Update draft release notes to 1.8.3
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Apr 23, 2013 at 11:27 UTC
562af5b0b900539bd7ef481316834e500f571899
1 file changed
+19
Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.3.txt
+19
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
50
option to resurrect these paths out of the index if you really want
51
to).
52
53
+ * "git log --format" specifier learned %C(auto) token that tells Git
54
+ to use color when interpolating %d (decoration), %h (short commit
55
+ object name), etc. for terminal output.
56
+
57
* "git bisect" leaves the final outcome as a comment in its bisect
58
log file.
59
@@ -162,6 +166,11 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
166
167
* Updates for building under msvc.
168
169
+ * A handful of issues in the code to traverse working tree to find
170
+ untracked and/or ignored files have been fixed, and the general
171
+ codepath involved in "status -u" and "clean" have been cleaned up
172
+ and optimized.
173
+
174
* The stack footprint of some codepaths that access an object from a
175
pack has been shrunk.
176
@@ -209,6 +218,16 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance
218
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
219
details).
220
221
+ * When receive-pack detects error in the pack header it received in
222
+ order to decide which of unpack-objects or index-pack to run, it
223
+ returned without closing the error stream, which led to a hang
224
+ sideband thread.
225
+ (merge 49ecfa1 jk/receive-pack-deadlocks-with-early-failure later to maint).
226
+
227
+ * Zsh completion forgot that '%' character used to signal untracked
228
+ files needs to be escaped with another '%'.
229
+ (merge 24b6132 fc/untracked-zsh-prompt later to maint).
230
+
231
* A commit object whose author or committer ident are malformed
232
crashed some code that trusted that a name, an email and an
233
timestamp can always be found in it.