Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jun 6, 2013 at 14:42 UTC
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@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ 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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+ * With "export" remote-helper protocol, (1) a push that tries to
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+ update a remote ref whose name is different from the pushing side
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+ does not work yet, and (2) the helper may not know how to do
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+ --dry-run; these problematic cases are disabled for now.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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@@ -67,6 +71,9 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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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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+ * "git clone" uses a lighter-weight implementation when making sure
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+ that the history behind refs are complete.
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* Many warnings from sparse source checker in compat/ area has been
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squelched.
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@@ -84,6 +91,22 @@ 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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+ * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the
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+ end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some
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+ cases.
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+ (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint).
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+ * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so
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+ it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push
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+ out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the
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+ command was started.
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+ (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint).
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+ * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch
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+ being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the
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+ plain vanilla "rebase".
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+ (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint).
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* Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was
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broken in the update to v1.8.3.
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(merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).