From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:52:55 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3587b513bafd7a83d8c816ac1deed72b5e3a27e9;p=git.git Update draft release notes to 1.8.2 Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt index 0ae40f3b2..7cbe8a6b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -15,6 +15,13 @@ current branch to the branch with the same name, only when the current branch is set to integrate with that remote branch. There is a user preference configuration variable "push.default" to change this. +"git push $there tag v1.2.3" used to allow replacing a tag v1.2.3 +that already exists in the repository $there, if the rewritten tag +you are pushing points at a commit that is a decendant of a commit +that the old tag v1.2.3 points at. This was found to be error prone +and starting with this release, any attempt to update an existing +ref under refs/tags/ hierarchy will fail, without "--force". + Updates since v1.8.1 -------------------- @@ -38,11 +45,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings. - * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that - matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo". + * The patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have **/, + as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory. + E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a + subdirectory of "foo". * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. + * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has + been added. + * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn branch. @@ -72,6 +84,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points. + * "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push" + hook exists and exits with a failure. + * When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has @@ -117,12 +132,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. from a conflicted state, that we may have missed. * The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml - quoting code from http-push codepath. + quoting code from http-push codepath, and lost a lot of unused + code. * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/ directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by default). + * You can build with USE_WILDMATCH=YesPlease to use a replacement + implementation of pattern matching logic used for pathname-like + things, e.g. refnames and paths in the repository. This new + implementation is not expected change the existing behaviour of Git + in this release, except for "git for-each-ref" where you can now + say "refs/**/master" and match with both refs/heads/master and + refs/remotes/origin/master. We plan to use this new implementation + in wider places (e.g. "git ls-files '**/Makefile' may find Makefile + at the top-level, and "git log '**/t*.sh'" may find commits that + touch a shell script whose name begins with "t" at any level) in + future versions of Git, but we are not there yet. By building with + USE_WILDMATCH, using the resulting Git daily and reporting when you + find breakages, you can help us get closer to that goal. + Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.