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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 33f4ae3ebe..a244034b90 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. + * "git branch" now rejects some nonsense combinations of command line + arguments (e.g. giving more than one branch name to rename) with + more case-specific error messages. + * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has been added. @@ -105,6 +109,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features rewrite the names and email addresses of people using the mailmap mechanism. + * "git mergetool" and "git difftool" learned to list the available + tool backends in a more consistent manner. + + * "git mergetool" is aware of TortoiseGitMerge now and uses it over + TortoiseMerge when available. + * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. @@ -281,7 +291,6 @@ details). * We forgot to close the file descriptor reading from "gpg" output, killing "git log --show-signature" on a long history. - (merge 7dac3f8 sb/gpg-plug-fd-leak later to maint). * The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system. @@ -297,7 +306,6 @@ details). * Rebasing the history of superproject with change in the submodule has been broken since v1.7.12. - (merge e28efb1 jc/fake-ancestor-with-non-blobs later to maint). * After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted. @@ -319,7 +327,6 @@ details). * A failure to push due to non-ff while on an unborn branch dereferenced a NULL pointer when showing an error message. - (merge 1d2c14d ft/transport-report-segv later to maint). * When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from @@ -337,6 +344,11 @@ details). "highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by mistake. + * "gitweb" pages served over HTTPS, when configured to show picon or + gravatar, referred to these external resources to be fetched via + HTTP, resulting in mixed contents warning in browsers. + (merge 5748558 ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme later to maint). + * When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed to add a newline after such a line. @@ -364,7 +376,6 @@ details). versions of ccache broke the auto-generation of dependencies, which unfortunately is still relevant because some people use ancient distros. - (merge 6978934 jn/auto-depend-workaround-buggy-ccache later to maint). * We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an old version of the tutorial; removed. @@ -385,4 +396,3 @@ details). * Scripts to test bash completion was inherently flaky as it was affected by whatever random things the user may have on $PATH. - (merge 5047822 jc/do-not-let-random-file-interfere-with-completion-tests later to maint). |