From 0ce986446163b37c7f663ce7a408e7f94c31ba63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 11:25:22 -0700 Subject: The fourth batch for 1.8.0 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt index b626a9a059..2503062408 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.0.txt @@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. (please report possible regressions) * Compatibility wrapper around some mkdir(2) implementations that reject parameter with trailing slash has been introduced. + * The heuristics to detect and silently convert latin1 to utf8 when + we were told to use utf-8 in the log message has been transplanted + from "mailinfo" to "commit" and "commit-tree". + + * Messages given by "git -h" from many subcommands have + been marked for translation. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -67,6 +74,51 @@ 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). + * "git p4", when "--use-client-spec" and "--detect-branches" are used + together, misdetected branches. + (merge 21ef5df pw/p4-use-client-spec-branch-detection later to maint). + + * Output from "git branch -v" contains "(no branch)" that could be + localized, but the code to align it along with the names of + branches were counting in bytes, not in display columns. + (merge 1452bd6 nd/branch-v-alignment later to maint). + + * "git for-each-ref" did not currectly support more than one --sort + option. + (merge 3b51222 kk/maint-for-each-ref-multi-sort later to maint). + + * Pushing to smart HTTP server with recent Git fails without having + the username in the URL to force authentication, if the server is + configured to allow GET anonymously, while requiring authentication + for POST. + (merge b81401c jk/maint-http-half-auth-push later to maint). + + * When looking for $HOME/.gitconfig etc., it is OK if we cannot read + them because they do not exist, but we did not diagnose existing + files that we cannot read. + + * The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the + branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the + option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the + documentation misleading. There may be room in documentation pages + of other commands for similar improvements (hint, hint). + (merge 45aaf03 jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name later to maint). + + * "git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path + when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. + Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such + a case. + (merge 003c84f jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory later to maint). + + * "git apply -p0" did not parse pathnames on "diff --git" line + correctly. This caused patches that had pathnames in no other + places to be mistakenly rejected (most notably, binary patch that + does not rename nor change mode). Textual patches, renames or mode + changes have preimage and postimage pathnames in different places + in a form that can be parsed unambiguously and did not suffer from + this problem. + (merge 6a2abdc jc/apply-binary-p0 later to maint). + * The exit status code from "git config" was way overspecified while being incorrect. The implementation has been updated to give the documented status for a case that was documented, and introduce a -- cgit v1.2.3