From 51f11d69b16ab6614b79b3b4c12d35ca2b450a22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:46:41 -0700 Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.4 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index 5f440b8a6b..b85f16b378 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -35,6 +35,13 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * Having multiple "fixup!" on a line in the rebase instruction sheet + did not work very well with "git rebase -i --autosquash". + + * "git log" learned the "--author-date-order" option, with which the + output is topologically sorted and commits in parallel histories + are shown intermixed together based on the author timestamp. + * Various subcommands of "git submodule" refused to run from anywhere other than the top of the working tree of the superproject, but they have been taught to let you run from a subdirectory. @@ -116,6 +123,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/ + used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was + still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5 + years ago, breaking that feature and leaving the supporting code + unreachable. The dead code has been removed. + * "git pack-refs" that races with new ref creation or deletion have been susceptible to lossage of refs under right conditions, which has been tightened up. @@ -175,6 +188,9 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * The configuration variable column.ui was poorly documented. + (merge 5e62cc1 rr/column-doc later to maint). + * "git name-rev --refs=tags/v*" were forbidden, which was a bit inconvenient (you had to give a pattern to match refs fully, like --refs=refs/tags/v*). -- cgit v1.2.3