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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 64 |
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 92de751f3f..b92a2fe18a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features real ref that is pointed at by the symbolic ref would be updated anyway). Symbolic refs no longer are affected by such a fetch. + * "git format-patch" now detects more cases in which a whole branch + is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when + asked to write a cover letter for the series. + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. @@ -57,6 +61,8 @@ Foreign Interface * "git fast-export" has been updated for its use in the context of the remote helper interface. + * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/. + Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. @@ -85,17 +91,11 @@ details). the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling. (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint). - * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that - broke on OpenBSD. - (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). - - * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. - (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). - - * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a - platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you - need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). - (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). + * When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and + finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error + message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does + not exist there" and moving on. + (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint). * The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn @@ -112,6 +112,10 @@ details). exclude mechanism does. (merge 94bc671 ja/directory-attrs later to maint). + * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing + excess trailing blank lines. + (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint). + * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint). @@ -132,11 +136,21 @@ details). index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint). + * "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git + commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit + status of the hook. + (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint). + * "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely nothing in it early, which was not very useful. (merge 28dae18 md/gitweb-sort-by-age later to maint). + * "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to + "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by + mistake. + (merge 0e901d2 os/gitweb-highlight-uncaptured later to maint). + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed to add a newline after such a line. @@ -145,3 +159,31 @@ details). * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. (merge 393050c jc/maint-fbsd-sh-ifs-workaround later to maint). + + * Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when + PYTHON_PATH changed. + (cherry-pick 96a4647fca54031974cd6ad1 later to maint). + + * When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran + "config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary. + (merge 1226504 jn/less-reconfigure later to maint). + + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an + old version of the tutorial; removed. + (merge 0a85441 ta/remove-stale-translated-tut later to maint). + + * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that + broke on OpenBSD. + (merge 27f6342 jc/maint-test-portability later to maint). + + * t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues. + (merge 5a02966 jc/test-portability later to maint). + + * t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a + platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you + need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0). + (merge 8666df0 jc/test-cvs-no-init-in-existing-dir later to maint). + + * t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct. + (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint). + (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint). |