8d994db46e · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -81,6 +81,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

81 * "git log" that shows the difference between the parent and the

82 child has been optimized somewhat.

83

84 + * "git difftool" allows the user to write into the temporary files

85 + being shown; if the user makes changes to the working tree at the

86 + same time, one of the changes has to be lost in such a case, but it

87 + tells the user what happened and refrains from overwriting the copy

88 + in the working tree.

89 +

90 + * There was no good way to ask "I have a random string that came from

91 + outside world. I want to turn it into a 40-hex object name while

92 + making sure such an object exists". A new peeling suffix ^{object}

93 + can be used for that purpose, together with "rev-parse --verify".

94 +

95

96 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

97

@@ -105,6 +116,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

116 codepaths, and setting permission bits to directories is a codepath

117 that needs to use a more correct one.

118

119 + * "git checkout" had repeated pathspec matches on the same paths,

120 + which have been consolidated. Also a bug in "git checkout dir/"

121 + that is started from an unmerged index has been fixed.

122 +

123

124 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.

125

@@ -116,6 +131,22 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.2 in the maintenance

131 track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for

132 details).

133

134 + * Fix 1.8.1.x regression that stopped matching "dir" (without

135 + trailing slash) to a directory "dir".

136 + (merge efa5f82 jc/directory-attrs-regression-fix later to maint-1.8.1).

137 +

138 + * "git apply --whitespace=fix" was not prepared to see a line getting

139 + longer after fixing whitespaces (e.g. tab-in-indent aka Python).

140 + (merge 329b26e jc/apply-ws-fix-tab-in-indent later to maint-1.8.1).

141 +

142 + * The prompt string generator (in contrib/completion/) did not notice

143 + when we are in a middle of a "git revert" session.

144 + (merge 3ee4452 rr/prompt-revert-head later to maint).

145 +

146 + * "submodule summary --summary-limit" option did not support

147 + "--option=value" form.

148 + (merge 862ae6c rs/submodule-summary-limit later to maint).

149 +

150 * "index-pack --fix-thin" used uninitialize value to compute delta

151 depths of objects it appends to the resulting pack.

152 (merge 57165db jk/index-pack-correct-depth-fix later to maint).

@@ -127,22 +158,18 @@ details).

158 * The code to keep track of what directory names are known to Git on

159 platforms with case insensitive filesystems can get confused upon a

160 hash collision between these pathnames and looped forever.

130 - (merge 2092678 kb/name-hash later to maint).

161

162 * Annotated tags outside refs/tags/ hierarchy were not advertised

163 correctly to the ls-remote and fetch with recent version of Git.

134 - (merge c29c46f jk/fully-peeled-packed-ref later to maint).

164

165 * Recent optimization broke shallow clones.

166 (merge f59de5d jk/peel-ref later to maint).

167

168 * "git cmd -- ':(top'" was not diagnosed as an invalid syntax, and

169 instead the parser kept reading beyond the end of the string.

141 - (merge f612a67 lf/setup-prefix-pathspec later to maint).

170

171 * "git tag -f <tag>" always said "Updated tag '<tag>'" even when

172 creating a new tag (i.e. not overwriting nor updating).

145 - (merge 3ae851e ph/tag-force-no-warn-on-creation later to maint).

173

174 * "git p4" did not behave well when the path to the root of the P4

175 client was not its real path.

@@ -151,16 +178,13 @@ details).

178 * "git archive" reports a failure when asked to create an archive out

179 of an empty tree. It would be more intuitive to give an empty

180 archive back in such a case.

154 - (merge bd54cf1 jk/empty-archive later to maint).

181

182 * When "format-patch" quoted a non-ascii strings on the header files,

183 it incorrectly applied rfc2047 and chopped a single character in

184 the middle of it.

159 - (merge 6cd3c05 ks/rfc2047-one-char-at-a-time later to maint).

185

186 * An aliased command spawned from a bare repository that does not say

187 it is bare with "core.bare = yes" is treated as non-bare by mistake.

163 - (merge 2cd83d1 jk/alias-in-bare later to maint).

188

189 * In "git reflog expire", REACHABLE bit was not cleared from the

190 correct objects.

@@ -173,7 +197,6 @@ details).

197 "--all" to allow refs that are not annotated tags to be used as a

198 base of description, did not restrict the output from the command

199 to those that match the given pattern.

176 - (merge 46e1d6e jc/describe later to maint).

200

201 * Clarify in the documentation "what" gets pushed to "where" when the

202 command line to "git push" does not say these explicitly.

@@ -210,7 +233,6 @@ details).

233

234 * 'git commit -m "$msg"' used to add an extra newline even when

235 $msg already ended with one.

213 - (merge 46fbf75 bc/commit-complete-lines-given-via-m-option later to maint).

236

237 * The SSL peer verification done by "git imap-send" did not ask for

238 Server Name Indication (RFC 4366), failing to connect SSL/TLS

@@ -224,7 +246,6 @@ details).

246

247 * Verification of signed tags were not done correctly when not in C

248 or en/US locale.

227 - (merge 0174eea mg/gpg-interface-using-status later to maint).

249

250 * Some platforms and users spell UTF-8 differently; retry with the

251 most official "UTF-8" when the system does not understand the

Update draft release notes to 1.8.3