Update draft release notes to 1.8.5
List notable topics that graduated during Jonathan's interim maintainership. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Oct 16, 2013 at 12:27 UTC
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ release, will keep ignoring removals, but the users who rely on this
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behaviour are encouraged to start using "git add --ignore-removal <path>"
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now before 2.0 is released.
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+The default prefix for "git svn" will change in Git 2.0. For a long
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+time, "git svn" created its remote-tracking branches directly under
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+refs/remotes, but it will place them under refs/remotes/origin/ unless
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+it is told otherwise with its --prefix option.
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Updates since v1.8.4
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@@ -71,6 +76,20 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git replace" helper no longer allows an object to be replaced with
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+ another object of a different type to avoid confusion (you can
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+ still manually craft such replacement using "git update-ref", as an
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+ escape hatch).
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+ * "git status" no longer prints dirty status information for
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+ submodules for which submodule.$name.ignore is set to "all".
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+ * "git rebase -i" honours core.abbrev when preparing the insn sheet
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+ for editing.
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+ * "git status" during a cherry-pick shows what original commit is
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+ being picked.
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* Instead of typing four capital letters "HEAD", you can say "@" now,
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e.g. "git log @".
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@@ -182,6 +201,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * Build procedure for MSVC has been updated.
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* If a build-time fallback is set to "cat" instead of "less", we
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should apply the same "no subprocess or pipe" optimization as we
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apply to user-supplied GIT_PAGER=cat.
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track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
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details).
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+ * "git shortlog" used to choke and die when there is a malformed
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+ commit (e.g. missing authors); it now simply ignore such a commit
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+ and keeps going.
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+ (merge cd4f09e jk/shortlog-tolerate-broken-commit later to maint).
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+ * "git merge-recursive" did not parse its "--diff-algorithm=" command
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+ line option correctly.
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+ (merge 6562928 jk/diff-algo later to maint).
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* When running "fetch -q", a long silence while the sender side
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computes the set of objects to send can be mistaken by proxies as
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dropped connection. The server side has been taught to send a