9c3c367b26 · matheusbsbs/matheus-bagliano

@@ -79,6 +79,27 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.

79

80 UI, Workflows & Features

81

82 + * In addition to the choice from "rebase, merge, or checkout-detach",

83 + "submodule update" can allow a custom command to be used in to

84 + update the working tree of submodules via the "submodule.*.update"

85 + configuration variable.

86 +

87 + * "git submodule update" can optionally clone the submodule

88 + repositories shallowly.

89 +

90 + * "git format-patch" learned "--from[=whom]" option, which sets the

91 + "From: " header to the specified person (or the person who runs the

92 + command, if "=whom" part is missing) and move the original author

93 + information to an in-body From: header as necessary.

94 +

95 + * The configuration variable "merge.ff" was cleary a tri-state to

96 + choose one from "favor fast-forward when possible", "always create

97 + a merge even when the history could fast-forward" and "do not

98 + create any merge, only update when the history fast-forwards", but

99 + the command line parser did not implement the usual convention of

100 + "last one wins, and command line overrides the configuration"

101 + correctly.

102 +

103 * "gitweb" learned to optionally place extra links that point at the

104 levels higher than the Gitweb pages themselves in the breadcrumbs,

105 so that it can be used as part of a larger installation.

@@ -179,6 +200,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features

200

201 Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.

202

203 + * Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2)

204 + algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected.

205 +

206 * The original way to specify remote repository using .git/branches/

207 used to have a nifty feature. The code to support the feature was

208 still in a function but the caller was changed not to call it 5

@@ -244,6 +268,11 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance

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

269 details).

270

271 + * Pass port number as a separate argument when "send-email" initializes

272 + Net::SMTP, instead of as a part of the hostname, i.e. host:port.

273 + This allows GSSAPI codepath to match with the hostname given.

274 + (merge 1a741bf bc/send-email-use-port-as-separate-param later to maint).

275 +

276 * "git diff" refused to even show difference when core.safecrlf is

277 set to true (i.e. error out) and there are offending lines in the

278 working tree files.

@@ -279,22 +308,17 @@ details).

308 * "git apply" parsed patches that add new files, generated by

309 programs other than Git, incorrectly. This is an old breakage in

310 v1.7.11 and will need to be merged down to the maintanance tracks.

282 - (merge 212eb96 tr/maint-apply-non-git-patch-parsefix later to maint).

311

312 * Older cURL wanted piece of memory we call it with to be stable, but

313 we updated the auth material after handing it to a call.

286 - (merge a94cf2c bc/http-keep-memory-given-to-curl later to maint).

314

315 * "git pull" into nothing trashed "local changes" that were in the

316 index, and this avoids it.

290 - (merge b4dc085 jk/pull-into-dirty-unborn later to maint).

317

318 * Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a

319 path whose name is not in ASCII.

294 - (merge bed9470 fg/submodule-non-ascii-path later to maint).

320

321 * "cherry-pick" had a small leak in an error codepath.

297 - (merge 706728a fc/sequencer-plug-leak later to maint).

322

323 * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like

324 "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part

@@ -302,7 +326,6 @@ details).

326 around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and

327 unquoted strings). It also mishandled names that need RFC2047

328 quoting.

305 - (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).

329

330 * Call to discard_cache/discard_index (used when we use different

331 contents of the index in-core, in many operations like commit,

@@ -313,102 +336,79 @@ details).

336 * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each

337 request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one

338 when used as a persistent CGI.

316 - (merge ca7a5dc cm/gitweb-project-list-persistent-cgi-fix later to maint).

339

340 * The wildmatch engine did not honor WM_CASEFOLD option correctly.

319 - (merge b79c0c3 ar/wildmatch-foldcase later to maint).

341

342 * "git log -c --follow $path" segfaulted upon hitting the commit that

343 renamed the $path being followed.

323 - (merge 46ec510 cb/log-follow-with-combined later to maint).

344

345 * When a reflog notation is used for implicit "current branch", we

346 did not say which branch and worse said "branch ''".

327 - (merge 305ebea rr/die-on-missing-upstream later to maint).

347

348 * "difftool --dir-diff" did not copy back changes made by the

349 end-user in the diff tool backend to the working tree in some

350 cases.

