Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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* An element on GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES list that does not name the
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real path to a directory (i.e. a symbolic link) could have caused
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the GIT_DIR discovery logic to escape the ceiling.
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- (merge 059b379 mh/ceiling later to maint).
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* When attempting to read the XDG-style $HOME/.config/git/config and
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finding that $HOME/.config/git is a file, we gave a wrong error
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message, instead of treating the case as "a custom config file does
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not exist there" and moving on.
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- (merge 8f2bbe4 jn/warn-on-inaccessible-loosen later to maint).
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* The behaviour visible to the end users was confusing, when they
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attempt to kill a process spawned in the editor that was in turn
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* A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
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reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
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spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
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- (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint).
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* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
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pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
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- (merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
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* The attribute mechanism didn't allow limiting attributes to be
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applied to only a single directory itself with "path/" like the
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degradations and needs to merge a fix-up topic.
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(merge 9db9eec nd/fix-directory-attrs-off-by-one later to maint).
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+ * "git am" did not parse datestamp correctly from Hg generated patch,
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+ when it is run in a locale outside C (or en).
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+ (merge 5185b97 dl/am-hg-locale later to maint).
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* "git apply" misbehaved when fixing whitespace breakages by removing
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excess trailing blank lines.
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- (merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
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* A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
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way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
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- (merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
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* "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
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streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
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- (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint).
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* "git clean" showed what it was going to do, but sometimes end up
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finding that it was not allowed to do so, which resulted in a
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* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
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failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
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This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.
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- (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint).
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* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
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GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
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- (merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
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* The --graph code fell into infinite loop when asked to do what the
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code did not expect.
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- (merge 656197a mk/maint-graph-infinity-loop later to maint).
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* http transport was wrong to ask for the username when the
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authentication is done by certificate identity.
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- (merge 75e9a40 rb/http-cert-cred-no-username-prompt later to maint).
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* "git pack-refs" that ran in parallel to another process that
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created new refs had a nasty race.
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- (merge b3f1280 jk/repack-ref-racefix later to maint).
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* After "git add -N" and then writing a tree object out of the
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index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
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- (merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
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* "git clone" used to allow --bare and --separate-git-dir=$there
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options at the same time, which was nonsensical.
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* "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
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on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
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without getting seen in the editor.
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* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
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commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
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status of the hook.
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- (merge 3e4141d ap/merge-stop-at-prepare-commit-msg-failure later to maint).
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* When users spell "cc:" in lowercase in the fake "header" in the
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trailer part, "git send-email" failed to pick up the addresses from
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there. As e-mail headers field names are case insensitive, this
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script should follow suit and treat "cc:" and "Cc:" the same way.
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- (merge 6310071 nz/send-email-headers-are-case-insensitive later to maint).
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* Output from "git status --ignored" showed an unexpected interaction
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with "--untracked".
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- (merge a45fb69 ap/status-ignored-in-ignored-directory later to maint).
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* "gitweb", when sorting by age to show repositories with new
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activities first, used to sort repositories with absolutely
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nothing in it early, which was not very useful.
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* "gitweb"'s code to sanitize control characters before passing it to
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"highlight" filter lost known-to-be-safe control characters by
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mistake.
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* When a line to be wrapped has a solid run of non space characters
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whose length exactly is the wrap width, "git shortlog -w" failed
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to add a newline after such a line.
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* Command line completion leaked an unnecessary error message while
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looking for possible matches with paths in <tree-ish>.
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* Command line completion for "tcsh" emitted an unwanted space
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after completing a single directory name.
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+ * Command line completion code was inadvertently made incompatible with
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+ older versions of bash by using a newer array notation.
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* Some shells do not behave correctly when IFS is unset; work it
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around by explicitly setting it to the default value.
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* Some scripted programs written in Python did not get updated when
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PYTHON_PATH changed.
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* When autoconf is used, any build on a different commit always ran
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"config.status --recheck" even when unnecessary.
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* We have been carrying a translated and long-unmaintained copy of an
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old version of the tutorial; removed.
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+ * t0050 had tests expecting failures from a bug that was fixed some
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+ time ago.
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* t4014, t9502 and t0200 tests had various portability issues that
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broke on OpenBSD.
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* t9020 and t3600 tests had various portability issues.
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* t9200 runs "cvs init" on a directory that already exists, but a
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platform can configure this fail for the current user (e.g. you
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need to be in the cvsadmin group on NetBSD 6.0).
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* t9020 and t9810 had a few non-portable shell script construct.
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- (merge 2797914 tb/test-t9020-no-which later to maint).
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- (merge 6f4e505 tb/test-t9810-no-sed-i later to maint).