + + * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, + e.g. "git log @". + * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. @@ -57,6 +85,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other + codepaths) have been plugged. + * The codepath to read from marks files in fast-import/export did not have to accept anything but 40-hex representation of the object name. Further, fast-export did not need full in-core object @@ -91,6 +122,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each + request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one + when used as a persistent CGI. + (merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint). + + * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly. + (merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint). + + * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that + renamed the $path being followed. + (merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint). + + * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we + did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''". + (merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint). + * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some cases. |