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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 15 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index a6eb139150..da27842f48 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when asked to write a cover letter for the series. + * "git format-patch" learned "-v $count" option, and prepends a + string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also + automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This + allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different + names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages. + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. @@ -119,6 +125,11 @@ details). signal and die. We ignore these signals now. (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was + reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was + spawned by us, with or without a shell in between. + (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint). + * After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms. (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint). @@ -136,6 +147,10 @@ details). way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy. (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint). + * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when + streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. + (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint). + * When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created. This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update. |