Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 18, 2013 at 12:02 UTC
1468a5839309033feb2e58943babdd48b8e2d151
1 file changed
+25
-1
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+25
-1
@@ -32,6 +32,18 @@ Updates since v1.8.2
32
33
UI, Workflows & Features
34
35
+ * The "--annotate" option to "git send-email" can be turned on (or
36
+ off) by default with sendemail.annotate configuration variable (you
37
+ can use --no-annotate from the command line to override it).
38
+
39
+ * The "--cover-letter" option to "git format-patch" can be turned on
40
+ (or off) by default with format.coverLetter configuration
41
+ variable. By setting it to 'auto', you can turn it on only for a
42
+ series with two or more patches.
43
+
44
+ * The bash completion support (in contrib/) learned that cherry-pick
45
+ takes a few more options than it already knew about.
46
+
47
* "git help" learned "-g" option to show the list of guides just like
48
list of commands are given with "-a".
49
@@ -119,6 +131,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
131
132
* Updates for building under msvc.
133
134
+ * The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
135
+ pack has been shrunk.
136
+
137
* The logic to coalesce the same lines removed from the parents in
138
the output from "diff -c/--cc" has been updated, but with an O(n^2)
139
complexity, so this might turn out to be undesirable.
@@ -153,7 +168,7 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
168
conflicts have been applied.
169
170
156
-Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
171
+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
172
173
174
Fixes since v1.8.2
@@ -163,6 +178,15 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
178
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
179
details).
180
181
+ * Smart-capable HTTP servers were not restricted via the
182
+ GIT_NAMESPACE mechanism when talking with commit-walker clients,
183
+ like they do when talking with smart HTTP clients.
184
+ (merge 6130f86 jk/http-dumb-namespaces later to maint).
185
+
186
+ * "git merge-tree" did not omit a merge result that is identical to
187
+ "our" side in certain cases.
188
+ (merge aacecc3 jk/merge-tree-added-identically later to maint).
189
+
190
* Perl scripts like "git-svn" closed (not redirecting to /dev/null)
191
the standard error stream, which is not a very smart thing to do.
192
Later open may return file descriptor #2 for unrelated purpose, and