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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 13 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index 2a8adca2a8..9714422dee 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -79,6 +79,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Compatibility wrapper for systems that lack usable setitimer() has been added. + * The option parsing of "git checkout" had error checking, dwim and + defaulting missing options, all mixed in the code, and issuing an + appropriate error message with useful context was getting harder. + The code has been reorganized to allow giving a proper diagnosis + when the user says "git checkout -b -t foo bar" (e.g. "-t" is not a + good name for a branch). + * Many internal uses of "git merge-base" equivalent were only to see if one commit fast-forwards to the other, which did not need the full set of merge bases to be computed. They have been updated to @@ -102,6 +109,12 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.12 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * "git fetch --all", when passed "--no-tags", did not honor the + "--no-tags" option while fetching from individual remotes (the same + issue existed with "--tags", but combination "--all --tags" makes + much less sense than "--all --no-tags"). + (merge 8556646 dj/fetch-all-tags later to maint). + * The subcommand in "git remote" to remove a defined remote was "rm" and the command did not take a fully-spelled "remove". (merge e17dba8 nd/maint-remote-remove later to maint). |