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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index da27842f48..0ae40f3b25 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -41,9 +41,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo". + * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. + * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn branch. + * "git commit" can be told to use --cleanup=whitespace by setting the + configuration variable commit.cleanup to 'whitespace'. + * "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the @@ -60,6 +65,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages. + * "git log" and friends can be told with --use-mailmap option to + rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap + mechanism. + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. @@ -69,6 +78,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as it hurts the common case of not failing at all. + * Input and preconditions to "git reset" has been loosened where + appropriate. "git reset $fromtree Makefile" requires $fromtree to + be any tree (it used to require it to be a commit), for example. + "git reset" (without options or parameters) used to error out when + you do not have any commits in your history, but it now gives you + an empty index (to match non-existent commit you are not even on). + * "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit recorded in the superproject's gitlink). @@ -81,6 +97,11 @@ Foreign Interface * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/. + * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. + + * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few + fixes. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. @@ -90,6 +111,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Matching paths with common forms of pathspecs that contain wildcard characters has been optimized further. + * "git reset" internals has been reworked and should be faster in + general. We tried to be careful not to break any behaviour but + there could be corner cases, especially when running the command + from a conflicted state, that we may have missed. + * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml quoting code from http-push codepath. @@ -136,8 +162,10 @@ details). * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the - exclude mechanism does. - (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint). + exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that + was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance + degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. + (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint). * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing excess trailing blank lines. @@ -151,6 +179,14 @@ details). streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint). + * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up + finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a + confusing output (e.g. after saying that it will remove an + untracked directory, it found an embedded git repository there + which it is not allowed to remove). It now performs the actions + and then reports the outcome more faithfully. + (merge f538a91 zk/clean-report-failure later to maint). + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. @@ -176,6 +212,14 @@ details). index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). + * "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there + options at the same time, which was nonsensical. + (merge 95b63f1 nd/clone-no-separate-git-dir-with-bare later to maint). + + * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions + of Git. + (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint). + * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded without getting seen in the editor. @@ -186,6 +230,16 @@ details). status of the hook. (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint). + * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the + trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from + there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this + script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way. + (merge 6310071 nz/send-email-headers-are-case-insensitive later to maint). + + * Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction + with "--untracked". + (merge a45fb69 ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory later to maint). + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely nothing in it early, which was not very useful. @@ -201,6 +255,14 @@ details). to add a newline after such a line. (merge e0db176 sp/shortlog-missing-lf later to maint). + * Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while + looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>. + (merge ca87dd6 ds/completion-silence-in-tree-path-probe later to maint). + + * Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space + after completing a single directory name. + (merge 92f1c04 mk/complete-tcsh later to maint). + * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). |