Start 1.8.4 cycle
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
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+Git v1.8.4 Release Notes
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+========================
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+Updates since v1.8.3
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+--------------------
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+Foreign interface
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+ * Remote transport helper has been updated to report errors and
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+ maintain ref hierarchy used to keep track of its own state better.
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+UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "check-ignore" (new feature since 1.8.2) has been updated to work
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+ more like "check-attr" over bidi-pipes.
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+ * We used the approxidate() parser for "--expire=<timestamp>" options
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+ of various commands, but it is better to treat --expire=all and
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+ --expire=now a bit more specially than using the current timestamp.
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+ "git gc" and "git reflog" have been updated with a new parsing
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+ function for expiry dates.
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+Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * Object lookup logic, when the object hashtable starts to become
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+ crowded, has been optimized.
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+ * When TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY setting is used, it was handled somewhat
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+ inconsistently between the test framework and t/Makefile, and logic
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+ to summarize the results looked at a wrong place.
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+ * Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
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+ squelched.
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+ * The code to reading and updating packed-refs file has been updated,
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+ correcting corner case bugs.
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+Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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+Fixes since v1.8.3
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+------------------
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+Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 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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+ * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we
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+ used to complain and die. Loosen the check.
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+ (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint).
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+ * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error
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+ checks to lose data at the remote side.
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+ (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint).
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+ * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does
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+ not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork
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+ from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)
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+ did not work correctly.
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+ (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint).
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+ * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into
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+ "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been
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+ (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint).
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branch of the `git.git` repository.
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Documentation for older releases are available here:
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+* link:v1.8.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.3]
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+* release notes for
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.3.txt[1.8.3].
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* link:v1.8.2.3/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.2.3]
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* release notes for
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- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3].
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- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2].
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- link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1].
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.3.txt[1.8.2.3],
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.2.txt[1.8.2.2],
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+ link:RelNotes/1.8.2.1.txt[1.8.2.1],
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link:RelNotes/1.8.2.txt[1.8.2].
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* link:v1.8.1.6/git.html[documentation for release 1.8.1.6]
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