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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 516d929056..5031abfe4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 UI, Workflows & Features + * The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or + off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you + can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it). + + * The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on + (or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration + variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a + series with two or more patches. + + * The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick + takes a few more options than it already knew about. + * "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like list of commands are given with "-a". @@ -119,6 +131,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. * Updates for building under msvc. + * The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a + pack has been shrunk. + * The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2) complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable. @@ -153,7 +168,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. conflicts have been applied. -Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. Fixes since v1.8.2 @@ -163,6 +178,15 @@ 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). + * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the + GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients, + like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients. + (merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint). + + * "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to + "our" side in certain cases. + (merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint). + * 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 |