From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 18:44:26 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Update draft release notes to 1.8.2 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f51a757fafc1e1ca9565381a13109932acd81dba;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 aa3c1ea3e..a1ebb96ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.2.txt @@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ UI, Workflows & Features always interpreted as a pathspec; "git cmd -- :/" is no longer needed, you can just say "git cmd :/". + * Various "hint" lines Git gives when it asks the user to edit + messages in the editor are commented out with '#' by default. The + core.commentchar configuration variable can be used to customize + this '#' to a different character. + + * "git add -u" and "git add -A" without pathspec issues warning to + make users aware that they are only operating on paths inside the + subdirectory they are in. Use ":/" (everything from the top) or + "." (everything from the $cwd) to disambiguate. + * "git blame" (and "git diff") learned the "--no-follow" option. * "git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has @@ -92,6 +102,10 @@ 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. + * Error messages from "git push" when it stops to prevent remote refs + from getting overwritten by mistake have been improved to explain + various situations separately. + * "git push" will stop without doing anything if the new "pre-push" hook exists and exits with a failure. @@ -121,7 +135,8 @@ Foreign Interface * A new remote helper to interact with bzr has been added to contrib/. * "git p4" got various bugfixes around its branch handling. It is - also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. + also made usable with Python 2.4/2.5. In addition, its various + portability issues for Cygwin have been addressed. * The remote helper to interact with Hg in contrib/ has seen a few fixes. @@ -198,7 +213,7 @@ details). attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn launched by Git with SIGINT (or SIGQUIT), as Git would catch that signal and die. We ignore these signals now. - (merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). + (merge 0398fc34 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint). * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was @@ -210,18 +225,15 @@ details). * We used to stuff "user@" and then append what we read from /etc/mailname to come up with a default e-mail ident, but a bug lost the "user@" part. - (merge dc342a2 jn/do-not-drop-username-when-reading-from-etc-mailname later to maint). * The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the exclude mechanism does. The initial implementation of this that was merged to 'maint' and 1.8.1.2 was with a severe performance degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic. - (merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint). * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch, when it is run in a locale outside C (or en). - (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint). * "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing excess trailing blank lines. @@ -232,9 +244,12 @@ details). * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip. + * "git archive" did not parse configuration values in tar.* namespace + correctly. + (merge b3873c3 jk/config-parsing-cleanup later to maint). + * Attempt to "branch --edit-description" an existing branch, while being on a detached HEAD, errored out. - (merge 75135b2 nd/edit-branch-desc-while-detached later to maint). * "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a @@ -254,6 +269,10 @@ details). command, and documentation was misleading. (merge cfb70e1 nd/fetch-depth-is-broken later to maint). + * "git log --all -p" that walked refs/notes/textconv/ ref can later + try to use the textconv data incorrectly after it gets freed. + (merge be5c9fb jk/read-commit-buffer-data-after-free 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. @@ -275,7 +294,6 @@ details). * "git rebase --preserve-merges" lost empty merges in recent versions of Git. - (merge 9869778 ph/rebase-preserve-all-merges later to maint). * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded @@ -313,7 +331,6 @@ details). * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with older versions of bash by using a newer array notation. - (merge 50c5885 bc/fix-array-syntax-for-3.0-in-completion-bash later to maint). * Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it around by explicitly setting it to the default value. @@ -330,7 +347,6 @@ details). * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some time ago. - (merge 336e2e2 tb/t0050-maint later to maint). * t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that broke on OpenBSD.