Update draft release notes to 1.8.2
Junio C Hamano committed
Jan 10, 2013 at 14:36 UTC
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@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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* Scripts can ask Git that wildcard patterns in pathspecs they give do
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not have any significance, i.e. take them as literal strings.
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+ * The pathspec code learned to grok "foo/**/bar" as a pattern that
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+ matches "bar" in 0-or-more levels of subdirectory in "foo".
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+ * "git cherry-pick" can be used to replay a root commit to an unborn
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+ branch.
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* "git fetch --mirror" and fetch that uses other forms of refspec
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with wildcard used to attempt to update a symbolic ref that match
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the wildcard on the receiving end, which made little sense (the
@@ -51,6 +57,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
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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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+ * When "git rebase" fails to generate patches to be applied (e.g. due
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+ to oom), it failed to detect the failure and instead behaved as if
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+ there were nothing to do. A workaround to use a temporary file has
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+ been applied, but we probably would want to revisit this later, as
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+ it hurts the common case of not failing at all.
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* "git submodule" started learning a new mode to integrate with the
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tip of the remote branch (as opposed to integrating with the commit
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recorded in the superproject's gitlink).
@@ -75,6 +87,10 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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* The implementation of "imap-send" has been updated to reuse xml
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quoting code from http-push codepath.
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+ * There is a simple-minded checker for the test scripts in t/
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+ directory to catch most common mistakes (it is not enabled by
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+ default).
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Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
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@@ -116,6 +132,15 @@ details).
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excess trailing blank lines.
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(merge 5de7166 jc/apply-trailing-blank-removal later to maint).
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+ * A tar archive created by "git archive" recorded a directory in a
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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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+ * 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.
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+ (merge 9be1980 jl/interrupt-clone-remove-separate-git-dir later to maint).
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* The way "git svn" asked for password using SSH_ASKPASS and
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GIT_ASKPASS was not in line with the rest of the system.
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(merge e9263e4 ss/svn-prompt later to maint).
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index, the cache-tree data structure got corrupted.
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(merge eec3e7e nd/invalidate-i-t-a-cache-tree later to maint).
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+ * "git merge --no-edit" computed who were involved in the work done
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+ on the side branch, even though that information is to be discarded
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+ without getting seen in the editor.
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+ (merge 9bcbb1c jc/maint-fmt-merge-msg-no-edit-lose-credit later to maint).
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* "git merge" started calling prepare-commit-msg hook like "git
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commit" does some time ago, but forgot to pay attention to the exit
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status of the hook.