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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt | 48 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt index 882b12d8e4..797e67bb73 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * xdg-open can be used as a browser backend for "git web-browse" + (hence to show "git help -w" output), when available. + * "git grep" and "git show" pays attention to "--textconv" option when these commands are told to operate on blob objects (e.g. "git grep -e pattern HEAD:Makefile"). @@ -132,10 +135,6 @@ UI, Workflows & Features sync with the branch it builds on, and a branch that is configured to build on some other branch that no longer exists. - * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and - will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving - data over the wire. - * Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such @@ -153,8 +152,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git push --no-thin" actually disables the "thin pack transfer" optimization. - * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both - Makefile and makefile can be used in more places. + * Magic pathspecs like ":(icase)makefile" that matches both Makefile + and makefile and ":(glob)foo/**/bar" that matches "bar" in "foo" + and any subdirectory of "foo" can be used in more places. * The "http.*" variables can now be specified per URL that the configuration applies. For example, @@ -205,6 +205,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * "git for-each-ref" when asking for merely the object name does not + have to parse the object pointed at by the refs; the codepath has + been optimized. + * The HTTP transport will try to use TCP keepalive when able. * "git repack" is now written in C. @@ -244,6 +248,38 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * A fast-import stream expresses a pathname with funny characters by + quoting them in C style; remote-hg remote helper forgot to unquote + such a path. + (merge 1136265 ap/remote-hg-unquote-cquote later to maint). + + * "git reset -p HEAD" has a codepath to special case it to behave + differently from resetting to contents of other commits, but a + recent change broke it. + + * Coloring around octopus merges in "log --graph" output was screwy. + (merge 339c17b hn/log-graph-color-octopus later to maint). + + * "git checkout topic", when there is not yet a local "topic" branch + but there is a unique remote-tracking branch for a remote "topic" + branch, pretended as if "git checkout -t -b topic remote/$r/topic" + (for that unique remote $r) was run. This hack however was not + implemented for "git checkout topic --". + (merge bca3969 mm/checkout-auto-track-fix later to maint). + + * One long-standing flaw in the pack transfer protocol used by "git + clone" was that there was no way to tell the other end which branch + "HEAD" points at, and the receiving end needed to guess. A new + capability has been defined in the pack protocol to convey this + information so that cloning from a repository with more than one + branches pointing at the same commit where the HEAD is at now + reliably sets the initial branch in the resulting repository. + (merge 360a326 jc/upload-pack-send-symref later to maint). + + * We did not handle cases where http transport gets redirected during + the authorization request (e.g. from http:// to https://). + (merge 70900ed jk/http-auth-redirects later to maint). + * Bash prompting code to deal with an SVN remote as an upstream were coded in a way not supported by older Bash versions (3.x). (merge 52ec889 sg/prompt-svn-remote-fix later to maint). |