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@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the
server side supports this feature.
+ * Output from "git log --graph" works better with submodule log
+ output now.
+
* "git count-objects -v" learned to report leftover temporary
packfiles and other garbage in the object store.
@@ -160,6 +163,28 @@ 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).
+ * Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
+ the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
+ Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and
+ error reporting code may write into them.
+ (merge a749c0b tr/perl-keep-stderr-open later to maint).
+
+ * "git show-branch" was not prepared to show a very long run of
+ ancestor operators e.g. foobar^2~2^2^2^2...^2~4 correctly.
+ (merge aaa07e3 jk/show-branch-strbuf later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --diff-algorithm algo" is also understood as "git diff
+ --diff-algorithm=algo".
+ (merge 0895c6d jk/diff-algo-finishing-touches later to maint).
+
+ * The new core.commentchar configuration was not applied to a few
+ places.
+ (merge 89c3bbd rt/commentchar-fmt-merge-msg later to maint).
+
+ * "git bundle" did not like a bundle created using a commit without
+ any message as its one of the prerequistes.
+ (merge 5446e33 lf/bundle-with-tip-wo-message later to maint).
+
* "git log -S/-G" started paying attention to textconv filter, but
there was no way to disable this. Make it honor --no-textconv
option.