Update draft release notes to 1.8.4
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 22, 2013 at 11:34 UTC
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@@ -83,6 +83,28 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
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UI, Workflows & Features
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+ * "git clean" command learned an interactive mode.
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+ * The "--head" option to "git show-ref" was only to add "HEAD" to the
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+ list of candidate refs to be filtered by the usual rules
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+ (e.g. "--heads" that only show refs under refs/heads). The meaning
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+ of the option has been changed to always show "HEAD" regardless of
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+ what filtering will be applied to any other ref.
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+ This is a backward incompatible change and might cause breakages to
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+ people's existing scripts.
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+ * "git show -s" was less discoverable than it should have been. It
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+ now has a natural synonym "git show --no-patch".
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+ * "git check-mailmap" is a new command that lets you map usernames
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+ and e-mail addresses through the mailmap mechanism, just like many
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+ built-in commands do.
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+ * "git name-rev" learned to name an annotated tag object back to its
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+ tagname; "git name-rev $(git rev-parse v1.0.0)" gives "tags/v1.0.0",
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+ for example.
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* "git cat-file --batch-check=<format>" is added, primarily to allow
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on-disk footprint of objects in packfiles (often they are a lot
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smaller than their true size, when expressed as deltas) to be
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Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
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+ * The function attributes extensions are used to catch mistakes in
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+ use of our own variadic functions that use NULL sentinel at the end
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+ (i.e. like execl(3)) and format strings (i.e. like printf(3)).
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+ * The code to allow configuration data to be read from in-tree blob
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+ objects is in. This may help working in a bare repository and
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+ submodule updates.
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* Fetching between repositories with many refs employed O(n^2)
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algorithm to match up the common objects, which has been corrected.
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@@ -280,6 +310,26 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 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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+ * Newer Net::SMTP::SSL module does not want the user programs to use
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+ the default behaviour to let server certificate go without
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+ verification, so by default enable the verification with a
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+ mechanism to turn it off if needed.
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+ (merge 35035bb rr/send-email-ssl-verify later to maint).
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+ * When "git" is spawned in such a way that any of the low 3 file
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+ descriptors is closed, our first open() may yield file descriptor 2,
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+ and writing error message to it would screw things up in a big way.
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+ (merge a11c396 tr/protect-low-3-fds later to maint).
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+ * The mailmap mechanism unnecessarily downcased the e-mail addresses
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+ in the output, and also ignored the human name when it is a single
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+ character name.
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+ (merge bd23794 jc/mailmap-case-insensitivity later to maint).
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+ * In two places we did not check return value (expected to be a file
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+ descriptor) correctly.
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+ (merge a77f106 tr/fd-gotcha-fixes later to maint).
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* Logic to auto-detect character encodings in the commit log message
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did not reject overlong and invalid UTF-8 characters.
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(merge 81050ac bc/commit-invalid-utf8 later to maint).