Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 26, 2013 at 15:10 UTC
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@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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thing after you set "user.name/email" to introduce yourselves to
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Git. Now the variable defaults to "auto".
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+ * On Cygwin, "cygstart" is now recognised as a possible way to start
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+ a web browser (used in "help -w" and "instaweb" among others).
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### * "git status" learned status.branch and status.short configuration
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### variables to use --branch and --short options by default (override
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### with --no-branch and --no-short options from the command line).
@@ -154,6 +157,15 @@ 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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+ * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by
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+ programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in
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+ v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.
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+ (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).
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+ * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a
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+ path whose name is not in ASCII.
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+ (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).
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* "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.
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(merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).
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