Update draft release notes to 1.8.5 for the first half of the fourth batch
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Sep 17, 2013 at 11:43 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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+ * 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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+
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* remote-hg remote helper misbehaved when interacting with a local Hg
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repository relative to the home directory, e.g. "clone hg::~/there".
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@@ -63,6 +67,12 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ broken tree objects. "filter-branch" can again be used to to do
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+ so.
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* "git config" did not provide a way to set or access numbers larger
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than a native "int" on the platform; it now provides 64-bit signed
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integers on all platforms.
@@ -155,6 +165,18 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.4 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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+ * 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
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+ has_sha1_file().
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+ (merge 45e8a74 jk/has-sha1-file-retry-packed later to maint).
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+ * "git commit --author=$name", when $name is not in the canonical
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+ "A. U. Thor <au.thor@example.xz>" format, looks for a matching name
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+ from existing history, but did not consult mailmap to grab the
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+ preferred author name.
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+ (merge ea16794 ap/commit-author-mailmap later to maint).
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* "git ls-files -k" needs to crawl only the part of the working tree
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that may overlap the paths in the index to find killed files, but
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shared code with the logic to find all the untracked files, which