Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 22, 2013 at 11:18 UTC
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Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
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@@ -33,12 +33,29 @@ from today's version in such a situation.
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Updates since v1.8.2
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+Foreign interface
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+ * remote-hg helper (in contrib/) has been updated.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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* "git branch --vv" learned to paint the name of the branch it
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integrates with in a different color (color.branch.upstream,
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which defaults to blue).
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+ * In a sparsely populated working tree, "git checkout <pathspec>" no
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+ longer unmarks paths that match the given pathspec that were
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+ originally ignored with "--sparse" (use --ignore-skip-worktree-bits
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+ option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
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+ to).
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+ * "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
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+ log file.
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+ * "git clone --reference" can now refer to a gitfile "textual symlink"
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+ that points at the real location of the repository.
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* "git count-objects" learned "--human-readable" aka "-H" option to
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show various large numbers in Ki/Mi/GiB scaled as necessary.
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@@ -192,6 +209,11 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
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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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+ * A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
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+ crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
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+ timestamp can always be found in it.
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+ (merge de5abe9 jk/chopped-ident later to maint).
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* When "upload-pack" fails while generating a pack in response to
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"git fetch" (or "git clone"), the receiving side mistakenly said
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there was a programming error to trigger the die handler