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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 4231b684d6..822c0596a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git log" that shows the difference between the parent and the child has been optimized somewhat. + * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files + being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the + same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it + tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy + in the working tree. + + * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from + outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while + making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object} + can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify". + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. @@ -105,6 +116,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath that needs to use a more correct one. + * "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths, + which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/" + that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -116,6 +131,22 @@ 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). + * Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without + trailing slash) to a directory "dir". + (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1). + + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting + longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python). + (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1). + + * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice + when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session. + (merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint). + + * "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support + "--option=value" form. + (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint). + * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack. (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint). @@ -127,22 +158,18 @@ details). * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever. - (merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint). * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git. - (merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint). * Recent optimization broke shallow clones. (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint). * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string. - (merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint). * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating). - (merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint). * "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4 client was not its real path. @@ -151,16 +178,13 @@ details). * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty archive back in such a case. - (merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint). * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files, it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in the middle of it. - (merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint). * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake. - (merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint). * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the correct objects. @@ -173,7 +197,6 @@ details). "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a base of description, did not restrict the output from the command to those that match the given pattern. - (merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint). * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly. @@ -210,7 +233,6 @@ details). * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when $msg already ended with one. - (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint). * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS @@ -224,7 +246,6 @@ details). * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C or en/US locale. - (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint). * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the |