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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 63c04823c9..10699fa226 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Git v1.8.4 Release Notes Updates since v1.8.3 -------------------- -Foreign interfaces and ports. +Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + + * Git-gui has been updated to its 0.18.0 version. * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the credential helper interface from Git.pm. @@ -33,6 +35,23 @@ Foreign interfaces and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * "git rm" gives a single message followed by list of paths to report + multiple paths that cannot be removed. + + * "git rebase" can be told with ":/look for this string" syntax commits + to replay the changes onto and where the work to be replayed begins. + + * Many tutorials teach users to set "color.ui" to "auto" as the first + thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to + Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto". + + * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start + a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others). + +### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration +### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override +### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line). + * "git cmd <name>", when <name> happens to be a 40-hex string, directly uses the 40-hex string as an object name, even if a ref "refs/<some hierarchy>/<name>" exists. This disambiguation order @@ -42,7 +61,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git rebase" learned "--[no-]autostash" option to save local changes instead of refusing to run (to which people's normal - response was to stash them and re-run). + 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 @". @@ -88,6 +108,11 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * Uses of the platform fnmatch(3) function (many places in the code, + matching pathspec, .gitignore and .gitattributes to name a few) + have been replaced with wildmatch, allowing "foo/**/bar" that would + match foo/bar, foo/a/bar, foo/a/b/bar, etc. + * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so make a copy if you want to keep it"). @@ -132,6 +157,18 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for 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. + (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint). + + * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a + path whose name is not in ASCII. + (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint). + + * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath. + (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint). + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes @@ -139,6 +176,12 @@ details). unquoted strings). (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). + * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different + contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit, + apply, and merge) used to leak memory that held the array of index + entries, which has been plugged. + (merge a0fc4db rs/discard-index-discard-array later to maint). + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one when used as a persistent CGI. |