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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 18 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 097654672d..69ab64efae 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -35,13 +35,19 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report + multiple paths that cannot be removed. + + * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits + to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins. + * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". - * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration - variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override - with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). +### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration +### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override +### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). * "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 @@ -52,7 +58,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "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). + response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner + case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed. * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, e.g. "git log @". @@ -147,6 +154,9 @@ 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). + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. + (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint). + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes |