From 8d8387116ae8c3e73f6184471f0c46edbd2c7601 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:43:58 -0700 Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the first half of the fourth batch Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt index d6fb0c054a..f335bcfcdd 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.5.txt @@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ Updates since v1.8.4 Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. + * On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed + unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it. + Now we do. + * remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there". @@ -63,6 +67,12 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports. UI, Workflows & Features + * Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to + the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to + allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such + broken tree objects. "filter-branch" can again be used to to do + so. + * "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed integers on all platforms. @@ -155,6 +165,18 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then + loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to + prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to + has_sha1_file(). + (merge 45e8a74 jk/has-sha1-file-retry-packed later to maint). + + * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical + "A. U. Thor " format, looks for a matching name + from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the + preferred author name. + (merge ea16794 ap/commit-author-mailmap later to maint). + * "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which -- cgit v1.2.3