Update draft release notes to 1.9
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 13, 2014 at 11:39 UTC
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@@ -90,6 +90,10 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * Just like we give a reasonable default for "less" via the LESS
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+ environment variable, we now specify a reasonable default for "lv"
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+ via the "LV" environment variable when spawning the pager.
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* Two-level configuration variable names in "branch.*" and "remote.*"
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hierarchies, whose variables are predominantly three-level, were
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not completed by hitting a <TAB> in bash and zsh completions.
@@ -154,6 +158,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * When parsing a 40-hex string into the object name, the string is
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+ checked to see if it can be interpreted as a ref so that a warning
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+ can be given for ambiguity. The code kicked in even when the
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+ core.warnambiguousrefs is set to false to squelch this warning, in
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+ which case the cycles spent to look at the ref namespace were an
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+ expensive no-op, as the result was discarded without being used.
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* The naming convention of the packfiles has been updated; it used to
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be based on the enumeration of names of the objects that are
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contained in the pack, but now it also depends on how the packed
@@ -197,6 +208,10 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.5 in the maintenance
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track are contained in this release (see the maintenance releases' notes
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for details).
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+ * The implementation of 'git stash $cmd "stash@{...}"' did not quote
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+ the stash argument properly and left it split at IFS whitespace.
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+ (merge 2a07e43 ow/stash-with-ifs later to maint).
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* The "--[no-]informative-errors" options to "git daemon" were parsed
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a bit too loosely, allowing any other string after these option
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names.