Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 11, 2013 at 18:51 UTC
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@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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is being exported, and uses the description for the branch, when
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asked to write a cover letter for the series.
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+ * "git format-patch" learned "-v $count" option, and prepends a
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+ string "v$count-" to the names of its output files, and also
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+ automatically sets the subject prefix to "PATCH v$count". This
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+ allows patches from rerolled series to be stored under different
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+ names and makes it easier to reuse cover letter messsages.
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* "git push" now requires "-f" to update a tag, even if it is a
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fast-forward, as tags are meant to be fixed points.
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@@ -119,6 +125,11 @@ details).
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signal and die. We ignore these signals now.
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(merge 1250857 pf/editor-ignore-sigint later to maint).
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+ * A child process that was killed by a signal (e.g. SIGINT) was
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+ reported in an inconsistent way depending on how the process was
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+ spawned by us, with or without a shell in between.
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+ (merge 709ca73 jk/unify-exit-code-by-receiving-signal later to maint).
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* After failing to create a temporary file using mkstemp(), failing
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pathname was not reported correctly on some platforms.
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(merge f7be59b jc/mkstemp-more-careful-error-reporting later to maint).
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way that made NetBSD's implementation of "tar" sometimes unhappy.
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(merge 22f0dcd rs/leave-base-name-in-name-field-of-tar later to maint).
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+ * "git archive" did not record uncompressed size in the header when
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+ streaming a zip archive, which confused some implementations of unzip.
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+ (merge 5ea2c84 rs/zip-with-uncompressed-size-in-the-header later to maint).
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* When "git clone --separate-git-dir=$over_there" is interrupted, it
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failed to remove the real location of the $GIT_DIR it created.
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This was most visible when interrupting a submodule update.