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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index b4f8737c5a..02f681b710 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -198,9 +198,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features response was to stash them and re-run). This introduced a corner case breakage to "git am --abort" but it has been fixed. - * Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now, - e.g. "git log @". - * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. @@ -242,6 +239,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * On Cygwin, we used to use our own lstat(2) emulation that is + allegedly faster than the platform one in codepaths where some of + the information it returns did not matter, but it started to bite + us in a few codepaths where the trick it uses to cheat does show + breakages. This emulation has been removed and we use the native + lstat(2) emulation supplied by Cygwin now. + * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)). @@ -263,7 +267,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which has been tightened up. - * We read loose and packed rerferences in two steps, but after + * We read loose and packed references in two steps, but after deciding to read a loose ref but before actually opening it to read it, another process racing with us can unlink it, which would cause us to barf. The codepath has been updated to retry when such a @@ -365,12 +369,6 @@ details). the user to an unexpected place. (merge 3bed291 rr/rebase-checkout-reflog later to maint). - * "git stash save", when your local change turns a tracked file into - a directory, has to remove files in that directory in order to - revert your working tree to a pristine state. This will lose - untracked files in such a directory, and the command now requires - you to "--force" it. - * The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented. (merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint). @@ -381,7 +379,7 @@ details). * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in - v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks. + v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintenance tracks. * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but we updated the auth material after handing it to a call. |