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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt index 7120c220e4..a966ab4887 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.9.txt @@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "gitweb" learned to treat ref hierarchies other than refs/heads as + if they are additional branch namespaces (e.g. refs/changes/ in + Gerrit). + * "git for-each-ref --format=..." learned a few formatting directives; e.g. "%(color:red)%(HEAD)%(color:reset) %(refname:short) %(subject)". @@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The deprecated parse-options macro OPT_BOOLEAN has been removed; + use OPT_BOOL or OPT_COUNTUP in new code. + + * A few duplicate implementations of prefix/suffix string comparison + functions have been unified to starts_with() and ends_with(). + * The new PERLLIB_EXTRA makefile variable can be used to specify additional directories Perl modules (e.g. the ones necessary to run git-svn) are installed on the platform when building. @@ -131,6 +141,33 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes for details). + * "git mv A B/", when B does not exist as a directory, should error + out, but it didn't. + (merge c57f628 mm/mv-file-to-no-such-dir-with-slash later to maint). + + * A workaround to an old bug in glibc prior to glibc 2.17 has been + retired; this would remove a side effect of the workaround that + corrupts system error messages in non-C locales. + + * SSL-related options were not passed correctly to underlying socket + layer in "git send-email". + (merge 5508f3e tr/send-email-ssl later to maint). + + * "git commit -v" appends the patch to the log message before + editing, and then removes the patch when the editor returned + control. However, the patch was not stripped correctly when the + first modified path was a submodule. + (merge 1a72cfd jl/commit-v-strip-marker later to maint). + + * "git fetch --depth=0" was a no-op, and was silently ignored. + Diagnose it as an error. + (merge 5594bca nd/transport-positive-depth-only later to maint). + + * Remote repository URL expressed in scp-style host:path notation are + parsed more carefully (e.g. "foo/bar:baz" is local, "[::1]:/~user" asks + to connect to user's home directory on host at address ::1. + (merge a2036d7 tb/clone-ssh-with-colon-for-port later to maint). + * "git diff -- ':(icase)makefile'" was unnecessarily rejected at the command line parser. (merge 887c6c1 nd/magic-pathspec later to maint). |