Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the fourth batch of topics
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 18, 2013 at 11:55 UTC
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@@ -48,6 +48,10 @@ Updates since v1.8.4
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Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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+ * "git-svn" used with SVN 1.8.0 when talking over https:// connection
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+ dumped core due to a bug in the serf library that SVN uses. Work
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+ it around on our side, even though the SVN side is being fixed.
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* On MacOS X, we detected if the filesystem needs the "pre-composed
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unicode strings" workaround, but did not automatically enable it.
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Now we do.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * A packfile that stores the same object more than once is broken and
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+ will be rejected by "git index-pack" that is run when receiving
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+ data over the wire.
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* Earlier we started rejecting an attempt to add 0{40} object name to
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the index and to tree objects, but it sometimes is necessary to
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allow so to be able to use tools like filter-branch to correct such
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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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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* Many commands use --dashed-option as a operation mode selector
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(e.g. "git tag --delete") that the user can use at most one
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(e.g. "git tag --delete --verify" is a nonsense) and you cannot
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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 cvsserver" computed the permission mode bits incorrectly for
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+ executable files.
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+ (merge 1b48d56 jc/cvsserver-perm-bit-fix later to maint).
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+ * When send-email comes up with an error message to die with upon
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+ failure to start an SSL session, it tried to read the error string
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+ from a wrong place.
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+ (merge 6cb0c88 bc/send-email-ssl-die-message-fix later to maint).
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+ * The implementation of "add -i" has a crippling code to work around
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+ ActiveState Perl limitation but it by mistake also triggered on Git
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+ for Windows where MSYS perl is used.
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+ (merge df17e77 js/add-i-mingw later to maint).
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+ * We made sure that we notice the user-supplied GIT_DIR is actually a
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+ gitfile, but did not do the same when the default ".git" is a
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+ gitfile.
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+ (merge 487a2b7 nd/git-dir-pointing-at-gitfile later to maint).
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* When an object is not found after checking the packfiles and then
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loose object directory, read_sha1_file() re-checks the packfiles to
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prevent racing with a concurrent repacker; teach the same logic to