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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index eca2677fea..6dda09560e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Foreign interface * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. + * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to + update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side + does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do + --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -67,6 +71,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. + * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure + that the history behind refs are complete. + * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been squelched. @@ -84,6 +91,22 @@ 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). + * "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. + (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint). + + * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so + it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push + out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the + command was started. + (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint). + + * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch + being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the + plain vanilla "rebase". + (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint). + * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was broken in the update to v1.8.3. (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint). |