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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 68 |
2 files changed, 79 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt index 468947cc1a..ead568e7f1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt @@ -42,8 +42,11 @@ Updates since v1.8.2 Foreign interface * remote-hg and remote-bzr helpers (in contrib/ since v1.8.2) have - been updated; especially, the latter has been accelerated to help - Emacs folks, whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating. + been updated; especially, the latter has been done in an + accelerated schedule (read: we may not have merged to this release + if we were following the usual "cook sufficiently in next before + unleashing it to the world" workflow) in order to help Emacs folks, + whose primary SCM seems to be stagnating. UI, Workflows & Features @@ -111,9 +114,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features of erroneous inputs was suboptimal and has been improved. * When the interactive access to git-shell is not enabled, it issues - a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. - An explicit way to help the end users who connect to the service by - issuing custom messages to refuse such an access has been added. + a message meant to help the system administrator to enable it. An + explicit way has been added to issue custom messages to refuse an + access over the network to help the end users who connect to the + service expecting an interactive shell. * In addition to the case where the user edits the log message with the "e)dit" option of "am -i", replace the "Applying: this patch" @@ -123,8 +127,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git status" suggests users to look into using --untracked=no option when it takes too long. - * "git status" shows a bit more information during a - rebase/bisect session. + * "git status" shows a bit more information during a rebase/bisect + session. * "git fetch" learned to fetch a commit at the tip of an unadvertised ref by specifying a raw object name from the command line when the @@ -241,7 +245,6 @@ details). * Various subcommands of "git remote" simply ignored extraneous command line arguments instead of diagnosing them as errors. - (merge b17dd3f tr/remote-tighten-commandline-parsing later to maint). * When receive-pack detects an error in the pack header it received in order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it @@ -264,7 +267,6 @@ details). buffer around as human readable object names. This was not a huge problem but was exposed by a new change that uses these names in error output. - (merge 70d26c6 tr/copy-revisions-from-stdin later to maint). * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walking clients, @@ -309,11 +311,9 @@ details). * Fix a 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without a 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. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d86a78fdf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +Git v1.8.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Updates since v1.8.3 +-------------------- + +Foreign interface + + * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and + maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better. + + +UI, Workflows & Features + + * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work + more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes. + + * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options + of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and + --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp. + "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing + function for expiry dates. + + +Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + + * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become + crowded, has been optimized. + + * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat + inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic + to summarize the results looked at a wrong place. + + * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been + squelched. + + * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated, + correcting corner case bugs. + + +Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. + + +Fixes since v1.8.3 +------------------ + +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). + + * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we + used to complain and die. Loosen the check. + (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint). + + * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error + checks to lose data at the remote side. + (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint). + + * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does + not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork + from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from) + did not work correctly. + (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint). + + * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into + "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been + updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account. + (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint). |