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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 31 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index 2f41e992d8..e45788ef3e 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Updates since v1.7.12 UI, Workflows & Features + * A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of + the logged-in user has been added. + * "git difftool --dir-diff" learned to use symbolic links to prepare temporary copy of the working tree when available. @@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ Foreign Interface * "git svn" has been updated to work with SVN 1.7. - Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * The "check-docs" build target has been updated and greatly @@ -51,6 +53,33 @@ 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). + * Code to work around MacOS X UTF-8 gotcha has been cleaned up. + (merge 9a27f96 rr/precompose-utf8-cleanup later to maint). + + * Documentation for the configuration file format had a confusing + example. + (merge d1e1fe7 mh/maint-config-doc-proxy-command later to maint). + + * "git submodule <cmd> path" did not error out when the path to the + submodule was misspelt. + (merge be9d0a3 hv/submodule-path-unmatch later to maint). + + * Some capabilities were asked by fetch-pack even when upload-pack + did not advertise that they are available. fetch-pack has been + fixed not to do so. + + * The reflog entries left by "git rebase" and "git rebase -i" were + inconsistent (the interactive one gave an abbreviated object name). + (merge 1af221e mg/rebase-i-onto-reflog-in-full later to maint). + + * When the user exports a non-default IFS without HT, scripts that + rely on being able to parse "ls-files -s | while read a b c..." + start to fail. Protect them from such a misconfiguration. + (merge 785063e jc/maint-protect-sh-from-ifs later to maint). + + * "git prune" without "-v" used to warn about leftover temporary + files (which is an indication of an earlier aborted operation). + (merge 90b29cb bc/prune-info later to maint). * When "git push" triggered the automatic gc on the receiving end, a message from "git prune" that said it was removing cruft leaked to |