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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index a244034b90..ad6496f826 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features All-caps "GIT" was merely a way to imitate "Git" typeset in small caps in our ASCII text only documentation and to be avoided. + * The completion script (in contrib/completion) used to let the + default completer to suggest pathnames, which gave too many + irrelevant choices (e.g. "git add" would not want to add an + unmodified path). It learnt to use a more git-aware logic to + enumerate only relevant ones. + * In bare repositories, "git shortlog" and other commands now read mailmap files from the tip of the history, to help running these tools in server settings. @@ -248,12 +254,22 @@ details). was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. + * The smart HTTP clients forgot to verify the content-type that comes + back from the server side to make sure that the request is being + handled properly. + (merge 3443db5 sp/smart-http-content-type-check later to maint). + * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing excess trailing blank lines. + * "git apply --summary" has been taught to make sure the similarity + value shown in its output is sensible, even when the input had a + bogus value. + (merge afcb6ac jk/apply-similaritly-parsing later to maint). + * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. @@ -279,6 +295,11 @@ details). failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. + * We used to have an arbitrary 32 limit for combined diff input, + resulting in incorrect number of leading colons shown when showing + the "--raw --cc" output. + (merge edbc00e jc/combine-diff-many-parents later to maint). + * "git fetch --depth" was broken in at least three ways. The resulting history was deeper than specified by one commit, it was unclear how to wipe the shallowness of the repository with the @@ -377,6 +398,10 @@ details). unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient distros. + * The autoconf subsystem passed --mandir down to generated + config.mak.autogen but forgot to do the same for --htmldir. + (merge fc1c541 ct/autoconf-htmldir later to maint). + * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. |