332 - (merge 32eaf1d ks/difftool-dir-diff-copy-fix later to maint).

351

352 * "git push $there HEAD:branch" did not resolve HEAD early enough, so

353 it was easy to flip it around while push is still going on and push

354 out a branch that the user did not originally intended when the

355 command was started.

338 - (merge 0f075b2 rr/push-head later to maint).

356

357 * The bash prompt code (in contrib/) displayed the name of the branch

358 being rebased when "rebase -i/-m/-p" modes are in use, but not the

359 plain vanilla "rebase".

343 - (merge 1306321 fc/show-branch-in-rebase-am later to maint).

360

361 * Handling of negative exclude pattern for directories "!dir" was

362 broken in the update to v1.8.3.

347 - (merge c3c327d kb/status-ignored-optim-2 later to maint).

363

364 * zsh prompt script that borrowed from bash prompt script did not

365 work due to slight differences in array variable notation between

366 these two shells.

352 - (merge d0583da tg/maint-zsh-svn-remote-prompt later to maint).

367

368 * An entry for "file://" scheme in the enumeration of URL types Git

369 can take in the HTML documentation was made into a clickable link

370 by mistake.

357 - (merge 4c32e36 nd/urls-doc-no-file-hyperlink-fix later to maint).

371

372 * "git push --[no-]verify" was not documented.

360 - (merge 90d32d1 tr/push-no-verify-doc later to maint).

373

374 * Stop installing the git-remote-testpy script that is only used for

375 testing.

364 - (merge 416fda6 fc/makefile later to maint).

376

377 * "git commit --allow-empty-message -m ''" should not start an

378 editor.

368 - (merge 2520677 rs/commit-m-no-edit later to maint).

379

380 * "git merge @{-1}~22" was rewritten to "git merge frotz@{1}~22"

381 incorrectly when your previous branch was "frotz" (it should be

382 rewritten to "git merge frotz~22" instead).

373 - (merge 84cf246 jc/strbuf-branchname-fix later to maint).

383

384 * "git diff -c -p" was not showing a deleted line from a hunk when

385 another hunk immediately begins where the earlier one ends.

377 - (merge aac3857 mk/combine-diff-context-horizon-fix later to maint).

386

387 * "git log --ancestry-path A...B" did not work as expected, as it did

388 not pay attention to the fact that the merge base between A and B

389 was the bottom of the range being specified.

382 - (merge a765499 kb/ancestry-path-threedots later to maint).

390

391 * Mac OS X does not like to write(2) more than INT_MAX number of

392 bytes; work it around by chopping write(2) into smaller pieces.

386 - (merge 6c642a8 fc/macos-x-clipped-write later to maint).

393

394 * Newer MacOS X encourages the programs to compile and link with

395 their CommonCrypto, not with OpenSSL.

390 - (merge be4c828 da/darwin later to maint).

396

397 * "git clone foo/bar:baz" cannot be a request to clone from a remote

398 over git-over-ssh specified in the scp style. This case is now

399 detected and clones from a local repository at "foo/bar:baz".

395 - (merge 6000334 nd/clone-local-with-colon later to maint).

400

401 * When $HOME is misconfigured to point at an unreadable directory, we

402 used to complain and die. Loosen the check.

399 - (merge 4698c8f jn/config-ignore-inaccessible later to maint).

403

404 * "git subtree" (in contrib/) had one codepath with loose error

405 checks to lose data at the remote side.

403 - (merge 3212d56 jk/subtree-do-not-push-if-split-fails later to maint).

406

407 * "git fetch" into a shallow repository from a repository that does

408 not know about the shallow boundary commits (e.g. a different fork

409 from the repository the current shallow repository was cloned from)

410 did not work correctly.

409 - (merge 71d5f93 mh/fetch-into-shallow later to maint).

411

412 * "git checkout foo" DWIMs the intended "upstream" and turns it into

413 "git checkout -t -b foo remotes/origin/foo". This codepath has been

414 updated to correctly take existing remote definitions into account.

414 - (merge 229177a jh/checkout-auto-tracking later to maint).

Update draft release notes to 1.8.4